Faculty Against Antisemitism Movement (FAAM) is a network of academics who stand against antisemitism on campus — and demand that university leaders join them.
⬇️👏 Faculty took planes and trains to be here. ⬇️👏
They were among the 60,000-some allies who marched down Fifth Avenue in New York's Israel Day Parade. The mood was solemn yet determined as people stood together in the shadow of war, hostages, and antisemitism. 💙🕊️💙
What a powerful experience.
@columbiafsi
and
@cbhillel
brought more than 25 faculty and staff to Israel for a unity trip. The group…
➡️ Met with Israeli leaders, including President Isaac Herzog, politician and human rights activist Natan Sharansky, and author and journalist
The
@AAUP
has ended its two-decade opposition to academic boycotts. 👎
Academic boycotts contradict core principles of our higher education system — open inquiry, unfettered intellectual exchange, and academic freedom. And they are a core tactic of the BDS movement.
We won't
Nir Hoftman, a respected
@UCLA
professor of anesthesiology with 20+ years of experience, was mocked and ostracized after Oct. 7. His own colleagues turned on him – for being Jewish and Zioinist.
This is becoming an 🛑 unacceptable norm 🛑 on college campuses, which are supposed
More than 150 students and faculty at
@UofIllinois
gathered last week for a celebration of Jewish identity. Wrapped in Israeli flags, they sang and spoke about Jewish pride and peace. This is unity. 💙
👏
@IlliniHillel
@IlliniChabad
👏
Jewish college students should not be scared to gather for Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel Independence Day. But many are.
Here at FAAM, we are continuing to support them. No Jewish student should walk their campus in fear. Ever.
➡️ Join us:
👏 Hundreds of Jewish students at
@Columbia
just signed an open letter declaring they are proud to be Zionist and calling out the anti-Israel protests that have engulfed their campus. We are so glad that
@columbiafsi
is there to support them.
Meet Professor Monique Balbuena, a valued member of our steering committee.
📚 She is a scholar of comparative literature and Jewish studies with nearly 20 years of experience teaching at the
@uoregon
.
✡️ Her monograph, “Homeless Tongues: Poetry and Languages of the Sephardic
This is support. 💛❤️ Professor
@arielichai
, who is active in the
@USC
Circle Against Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism, showed up to celebrate Jewish grads at a reimagined ceremony, organized by
@HillelatSC
and
@jewsc
.
📸:
@HillelIntl
Our friends from the Jewish Faculty and Staff Group at
@unlv
welcomed
@Gil_Hoffman
, an Israeli-American journalist, for a talk about the situation in Israel. There were no disruptions or shout-downs, just a packed room of students and faculty learning and listening. 👏
Meet Eden, a 6-year-old Jewish girl who held up a picture of a heart as her mom accepted her diploma from
@nyulaw
. Amid a chaotic ceremony, full of people chanting hateful slogans and bearing anti-Israel signs, she taught thousands a lesson in respect. 💜🎓💜
Jewish students and faculty just finished one of their most chaotic semesters. To ensure fall 2024 is not a repeat of spring 2024, we are lighting a fire under administrators to address antisemitism on their campuses. Join us:
#KeepTheLightOn
For weeks, Jewish students at
@DePaulU
were harassed and demoralized. No more.
We appreciate the DePaul Jewish Faculty Staff Alliance for working hand-in-hand with campus leaders to remove the anti-Israel encampment and restore safety.
Campus administrators are being targeted — off campus. 🚫 Anti-Israel activists have “blamed”
@Columbia
COO Cas Holloway for doing his job: addressing violent campus protests in the spring. In an act of retaliation, they vandalized his apartment building, splattering red paint,
📢 We have been calling on universities to address the misuse of their department websites, many of which essentially bake anti-Zionism into their landing pages. The
@UofCalifornia
Regents took the matter seriously, establishing ⬇️ this ⬇️ new policy.
💡👏 Earlier this month, Professor Gregory Brown of
@unlv
joined 100+ people at a rally against antisemitism and in support of Jewish students on his campus. Thank you Professor Brown for being a light. More professors should follow your lead.
#KeepTheLightOn
👏 1,000+ faculty members from around the world have already signed the Open Letter, which denounces the antisemitic and anti-Zionist trends that are undermining academic principles.
Faculty, we call upon you to add your name:
⚠️ Hoping for the best is not a strategy. ⚠️
The
@TheAENetwork
and
@HillelIntl
created “Best Practices and Principles” to help administrators protect and advance the goals of higher education. ➡️🔗 Download now:
Now ⬇️ THIS ⬇️ is support. 3,000+ scholars and 20+ scholarly organizations from North America to Australia have signed our open letter denouncing academic boycotts of Israel. 🌎👏
💡⬇️ This faculty member is doing everything she can to
#KeepTheLightOn
.
Professor
@RonaKaufman8
, our colleague and friend who teaches law at
@duqedu
, just released her FIRST video in a new educational series that debunks misinformation on college campuses. 🚫 She tackles some
Meet our steering committee of academics who are shaping our initiatives to protect Jewish students on campus.
💡
@MiriamElman
💡 Monique Balbuena
💡 Jeffrey Blutinger
💡 Amy Elman
💡 Ron Hassner
💡
@AndrewPessin
💡 Michael Saenger
💡 Elina Veytsman
👏 A federal judge has ordered
@UCLA
to create a plan that protects Jewish students from anti-Israel encampments and ensures they can attend classes, and access other parts of campus, without fear.
Showing up and standing up is how we
#KeepTheLightOn
. 💡👏 Thank you Professor
@GJikeli
, who teaches Jewish and Germanic studies at
@IndianaUniv
, for supporting your students at a rally against Hamas propaganda.
⬇️ More professors should be doing this. ⬇️
The
@Penn
Task Force on Antisemitism recently put together a report with critical feedback and actionable solutions. 💡⬇️ This is what we need to see, more universities taking steps to end hate on campus and
#KeepTheLightOn
.
These Jewish student leaders are bracing themselves for another semester disrupted by antisemitism. And when they come back to campus, our faculty members will be ready to stand with them and stand for them. ✡️💡
#KeepTheLightOn
This resource is designed to help university leaders do better. ⬇️
A project of the
@TheAENetwork
and
@HillelIntl
, “Best Practices and Principles” details the rights of students and faculty and includes model university statements and policies.
🔗
👏✡️ Thank you Lisa Schwartz, an associate professor of biomedical laboratory sciences, for supporting Jewish students at
@GWtweets
. She is one of dozens of faculty members across America who have rallied against campus antisemitism.
The
@UCBerkeley
Antisemitism Education Initiative (AEI) is expanding antisemitism education to all new students, leaders of official student organizations, and residential assistants via new programs on campus. 👏
The Berkeley AEI has been seed-funded since 2019 by
🙌 500+ faculty members are using, wearing, and hanging FAAM swag. Are you one of them? Show us! Email a photo of you with your favorite FAAM item to info
@FacultyAgainstAntisemitism
.org.
Scholar, teacher, researcher, lecturer, author – Professor Alvin Rosenfeld has been marking an impact as a Holocaust scholar and antisemitism warrior at
@IndianaUniv
and beyond. How fitting he should be honored by the
@AJCGlobal
as one of seven “Unsung American Jewish Heroes” for
👏 29 administrators from 22 colleges and universities gathered in New York City as part of the Signature Seminar Series, a yearlong professional development program through
@TheAENetwork
. As part of their commitment to combating antisemitism and anti-Israel bias on campus,
The next steps are clear: Universities must stop brushing off harassment reports as petty complaints. Their staff must be trained to recognize antisemitism for what it is: hating Jewish people for being Jewish.
ICYMI: 🇺🇸 colleges aren’t hermetically sealed spaces. As documented ⬇️⬇️, hate groups & nefarious activists are working hard to exploit our open universities, threatening Jews on campus.
University officials need to keep
#Jewish
& all students safe!
#LeadershipMatters
🧵
They are faculty who
#KeepTheLightOn
because they care. Thank you for standing with Jewish students on campus.
➡️ David Mikics
➡️ Michael Saenger
➡️ Terry Hallmark
➡️ Asher Lubotzky
➡️ Amy Elman
Our steering committee is made up of distinguished and committed faculty, including Elina Veytsman.
🧠 She is a licensed psychologist and a nationally certified school psychologist.
👥 Elina serves as the Director of Clinical Services at the
@UCLAPEERS
Clinic, where she
Antisemitism and anti-Israel bias is “widespread and pernicious” at
@Stanford
, according to a 148-page report.
❗️Jewish ❗️students ❗️deserve ❗️better❗️
There needs to be an institutional will to protect institutional values.
Thank you
@IndWes
and
@my_ccu
for condemning antisemitism on your campuses and extending an open invitation to Jewish students to enroll. We need more allies like you. ♥️🤝♥️
Professor Michael Saenger of
@SouthwesternU
represented FAAM with eloquence and passion. ⬇️
“We have written books, op-eds, and articles, but they are not penetrating the echo chamber of anti-Zionist antisemitism.”
Meet
@MiriamElman
, our committee chair. An experienced and accomplished scholar, Miriam has extensive knowledge about the impact of antisemitism on campus and within academia.
🔗 Learn more about her:
➡️
@TheFIREorg
knows that boycotts of institutions and scholars cannot be reconciled with academic freedom. Thank you for remaining steadfast to the principles that underpin university missions. 🏫👏 We need more protectors of academic freedom.
👏
@UofIllinois
Professors Brett Kaufman and Cary Nelson received the Campus Faculty Heroes Award from
@StandWithUs
and Mothers Against College Antisemitism. Thank you for standing with students all year. And thank you SWU and MACA and for all your efforts. We appreciate YOU!
As many university leaders are shamefully caving in to demands from anti-Israel protesters,
@dartmouth
faculty are standing in support of Jewish and all students. 👏🏫
The moments of quiet and calm are just that. They are moments — not here to stay. To prepare for the fall semester, download “Best Practices and Principles,” created to assist campuses in protecting the goals and values of higher education.
🔗➡️
❌ Slogans are not a substitute for thinking. ❌ Do your students and colleagues know what they mean when they say “From the river to the sea” or “Long live the intifada”?
Thank you Professor Cary Nelson of
@UofIllinois
for saying what needs to be said. 👏 The unqualified right for students and faculty to implement academic boycotts without facing any sort of discipline validates “rights” that have not previously existed.
Thank you
@nyuniversity
admins for taking necessary steps to improve your campus climate. 💜👏 A new Title VI coordinator position, updated codes of conduct, mandatory antisemitism awareness training for students and staff, a stronger partnership with
@TelAvivUni
— ALL of these
Faculty must…
➡️ Commit to open inquiry and the advancement of knowledge
➡️ Exercise critical self-discipline in creating and disseminating knowledge
➡️ Practice intellectual honesty and academic integrity
➡️ Model a respectful learning environment for their students
Two professors, one Jewish and one Black, are introducing a new university course to deepen the Black-Jewish alliance. We are proud to support this project, spearheaded by Professor Devin Randolph and Rabbi
@MeirMuller
at
@SCSTATE1896
and
@VoorheesUniv
.
Targeting Israeli academics is undermining academic principles.
❌ Boycotting
❌ Ostracizing
❌ Shunning
We appreciate those who are lifting their voices in response. Thank you to
@HdxAcademy
and the more than a dozen other faculty organizations that have endorsed the Open
More than 2,500 of your colleagues have signed the Open Letter denouncing the boycotting, ostracizing, and shunning of Israeli academics. Add your name: ✍️
Calling higher ed administrators! You can learn, network, strategize, travel, and more as part of the Signature Seminar Series, a professional development opportunity through
@TheAENetwork
.
Creating a more inclusive campus starts here. ➡️🔗 Apply now:
🛑 We are here to say: Antisemitism under the guise of activism is still antisemitism. Join faculty across the nation who are calling out antisemitism on campus and urging university leaders to act:
Our faculty are role models, teaching others how to engage in controversy without sacrificing their principles. We…
1️⃣ Reject violent action.
2️⃣ Express our beliefs respectfully, and encourage all students to follow that lead, regardless of their position.
3️⃣ Welcome students
Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸 Today, we celebrate freedom. The freedom to dissent, to discover, and to advance knowledge. The freedom to have open, respectful discussions on complex topics. These freedoms are precious, and they must continue to extend to campuses across our 248-year-old
Professor Ron Hassner, a political science and international relations scholar, is a valued member of our Steering Committee. Learn more about him:
📚 He teaches international conflict and religion at
@UCBerkeley
, where he holds a Chancellor's Chair (a position of high academic
💡 Be a part of
#KeepTheLightOn
, a new campaign to help faculty members stand against antisemitism on campuses across America. Support your Jewish students and urge university leaders to act now:
After 17 years at
@thisisUIC
, Professor Barbara Risman is retiring early because of antisemitism. Universities will continue to lose great minds if they fail to maintain a healthy, respectful learning and workplace environment, free of harassment.
Faculty need to be a light. 💡 To be a beacon of good. To stand firmly against hate and bigotry, showing support for Jewish students through acts big and small.
Higher education is renowned for supporting academic freedom, open inquiry, and free expression. We cannot tolerate attempts to…
❌ Silence students
❌ Shutter study abroad programs in Israel
❌ Disrupt normal campus operations
❌ Indoctrinate rather than educate
❌ Vandalize,
No vandalism. No violence. Thank you
@JFrgatUCLA
for lifting your voices in support of Jewish students on campus. This is what a powerful and peaceful gathering looks like. 📣🇮🇱
🔥 Strong voices rise at UCLA! JFrg and Faculty Leaders delivered powerful speeches in today's peaceful Jewish counter-demo. Their words resonate far beyond campus. 📣 A must-experience moment for everyone who believes in meaningful change. 🕊
#UCLAPeaceDemo
#JFrgSpeaks
➡️ From the very beginning, administrators warned student protestors that getting arrested for prohibited activities would result in suspension. More campuses can learn from
@UF
, which is enforcing codes of conduct, despite calls for leniency.
Boycotting Israeli scientists won’t make the world a better place.
❗️ We will not stand by ❗️
Thousands of faculty members have signed the Open Letter, denouncing antisemitic and anti-Zionist trends undermining academic principles. Add your name:
✡️📢 Jewish students and faculty need and deserve our support on campus.
Listen to the full conversation between our Steering Committee Chair,
@MiriamElman
, and Steering Committee member,
@AndrewPessin
. ➡️
Members of the Section for Faculty in the Social Sciences, an initiative of
@TheAENetwork
, gathered for a day of presentations and strategizing on…
1️⃣ Antisemitism from a psychoanalytic perspective
2️⃣ The impact of antisemitism within mental health organizations
3️⃣ Challenges
This weekend, during an anti-Israel demonstration on her campus, Jewish
@Yale
student Sahar Tartak was stabbed in the eye with a Palestinian flag. May her attacker be found, and may she have a speedy recovery. 💙
Jewish students should never be
❌ Harassed
❌ Assaulted
❌ Stalked
❌ Ostracized
because of their identity. These faculty stand in solidarity with all of their Jewish students: .
What a success! 👏 More than 30 organizations committed to improving the campus climate gathered in Washington, D.C. for the Field Professional Retreat, hosted by the
@israelcc
. We heard from experts and scholars, including our Steering Committee Chair
@MiriamElman
, who moderated
How can universities and colleges address antisemitism?
@JasonOl43079902
, an
@TheAENetwork
member with a Ph.D. in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from
@BrandeisU
, lays out a vision for incorporating the Abraham Accords into the curriculum.
Get your items of support — free of charge. Each FAAM Box is packed with a tumbler, bag, poster, and everything else you need to show Jewish students that you stand with them and for them.
🔗
@Yale
@Columbia
It’s time for faculty to take back their campuses for academic integrity, civil discourse, educational rigor—and compassion for ALL students.
In the months ahead,
@FAAM_network
will work to combat
#Antisemitism
on 🇺🇸 campuses nationwide & uplift this faculty voice! 👏💪👏 /end
@Penn
,
@kcollege
,
@CalPoly
,
@univmiami
,
@IndianaUniv
— a wide representation of faculty from campuses across America have been attending our training sessions on countering antisemitism and supporting students on campus. 👥 These are the faces of academic integrity, people who
🙌 A true scholar and protector of Jewish and all students:
@MiriamElman
, chair of our Steering Committee. Watch a preview of her 2024 Shindleman Family Lecture for the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism.
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce released the full text exchange between four
@Columbia
administrators, three of whom have been permanently removed from their positions.
The back-and-forth messages are unsettling: accusing Jewish students of coming from a
The word Zionism has been twisted and turned into a slur, used to ostracize Jewish students and faculty on campus.
❗️ We ❗️ need ❗️ to ❗️ educate ❗️ to ❗️ stop ❗️ the ❗️ hate ❗️
Use this latest video from Professor
@RonaKaufman8
, our colleague and friend at
@duqedu
, as an
❗️ Anti-Israel protests, erupting on more than 100 campuses this spring, have further undermined public trust in higher education, according to a new study.
👏 Thousands of faculty have signed our statement opposing boycotts of scholars and institutions. So many brilliant minds will be under threat this semester because of a sharp policy reversal from AAUP, which now supports academic boycotts.
This wrong-headed, dangerous move is a