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1. Educators for Justice in Palestine (EJP) is composed of faculty (part- and full-time), librarians and staff members who support the cause of Palestinian liberation through education, advocacy and action. EJP supports and amplifies the work of students organizing for Palestine.
2. EJP works in close collaboration with, and follows the lead, of calls from our colleagues in Palestinian universities (such as Birzeit University's "A Unified Call for Freedom and Justice in Palestine"). Our solidarity recognizes that Palestinian universities have been subject to attacks, closures, and destruction long before the most recent assault on Gaza.
3. EJP supports public education and discussion about the 76+ years of Israel’s violent, repressive occupation in the context of settler colonialism and Zionist ideology. EJP also promotes efforts to draw attention to the history of Palestine and Palestinian resistance, both on campuses and in the public sphere. EJP defends and supports the right to teach and talk about these topics as they relate to interlocking systems of oppression underpinned by global white supremacy and racial capitalism.
4. EJP endorses the principles of BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) and works in solidarity with international BDS organizations. EJP encourages academic and cultural boycotts of Israeli governmental, corporate, and academic institutions, all of which have been responsible for maintaining apartheid and colonial occupation. EJP also supports the fundamental right of Palestinians to self-determination and legal equality, and to return to their indigenous homes and lands.
5. In response to a pervasively anti-Palestinian campus environment which enables bullying, harassment, and discriminatory punishment, EJP seeks to protect and defend university students, faculty, librarians, and staff who are defamed or disciplined for supporting BDS or otherwise advocating for Palestinian human rights.
6. EJP is firmly committed to combating any form of racism, including anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy. It is also firmly committed to combating all forms of oppression, including caste hierarchies and those targeting sexuality, trans and non-binary gender identification, and disabilities of any kind.
7. As educators in the Jesuit tradition of teaching critical thought and responsible action regarding moral and ethical issues, we will continue to speak out on apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other crimes committed in Palestine and the wider region. We regard silence (and selective empathy) as complicity in the ongoing commission of crimes against humanity.
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