Jennifer Ruth
@jenniferruth.bsky.social
Professor (views my own - not my institution's), co-editor and co-author of "The Right to Learn" and "It's Not Free Speech," and director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary "The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests?" Portland, OR
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🇵🇸Don't miss the last in our series "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in Higher Ed" on 12/3. Register for "Why Palestine is a Union Issue". Please share widely!🇵🇸
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
🇵🇸Don't miss the last in our series "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in Higher Ed" on 12/3. Register for "Why Palestine is a Union Issue". Please share widely!🇵🇸
This kind of lawlessness from the Department of Justice has to stop.
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
This kind of lawlessness from the Department of Justice has to stop.
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WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
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"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit
The New AAUP-MESA Report on Our Moment’s Campus Repression
BY DANIEL SEGAL It is the rare faculty member who today is unaware of the significant increase in attacks on speech rights and academic freedom protections on U.S. campuses over the past two years.…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit
This is very much worth reading.
"This urgent order to clear away the entire, centuries-old idea of disciplinary governance in one fell swoop is both radical and without even a functional ideology—an especially pure plane of the empty-mind austerity satirized from Office Space to Severance." Adam Rzepka wp.me/p8xr4h-dil
The Eternal Synergy of the Spotless Mind
BY ADAM RZEPKA A large public university is wiping out all of its humanities departments. It isn’t sure why. As I write this, our Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS…
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is very much worth reading.
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Coming up next month! Don't miss this awesome event: Portland artists, musicians, writers and teachers confront A.I.! December 4th 6-8pm at Mother Foucault books. Featuring me, @lydiakiesling.bsky.social , @jenniferruth.bsky.social , and many more!
November 12, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Coming up next month! Don't miss this awesome event: Portland artists, musicians, writers and teachers confront A.I.! December 4th 6-8pm at Mother Foucault books. Featuring me, @lydiakiesling.bsky.social , @jenniferruth.bsky.social , and many more!
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I think I know the answer but I want to hear the analyses of Amy Hagopian, Ellen Schrecker, Geo Maher, Corinna Mullin, and Tom Alter. And their wisdom regarding how to fight back! Register now for CAHE's event!
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think I know the answer but I want to hear the analyses of Amy Hagopian, Ellen Schrecker, Geo Maher, Corinna Mullin, and Tom Alter. And their wisdom regarding how to fight back! Register now for CAHE's event!
Make America the McCarthy Era Again!
November 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Make America the McCarthy Era Again!
And, by the way, I say "F*ck you, DOL" on behalf of all white men bereft of cleft chins or chiseled jawlines, too!
What if the one on the left is my image of the American Dream? F*ck you, Dept. of Labor.
November 8, 2025 at 9:08 PM
And, by the way, I say "F*ck you, DOL" on behalf of all white men bereft of cleft chins or chiseled jawlines, too!
What if the one on the left is my image of the American Dream? F*ck you, Dept. of Labor.
November 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
What if the one on the left is my image of the American Dream? F*ck you, Dept. of Labor.
I think I know the answer but I want to hear the analyses of Amy Hagopian, Ellen Schrecker, Geo Maher, Corinna Mullin, and Tom Alter. And their wisdom regarding how to fight back! Register now for CAHE's event!
November 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think I know the answer but I want to hear the analyses of Amy Hagopian, Ellen Schrecker, Geo Maher, Corinna Mullin, and Tom Alter. And their wisdom regarding how to fight back! Register now for CAHE's event!
My co-director Jan Haaken will be at the screening of our film at the London Palestine Film Festival, speaking with @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social on 11/17! 🇵🇸
November 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My co-director Jan Haaken will be at the screening of our film at the London Palestine Film Festival, speaking with @gilbert-achcar.bsky.social on 11/17! 🇵🇸
"The support that my public campaign has garnered from unions, democratic rights organization, and concerned people and activists . . . demonstrates that we must and can win this struggle for a truly democratic and egalitarian society through love and solidarity." Tom Alter wp.me/p8xr4h-dhT
Fighting MAGA McCarythism: Interviewing Tom Alter
BY BILL MULLEN Can you identify yourself and explain what happened at Texas State? My name is Tom Alter. Until being recently fired in violation of my free speech rights, I was a tenured associate …
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November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"The support that my public campaign has garnered from unions, democratic rights organization, and concerned people and activists . . . demonstrates that we must and can win this struggle for a truly democratic and egalitarian society through love and solidarity." Tom Alter wp.me/p8xr4h-dhT
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🇵🇸Join us Thursday for the second panel in CAHE's series "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in US Higher Education." 2:30 PST/5:30 EST. Scan QR code to register.🇵🇸
November 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🇵🇸Join us Thursday for the second panel in CAHE's series "Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in US Higher Education." 2:30 PST/5:30 EST. Scan QR code to register.🇵🇸
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For those of you living in or around Detroit, the documentary The Palestine Exception will be screening at Cinema Detroit on 11/11. Please share with your MI friends! 🇵🇸
THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION is a riveting doc that takes a look at campus protest amidst the Gaza war. We excited to screen the film and welcome filmmaker Jennifer Ruth on 11/11. Get tickets at the link! https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-palestine-exception #movies #detroit #cinemadetroit
THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION
FILMMAKER JENNIFER RUTH IN ATTENDANCEUniversities are meant to be places where ideas can be argued without fear. Yet as Israel’s war on Gaza grinds on, that ideal feels increasingly fragile. Across the United States, administrators discipline students for protest, lawmakers threaten faculty, and new visa restrictions target Palestinian students. These are reminders that the space for dissent is narrowing fast,The Palestine Exception looks squarely at this crisis of academic freedom. Through archival footage and candid interviews with scholars including Judith Butler, the film follows students and professors as they demand a ceasefire and divestment from companies tied to Israel. Their movement, already the largest U.S. anti-war uprising since the 1970s, meets a swift backlash, exposing what activists call the “Palestine exception,” where speech and assembly rights end the moment Israel is named.The film resonates with today’s headlines while telling a story of campuses as both refuge and battleground, of personal and collective histories colliding, and of the stubborn insistence that a university remain a place for truth-telling, even when power wants silence.USA. 2025Directed by Jan Haaken & Jennifer Ruth,In English.Running time 70 min.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Presented with
www.zeffy.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For those of you living in or around Detroit, the documentary The Palestine Exception will be screening at Cinema Detroit on 11/11. Please share with your MI friends! 🇵🇸
The Palestine Exception now available to watch at home! www.watermelonpictures.com/films/the-pa...
Watermelon Pictures
www.watermelonpictures.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
The Palestine Exception now available to watch at home! www.watermelonpictures.com/films/the-pa...
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This Friday! 8 pm EST. CAHE's Andy Hines with Davarian Baldwin and Vineeta Singh. Thank you for this @debtcollective.bsky.social! Appreciated and needed. debtcollective.org/event/univer...
University Keywords: Study and Struggle
Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.
debtcollective.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This Friday! 8 pm EST. CAHE's Andy Hines with Davarian Baldwin and Vineeta Singh. Thank you for this @debtcollective.bsky.social! Appreciated and needed. debtcollective.org/event/univer...
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CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!
November 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
CAHE Antifascism caucus event on 11/19! Please register and share!
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This letter in support of Tom Alter is just shy of 2k signatures. Please consider signing and sharing! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
Academic Letter of Support for Dr. Tom Alter to be Reinstated at TXST, San Marcos
Dear Academic Supporter of Dr. Tom Alter, Tom Alter is undertaking a formal appeal of his firing from Texas State University, San Marcos. On November 10, a subcommittee of the Texas State University...
actionnetwork.org
November 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This letter in support of Tom Alter is just shy of 2k signatures. Please consider signing and sharing! actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...
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THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION is a riveting doc that takes a look at campus protest amidst the Gaza war. We excited to screen the film and welcome filmmaker Jennifer Ruth on 11/11. Get tickets at the link! https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-palestine-exception #movies #detroit #cinemadetroit
THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION
FILMMAKER JENNIFER RUTH IN ATTENDANCEUniversities are meant to be places where ideas can be argued without fear. Yet as Israel’s war on Gaza grinds on, that ideal feels increasingly fragile. Across the United States, administrators discipline students for protest, lawmakers threaten faculty, and new visa restrictions target Palestinian students. These are reminders that the space for dissent is narrowing fast,The Palestine Exception looks squarely at this crisis of academic freedom. Through archival footage and candid interviews with scholars including Judith Butler, the film follows students and professors as they demand a ceasefire and divestment from companies tied to Israel. Their movement, already the largest U.S. anti-war uprising since the 1970s, meets a swift backlash, exposing what activists call the “Palestine exception,” where speech and assembly rights end the moment Israel is named.The film resonates with today’s headlines while telling a story of campuses as both refuge and battleground, of personal and collective histories colliding, and of the stubborn insistence that a university remain a place for truth-telling, even when power wants silence.USA. 2025Directed by Jan Haaken & Jennifer Ruth,In English.Running time 70 min.Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Presented with
www.zeffy.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE PALESTINE EXCEPTION is a riveting doc that takes a look at campus protest amidst the Gaza war. We excited to screen the film and welcome filmmaker Jennifer Ruth on 11/11. Get tickets at the link! https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/the-palestine-exception #movies #detroit #cinemadetroit
Thank you so much AAC&U!
"The Right to Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom," edited by Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker, and published by @beaconpress.bsky.social, is the 2025 Frederic W. Ness Book Award winner!
Details: https://bit.ly/47rBl06
Details: https://bit.ly/47rBl06
November 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Thank you so much AAC&U!
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‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
The legacy of this pivotal event in Black history continues to echo across countries and generations with its call for unity
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
‘A sense of freedom’: 80 years on from the Pan-African Congress in Manchester
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Hope you made the first of our series this past Monday: our panelists inspired us with their brilliance and their courage. Register now for the next in the series and please share!
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Hope you made the first of our series this past Monday: our panelists inspired us with their brilliance and their courage. Register now for the next in the series and please share!
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Later today!
🇵🇸Don't forget to register for each part of our upcoming 5-part series! First program on 10/27 includes Isaac Kamola, Heather Ferguson, Judith Butler, Lara Deeb, and Sherene Seikaly. Moderated by Karim Mattar.🇵🇸
October 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Later today!
Very happy to announce that our doc The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests? is now streaming on Watermelon Pictures! And it will be available to stream on Amazon prime in December. Find it here: watch.watermelonpictures.com/videos/the-p...
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Very happy to announce that our doc The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests? is now streaming on Watermelon Pictures! And it will be available to stream on Amazon prime in December. Find it here: watch.watermelonpictures.com/videos/the-p...