This academic year has seen an escalation in attacks on academic freedom and faculty safety at UVA, spurred by, but not limited to, Israel’s war on Palestine. A faculty member who allowed a student to speak about the divestment campaign in his class was secretly recorded by a student in a breach of UVA policy. That illicit recording was used to report him to the Dean of the College, after which he was called before the dean. Another faculty member, who rescheduled a class in solidarity with the student divestment campaign walkout on February 26th, has been slandered as antisemitic on The Daily Caller, social media, and online. As a result, she has received over 1,700 harassing and threatening emails from people claiming to be UVA parents, and she is facing disciplinary action from the College of Arts and Sciences. Still another professor was similarly doxxed and so severely harassed that security was posted outside her classroom for her protection.  A partisan group made a FOIA request for documents from Black and Indigenous faculty members who direct the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute. A professor teaching a class about the legacy of slavery at UVA has had materials for her course FOIA'd by the same group; other instructors have also received FOIA requests for their syllabi.

Those behind this orchestrated campaign include two extremist lobbying groups: the Jefferson Council and the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) in concert with Mothers Against College Antisemitism (MACA). Joel Nied, a UVA parent who has been quoted in multiple news outlets about Palestine solidarity events on Grounds, is President of the Virginia chapter of FIDF and his wife started the UVA chapter of MACA. Walter Smith, Chair of the Jefferson Council Research Committee, is responsible for over 200 spurious FOIA requests. The Jefferson Council is one of several groups generating defamatory posts about Black UVA faculty, including the Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Partnerships, with the goal of shutting down efforts to promote equity. In the face of these attacks, the UVA administration has refused to respond publicly and has gone so far as to legitimize these antagonists by investigating and threatening to discipline the targeted faculty members.

The harassment that UVA faculty have faced, and the threats of punitive measures from their administrators, has had a chilling effect on academic freedom, speech, and the educational mission of the university. Faculty have been put in the line of fire without any protections. Even principled, measured academic statements that simply report the findings of scholars in our fields, as well as international and Israeli human rights organizations, leave us vulnerable to false accusations and harassment by a small, but vocal contingent of students and parents. We strenuously object to this bad faith weaponization of the very real issue of antisemitism and to the selective concern displayed by the administration for the feelings of some UVA community members at the expense of others.

On March 6, 2024, we put seven requests to the administration, guided by two overarching principles: first, protection for academic freedom and, second, protection from harassment.

1. That the administration engage in no disciplinary action against any faculty member who participated in the walkout on February 26, 2024.

2. That the administration provide faculty with clarification on the process by which complaints against them will be investigated.

3. That the administration email all University instructors affirming section 3.1 of the UVA Faculty Handbook, which stipulates that “Academic faculty have the free speech right to address in any forum any matter that is of social, political, economic, or other interest to the larger community, without restraint beyond that imposed by professional standards and ethics or by law.”

4. That the administration make it clear that political speech is protected and explicitly state that pro-Palestinian speech is protected speech.

5. That the administration protect faculty against slanderous accusations of antisemitism, and affirm that criticisms of the state of Israel are not in and of themselves antisemitic.

6. That the administration make clear, and put in writing, that they will act as a buffer between faculty and parents, and that parents cannot directly contact faculty with complaints. This is in accordance with the AAUP’s stance on political and parental interference with academic freedom.

7. That the administration publicly state its commitment to protect faculty from harassment and articulate steps to be taken when faculty find themselves targeted by orchestrated campaigns to harass, threaten, and discredit them.

We call on faculty and the broader UVA community to sign on to this letter to demonstrate our collective concern about the targeted harassment of faculty, staff, and students, the administration’s failure to ensure fair and clear processes to address complaints, and the greater threat to academic freedom and freedom of speech that these conditions have engendered. These events point to a future that imperils the academic mission of UVA and all institutions of higher education. Swift, explicit, and resolute action to protect academic freedom is necessary.

Signatures:

UVA Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Instructors

Kathryn Bertoni, UVA Staff

Daniel Doncel, Grad worker

Chris Hulleman, Professor

Emmy Thacker, UVA General Faculty

Judith Thomas, Librarian, University of Virginia

Adrian Wood, Faculty ENTP

Kevin Rose, Assistant Professor, UVA

Marian Toledo, UVA

Beck Jacobsen, Postdoctoral Fellow and Alum

Paige Hornsby, Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences, UVA

Jennifer LaFleur, Lecturer and Administrator

Amy Cabell, UVA Staff

Corinne Field, Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Virginia

Emily Burrill, Associate Professor, History, UVA

Lorena Albert Ferrando, Faculty

Hanadi Al-Samman, Faculty

Nicholas Shrum, University of Virginia

Kathryn Patterson, PhD student

Adam   Greene, UVA Staff

Greg Schmidt Goering, Associate Professor

Dorothy Wong, Professor of Art History

Jake Krug, UVA Staff

Brandon Block, Department Manager, American Studies

John Henry Vansant, UVA Law, UVA Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy, 2025

Susan Perdue, UVA General Faculty

Matt Hedstrom, University of Virginia

Alonya Castillo, PhD Student

Nicholas Cummins, Business Reference Librarian

Aniko Bodroghkozy, Professor, UVA

Lewis Savarese, Electronic Resources Librarian, UVA Health Sciences Library

Kathryn Gehred, UVA Staff (This is an egregious attack on free speech.)

Erik Pearson, academic support staff

Samyuktha Mahadevan, Program Manager, UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy

Ida Hoequist, Anthropology, UVA

Phil Paulick, UVA Director of Finance

Thomas Koberda, Professor, UVa

Addison Patrick, UVA Library/CLAS20

Cole Rizki, Assistant Professor

Brad Pasanek, Associate Professor, English, UVA

MC Forelle, Assistant professor, UVA School of Engineering

Bridget Cullinane-Anthony, Fiscal Administrator, UVA

Kristi Hagen,   UVA Medical Center

Katelyn Wood, UVA

Thaddeus Weigel,  UVA Instructor and Postdoctoral Researcher

Shane Lin, UVA Library

Coleen Carrigan, Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Jacqueline Sahagian, Graduate Worker, UVA History

Andrew Avitabile, PhD Student

Stephanie Gunst, Alum, Dept of Music; Employee, Dept of Neuroscience

Caroline Warren, Post-Doctoral Researcher, UVA Center for Teaching Excellence

Nomi Dave, Associate Professor

Matthew Chin, Assistant Professor

Henry Skerritt, Assistant Professor

Stephen Arata, Professor, University of Virginia

Jennifer Tsien, Associate Professor

Sam Pfander, graduate student/instructor

Nathan Wendte, AGFM, UVA

Sabrina Pendergrass, Associate Professor, UVA                    

Mehr Farooqi, Professor, MESALC, University of Virginia

Janay Crabtree , Assistant Professor UVA

Rebecca Newell, Education and Outreach

Jeremy Boggs, Head of Research & Development, Scholars' Lab, UVA Library

Rich Ross, Assistant Professor, General Faculty, UVA

Debjani Ganguly, Professor University of Virginia

Dan Spitzner, Associate Professor, UVA

John Nemec, Professor, University of Virginia

John Lyons, Professor of French (emeritus) University of Virginia

Claire Lyu, Associate Professor, UVA

Deborah McGrady, Professor, University of Virginia

Jacqueline Allain, UVA School of Education and Human Development MEd Alum

Jack Hamilton, Associate Professor, UVA

Steven Johnson, Associate Professor of Commerce, UVA

Lisa  Shutt, Associate Professor, General Faculty, UVA

Kathryn Quissell, Assistant Professor, UVA

Bonnie Hagerman, Associate Professor, General Faculty, UVA

Karl Miller, associate professor, UVA

Anna Brickhouse, Professor of English, UVA

Andre Cavalcante, Associate Professor, UVA

Denise Walsh, Associate Professor, UVA

Eli Carter, Associate Professor, UVA

Allison Bigelow, Associate Professor, Spanish, UVA

Steph Ceraso, UVA

Corinne Field, Associate Professor, Women, Gender and Sexuality, UVA

Anne Garland Mahler, Associate Professor, UVA

Steven Thrasher, Northwestern University

John McLaren, Professor, UVA

Herbert Tucker, Coleman Professor of English, UVA

Fred Everett Maus, Associate Professor, UVA

Doug Meyer, Associate Professor, UVA

Jazmin Brown-Iannuzzi, UVA  

Ruby Tapia, Associate Professor, American Studies

Keith Weimer, Librarian for History and Religious Studies, UVA

Jean L. Cooper, Assistant Professor, UVA Library

Peter Norton, Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Bethany Bell, Associate Professor

Caitlin Wylie, Associate professor, UVA

Dorothe Bach, Professor, UVA

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, Associate Professor, UVA

Jennifer Rubenstein, Associate Professor, UVa

Christa Dierksheide,  Professor, UVA

Gregory Whitmore, UVA Law Library

Noelle Hurd, Professor, UVA

Ninon Bartz, Graduate student & Instructor

Rita Felski, Professor UVA    

Charles Brown, Graduate Worker, UVA

Lawrie Balfour , Professor, UVA

Abby Shai, University of Virginia

Bethany McGlyn, PhD Candidate and Graduate Instructor

Olivia Paschal, Graduate Worker, UVA History

S. Deborah Kang, Nau Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, UVA

Sandhya Shukla, Associate Professor/University of Virginia

Arlyn Newcomb, Library Video Course Reserves Coordinator, UVA

Eve Danziger, Professor, UVA

A.D. Carson, Associate Professor, UVA

Sylvia Chong, Associate Professor, UVA

Susan McKinnon, Professor, Emerita, Anthropology, UVA

Colleen Winkelman, UVA PhD Candidate and Instructor

Neeti Nair, Professor, UVA

Sophia Zaklikowski, Graduate Instructor, UVA

Rynx Schulz, UVA Graduate Student and Instructor

Nitya Varigala, University of Virginia

Natalie Avilesa

Shankar Nair, Associate Professor, UVA

Caroline Erickson, Graduate Instructor

Ethan Evans, UVA Graduate Student and Instructor

Katie Schetlick, Assistant Professor, UVA

Richard Handler, Professor of Anthropology, U. Virginia

Lucas Martínez, UVA Graduate Student and Instructor

Laura Ornee, Graduate worker, UVa history department

Nadia Cempre, Doctoral student, double alumnus, and Director of Academic Operations EHD

Kelly Moore, Assistant Professor, UVA

Cy March, Graduate Instructor, UVA

S. Max Edelson, Professor of History, UVA

Joshua White, Associate Professor of History, UVA

Kathryn Laughon, Faculty & Alumna (nurs, 98,99)

Justene Hill Edwards, Associate Professor

Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice

Ben Doherty, Research Librarian, UVA Law Library

Thomas Klubock, Professor of History

Siva Vaidhyanathan, Robertson Professor of Media Studies

Ernesto Benitez, Assistant Professor

Anna Duensing, Postdoctoral Fellow, UVA

Mrinalini Chakravorty, Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Tatiana Flores, Professor, UVA

Andrea Roberts, Associate Professor/UVA

John Mason, Associate Professor, Department of History, UVA

Andie Weaver, Senior Administrative Assistant, UVA Arts & Sciences

Kyrill Kunakhovich, Assistant Professor, UVA

Chris Gratien, Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Lisa Woolfork, Associate Professor/UVA

Noah Salomon, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, UVA

Paul Halliday, Professor, History, UVA

Brian Owensby, Professor

Lanice Avery, Assistant Professor, UVA

David Edmunds, Associate Professor, UVA

Andrew Ferguson, Postdoctoral Fellow, UVA

Emily Burrill, Associate Professor of History, UVA

Katrina Debnam, Associate Professor UVA  

Jalane Schmidt, Associate Professor, UVA

Christian McMillen, Professor/UVa

Amir Syed, Assistant Professor, UVA

Elizabeth Fowler, Associate Professor, UVA

Penny Von Eschen, Professor of History UVA

Jim Igoe, Professor, University of Virginia

Paul Dobryden , Associate Professor, UVA

B. Brian, Associate Professor of Sociology, UVA

Andrew Kahrl, Professor, University of Virginia

Esra Sarioglu, Assistant Professor, UVA

Esther Poveda Moreno, General Faculty, UVA

Grace Hale, Commonwealth Professor, UVA

Erik Linstrum, Associate Professor of History, UVA

Allan Megill, Professor of History, University of Virginia

Sarah Milov, Associate Professor, UVA

Griffith Chaussée, Sr. Lecturer, UVA

Piers Gelly, Lecturer in English, UVA

Dudley Doane, UVA    

Lorena Albert Ferrando, Assistant Professor/ University of Virginia

Melissa Levy, Charlottesville Jewish Organizing Coalition, Associate Professor, UVA

Walter Jost, Professor, UVA

Ira Bashkow, Associate Professor, UVa

Kevin Rose, Assistant Professor, UVA

Steven Villereal, Audiovisual Conservator, University of Virginia Library

Amanda Philiips, Assoc. Prof, UVA

Ian Mullins, Assistant Professor, General Faculty, UVA

Oludamini Ogunnaike, Associate Professor, UVA

Kevin Duong, Associate Professor, UVA

Armik Mirzayan, General Faculty, UVA

Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton, Associate Professor, UVA

Sebastian Jackson, Assistant Professor, UVA

Mohammed Sawaie, Professor, University of Virginia

Indrani Chatterjee, Professor/ UVA

Kasey Jernigan, Assistant Professor, UVA

Andrew Schaefer, Senior Scientist UVA Medical School

Lisa Goff, Associate Professor

Robert Fatton, UVA  

Kath Weston, Professor of Anthropology, UVA

Walter Heinecke, Associate Professor University of Virginia (To protect academic freedom requires shared governance. Therefore the administration must provide faculty with clarification on the process by which complaints against them will be determined and investigated and how faculty will Be directly involved in the preliminary aspects of determining the veracity of any allegation. )    

Tiffany King, Associate Professor/University of Virginia

Rose Buckelew, Associate Professor, General Faculty, UVA

Mark Sicoli, Associate Professor, Anthropology, UVA

William Keene Research Professor (retired), Department of Environmental Sciences, UVA (Thank you for standing up.)

Ashon Crawley, Professor, UVA

Levi Vonk, Professor, UVA

Geeta Patel, Professor, UVA  

Christa Robbins, Associate Professor, UVA  

Tessa Farmer, Associate Professor, UVA

Susan Fraiman, Professor, UVA

Deborah McDowell, Professor, UVA          

Laura Goldblatt, Charlottesville Jewish Organizing Coalition, Assistant Professor, UVA    

Kristina Richardson, John L. Nau III Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy, UVA

Fahad Bishara, Associate Professor UVA

National and International Scholars

Anne-Marie, Associate Professor at University of Sussex (UK)

Alex Dupuy, John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Marianna Ritchey, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Thomas Masterson, Senior Scholar

Matt Hadley,  Lecturer / UMN

John Hicks, Alumni, CLAS 2002 (As a UVA alum, I urge the current UVA leadership to adopt and implement all 7 of the recommendations in this petition. The world-class education I received—at a time that was no less geopolitically fraught than today—would not have been possible without faculty academic freedom. Please have the same courage as your predecessors and protect this precious institution from attempted censorship and intimidation of faculty.)

Cesare Casarino, Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota

Leif Turner, University of Minnesota

Ahlam Mansour, University of Minnesota-Twin

Josh Colston, Assistant professor, UVA SOM

Pheroze Unwalla, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia

Lily Cox-Richard, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Carol Heim, Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Kimberly Bain, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Lisa Zaher,  Associate Professor, Adj./SAIC/Alumna

Erin Jordan, Postdoctoral fellow, North Carolina State University

Sabine Broeck, U Bremen, Prof. Emerita

Mary King, Professor of Economics Emerita, Portland State University

Margo Gustina, University of New Mexico

Raj Patel, Research Professor/University of Texas at Austin

Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Andrea Wright, Associate Professor, William & Mary

Karem Said, Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College

Sarah   Logan, Lecturer University of Pennsylvania

Chi-ming Yang, UPenn

Mursal Sidiqi, Grad Student/Penn English

Ania Loomba, Professor university of Pennsylania

Max Carocci, Professor

Elliot Mills, Portfolio Manager, Taylor & Francis

Sheba Chhachhi, Independent Artist

Kavita Philip, Professor Emeritus, History, UC Irvine

Agnieszka Sykes

Mark Hauser, Northwestern University

Shabana Mir, Associate Professor, American Islamic College

Kalyani Menon, Professor, DePaul University

Shailja Sharma, Professor

George Fragopoulos, Associate Professor of English / CUNY

Tom Perrin, Professor

Avanti Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, SUNY Cortland

Angie Willey, UMass Amherst

John Redick, Retired UVA faculty

Colin Vanderburg, New York University

Tausif Noor, UC Berkeley

Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Malay Firoz, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

effie   paleologou, Artist & Lecturer. RCA, London alumni

Kelly   Orians, Assistant Professor, UVA Law

Zainab Saleh, Associate Profesor of Anthropology/Haverford College

Guangtian Ha, Associate Professor, Haverford College

Tarik Aougab, professor of mathematics/ Haverford College

Abha Sur, Lecturer

Shine P S, Assistant Professor

Shohini Ghosh, Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia

S. Charusheela, Professor, University of Washington Bothell

Ashwin Thomas, University of Delhi

Linda Lucas, Professor (retired)

Smita Ramnarain, URI Associate Professor

Marianne Hill, Retired senior economist (Our democracy depends on defending freedom of speech, especially the speech of those who voice concerns about the justice of current policies. Academic freedom is critical to addressing the world's most urgent crisis.)

Lygia Sabbag Fares, Faculty John Jay College

Aleta Sprague, UCLA

Javiera Ravest, Researcher

Gyan Prakash, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University

Malavika Kasturi, Associate Professor , University of Toronto

VrIjendra Vrijendra, Retired Associate Professor

Doris   Buss, Professor, Carleton University

Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development, SOAS

Kanchana N Ruwanpura, University of Gothenburg

Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan Dearborn Professor Emerita

Juliana Ramirez, PhD Health in Social Sciences Student, University of Edinburgh

Adem Elveren, Assoc. Prof. Fitchburg State University

Emel   Memiş , Assoc. Prof.

Nancy Folbre, Professor emerita of economics University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Lelyveld        

Oreet Ashery , University of Oxford

Vanda Playford                    

Yusra Hasan

Meena Dhanda, Visiting Professor, LSE, UK

Rohan D'Souza, Professor/ASAFAS/ Kyoto University/Japan

Salem Mekuria,  Emerita, Wellesley College

Stacy Makishi          

Nandita Narain, Retd Associate Professor, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University (Completely support the demands and your struggle to protect freedom of expression on the US. We in India are also facing an attack on our democratic spaces, academic freedom and dissent by Hindutva right wing forces, who are, not surprisingly, pro-Israel as well.)

dr judy rabinowitz price, kingston university

Subir   Sinha, Director SOAS South Asia Institute

Jayati Ghosh, Profesoor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Saleem Badat, Professor

Robyn Humphreys, UWC staff

Samuel Cohen, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri

Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor JNU

Dunu Roy, Adjunct Faculty, IIT, Delhi

Navaneetha Mokkil, Assistant Professor

Hardik Dua, Lead- Programs/ETI Services/Alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics

Shuaib Manjra, University of Caoe Town

Achin Vanaik , Retired Professor, University of Delhi

Anita   Rampal, Professor (retired)

Indira Hirway, Prof f economics   (Academic freedom and free speech are absolutely essential for researchers and teachers all over the world)    

Ambar Ahmad, Associate Professor, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi

Shikha Sourav, Research Scholar Department of Sociology, DSE, University of Delhi

Ghanshyam Shah, Former Professor, JNU, New Delhi, India

Shikha Sourav, Research Scholar Department of Sociology, DSE, University of Delhi

Deepak Malghan, Associate Professor, IIM Bangalore

Mohan Rao, Former professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (People with a conscience cannot be complicit in genocide.)

Pramod Ranjan, Journalist

Azeem Badroodien, Professor

Gautam Menon, Professor, Ashoka University, India

Frazer Mascarenhas, Alumnus St. Xavier's College Mumbai   (Academic freedom to responsible discuss the critical issues of our time, including the genocidal bombardment of Gaza, taking a huge toll of human lives of civilians is crucial to democracy)

Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Independent Journalist and Writer

Karim Bhatt, University of Hyderabad

Ayesha Kidwai, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

VrIjendra Vrijendra, Retired Associate Professor

Doris Buss, Professor, Carleton University

Alessandra Mezzadri, Reader in Global Development, SOAS

Kanchana N Ruwanpura, University of Gothenburg

Suzanne Bergeron, University of Michigan Dearborn Professor Emerita

Juliana Ramirez, PhD Health in Social Sciences Student, University of Edinburgh

Adem Elveren, Assoc. Prof. Fitchburg State University

Emel   Memiş , Assoc. Prof.

Nancy Folbre, Professor emerita of economics University of Massachusetts Amherst

David Lelyveld        

Oreet Ashery , University of Oxford

Vanda Playford                    

Yusra Hasan

Meena Dhanda, Visiting Professor, LSE, UK

Rohan D'Souza, Professor/ASAFAS/ Kyoto University/Japan

Salem Mekuria,  Emerita, Wellesley College

Stacy Makishi          

Nandita Narain, Retd Associate Professor, St Stephen’s College, Delhi University (Completely support the demands and your struggle to protect freedom of expression on the US. We in India are also facing an attack on our democratic spaces, academic freedom and dissent by Hindutva right wing forces, who are, not surprisingly, pro-Israel as well.)

dr judy rabinowitz price, kingston university

Subir   Sinha, Director SOAS South Asia Institute

Jayati Ghosh, Profesoor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Saleem Badat, Professor

Robyn Humphreys, UWC staff

Samuel Cohen, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri

Ranjani Mazumdar, Professor JNU

Dunu Roy, Adjunct Faculty, IIT, Delhi

Navaneetha Mokkil, Assistant Professor

Hardik Dua, Lead- Programs/ETI Services/Alumnus of the Delhi School of Economics

Shuaib Manjra, University of Caoe Town

Achin Vanaik , Retired Professor, University of Delhi

Anita   Rampal, Professor (retired)

Indira Hirway, Prof f economics   (Academic freedom and free speech are absolutely essential for researchers and teachers all over the world)    

Ambar Ahmad, Associate Professor, Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi

Shikha Sourav, Research Scholar Department of Sociology, DSE, University of Delhi

Ghanshyam Shah, Former Professor, JNU, New Delhi, India

Shikha Sourav, Research Scholar Department of Sociology, DSE, University of Delhi

Deepak Malghan, Associate Professor, IIM Bangalore

Mohan Rao, Former professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (People with a conscience cannot be complicit in genocide.)

Pramod Ranjan, Journalist

Azeem Badroodien, Professor

Gautam Menon, Professor, Ashoka University, India

Frazer Mascarenhas, Alumnus St. Xavier's College Mumbai   (Academic freedom to responsible discuss the critical issues of our time, including the genocidal bombardment of Gaza, taking a huge toll of human lives of civilians is crucial to democracy)

Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor, University of Washington

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay, Independent Journalist and Writer

Karim Bhatt, University of Hyderabad

Ayesha Kidwai, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Harsimranjit Kang, Graduate Student, UVA

Johnathan Gil Harris, Professor Ashoka University (I am an Israeli Jew and son of a Holocaust survivor. I am furious at how both Netanyahu and American politicians are collaborating on the genocide of Palestinians in the name of protecting Jews and remembering the Holocaust. I take seriously the injunction, Never Again. But the injunction applies not just to Jews. It applies to everyone.)

Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Professor, University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Sri Lanka

Karni Bhati, Retired

Simona Sawhney, IIT Delhi

Ryan Jiha, Alumn

Laura Pavon, UCSD

Chris Tilly, UCLA

Amrita Chhachhi, Associate Professor (retd.)

Sunil Gupta, Professorial Fellow, UCA, UK

Donna Murch, Associate Professor/Rutgers University

Judith Rodenbeck, Professor/University of California, Riverside

Steve Macek, Professor, North Central College

Cara Meixner , Professor, James Madison University

David Johnson, Professor

Peter Soland, Assistant Professor

Sarasij Majumder, Associate Professor, University of Houston

Giles Jackson, Professor, Shenandoah University

Clarinda Mac Low, Part-Time Faculty (Academic freedom requires space for all optimism’s, especially those that are related to government and institutional policies)

Stuart McLean

Shah Alam Khan, Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Candice Lowe Swift, Vassar College

Nancy Gallagher, UCSB

Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Lisa Rofel,  Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jeffrey Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of English, Montclair State University

Fida Adely, Georgetown University

Sarah Hagelin, UVA Alumna, Professor of English at the University of Colorado Denver

Timothy Brennan, Professor, U of Minnesota

Dilip Menon, Professor of History, University of Witwatersrand

Prem Kumar Vijayan, Hindu College, Delhi University

Adia Benton, Assoc prof/Northwestern University

Mythri Jegathesan, Associate Professor, Santa Clara University

Lauren Alleyne, Professor, James Madison University & UVA graduate student

Sherryl Kleinman, Emerita professor, UNC-Chapel Hill

Ajantha Subramanian, CUNY Graduate Center

Venus Bivar, Associate Professor, University of Oxford

Candis Smith, Professor of Political Science

Alex Lykidis, Montclair State University

Leslie Desmangles, Professor Emeritus, International Studies

Anjali Monteiro, Retired Professor, TISS, India

Juan Carlos Guerrero-Hernandez, Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno

Courtney Baker, Associate Professor, UC Riverside (I am profoundly disturbed by the harassment, surveillance, and implicit threats against my highly respected colleagues at UVA. I insist that the university adhere to the professional standards maintained by these colleagues in their careful and informed, reasoned and nuanced statements.)

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor, Bard College

Kelly Reames, Professor, WKU

Maia Butler, Associate Professor of African American Literature, UNC Wilmington

Amritjit Singh, Ohio University

Rebecca Zorach,  Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History, Northwestern University

Yousuf Al-Bulushi, UC Irvine

Renisa Mawani, Author

Corey Drieth, Tenured faculty, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Debjani Bhattacharyya  

Sarah Waheed

Meredith D. Clark, Associate Professor, Northeastern University (UVA Media Studies faculty 2014-2017)

Lucy McDiarmid      

Judith Black,  College, Professor Emerita

Janet   Sarbanes, Professor, CalArts

Connor Mayers , University of Maryland

Max Bittker, NYU

R. Ferrão      

Cynthia Franklin

Davesh Soneji, University of Pennsylvania

Lisa Jamhoury, Artist, Adjunct Faculty New York University

Sharad Chari, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley

Rachel Quinn, Associate Professor, University of Houston

Paul Joseph Lopez Oro, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies

Sarita See, Professor, U of California Riverside

Jonathan Flatley, Professor Wayne state university

Erica Edwards, Professor, Yale University

Michel DeGraff, Professor of Linguistics / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (We all, in and outside of Academia, should be deeply concerned about these attacks, near and far, on academic freedom and freedom of speech. If we don’t do something now to resist, then very soon we’ll be totally silenced by the powerful bullies, and we’ll be forced into complicity with genocide and other crimes against humanity.)

Tarren Andrews,  Professor, Yale university

Itty Abraham, Professor, Arizona State University

Yumi Pak, Associate Professor, Occidental College

Carmen Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Teaching, VCU

Jael Silliman, Retired tenured professor, artist and writer

Ximena Lopez Carrillo, Faculty, Yale

Suzanne Makarem,  Professor, VCU

Diego Millan, Assistant Professor of English, Washington and Lee Univ.

Delwar Hussain,University of Edinburgh

Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Associate Professor

Andrea Denny-Brown, Associate Professor, UC Riverside

Elleza Kelley, Assistant Professor, Yale University

Charles Davis, University of Michigan

Mridu Rai, Professor, Dept of History, Presidency University, Kolkata, India

Lisa Mitchell, Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Mubbashir Rizvi, American University

Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, Provost Associate Professor, American University School of International Service

Lauren Baker, Northwestern University

Timothy H Evans, Associate Professor of Folklore, Western Kentucky University (The University of Virginia needs to value its faculty, staff and students at least as highly as its wealthy donors)    

Mariam Taher, Northwestern University

Kamala Russell, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Dina Al-Kassim, Professor/UBC

Andrea Lawlor, Associate Professor, Mount Holyoke College

Julie Orlemanski, Associate Professor, University of Chicago

Eve Ewing, University of Chicago

Taisha Paggett, UC Riverside

Sarasij Majumder, Associate Professor, University of Houston

Danielle Purifoy, UNC Chapel Hill

Régine Jean-Charles, Director of Africana Studies/ Northeastern University

Sarah T. Roberts, Associate Professor, UCLA

Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology & Public Policy, UBC

Chris Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College

Jackie Orr, Emeritus faculty, Syracuse University

Christina Sharpe, Professor/CRC/York University

Chris Dole, Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College

Irene Calis, Director of Arab World Studies, American university

Susan Witte, Professor, Columbia University

Shantel Buggs, Assistant Professor, Florida State University

Andrew Douglas, Professor of Political Science at Morehouse College / UVA Grad ‘08

Elizabeth Jacob, Assistant Professor of History, UMass Amherst

Alejandro Villalpando, Assistant Professor, Cal State LA

Anjali Arondekar, Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC

Sarah Miller, Associate Adjunct Professor, Northeastern University          

Martha Ann Selby, Sangam Professor of South Asian Studies, Harvard

Kerry Sinanan, Uof Winnipeg

Samer Ali, Associate Professor, U of Michigan

K Koster, PhD University of California Davis

Lorgia Garcia Pena, Professor, Princeton university

Amy Kennedy, Retired Political Science Instructor (Academic freedom is one of the hallmarks arising from the freedom of speech in the First Amendment. The ability to criticize is akin to petitioning the government for a redress of grievances. Censoring a professor for standing up against oppression runs counter to higher education's purpose of teaching critical thinking to students.)

William Van Norman, Associate Professor/ James Madison University

Frances Hasso, Duke University faculty member

Jyoti Puri, Simmons University

Victor Silverman, Emeritus Professor, Pomona College

Barbie Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor/ Reed College

Jenna Tamimi , Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College

Laura  Bandy, College professor (These extremist lobbying groups threaten not just the hard-working and principled faculty, but strike at the very heart of academic freedom in higher education. Faculty and their free speech must be protected.)

Wendy Matsumura, Assoc Prof/UC San Diego

Lara Deeb, Professor, Scripps College

Sharika Thiranagama, Associate Professor of Anthropology

Arsalan Khan, Associate Professor, U. Of Tennessee-Knoxville, UVA alumn 2014

Sankaran Krishna, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Setsu Shigematsu, Associate Professor, UC Riverside

Alan Wald, H. Chadler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

John Carson, Associate Professor of History/University of Michigan

Natasha Lightfoot, Associate Professor, History, Columbia University

Ashraf Tubeileh, Polytechnic State University (End the New McCarthism!)

Ajay Skaria, University of Minnesota

Richa Nagar, Professor, University of Minnesota

Jemima Pierre, Professor, Univ of British Columbia & UCLA

Vinay Gidwani, Professor, University of Minnesota Shohei Kobayashi

Daniel Martinez, Professor of Biology Pomona College - Parent UVA graduate student

Rashmi Varma, University of Warwick

Norma Möllers, Associate Professor, Queen’s University

Amahl Bishara , Tufts Umiversity

Geoffrey Aung, University of Vienna

Emma Stapely, Assistant Professor, UCR

Adam Badger, Newcastle University

Sabitha Satchi, Writer and Former Asst Professor, English, University of Delhi

David   Palumbo-Liu, Professor, Stanford University

Geoffrey Hughes, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter

Jennifer Doyle, UC Riverside

Jane Neuberger Goodsell, Professor of Art History and Humanities Art Department, Reed College

Kelly Gates, Associate Professor, UC San Diego

Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor/MIT

Moon Charania, Associate Professor, Spelman College

David Klein, Emeritus Professor, California State University Northridge

Lucy Burns, Associate Professor

David   Rodowick, Emeritus Professor, University of Chicago

Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, University of San Francisco

Judith Butler, Professor author

Shahla Razavi, Associate Professor, Mathematics/Retired, Mt. San Jacinto College

Beverly Guy Sheftall, Professor, Spelman College

Jennifer Wild, Associate Professor, University of Southern California

Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, UC San Diego

Murad Idris, Associate Professor, University of Michigan      

Michael Drexler, Professor/Bucknell University

Laura   Kolb, Associate Professor of English, Baruch College

Eric Lott, Distinguished Professor CUNY Graduate Center

Kamala Visweswaran            

Christopher Harrison, Faculty/Senate Distinguished Professor, Associate Professor Dept. Chemistry and Biochemistry/San Diego State University

Cindi Katz, Professor, City University of New York, Graduate Center

Emmaia Gelman, Sarah Lawrence College; Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism

John Caravello, Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Channel Islands

Fred Moten, Professor, NYU

Assaf Kfoury, Professor of Computer Science, Boston University

Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago

John Willoughby, Professor, Economics, American University

Theresa Montano, CSU Northriddge

Michael Robbins, Associate Professor

Nancy Gallagher, professor emerita

Lisa Rofel (Thank you for speaking out)        

Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz

Bernadette Brooten, Robert and Myra Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor, emerita, Brandeis University

Merrill Cole, Professor of English/Western Illinois University

Christine Hong, Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Manzar Foroohar, History Professor Emerita

Sang Kil, Professor

Daniel Segal, Professor Emeritus Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges (It's time for administrators to end their anti-Palestinian assault on academic freedom and campus speech)

Maya Day, Graduate Student at University of Michigan

Tage Rai, Assistant Professor/UCSD

Lani Jones, Professor

Vida Samiianm, Professor Emeritus

Garrett Kim, Assistant Professor

Rob Steele, Professor, UC Irvine

Kim TallBear, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta

Sonali Gulati, Professor Virginia Commonwealth University, Independent Filmmaker

Edward Gaynor, Acting University Archivist (Retired) UVA

Stephen Sheehi, Sultan Qaboos Professor, William and Mary

Yovanna Pineda, University of Central Florida

Rafael Triana, Retired (35 years) Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences and the Department of Student Health, Center for Health Humanities & Ethics, Alumnus, Parent

Alicyn   Stewart, Emeritus Bibliographer, Latin, American Studies

Michael Schwalbe, Professor Emeritus

UVA-Affiliated Signatories (Parents, Alums, Students) and Community Support (Local, National, & International)    

Bradford Greene, Alumnus & community member, SEAS 2012  (Disclose & divest, solidarity with students & faculty. UVa still owes students & community members an apology and proper accountability for 2017 & 2018)        

Camille Buckner, UVA Parent

Eliot Davenport, PhD candidate

Kelsey Schoenemann, UVA PhD Candidate

Haseena Sahib              

Frances Bell, Predoctoral Fellow, UVA

Jazzmine Ramey, Family

Natalie Baumeister, Alumna (CLAS '23) and Staff, UVA

Arlo Morgan, Student

Thomas Domer, UVA Student

Nathan Frank, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia

Chelsea Bentley, Family (This is outrageous and inhumane.)                        

Doris Dai            

Jeffrey Wolford, RN ( We must protect peaceful protesting at all costs!)

Gary Thornsberry, Family (This is absolutely absurd behavior, and should not be tolerated anywhere! To change your policy to justify horrific actions is abysmal!! )

Cameron Clayton        

Yucheng Li        

Khadija Hasan (DIVEST)

Ida Hoequist, Charlottesville community member

Evan Viglietta, Parent

Nicole Chbeir

Meghan Gum, Citizen of Albemarle County

Holly Macasek, Alumni family and community member

Taylor Overton, UVA Class of 2020

Sarah Brooks Alumni

Josh Milstein, Graduate Student

AnnaLin Woo, PhD student

Katherine Canada, PhD student

Lee LeBoeuf, PhD student, University of Virginia

Benjamin Ertman, UVA Graduate Student

Ava Arvand      

Ida Hoequist, Charlottesville community member

Presley Ramey, Graduate Student

Kristen Petros de Guex, University of Virginia alumna

Sara Tello Trillo              

Irène Mathieu, UVA

Jayla Price, Student

Angela Smith, Student

Meesha Vullikanti, Alumna

Yo-Ling Chen, UVA Class of 2017

Suhaib Radwan, Alumni

Rachael Stryker, Ally

Kisha Bwenge

Alison Gehred    

Jenai M

Emily Koester, Alumna

Ebenezer Sampong, Alumni

Francesca Reynolds                  

Karim Habbab, Alumni

Alannah Bell, Alumni

Lily Gates, University of Virginia Alumna

Noori Passela

Angela G            

Joie Asuquo, UVA Alum

Charlie Markbreiter

Lina Lopez, Student

Jeffrey Fogel  

Mary E. Shank, Alumni

Emily Little, Faculty spouse

Calvin Pan, UVA Student

Jessica Chamberlain

Josh Irby, UVA Alum

Irteza Mohyuddin, Cville Community Member

Anthony Chiado, School of Data Science Master's Student

Joseph Sheridan (free speech in imperative to learning)

Jennifer Vilchez          

Alya Ansari, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota

Michelle lekas, lecturer

Libby Maack, Graduate Student, University of Minnesota

Alex Glick, Student

Nichole Villafane        

Nicole Brackett, Alumni

Anne McGrew

Bernice Ramirez, Alumnus

Mary Layoun

John Latta, Alumnus    

Bernice Ramirez, Alumni

Erica Behrens

Alma Molina  

Erin Glass        

Mike Budd

Sean Levy, Student

Laura Dennis

Nicolina K        

Mario Delgado

Caroline Gihlstorf      

Renee Walters                                

Rajni Palriwala

Tasseli McKay

Juana Yunis, Alumni

Jia Tolentino, Alumna

Meghan Hartman, Alum - PhD

Joumana  Altallal, Alumni

Svati Shah    

David McDonald

Milena Mikael Debass, UVA Alum

Kiran   Asher

Sarandon Elliott, Alumni

Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi

Ana Hidalgo, alumn

Stephen Pasternak, UVA Alumni

Rahmath Rahila Illiyas, Student

Charan Singh            

Larissa Kravanja, Alum

Kevin Simowitz, alumni

Rosemary Liu, Alumni

Hasan Khan, Alumni

Amber Zinni, CLAS ‘07

Caroline bell, Alumni

Leslie Edwards Davis, Alum

Simona Piantieri    

Shi-Shi Wang, Alumni class of 2007

Katie Peabody, Alum

Willie Lin, Alumni

Johanna Peet, UVA '06

Stephanie de Wolfe, Alumni

Mary Ebeling

Cory Fraiman-Lott                  

Theodore Teichman, Alumni

A A, Alumnus

Maria Rincon, Alumni

Cleo Boyd, UVA

Sumama Haque, UVA Student

Nancy Carpentet (UVA has a lot to answer for in reference to its history. Don't add this institution to the "Joe McCarthy" level of intrusion into academia.)

Liesl Sonne-Peterson                                  

Ceren Hunter ceren, Alumn (Misuse and abuse of a term like antisemitism to intimidate and silence people that question and condemn atrocities and war crimes runs counter to everything academic institutions stand for.)

Brian Lindgren                                  

Anjali   Mirchandani  

Amy Kidd, Charlottesville resident

Daisy Sidhwa

Heidi Nicholls, Alumni

Melissa Gill    

Brian Williams, Alumni/UVA FM (To bear witness to a live-streamed genocide that one’s own nation is actively supporting is very hard to accept. Then to have one’s alma matter, “The University” engage in labeling anyone who dare speak up against the destruction of Palestine and the murder of well over 30,000 men women and children as antisemitic is cheap and altogether a transparent attempt to maintain the status quo of unwavering support for Israel no matter what atrocities it commits. It is barbaric anti human and anti-intellectual to continue turning a blind eye to this genocide. History will remember those who sided against humanity for profit.)

Kiara Ruffin, Student

Paul Kirk-Davidoff                        

Vernon Liechti, Alum

Gwendolyn Bright, Community member

Cady de la Cruz, Student

Jake Wiener, UVA Law 2020

Cliff Maxwel, Lecturer/Alum/UVA

Samantha Jones, Instructor and caregiver

Sabr Lyon, Cville local and global community member (It is this institutions duty to protect the staff and students at this school. To speak out against a genocide shouldn’t be controversial)

Johansen Pico, UC Irvine

Brittany Mullen, Friend of the Faculty

Jen Doo, UVA alum

Crystal Luo, Alumni

Sam  L., Alumnus

Van Griffith, Alumn

Renu Linberg, UVA alum

Yo-Ling Chen, Alumn 2017

Devon Bogucki, Student

Hasan Hamdan,  Uva parent

Nareman Hamdan, Parent

Tara Gupta    

donna gasapo        

Emily Cracolici

Jada Blinn, Community member

Rob Carson, UMN alum

John Cempre, Alumni

Sudha Shah              

Ragini Ghose (Support academic freedom)

Gouri Nagjee  

Gregory Weaver, Alumnus

Eleanor Fox

Phiroza tafti

Jaimee Basanes

Samantha Liffert, Student

Rachel Retica, graduate student

Kathryn El-Amraoui (Sweeney), UVA Alum (I am appalled to hear about what is happening on grounds. I used to look back fondly in my years at UVA as a place that was a beacon of free speech and thought. It certainly shouldn't be controversial to oppose what is happening to innocent children in Gaza. Have you for once ever thought how your Arabic and Muslim students feel??)  

Holly Macasek (As a Charlottesville resident and sister to a UVA alumni, I am deeply disappointed in the shameful response (or lack thereof) to respected members of the UVA community.)

Mihika Rao, Graduate Student/ UVa

Tony Field, Community member, Cville Jewish Organizing Coalition

Rob Madrick, Musician

Laurence Lopez                      

Billie Dunn-McMartin

Kristine Pak    

Sam Rombro  

Camille Matlock, Parent

Lily Rademacher, Student, UVA

Brayden Taylor

Judy Gunter, Grandparent

Scott Paisley, Community member

Megan Ayers, Student

Nicholas Rubin, UVA alum

Adrian Crawford, Graduate Student

Margaret Kindling, Alumna Parent

Camille Anderson, Charlottesville Resident

Tova Sularz                

Imani Kai Johnson      

Michela Russo, CNRS/U/ Paris 8 & U. Lyon France

Tory Kennedy, Alumni

Corinne Odom , Alumna

Isaac KD  

Abhi Nath, UVA alum

Eyal Handelsman Katz, UVA

Adam Barghouti      

Elizabeth Gibbs, Alumni

Karim   Kt        

Sarrah AbuLughod    

Jason Guner, Parent  

JoAnn Gunter, UVA Alumna

Laura   Faeder, Nurse Practitioner, INOVA

Cathryn Perini, Graduate Student

Mason Fuller, UVA Alum 2020

Leah Funk                  

Douglas Graebner, alumnus

Rachael Panzer, PVCC student

Leah Ruth

Collee Brooke

Sarah Nusairat            

Stephanie Rinaldi

Megan Clinton, Student

Matthew Mitchell, Graduate Student, Yale University

Alana Dickey Alumna, (I am incredibly disappointed to hear that faculty are facing retaliation for pro-Palestinian speech.)

Emmett Saulnier, UVa Alumnus; PhD Candidate, University of Oregon

Jenine Hamdan, UVA Student

Vivia phan, student

Lauren Dapena Fraiz              

Hidham Ashur, Community

Jo Blount, Graduate student

Cameron Meredith                

Chrissy Leech   (Free Palestine )

Alex Dupuy  

Sarah Lawson, Alumni

Waseem Mamlouk    

Tanya Mango

Hanya Mamlouk

Elizabeth Attick

Seth Wispelwey

Crystal Baik

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

Derek Cavens, UVA

Tammaly Niyomtes, UVA student

Lori Stahl, UVA CASTL / alum (UVA faculty, staff and students are exercising their rights to free speech and speaking out against genocide; they are on the right side of history. UVA needs to protect and uphold the community.)

Nate Beard, graduate student, University of Maryland

Kariman Eitta, University of Virginia Student

Donatella Galella, UCR

Tes Slominski  

Julia Aldred, Graduate student

Teresa Sandoval-Schaefer    

Elissa Kaufman, Charlottesville Jewish Organizing Coalition, Alum

Aline Dolinh, Alumna

Marissa Fenley, University of Chicago

Allison Gray              

John Le, Student

Sanjana Sekhar, Alumni

Magally Miranda, Doctoral Candidate UCLA

Aayusha Khanal, Student

Rebecca Fitch

Perr Meldon, Democratic Socialists of America and Jewish Organizing Collective

Maggie Nguyen, University of Virginia Undergraduate

Wendy Gao    

Daisy Dudley, Student

Joyce Handy, Parent of two Hoos

Grace   Yang, Alumni at CLAS ‘22, current Grad student at school of nursing

Em Gunter, 3rd Year Undergraduate UVA

Senlin Means            

Malcolm Augat, Community member

Brianna White-Gaynor, UVA Alumnus

Rebecca Kindling, UVA Alumni

Omnia Taha, Employee at City of Charlottesville

Jonathan Katz, Author, Journalist

Carlton Sewell, Alumni

Celia Stone, UVA alum

William Soens, Alumnus

Dean Paler, UVA

Naomi Tesfaye , UVA Undergraduate Student

Swati Chintala, Graduate Student

Leah Horgan, Postdoctoral Fellow

Leah Leon      

Isis Neumann            

Anna Trainum, UVA Undergraduate Student

Abigail Pare, Alum/Parent

Makana Brooks, Student

Raviha Akbar

Quinn Glovier , Student

Gino Canella, Emerson College

Julia Ticona, UVA alum

Emma Laudermilch, Alumni

Aldo Barriente, Alumni

Ahmed Mohamed, Student                  

Winifred Poster, Director, Labor Tech Research Network

Lauren Hall, UVA Alum C/o ‘21

Anusha Kedhar                      

Maria Firmino-Castillo

Smritee Thapa, alumni

Lilly Knierbein, Alumni

Lorraina Chen, Student

Pegah Moradi            

Mark Fletcher

Diana   Montano

Minh Nguyen, UVA Student

Patricia Jewell, Graduate Student at University of Michigan

Melissa Wilcox

Eleanor Pare, Alumni (As a 2019 alum, I’m so saddened and concerned to hear that professors at UVA are facing threats for fostering environments that value human rights and promote evidence-backed perspectives. I credit the courses I took and professors I had at UVA to be critical to informing my values today. I’m so disheartened that UVA is not properly protecting its professors or students. UVA has turned its back on its tradition as a beacon for free speech and progressive values. 68% of current university student support divestment measures. We must stop censorship of pro-Palestinian sentiment on grounds.)

Ambre Dromgoole    

Abdelrhman Elabbasi, Alumni (Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. No difference can be seen for our much vaunted “free speech”.

Jenna   Harb              

Israa   Elshouky

Rawda Fawaz, Alumni

Sarah Mohamed, UVA Student

Molly Slavin, Alumni

Jacquelyn Kim , UVA Alumna

Sarah Sturm            

Jack Massingill, Student

Rachel Lombardo, Student/University of Virginia

Meghan Powers , University of Virginia

Humza Rao

Saima hmed, Parent

Marta Retta, Student

Alaina Perez

Karim El-Araby          

Lorne Power            

Danner Rebhun                    

Asma Alqudah , Attorney

Felix Radford            

Aneesah Rasheed, Student

Tanya   Raja, Student

Nasira Seddiq, Student at UVA

Sarah Khan, UVA Student

Aimen Sajid            

Esh F, Student

Elias Lahrim, Student (Yes!)

Wendy Franco Mendoza, Student

Ida Abhari, Law Alumna (UVA must protect speech, students, and faculty bravely standing up for justice. Let’s not be on the wrong side of history again.)

Samya Ahmed        

Isabella Femia, Student

Jordan Foster          

Gennese, Student

Kamau Walker, Creative Writing MFA Candidate

John Rovin, PhD Student

Carrington OBrion, PhD Candidate, History

David Ruiz Menjivar, University of Virginia

Jena Lahham, UVA Student

Phoebe Yoon, Student

Acacia McCabe, Student

Alicia Fouser, Parent (The campus should be a safe space for ALL. Anti Semitism is not to be tolerated! Anti Palestinian Is not tolerated! Diversity, Inclusion and Civility should be nurtured everywhere.)    

Jenny Calderon, Student

Josh Gritz, Alum (Wajew for Gaza. Wajew who knows the real antisemitism comes from the white supremacists who marched through grounds on August 11th and 12th 2017.)

Michelle Bostic                    

Catherine Haddad, Student

Fawzia Afzal-Khan (This campaign is outrageous Such hounding of scholars supporting an end to ethnic cleansing must stop!)          

Sam Jacob, PhD Candidate

Kundana Parupalli, Student

Vika Herrera, UVA Alumni

Alaa Abouelnasr, Resident

Salima Ali, Alumni

Zaina Ujayli, Alumni

Luca dalbosco

Brianna Simmons                

Connor Celum, PhD Candidate

Daniel Ehnbom, UVA

Amelle Chanda, Student at the University of Virginia

Lorena Castillo , University of Virginia

Tarushi Sonthalia, Graduate Student, University of Virginia

Ilqua Lutfi, Alumni

leena alsaadi, student

Zainab Razzaq

Anoosha Murtaza, alumni

Lily Krall                    

Suhaib Abu Radwan (I am Suhaib, an Alumni of the chemical engineering department in 2018. I am of Gazan background and I stand by UVA faculty and students speaking up for humanity in Gaza. Since the war, I lost 35 direct family members and best friends. Please raise your voices to end the siege on Gaza. Ceasefire now.)      

Bedour Alagraa        

Mansi Dhonde, Alumna

Juliana Jiranek, Graduate Student, UVA

Charlie Webb, UVa

Tai Ferree    

Aoife Hufford, Graduate Student

Gabriela Dell’Anno, Student

Anya Lapsker-Weinberg, Parent (I am Jewish and don’t consider the actions of the UVA professors antisemitic in any way. I stand with the faculty in calls for immediate cease fire and freedoms of speech)

Brooke Barnes, UVA 2025

Robert Calvert

Brooke Powers, UVA student

Anusha Bhatnagar, Student

Catarina Coelho Herrera, Student

Kathryn Day, UC Berkeley alumni

Sadiya Zafar, Student

Karl Brose, Graduate student

Jordan Coleman, UVA Student

Sophia Patel, Parent  

Afsar Mohammad      

Anushey, alumni

Marisel Moreno        

Rola Suleiman

Jacob Dean, Student

Niav Condron

Olivia Pettee              

Leah Shaheen, UVA Alum

Deryl Long                  

Sophia Patel, Parent

Megan Kosefeski, UVA Undergraduate Student

Rolando Virreira, Student

Mohit Pandey, Student

Kayla Simpson, Student

Noor Alsaadi, Student

Adriana Hashem, University of Virginia Student

Sophia Patel, Parent

Shreya Damidi, Student

Sana Friedman

Ikhlas   Khan, UVA Student

Lama Sadeq, Student (FREE SPEECH. FREE PALESTINE. FREE GAZA)

Katie Wu, PhD Student

Noura Abousy

Chloe Pusha, Alumni

Sarah G, UVA Student

Irna Chowdhury, Undergraduate

Harun Ahmed            

Kulsoom Niazi            

Huma Khalid  

Alena Johnson, Student

Alexandra Carmona-Perez, Student/University of Virginia

Booker Johnson, Alumni

Maanasi Gupta          

Victoria Slabinski, Graduate Student

Georges Rizk, Executive VP

Tarun Saint                

Adam Forbes, Student

Carole Browner        

Lauren Taylor, Student

Kathryn Karhnak, UVA Parent

J h                  

Mona Thomas

Allison Schilling, First year UVA Parent and MSN FNP student

Andrew Shelton, Carpenter, FM

Regan Schadl, PhD student in English / UVa

JustinEvans    

Sharon Harris, Alumni

Zach Schwartz-Weinstein      

Danya KLhreshi, Student

Olivia Paschal, Ph.D. candidate

Katherine Cart

Blair Wilner, PhD Candidate UVa

Patrick Sheets

Mack Gregg

Carole Rizk    

Kamel Barghouti, Student

Ananya Sairaman, First year in the college

Sophia Zaklikowski, UVA

Najwa Labban , UVA MD/PhD Student

Liana Semaan            

Teresa Cochran, Parent

Emily Le          

Mitchell Thomas, Student

Daniel Bachman        

Kris Cohen                  

Jenna Sleiman

Ghaleb Cachalia        

Sarah Ahmad, UVA Student, College of Arts and Sciences

Cherrie Kwok, PhD Candidate

Amro Alabsi Aljundi, Graduate student

Emaan Kapadia, UVA Student

Devin Seay, UVa Graduate Student and Undergraduate Alumnus

Mira Rizk, UVA Student

Omina Nazarzoda, Grad student

Elizabeth McKenney, graduate student

Rachel Lewis  

Cristina Racanelli, UVA

Mashall Rasul, UVA Student

Stella   Alexiou, Student at UVA

Zach Watson, Graduate Student

Nesreen Abuhaija, University of Virginia

Jac Cochran, Student

Anushka Dar, University of Virginia Student

Ashwin Durvasula, Student UVA

Ellie N, UVA

Christian Ephriam, UVA Student      

Christian Ephriam, UVA Student

Ayatollah Yehia, PhD Student, University of Virginia

Annyston Pennington, Graduate Student

Madeleine Edenton, UVA Grad Student

Christian Carlson                    

Ian Jayne, PhD candidate, Department of English, UVa

Jess Alexander , University of Virginia, Grad student

Aidan Vick, Grad Student, UVA

Hannan Mumtaz, Alumnus

Nicole Burrowes                    

Olivia Barrett, UVA

Kylie Lynch, UVa graduate student & undergraduate alumnus (I have been brought into the Jefferson council's slanderous and spurious reports because of my lab work and as a result my academic career as a student has suffered.)    

Jessica Gomez, UVA

Annie Persons, Graduate student

Anna Clark

Jess Alexander , University of Virginia, Grad student

Aidan Vick, Grad Student, UVA

Tom Williams, UVA

John Modica, PhD Student, University of Virginia

Abigail Puckett, UVA

Hannah Loeb, PhD candidate, English, University of Virginia

Adam Rzepka            

Josh Rosenberg, UVA Student, CA&S

Elliot Engelsbel          

Kristin Schroeder

Alex Tretbar, Graduate Student, UMKC

Sarah D'Adamo, UVA Alumna, BA & MA

Jamal Nassar              

John Kennick              

James C Faris