Dear President-elect Obama



The Daily Star (Beyrouth)  /  January 12, 2009

Open Letter



Editor's note: The following is a letter addressed to US President-elect Barack
Obama calling for the United States
to change its policies vis-à-vis the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, especially
in light of Israel 's
current onslaught against the Gaza Strip. It was signed by more than 900
academics, most of them based in the
United States , and made available
to The Daily Star by the campaign's organizers.



Once, in what was perhaps an unguarded moment, you stated that: "Nobody's suffering
more than the Palestinian people". After days of relentless Israeli
bombing in the Gaza strip that has already killed over seven hundred people,
most of them civilians or policemen, and injured over three thousand, many of
whom may yet die for lack of medical supplies and facilities, your words have
never rung more true. And yet, so far, your signal response to this latest
assault on the Palestinians, that the UN Secretary General diplomatically calls
"disproportionate", has been to defend Israel's right to respond to
rocket attacks that, while rightly condemned, are mere pinpricks in comparison
to the horrific consequences of Israeli bombardment and of the ongoing blockade
on Gaza.

 

Does this mean that on the long way to the White House you have trimmed your sails
and, for the sake of securing the power you will soon assume, fear now to speak
truth to power? Does this mean that, unlike Dr. King, your sense of justice is
adjustable for the sake of political expedience? Those who supported you from
the early days of your primary campaign did so not on account of your response
to economic crisis, but because they believed in your sense of justice and your
commitment to put an end to business-as-usual in Washington, and because they
believed in your genuine desire to shape a new and different world order.



In 1981, while you were an undergraduate at Occidental
College , you were among the first of a
courageous group of students and faculty who, while the cause was still
unpopular or unheard of, spoke out for divestment from the apartheid regime in
South Africa .
You knew then that it was imperative to place pressure on a racist regime which
shamefully oppressed a black and coloured population that was discriminated
against, subject to pass laws and control of its every movement, parceled into
Bantustans , and subject to detention, torture and extra-judicial
execution. When the black population protested, like the school children of
Soweto , they could be
summarily shot down by police or army. The ANC, under Nelson Mandela, was
proscribed as a terrorist movement, its leaders were imprisoned, tortured or
killed, its guerillas faced the overwhelming power of the South African army,
equipped and trained in part by the
United States and its European
allies. A regime that was so unafraid to use violence in the defense of its
discriminatory and racist regime, and so unashamed to do so in the face of
international condemnation, could only understand the language of force. The
divestment movement in which you so actively participated understood that the euphemistically
and cynically named policy of "constructive engagement" was a moral
and practical failure and that only the non-violent force of a financial
boycott on the South African regime had any hope of bringing an end to
apartheid without an horrific bloodbath.



Public figures as diverse as Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter have
recognized that Israel too maintains an apartheid regime, in practice

if not in name. South Africa ,
now a functioning  multi-racial democracy, was a white state for a white
people. Israel
is a Jewish state for a Jewish people. Its non-Jewish, mostly Palestinian Arab
citizens are discriminated against in numerous ways, economically and civilly.
The dispossessed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian populations, dispersed in
the diaspora and in the refugee camps of Gaza ,
the West Bank and Lebanon ,
are denied the internationally recognized right of return. They have had their
lands and homes taken from them by armed and "legal" force, are
subject to collective punishment, prolonged states of siege, the absolute and
deliberately destructive control of their daily movements. Where South Africa
instituted the pass laws, the checkpoints that have proliferated all over the
West Bank and at the exits from Gaza prevent students from reaching their
schools and hospitals, workers from reaching their places or work, keep farmers
from their fields, the sick from the few hospitals that survive to serve them. The
illegal settlements, that in contravention of all international laws regarding
occupation have proliferated across the West Bank, are designed to be permanent
"facts on the ground" and have divided recognized Palestinian territory
into segmented islets, into besieged Bantustans ,
with the intent of preventing a contiguous Palestinian state. A so-called
security wall, illegally built, as even the Israeli Supreme Court recognized,
on Palestinian territory, has cut farmers from their lands and turned formerly

prosperous villages into isolated prisons. Regular Israeli military incursions
into Palestinian cities and refugee camps, and bombings from the air, have
killed innumerable civilians, many of them children. Since the election of
Hamas, in fair and open elections, Israel has subjected the civilian population
of Gaza to a prolonged state of siege, designed to suffocate them into submission,
depriving them at will of water and power, medical supplies and food, and of
access to the outside world. The most recent, all-out assault on Gaza, the
disproportionate and bloody use of excessive force, is no act of self-defense,
but the dramatic extension of an insidious policy of extermination of a people
that refuses to disappear.



Every one of these acts is a crime against humanity. In their ensemble, they constitute
one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times.

Almost alone among nations, Israel
acts in flagrant violation of international law and UN resolutions and does so
with impunity. That it can do so is in large part the consequence of the
uncritical support offered to Israel
by a succession of American administrations. Without the military and economic
aid of the United States ,
which amounts to more than a third of all US
foreign aid, Israel could
not have mounted its violent offensives against the Palestinians or
Lebanon , could not maintain its security
apparatus, could not afford the illegal settlements that seek to expand
Israel into what
remains of Palestinian territory. The United
States has supplied the F-16s that are bombarding the
Palestinians, their schools, police stations and mosques, and the cluster bombs
that continue to kill and maim children and farmers in southern
Lebanon .
America continues to support Israel to the tune of billions every year at the
expense of US taxpayers and at the expense of its moral standing in the world.



You will continue to do so, according to your own web page, because "our first
and incontrovertible  commitment in the Middle East must be to the security
of Israel ,
America 's
strongest ally in the region." You and your Vice-President, Joe Biden, not
only "defend and support the annual foreign aid package that involves both
military and economic assistance to
Israel ", but moreover
"have advocated increased foreign aid budgets to ensure that these funding
priorities are met." In doing so, you lend your support, in the name of the
United States, to a regime no less criminal in its acts and in its policies
towards its own minority population and its dispossessed Palestinian neighbors
than South Africa was in the 1980s. Then, it was argued, South Africa was our
strongest ally in the region, a bulwark in the war against communism, a crucial
supplier of uranium and other minerals, a prosperous Western-style democracy,
if not the only democracy on the continent. To bring down the South African
apartheid regime, it was argued, would be to create chaos in southern
Africa , unleash a bloodbath in which whites and blacks
alike would suffer, and pave the way for a communist or dictatorial
postcolonial regime. The divestment movement, a non-violent coalition of
students and academics, union members and churches, came together in the spirit
of the Civil Rights movement to challenge those

self-serving assumptions. It changed the direction of US foreign policy, disgracing
its support of a racist regime, and placed effective pressure on

the apartheid regime to begin serious negotiations with the ANC. Through a combination
of diplomacy and divestment, we did end apartheid, making way

for a functioning multi-racial democracy that confronts its challenges, indeed,
but has not dissolved into chaos or tyranny.



It is time for the United States
to place a similar pressure on Israel .
That Israel has been
America 's beneficiary, unchallenged in its war
crimes and in its acts of terror, uncontested for its racist civil constitution
and illegal occupations, has not been to the
United States ' advantage. On the contrary,
such unquestioning support of Israel
has fuelled the legitimate anger of the Islamic world, supplied the
justification for terrorism, and continually tarnished the
United States '
reputation among the democracies of the world. That the
United States has stood so often alone in
defending Israel
before the court of world opinion in the United Nations is not a sign of its
virtue, but of the obstinacy and arrogance of its stance. But it is not for the
sake of the reputation or advantage of the United
States that you should take a new path in relation to
Israel . It is
in the name of justice. It is not just to support the territorial ambitions,
realized settlement by settlement, of a Zionist minority in the region. It is
not just to continue to supply Israel
with the most advanced weapons and the most deadly arms in order that it may
murder civilians, children and policemen. It is not just that we should support
Israel with all our diplomatic
force and financial aid, while leaving
Israel 's victims to die slowly for
lack of food, medicine, water and power. It is not just that we should
sacrifice a dispossessed people for the security of a state that discriminates
and expropriates, continually and violently ignores UN resolutions and
international appeals, collectively punishes those whose right to resist
occupation is recognized in international law.



 

There is no road to peace through such injustice. It may be that the compromise
in the end will be the establishment and security of two separate states.
Almost certainly, the only hope of a lasting solution is a single state in
Israel/Palestine, committed to the civil and human rights of all peoples within
its boundaries, irrespective of religion or ethnicity. That is, after all, the
standard to which we hold all other states in the world,
Israel alone
excepted. But no solution at all will be possible until we hold
Israel
accountable for its criminal violence and its illegal acts, until we cease to
supply it with the means to pursue a course of domination and expansion, with
arms and warplanes, with finance and diplomatic support. In wake of the
humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza ,
your recent expression of "deep concern" is not enough. It is time
for constructive disengagement from
Israel , financial, diplomatic,
military. What worked in the case of South Africa, divestment and pressure, may
finally work in the Middle East.



Without such justice, there will be no peace.





David Lloyd

University of Southern California Los Angeles



January 1, 2009



 

Maher Abdelqader, St. Johns
University

Butool Abdullah, University of California
(UC), Riverside

Khadeeja Abdullah, UC Los Angeles

Wadad Abed, Palestine Aid Society

Diana Abouali, Dartmouth College

Thomas Abowd, Wayne State University

Matthew Abraham, DePaul
University

Raed Abughazaleh, Hennepin
County Medical
Center

Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern University

Lila Abu-Lughod, Columbia
University

Fida Adely, Georgetown
University School
of Foreign Service

Dorothy Aguilera, Lewis & Clark College, Portland

Sanjam Ahluwalia, Northern Arizona University

Barry Aidlin, UC Berkeley

Andrew Aisenberg, Scripps College

Maha Akhtar, Macaulay Honors College at Queens College

Daniel Alarc­n, UC Berkeley

Lisa Albrecht, University of Minnesota

Linda Mart'n Alcoff, Hunter College/CUNY

David Alderson, University of Manchester

Hamid Algar, UC Berkeley

Kimberly Alidio, University of Texas at Austin

Dina Al-Kassim, UC Irvine

Amany Al-Sayyed, American University of Beirut

Evelyn Alsultany, University of Michigan

Abbas Al-Tonsi, Georgetown University

Andrew Altounyan, Concerned citizen

Atif Alvi, Lahore University of Management Sciences

Candice Amich, Rutgers University

T.R. Amsler, June Jordan School for Equity

Sriram Ananth, University of Minnesota

Patrick Anderson, UC San Diego

Gil Anidjar, Columbia University

Sinan Antoon , New York
University

Nausheen H Anwar, Harvard
University

Ibrahim Aoude, University
of Hawaii

Juan Manuel Arbona, Bryn Mawr College

Stephen Carl Arch, Michigan State University

Elizabeth Archuleta, Arizona State University

Jacqueline Armijo, Zayed University

Anjali Arondekar, UC Santa Cruz

Nadim Asrar, University of Minnesota

Mohamed G. Atta, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Robin Attfield, Cardiff University

Elsa Auerbach, University of Massachusetts Boston

Tim August, University of Minnesota

Idelber Avelar, Tulane University

Sufia Azmat, Noor-Ul-Iman School

Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley

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Susan Bain, Promenade Elementary School

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Christine Bacareza Balance, UC Irvine

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Wanda S. Ballentine, Retired

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Tani Barlow, Rice University

Barbara Barnes, Brooklyn College

Lynne Barnes, Colorado State University

Ryan P Barone, University of Connecticut

Valerie Barr, Union College

Harry Bastermajian, Lake Forest College

Angela Ixkic Duarte Bastian, Universidad Aut­noma de Mexico

Edward Batchelder, SUNY, Buffalo

Janet Bauer, Trinity College

Anis Bawarshi, University of
Washington

Rosalyn Baxandall, SUNY, Old Westbury

Moustafa Bayoumi, Brooklyn
College , CUNY

Toby Beauchamp, UC Davis

Michael Beck, Queens College

Adam H. Becker, New York University

Joshua A. Bell, Smithsonian Institution Jonathan Beller, Pratt Institute

L. Kent Bendall, Wesleyan University

Lourdes Bener'a, Cornell University

Sylvia Benini, Austin Center for Peace and Justice

Rick Berg, University of Southern California

Brook Bernini-Galup, University of Minnesota

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Jess Bier, CUNY

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Laure Bjawi, Santa Clara University

Jody Blanco, UC San Diego

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Steven Blevins, Florida International University

Katherine Blouin, University of Toronto

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Pennsylvania

Lawrence Blum, University of
Massachusetts , Boston

Abigail Boggs, UC Davis

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Florida

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  Michigan Victoria
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Papori Bora, University of Minnesota

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Marylee Bradley, California State University, Stanislaus

Amy L. Brandzel, University of New Mexico

Bruce Braun, University of
Minnesota

Lundy Braun, Brown
University

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Laura Briggs, University of Arizona

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Jericho Burg, UC San Diego

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Jessica B. Burstrem, University
of Arizona

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of Illinois

Snjezana Buzov ,
Ohio State University

Layla Cable, the Curley
School

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University

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of Southern Maine

Andrew Calabrese, University of
Colorado at Boulder

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of Minnesota

Jordan Camp, UC Santa Barbara

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Illinois , Chicago

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Marija Cetinic, USC

Aditi Chandra, University of
Minnesota

Nandini Chandra, University of
Minnesota Ryan Chaney,
Columbia University

Sylvia Chan-Malik, UC Berkeley

Tina Chanter, DePaul
University

Ignacio Chapela, UC Berkeley

Piya Chatterjee, UC Riverside

Ruchi Chaturvedi, Hunter
College , CUNY

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Mel Y. Chen, UC Berkeley

Thomas Chen, Brown
University

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of Washington

Anita Chikkatur, University
of Pennsylvania

Kyeong-Hee Choi, University
of Chicago

Sylvia Chong, University
of Virginia

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Massachusetts , Boston

Peter Chua, San Jose
State University

Kandice Chuh, University
of Maryland

George Ciccariello-Maher, UC Berkeley

Christina E. Civantos, University
of Miami

Diana Claitor ,
Texas Jail Project

Beth Cleary, Macalester
College

Patricia Ticineto Clough, Queens
College and Graduate
Center CUNY

Nanette Le Coat, Trinity
University

Lawrence Cohen,
UC Berkeley

Matthew Coleman, Ohio
State University

Martha Collins, Oberlin
College

Patricia Connolly, University
of Minnesota

Sheila Contreras, Michigan
State University

Paula M. Cooey, Macalester
College

Karin Cope, University
of Nova Scotia

Roselyn Costantino, Penn
State University

Clare Counihan, Nazareth
College

Margaux Cowden, UC Irvine

Robert Cowles, Hobart and
William Smith
Colleges

Corey Creekmur, University
of Iowa

T.J. Cribb, Churchill
College

Charles Crittenden, California
State University ,
Northridge

Stephen Crowley, Oberlin
College

Denise Cruz, Indiana
University

Michael Cucher, USC

Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas, UC Riverside

Kate Cummings, University
of Washington

Chris Cuomo, University
of Georgia

Kavita Daiya, George
Washington University

Marlowe Daly-Galeano, University
of Arizona

Mahendra Damarla, Johns
Hopkins University
School of Medicine

Maria Damon, University of
Minnesota  

Bucker Dangor, Imperial
College London

Huma Dar, University of
British Columbia  

Susan Muaddi Darraj, Harford
Community College

Atasi Das, Keene
State College

Rochelle Davis, Georgetown
University

James Davis, Brooklyn
College , City
University of
New York

Ashley Dawson, CUNY
Graduate Center

Iyko Day, Mount
Holyoke College

Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt
University

Jodi Dean, Hobart and
William Smith
Colleges

Lara Deeb, Scripps
College

Randi Deguilhem, CNRS, IREMAM

Chela Delgado, UC Berkeley

Anneke DeLuycker, Butler
University

Manan Desai, University
of Michigan

Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, City
College , CUNY

William Dewey, UC San Francisco

Vicente M. Diaz, University
of Michigan

Colin Dickey, USC

Linda Dittmar, University of
Massachusetts , Boston

Naazneen Diwan, UCLA

Tayyab S. Diwan, Mayo Clinic

Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, St.
Olaf College

Sharon Doetsch-Kidder, UC Santa
  Barbara

Thomas John Donahue, Saint Joseph 's
University

Andy Doolen, University
of Kentucky

Roxanne Lynn Doty, Arizona
State University

Simon Doubleday, Hofstra
University

Roberta L. Dougherty, University of
Texas at Austin

Anne E. Duggan, Wayne
State University

Lisa Duggan, New York
University

Kevin C. Dunn, Hobart and
William Smith
Colleges

Bud Duvall, University
of Minnesota

William Duvall, Willamette
University

Robert Ellis Dye, Macalester
College

Andrew Edgar, Cardiff
University

Eduardo Cadava, Princeton
University

Ben Ehrenreich, Otis
College of Art and Design 

Kaveh Ehsani, De Paul University

Mushira Eid, University
of Utah

John Eisele, College
of William and Mary

Zillah Eisenstein, Ithaca
College

Muhammad S. Eissa, University
of Chicago

Hisam Elaqad ,
Ohio State University

Nada Elia, Antioch
University

Marie-Therese Ellis, Mills
College

Maryam El-Shall, UC Irvine

David G. Embrick, Loyola University-Chicago

Zachary Noffsinger Erbaugh, Bethany
Theological Seminary

Colleen Eren, CUNY
Graduate Center

Jenny Ernst, Park
Day School

Adriana Estill, Carleton
College

Nava EtShalom, University
of Michigan

Sylvanna M. Falc­n, UC Riverside

Nahyan Fancy, DePauw
University

James C. Faris, University
of Connecticut

Grant Farred, Cornell
University

Munis D. Faruqui, UC Berkeley 

David Faust, University of
Minnesota  

Silvia Federici, Hofstra
University

Ilana Feldman, George
Washington University

James Ferguson, Stanford
University

Roderick A. Ferguson, University
of Minnesota

Allan Fisher, City
College of San
  Francisco

Elllen Fleischmann, University
of Dayton

Colin Flint, University
of Illinois ,
Urbana-Champaign

Courtney G. Flint, University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Amy Foerster, Pace University

Claudio Fogu, UC Santa Barbara

Alessandro Fornazzari, UC Riverside

Noha Forster, University
of Chicago

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes,
University of Michigan

Claire F. Fox, University
of Iowa

Anne-Lise Fran ois, UC at Berkeley

Cynthia Franklin, University
of Hawaii at Manoa

Cary Fraser,
Pennsylvania State
University

Carla Freccero, UCSC

Nathaniel Freiburger, UC Davis

Lezlie Frye, NYU

Gloria Frym, California
College of the Arts

Dan Fulton, San Lucas Toliman Hospital

Gary Gaffney, Art
Academy of Cincinnati

Nancy Gallagher, UC Santa Barbara

Catherine Gallou't, Hobart and
William Smith
Colleges

Anthony Galluzzo, Clark Library

Ritika Ganguly, University
of Minnesota

Matt Garite, SUNY Buffalo

Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan
University

Adriana Garriga-L­pez, Columbia
University

Leo Gerweck, Harvard
Medical School

Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC Santa Barbara

Vinay Gidwani, University
of Minnesota

Stephanie Gilmore, Dickinson
College

Rachel Giora, Tel
Aviv University

Reda E. Girgis,, Johns
Hopkins University

Abbott Gleason, Brown
University

Carolyn Goffman, DePaul
University

David Theo Goldberg, UC Irvine

Catherine Tracy Goode, University of
Massachusetts , Boston

Priyamvada Gopal, University
of Cambridge

Gayatri Gopinath ,
New York University

Sumanth Gopinath, University
of Minnesota

Avery Gordon, UC Santa Barbara

Jeffrey Gore, DePaul
University

Melanie Gould, Voluntary Service Overseas

Stephen Graham, University
of Durham

Lucy Graham, Stellenbosch
University

Ronald Walter Greene, University
of Minnesota

Mary Jo Grennan, Keene
State University

Zareena Grewal, Yale
University

Pamela Grieman, USC

Larry Gross, USC

Sarah Gualtieri, USC

Patricia Guizzetti, Chicago
Public Schools

Andrew Paul Gutierrez, UC Berkeley

Ferit GŸven, Earlham
College

Khristina Haddad, Moravian
College

Mathew Hadley, University
of Minnesota

Elaine C. Hagopian, Simmons
College

Jeanne Hahn, Evergreen
State College
of Liberal Arts

Jennifer Haidar, Des Moines
Public Schools

Samira Haj, CUNY
Graduate School

Paula Hajar, Bronx
Charter School
for Better Learning

Semya Hakim, St. Cloud
State University

Judith Halberstam, USC

Sondra Hale, UCLA

Lisa Kahaleole Hall, Wells
College

Susanne E. Hall, Duke
University

John Halman, Macalester
College

Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions

Raja Halwani, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago

Brian Hand, Wexford Campus (IT Carlow, IrelaMargaret Hanzimanolis, De Anza
College

Michael K. Hardy, Rutgers
University

Molly O'Hagan Hardy, University of
Texas at Austin

Marguerite Hargrove, retired citizen

Gillian Harkins, University
of Washington

Barbara Harlow, University of
Texas at Austin

Laura Harms, Earlham
College

Gillian Hart, UC Berkeley

Janet Hart, University
of Michigan

George Hartley, Ohio
University

Michelle Hartman, McGill
University

Barbara Harvey, lawyer, Detroit ,
Michigan

Salah D. Hassan, Michigan
State University

Wail S. Hassan, University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign

Frances Hasso, Oberlin
College

Paul M. Hassoun, Johns
Hopkins University

Nola J. Heidlebaugh, SUNY-Oswego

Courtney Helgoe, University
of Minnesota

Peter Henry, Seattle
Schools

RDK Herman, Smithsonian Institution

Jocelyn Claire R. Hermoso, San
  Francisco State
University

Caroline Herzenberg, Argonne National
Laboratory

Devin Hess, Park
Day School

Nik Heynen, University
of Georgia

Annie Higgins, Wayne
State University

Edwin Hill, USC

Brenda Hillman, Saint Mary's College
of California

Ruth Hoffman, University
of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign 

Miguel Hoffman, Luperon
High School 

Joan Hoffman, John
Jay College
of Criminal Justice 

Cynthia Hogue, Arizona
State University


Nate Holdren, University
of Minnesota 

James-Henry Holland, Hobart and
William
Smith Colleges


Jim Holstun, SUNY Buffalo


Grace Kyungwon Hong, UC Los
  Angeles 

Jonathan House, Columbia
University 

David Brian Howard, Nova
  Scotia College
of Art and Design 

Chris Howell, Oberlin
College 

Matt Huber, Clark
University 

Ashley Hunt, California Institute of the Arts 

Mark Hunter, University
of Toronto 

Adrienne Carey Hurley, McGill
University 

Janise Hurtig, University of
Illinois at Chicago


Suzy Ismail, DeVry
University 

Linda A. Jaber, Wayne
State University


Shelley Jackson, The New School 

Ninni Jacob, Brown
University Medical
School 

Sushil Jacob, UC Berkeley 

Alison M. Jaggar, University
of Colorado ,
Boulder 

Anita Jain, Cal Poly 

Pomona Howla Jardali,
Livingston
Union School District


Najwa Jardali, Foothill
Community College 

Amira Jarmakani ,
Georgia State
University 

Tariq Jazeel, University
of Sheffield 

Alison Jian, concerned citizen 

Anne Joh, Phillips Theological Seminary 

Elizabeth R. Johnson, University
of Minnesota 

Leola Johnson, Macalester
College 

Merritt Johnson, Emily
Carr University
of Art and Design 

 Adriana Johnson, UC Irvine 

Benjamin Shane Jonas, San
  Jose State
University 

Kathi Jordan ,
Contra Costa
College 

George Joseph, Hobart
  & William Smith
Colleges 

Shady Joulani, UC Los Angeles


Nicole M. Jowsey, SUNY Buffalo


Eileen Julien, Indiana
University 

Djelal Kadir ,
Pennsylvania State University 

Leah Kaminski, UC Irvine 

Priya Kandaswamy, Portland
State University


Katie Kane, University
of Montana 

Laura Hyun Yi Kang, UC Irvine 

Eva Kanso, USC 

Ronak Kapadia, NYU 

Amy Kaplan, University
of Pennsylvania 

Caren Kaplan, UC Davis 

Persis Karim, San Jose
State University


Cindi Katz, CUNY
Graduate Center


Nadav Katz, Brown
University 

Kimberly Katz, Towson
University 

J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Wesleyan
University
Savas Kaya , Ohio
University 

Kerwin Kaye, NYU 

David Kazanjian, University
of Pennsylvania 

William Keach, Brown
University 

Robin D. G. Kelley, USC 

Susan M. Kenyon, Butler
University 

Arang Keshavarzian, NYU 

Andrea Khalil, Queens
College , CUNY Mustafa Khammash, UC Santa Barbara
Saera R. Khan, University
of San Francisco 

Nathalie Khankan, UC Berkeley 

Ali Khejjou, Foothill
College 

Habibul H. Khondker, Zayed
University 

Emily Khweiss, Queens
College 

Jodi Kim, UC Riverside 

Garnet Kindervater, University
of Minnesota 

Mary C. King, Portland
State University


Laurie King, Georgetown
University 

David Klein, California
State University ,
Northridge 

Jesse Knutson, University
of Chicago 

Silvia Kolbowski, Columbia
University 

Satish Kolluri, Pace University 

Ebru Kongar, Dickinson
College 

A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester
College 

Paula Kornegay, Kornegay Design 

Dennis Kortheuer, California
State University ,
Long Beach 

Wendy Kozol, Oberlin
College 

Sanjay Krishnan, UC Irvine 

Priya Kumar, University
of Iowa 

Radha Kumar, Jamia Millia Islamia 

James Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild/
Los Angeles 

Ingrid Lagos, UC Davis 

Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape ,
South Africa


Mariam Beevi Lam, UC Riverside 

Joan B. Landes, Penn
State University


Jill Lane ,
NYU 

Lauren Langman, Loyola
University of Chicago


Brendan LaRocque, College
of St. Benedict 

Nadia Latif, Columbia
University 

John Lavine, Black & White Magazine 

Mary N. Layoun, University of
Wisconsin , Madison


Alicia Lazzarini, University
of Minnesota 

Margaret D. LeCompte, University
of Colorado ,
Boulder 

James Kyung-Jin Lee, UC Santa
  Barbara 

Julia H. Lee, University of
Texas at Austin


Sharon Heijin Lee, University
of Michigan 

Thomas F. Lee, Saint Anselm College 

Eleonore Lee, Trinity
University 

Jon Lee, Trinity
University 

Winnie Lem, Trent
University 

Yuen-Gen Liang, Wheaton
College 

Stefan Liess, University
of Minnesota 

Nhi Lieu, University of
Texas at Austin


Eng-Beng Lim, Michigan
State University


Deborah L. Little, Adelphi
University 

Dana Luciano, Georgetown
University 

Heather N. Lukes, NYU 

Loren D. Lybarger, Ohio
University 

Janet Lyon, Penn
State University


Laura E. Lyons, University
of Hawaii 

Gordon MacAlpine, Trinity
University 

Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity
University 

Nancy Maclaine, Citizen 

Banafsheh Madaninejad, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Theresa J. Mah, University
of Chicago 

Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona
College 

Sunaina Maira, UC Davis 

Karin Mak, Cal
Poly Pomona
College 

Afreen Malim, Youth
Empowerment School


Douja Mamelouk, Georgetown
University 

Ariana Mangual, UC Berkeley 

Paul Manning, Trent
University 

Anita Mannur, Denison
University 

Curtis Marez, USC 

Hubert Marshall, Stanford
University 

Sallie A Marston, University
of Arizona 

Luis Martin-Cabrera, UC San
  Diego 

Mar’a Elena Mart’nez, USC 

Anat Matar, Tel
Aviv University


Nabil Matar, University
of Minnesota 

Patricia Mathews, Hobart and
William
Smith Colleges


Stanley Mathews,
Hobart and William
Smith Colleges


Nemir Matos-Cintron ,
Valencia
Community College 

James Matzorkis, Cleveland
State University


Tom Mayer, University of
Colorado , Boulder


James McCarthy, Penn
State University


Ernest McCarus, University
of Michigan 

Colin McFarlane, Durham
University 

Jason McGrath, University
of Minnesota 

Sarah E. McKibben, University
of Notre Dame 

John McKinn, University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign 

Stuart McLean, University
of Minnesota 

Charles McLeod, San Jose
State University


Monika Mehta, Binghamton
University 

Ulises A. Mejias, SUNY Oswego


Martin Melkonian, Hofstra
University 

Pablo Mendez, University
of British Columbia 

Anne Meneley, Trent
University Gregory 

Meyerson, North Carolina
A & T University


John Michael, University
of Rochester 

LK Michelsen, University
of Pennsylvania 

Michael Miklos, Los
  Angeles City
College 

Jim Mileham, University of Wisconson-Milwaukee 

Glen Mimura, UC Irvine 

Yong Soon Min, UC Irvine 

Ruth Misheloff, Baruch College/CUNY 

Elliot G. Mishler, Harvard Medical 

Don Mitchell, Syracuse
University 

John Mitchell, California
Public Schools 

Minoo Moallem, UC Berkeley 

Mahnaz Moallem, University of
North Carolina , Wilmington


Farid Mohammadi ,
Texas 

Nafas Chandra Talpade Mohanty,
Syracuse University


Jawid Mojaddedi, Rutgers
University 

Alejandra Molina, Hobart and
William
Smith Colleges


Theresa Montano, California
State University


at Northridge 

Axel Montepeque, UC San Diego


Ellen Moore, UC Berkeley 

Ilona Moore, University
of Minnesota   

Levins Morales, Independent scholar/community educator 

Norma Claire Moruzzi, University
of Illinois at
Chicago 

Fred Moten, Duke
University 

John Mowitt, University
of Minnesota 

Stephennie Mulder, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Sayyed Abd Al Mahdi Musawi, Razi
School ,
Woodside , New York


Cheryl B. Mwaria, Hofstra
University 

Nadine Naber, University of
Michigan , Ann
  Arbor 

Richa Nagar, University
of Minnesota 

Tsolin Nalbantian, Columbia
University 

Omar Nasr, UC Los Angeles


Roni Natov, Brooklyn
College , CUNY 

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham ,
Oberlin
College 

Lawrence Needham ,
Lakeland
Community College 

Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt
University Lindsay
Nelson, USC 

Joan Nestle, Queens
College , CUNY 

Jane O. Newman, UC Irvine 

Marcy Newman, An Najah
University 

Niels Niessen, University
of Minnesota 

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou, SUNY Buffalo


Aliscia Niles ,
Oregon Schools 

Judith Norman, Trinity
University 

Lisa North, Public School 3 Brooklyn 

Theodore Norton, Penn
State University


Gabriela Nouzeilles, Princeton
University 

Charlotte Nunes, University of
Texas ,
Austin 

Naomi Shihab Nye, San Antonio ,
Texas 

Peter O'Brien, Trinity
University 

Anne O'Byrne, Stony Brook University 

Laura O'Connor, UC Irvine 

Timothy O'Donnell, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago 

Aine O'Healy, Loyola
Marymount University


Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan
University 

Lydia
Okelberry, Rio
Hondo College


Tema Okun, University of North Carolina-Greensboro 

Ryan Olivas, History teacher 

Daniel Olmos, UC Santa Barbara


Jennifer C Olmsted, Drew
University 

Judy Olson, California
State University ,
Los Angeles 

Paulette Olson, Wright
State University


Peter O'Neill, USC 

Christopher J. O'Reilly, Keene
High School 

Jackie Orr, Syracuse
University 

Amy E. Den Ouden, University
of Massachusetts
Boston 

Naomi Paik, Yale
University 

Ellen Palmer, teacher & poet, Chicago, 

Paula Panich, freelance writer and teacher 

Crystal Parikh, NYU 

Lisa
Sun-Hee Park ,
University of
Minnesota 

Karl Parker, Hobart &
  William Smith
Colleges 

Benita Parry, Warwick
University 

Dinesh Paudel, University
of Minnesota 

Alejandro Paz, University
of Chicago 

Mark H Pearson, Earlham
College 

Ann Pellegrini, NYU 

David Pellow, University
of Minnesota 

Claire Pentecost, The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago 

Thomas Pepper, University
of Minnesota 

Sonali Perera, Rutgers
University 

Christine Perera, People's Movement for the Rights of Patients,
Sri Lanka 

Hiram Perez, Princeton
University 

Michael Perfect, University
of Cambridge 

Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College & the
CUNY Graduate
Center 

Minh-ha Pham, NYU 

Kavita Philip, UC Irvine 

Ryan Phillips, UC Berkeley 

Matthew Pierce, Boston
University 

Jemima Pierre, University of
Texas at Austin


Maren Pink ,
Indiana University 

Edie Pistolesi ,
California State University,
Northridge 

Beatrice Pita, UC San Diego


David K. Pitts, Wayne
State University


Karen Platt, Contra
Costa College


Alan Pogue, Texas
Center for Documentary
Photography 

Haley Pollack, University of
Wisconsin , Madison


Guy Pollio, Nassau
Community College 

Djordje Popovic, University
of Minnesota 

Paul Porter, University
of Minnesota 

Vijay Prashad, Trinity
College 

David Prochaska, University
of Illinois 

Mia Carter, University of
Texas , Austin


Scott Prudham, University
of Toronto 

Jasbir Puar, Rutgers
University 

Alexandra Puerto, Occidental
College 

Laura Pulido, USC 

Therese Quinn, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago 

Magali Rabasa, UC Davis 

Paula Rabinowitz, University
of Minnesota 

Peter Rachleff, Macalester
College 

Jonathan Raff, UC Irvine 

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, University
of Minnesota 

Nimanthi Rajasingham, Rutgers
University 

Aneil Rallin, Soka
University of
America 

Beatriz E. Ram’rez-Betances, University
of Michigan 

Junaid Rana, University
of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign


Marilynn Rashid, Wayne
State University


Jason Read, University
of Southern Maine 

Raphi Rechitsky, University
of Minnesota 

Chandan Reddy, University of
Washington , Seattle


Gayatri Reddy, University of
Illinois at Chicago


Rajyashree N Reddy, University
of Minnesota 

Sujani Reddy, Amherst
College 

Judith Reed, Keene
State College 

David Reeves, Miramar
College 

Rush Rehm, Stanford
University 

Mary Jo Reiff, University
of Tennessee 

Carlos Revilla, Photographer 

Laura Rice, Oregon
State University


John Richetti, University
of Pennsylvania 

Jennifer Ridgley, University
of Toronto 

Kevin Riordan, University
of Minnesota 

Morelia Rivas, UC
San Diego 

Danielle Robare, School for International Training 

Bruce Robbins, Columbia
University 

Paul Robbins, University
of Arizona 

Kathy Roberts, Cambridge
Community Partnership for Children 

Jane Robinett, San Diego
State University


Shira Robinson, George
Washington University


Christopher C. Robinson, Clarkson
University 

StŽphane Robolin, Williams
College 

Howard A. Rodman, USC 

Dylan Rodr’guez, UC Riverside 

Eleanor Roffman, Lesley
University 

Clarissa Rojas, California State
Long Beach 

Patricia Romero, Towson
University 

Sonia M. Rosen, University
of Pennsylvania 

Marsha Rosengarten, Goldsmiths,
University of London


Andrew Ross, NYU 

Robert B. Ross, Syracuse
University 

Natalie Rothman, University
of Toronto 

Aleya Rouchdy, Wayne
State University


John Carlos Rowe, USC 

Laura E. Ruberto, Berkeley
City College
Susan Ruddick, University
of Toronto 

Ann Russo, DePaul
University 

Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, University
  of Southampton , UK


Rashmi Sadana, Columbia
University 

Jeff Sahadeo, Carleton
University 

G. S. Sahota, University
of Minnesota 

Lily Saint, Baruch
College , CUNY 

Christa Salamandra, Lehman
College , CUNY 

Josefina Salda–a, New
  York University


Arun Saldanha, University
of Minnesota 

Murad Salem, Wayne
State University


Saad Samaan, University
of Cincinnati 

Ranu Samantrai ,
Indiana University 

Khaldoun Samman, Macalester
College 

Nicholas Sammond, University
of Toronto 

Benita Sampedro, Hofstra
University 

Sajay Samuel, Penn
State University


Shirley Samuels, Cornell
University 

Rosaura Sanchez, UC San Diego


Marlena Santoyo, Philadelphia
Federation of Teachers 

Dean Saranillio, University
of Michigan 

Mary Sari, High School for Law and Public Service 

Bhaskar Sarkar, UC Santa
  Barbara 

Mahua Sarkar, Binghamton
University 

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan, Point Pedro Institute of Development 

Karen Saunders, Putney
Central School


Aseel Sawalha, Pace University 

Sabina Sawhney, Hofstra
University 

Simona Sawhney, University
of Minnesota 

Zeina Sayegh, Hofstra
University 

James R. Scarritt, University
of Colorado at
Boulder 

Justin Schell, University
of Minnesota 

Paige Schilt, Soulforce Research Fellow 

Freya Schiwy, UC Riverside 

Gerald W. Schlabach, University
of St. Thomas 

Cathy Schlund-Vials, University
of Connecticut 

Abigail Schoneboom, LaGuardia
Community College 

Malini Johar Schueller, University
of Florida 

Mark Schuller, York
College , CUNY 

Anna Schultz, University
of Minnesota 

Zachary Schwartz-Weinstein, NYU 

Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study 

Sarita See, University
of Michigan 

Timothy Seidel, Mennonite Central Committee 

May Seikaly, Wayne
State University


Ellen Seiter, USC 

Caroline Seymour-Jorn, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

Rowan Shafer, New Orleans


Sholeh Shahrokhi, Butler
University 

Khanum Shaikh, UC Los Angeles


Omnia El Shakry, UC Davis 

Kate Shalvoy, Council on International Educational Exchange 

Anton Shammas, University
of Michigan 

Aradhana Sharma, Wesleyan
University 

Stephen Sheehi, University
of South Carolina 

Sunil Shende, Rutgers
University , Camden


Alison Shepard, College
of Mount .
St. Joseph 

Eric Sheppard, University
of Minnesota 

Naoko Shibusawa, Brown
University Catherine Shields,
Park Day School


Setsu Shigematsu, UC Riverside 

Magid Shihade, UC Davis 

Laurie Shrage, Florida
International University


Steve Shreefter, NYC Teacher, Retired 

Sussan Siavoshi, Trinity
University 

Irene Siegel, Hofstra
University 

Audra Simpson, Columbia
University 

Brad Simpson, Princeton
University 

Alan Singer, Hofstra
University 

Judith Y. Singer, LIU-Brooklyn 

Julietta Singh, University
of Minnesota 

Nikhil Pal Singh, NYU 

Adam Sitze, Amherst
College 

Ajay Skaria, University
of Minnesota 

Fadi Fayad Skeiker, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Rachel Slocum, St. Cloud
State University


Ageeth Sluis, Butler
University 

David Whitten Smith, University
of St. Thomas 

Neil Smith, CUNY
Graduate Center


Samuel Smith, Messiah
College 

Kobi Snitz, Technion 

Jody Sokolower, UCSF AIDS Health Project 

Jon Solomon, Tamkang
University , Taipei


Kathryn Sorrells, California
State University ,
Northridge 

Emilio Spadola, Colgate
University 

William V. Spanos, SUNY, Binghamton


Robert Spencer, University
of Manchester 

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia
University 

Aletha Stahl, Earlham
College 

Erin Stalcup, Yeshiva
University 

David P. Stein, Yale
University 

Rebecca L. Stein, Duke
University 

Vicky Steinitz, U Mass/Boston 

Christopher Stone, Hunter
College , CUNY 

Shelley Streeby, UC San Diego


Brian Stross, University of
Texas at Austin


Charles Sugnet, University
of Minnesota 

Seung Hye Suh, Scripps
College 

Kevin N. Summers, Traverse
  City Area
Public Schools 

Kathleen Howard Sutherland, University
of Southern Maine 

Ted Swedenburg, University
of Arkansas 

Paige Sweet, University
of Minnesota 

Brynnar Swenson, Butler
University 

Kristin Swenson, Butler
University 

Adeel Syed, Unaffiliated 

Kerry Sylvia, DC Public Schools 

David Szanton, UC Berkeley 

Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Barnard
College 

Molly Talcott, Arizona
State University


Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff
University 

Christine Tardy, DePaul
University 

Michael Taussig, Columbia
University 

Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton
Theological Seminary 

Ty P. Kwika Tengan, University
of Hawaii   

Erica Tesdell, Saint Paul
Public Schools 

Lee Tesdell, Minnesota
State University ,
Mankato 

Omar Tesdell, University
of Minnesota 

Rebecca Tesdell, Seattle
Central Community
  College 

Mary Ann Tetreault, Trinity
University 

Jonathan Thomas, University
of Minnesota 

Valorie Thomas, Pomona
College 

Charis Thompson, UC Berkeley 

Shirley Thompson, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Barrie
Thorne, UC Berkeley 

Emily Thuma, NYU 

Miriam Ticktin, New School for Social Research 

Primrose Tishman, Duke
Ellington School
of the Arts 

Sarra Tlili, University
of Pennsylvania 

Rolando B. Tolentino, University of the
Philippines 

Fereshteh Toosi, Columbia
College , Chicago


Sanna
Towns , University
of Minnesota 

Corbin Treacy, University
of Minnesota 

Red Vaughan Tremmel, Evergreen
State College 

John Trimbur, Emerson
College 

Lucia Trimbur, John
Jay College ,
CUNY 

Anna Tsing, UC Santa Cruz


Meredeth Turshen, Rutgers
University 

Deepika Udagama, University of
  Colombo , Sri Lanka


Benjamin J. Urmston, Xavier
University 

Yohana Valdez, UC Los Angeles


Dimitris Vardoulakis, University
of Western Sydney 

Deborah R. Vargas, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Sherry Vatter, California
State University ,
Long Beach 

Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo, University
of Minnesota 

Gina Velasco, Bryn
Mawr College


Jen Vernon, UC San Diego


Kamala Visweswaran, University
of Texas at
Austin 

Sophie Vlacos, Cardiff
University 

Pamela Voekel, University
of Georgia 

Elizabeth Vogel, University
of Minnesota 

Mary B. Vogl, Colorado
State University


Sam Canh Vong, Yale
University 

Emily Wachsmann, University of
  North Texas 

Joel Wainwright, Ohio
State University


Richard A. Walker, University
of California 

Dorothy Wang, Williams
College 

Jane Ward, UC Riverside 

John Warner, Hunter
College , CUNY 

Robert Warrior, University
of Illinois ,
Urbana-Champaign 

Dorothy Jean Weaver, Eastern Mennonite Seminary,
Harrisonburg , VA


Devra Weber, UC Riverside 

Elizabeth Weed, Brown
University 

Alys Eve Weinbaum, University
of Washington ,
Seattle 

Cornel West, Princeton
University 

E.A. ("Tony") Whelan,
London School
of Economics 

Roger T. Whitson, University
  of South Florida 

Faith Wilding, School of the Art Institute of
Chicago 

Johnny E. Williams, Trinity
College 

Randall Williams, UC San Diego


Jennifer Denise Williams, NYU 

Mary-Sherman Willis, George
Washington University


Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UC Irvine 

Ann Wilson, SUNY, Duchess
Community College 

Kate Wilson, CUNY
Graduate School


Jessica Winegar, Temple
University 

David Wittenberg, University
of Iowa 

Ellen Wolpert, Cambridge
Community Partnerships for Children 

Kristina Wong, Solo Performer and Writer,
Los Angeles 

Jolie Wood, University of
Texas at Austin


John E. Woods, University
of Chicago 

Tryon P. Woods, Sonoma
State University


Daryl Wright, Springfield
College of Human
Services-Boston 

Elvin Wyly, University
of British Columbia 

Nanette Yannuzzi-Macias, Oberlin
College 

Umeyye Izra Yazicioglu, St.
  Joseph 's University 

Seval Yildirim, Whittier
Law School


Lawrence
M. Yoder, Eastern Mennonite Seminary 

Susan Yohn, Hofstra
University 

Theodore Jun Yoo, University
of Hawaii 

Mari Yoshihara, University
of Hawaii 

June Zaccone, Hofstra
University Vazira 

Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar, Brown
University 

Kathryn Zamora-Moeller, UC Berkeley 

Ahmed Zildzic, UC Berkeley 

Catherine Zimmer, Pace University 

Lee Zimmerman, Hofstra
University 

Madhvi Zutshi, Rutgers
University