Community Advisory: CAIR Launches New Site for Students to Report Campuses Targeting Anti-Genocide Views
- Ibrahim Hooper
- December 11, 2024
- 12:12 pm
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today launched a new site encouraging students to report university and college campuses targeting them for expressing views in opposition to the ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
SEE: Report a Hostile Campus to CAIR
In August, CAIR launched its UnHostile Campus Campaign, a project aimed at fostering a campus environment where Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, Jewish, and other students, faculty, and staff opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza enjoy free speech and academic freedom and are not subjected to state force or university discipline due to their viewpoints.
Hostile campuses designated as “institutions of particular concern” previously by CAIR include GWU, UCLA, Emory University, Columbia University, UT Austin, NYU, Northwestern University, Pomona College, U-Mich, UGA, U-Chicago, and Swarthmore.
Students, staff, and faculty who wish for their university or college campus to be considered as a potential “institution of particular concern” should complete the form.
“We often see universities and colleges undermining their own commitment to free speech and open inquiry by denying anti-genocide students and staff the same principles they claim to uphold,” said CAIR Research and Advocacy Manager Farah Afify. “This is unacceptable, and we are here to hold these campus administrators accountable. We urge all students, faculty, and staff who are concerned about their safety and their right to express themselves freely to report their campus to us.”
The organization adds in a disclaimer that the new form is intended solely to inform CAIR’s UnHostile Campus Campaign. Students, faculty, and affiliates seeking CAIR’s legal and advocacy services should continue to contact their local office or chapter, or in the event that there is no local chapter, file a formal report with CAIR’s National Civil Rights Department.
CAIR has filed lawsuits in Maryland and Texas, challenging extensive efforts to shut down anti-genocide protests and advocacy for Palestinian rights throughout the country.
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
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CONTACT: CAIR Research and Advocacy Director Corey Saylor, csaylor@cair.com, 202-384-8857; CAIR Research and Advocacy Manager Farah Afify, 202-742-6410; CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com, CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com
