Our Chapter News
FACULTY FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST ANTISEMITISM includes members from a variety of departments and disciplines. Among them are Anesthesiology, Anthropology, Architecture, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, Business, Chemistry, Classics, Communications, Comparative Literature, Computer Science, Criminology, Engineering, English, Environmental Sciences, History, Law, Library Sciences, Linguistics, Marketing, Mathematics, Medicine, Microbiology, Psychology, Religion, Social Work, Sociology, Speech and Hearing Science, Statistics, Theatre, and Women’s Studies.
Assault on Chabad Rabbi
University of Illinois Chabad Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel was personally targeted with antisemitic language: mocking Jewish prayer, slandering the rabbi, and spreading blood libel.
The Benjamin Bross Case: A FAFAA Project
We now take up an issue of exceptional urgency—the tenure case of a UIUC faculty member, Benjamin Bross, whose case was damaged by a series of major procedural errors, among them the appointment of several faculty members with conflicts of interest or the appearance of same.
Ban Masking During Protests at UIUC
We call your attention to and we renew FAFAA’s repeated requests to the UIUC Administration to issue clear mandates against masking whose intent is to conceal identities during an act of antisemitic protest.
2025 Advice on Chancellor Search
We write to you in response to your request for input in the massmail of January 22 “in identifying the key challenges and opportunities facing the new Chancellor/VP and what traits and experience the committee should consider in evaluation of candidates”.
Letter about 10/22 UIUC Antisemitic Lecture
We write to you as senior administrators at UIUC or its Colleges therein whose units are co-sponsoring a fiercely anti-Jewish event: the presentation “Reproductive Genocide in Gaza: A Feminist Approach to Genocide” by Bayan Abusneineh.
SJP Request for Hamas Massacre Celebration Rally
The UIC chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has applied for approval to hold a rally (a “quad takeover”) to express its support for and commemorate Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks on their one-year anniversary.
9/24 Statement about Mohammad Darawshe
FACULTY FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND AGAINST ANTISEMITISM announces its
complete, unequivocal opposition to the campaign that Students for Justice in Palestine
(SJP) is waging against visiting instructor Mohammad Darawshe and the UIUC Center
for Global Studies.
Richard Ross 9/24 Statement to Trustees
I want to focus on an issue that is still outstanding and is of concern to the Jewish community. This is the problem of departmental political statements.
August 2024 FAFAA Advice to UIUC Student Affairs and LAS Regarding I-Teams Proposal
We write to University Administrators to express grave concerns over the LAS I-Team proposal that was recently sent out.
FAFAA Letter About Conduct Covered by UIUC Campus Administrative Manual
Our letter to UIUC reflecting on proposed revisions to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Administrative Manual (CAM).
Public Announcement of FAFAA Recommendations About Campus Administrative Manual
Our opinions on the proposed revisions to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Administrative Manual (CAM) and on future revisions that could be made.
Open Letter to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees
We are writing as the executive committee of a new faculty organization, Faculty for Academic
Freedom & Against Antisemitism.
Advisory Memo from FAFAA to UIUC Administrators
Read our memo addressed to Chancellor Jones, Provost Coleman, and Vice Chancellor Garrick, which lays out our perspective in detail and works through our recommendations to them.
FATHOM Essay Analyzing Our Challenges
Faculty for Academic Freedom and Against Antisemitism: Mission Statement and Background Information.
Times of Israel Article
Jewish Professors Fight for Israel and Against Far Left Fascists in Colleges
Open Letter Co-Organized and Endorsed by FAFAA
An academic boycott against Israel is selective, unfair, and counterproductive.
