University authorities, by pushing hard publicly against their own students, are painting targets upon the backs of Asna Tabassum, Malak Afaneh, and many others. It's time for a reckoning.
University authorities, by pushing hard publicly against their own students, are painting targets upon the backs of Asna Tabassum, Malak Afaneh, and many others. It's time for a reckoning.Rawan Channaa leads chants during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, May 5, 2024 . / Photo: Reuters
Observers of the American university cannot have failed to notice that women have been prominent in the student movement against Israel's ongoing atrocities.An assistant professor at Arizona State University Jonathan Yudelman harassed a Muslim woman near a pro-Israel rally in Arizona, US on May 5."You’re disrespecting my religious boundaries," the woman told the man, who has been identified as Jonathan Yudelman, an ASU professor, according to viral video of the incident.
This overreaction, targeting students who express solidarity for Palestinians, especially Muslim women, is just one of many around the country.Over the past few weeks, American university administrators and political classes have rushed to demonise students campaigning against genocide, caricaturing them as anti-Semitic, inappropriate, obnoxious, brain-washed, pro-terrorism and a threat to safety.
Putting aside advocating for Gaza, being visibly Muslim right now is very scary. I am tired of being scared. I just want to exist.who express solidarity with Gaza, to recoil in horror at the visceral hatred expressed against female, brown Muslim and pro-Palestinian university students. This pattern of gendered Islamophobia is no accident. The United States mints, circulates and legitimises gendered Islamophobic tropes that it uses for imperial purposes.
Faculty can change the campus climate with their advocacy, teaching, advising, and involvement in co-curricular activities. It is time to publicly and repeatedly name and address gendered Islamophobia.
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