KU faculty pens letter expressing solidarity with US campus protests

Over two hundred professors, including several deans and senior academics from the University of Karachi, alongside the president of the Karachi University Teachers Society, penned a letter to professors and students of various universities in the United States, expressing solidarity with ongoing campus protests against atrocities in Gaza on Sunday.

The letter expressed 'unwavering' solidarity with the ongoing protests against the persistent human rights violations in Gaza.

This gesture also criticised policies on US campuses and of the government, while reaffirming the paramount significance of academic freedom.

The message from the faculty members of KU is addressed to more than 40 universities, notably Columbia University in New York, New York University, the University of Texas in Austin, Yale University, the University of Southern California, Emory University in Atlanta, Ohio University, George Washington University, Indiana University, and Arizona State University.

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The letter also strongly condemned Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide against Palestinians.

It also condemned the atrocities perpetrated by Israel and decried the provision of arms by various governments enabling such violence.

The letter underscored the collective resolve of Karachi's academic community to stand in solidarity with their American counterparts in the struggle for academic freedom.

It also pledged continued advocacy for a peaceful global landscape and the liberation of Palestine.

Since April 24, protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza.

School leaders at several universities have responded in the past week by asking police to clear out camps and arrest those who refuse to leave.