Webinar: Genocide in Gaza and Repression at Home: Making the Connection

Earlier this year it was revealed that the Israeli state set up a top-level task force to carry out covert operations on U.S. campuses aimed at suppressing opposition to its genocide against Gazans. As Palestinian solidarity has taken off on U.S. university campuses, administrators have responded by suspending free speech and the right to assembly and by calling in riot police to violently repress peaceful student and faculty protesters. It is clear that the war on Palestinians is also a war on all of us who stand against genocide and who oppose U.S. government and corporate support for it.

William I. Robinson is distinguished professor of sociology and global studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Among his recent books are We Will Not Be Silenced: The Academic Repression of Israel's Critics (2018), The Global Police State (2020), and Global Civil War: Capitalism Post-Pandemic (2022).