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We urge you to rescind your veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza and put the
resolution to a vote of all AHA members. The Council’s action is undemocratic, reveals a lack of
trust in the judgment of its members, and violates the Association’s and Council’s own historical
precedents. Heeding repeated Palestinian scholars’ calls for solidarity and support, 82% of the
over 500 members who attended the January 5, 2025 Business Meeting supported the resolution.
Council’s action demonstrates the force of the “Palestine Exception” that suppresses solidarity,
undermines free speech, and denies the essential humanity of the Palestinian people and their
rights, including the right to education.

The term scholasticide refers to systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of the educational life
of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. Since October 7, 2023, Israel destroyed all
universities in Occupied Gaza, killing 161 professors and more than 903 students, and injuring
1,297 professors and 1,805 students. Israel decimated all of Gaza’s archives and libraries, and
most of its historical sites. In the Occupied West Bank, and in the same period, Israeli forces
killed 36 university students and injured more than 141. This scholasticide is fueled by US
taxpayer money as well as military and diplomatic support, and it is justified by spurious
historical arguments.

Executive Director James Grossman stated that the resolution contravened the AHA’s
“constitution and bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the association’s mission and
purpose.” Yet it is consistent with the AHA’s Guiding Principles on Taking a Public Stance,
which emphasize the association’s “responsibility to take public stands” including “when public
or private authorities, in the United States or elsewhere, censor or seek to prevent the writing,
publication, exhibition, teaching, or other practices of history or seek to punish
historians.” Scholasticide in Palestine far exceeds the levels of repression outlined in these
principles.

Moreover Council has regularly criticized foreign governments, such as those of Poland, China,
and Afghanistan. On February 28, 2022, and, without a membership vote, it condemned “in the
strongest possible terms” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Russian President Putin’s “abuse of
history.” At the 2007 Business Meeting, members ratified a Resolution on United States
Government Practices Inimical to the Historical Profession urging members “to do whatever
they can to bring the Iraq war to a speedy conclusion.” Council submitted this obviously political
resolution for a membership vote, where it passed by an overwhelming margin.

In a context of rising authoritarianism, many major U.S. institutions are engaging in anticipatory
obedience, much of which is geared to suppressing Palestine solidarity and criticism of the U.S.
and Israel. Anticipatory obedience is an affront to our professional standards and our ethical
responsibilities as scholars, educators, and people. It is also a dead-end strategy, imposed from
the top, that only emboldens those who are waging an assault on truth. As the American
Association of University Professors recently put it, “Now is not the time to be complacent. Now
is the time to act.” Send the Scholasticide Resolution to the full membership of the AHA!

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Diana Abouali, Arab American National Museum
Ervand Abrahamian, City University of New York
Ziad Abu-Rish, Bard College
Kevan Antonio Aguilar, University of California, Irvine
Faiz Ahmed, Brown University
Sana Aiyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leslie M. Alexander, Rutgers University
Adey Almohsen, Grinnell College
Seth Anziska, University College London
Christian Appy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew Arsan, University of Cambridge
Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University
Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College (CT)
Tani Barlow, Rice University
Beth Baron, City University of New York
Omer Bartov, Brown University
Nadim Bawalsa, Journal of Palestine Studies (Institute for Palestine Studies)
Marc Becker, Truman State University
Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Martha Biondi, Northwestern University
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, University of Virginia
Elizabeth Bishop, American University of Iraq – Baghdad
Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Howard Brick, University of Michigan
Renate Bridenthal, City University of New York
Charles Bright, University of Michigan
Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Charisse Burden-Stelly, Wayne State University
Sidney Chalhoub, Harvard University
Indrani Chatterjee, University of Virginia
Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University
Nathan Citino, Rice University
Deborah Cohen, University of Missouri–St. Louis
G. Daniel Cohen, Rice University
Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Juan Cole, University of Michigan
Blanche Wiesen Cook, City University of New York
Fred Cooper, New York University
Sandi Cooper, City University of New York, Graduate Center & Staten Island
Raymond Craib, Cornell University
Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia
Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University
Hasia Diner, New York University
Mara Dodge, Westfield State University
Beshara Doumani, Brown University
John W. Dower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona
Carolyn Eisenberg, Hofstra University
Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto
Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale University
Heather Ferguson, Claremont McKenna College
Joan Flores-Villalobos, University of Southern California
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
Marcia M. Gallo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Irene Gendzier, Boston University
Adom Getachew, University of Chicago
Trevor Getz, San Francisco State University
Behrooz Ghamari, Princeton University
Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago, AHA President 2014
Michael A. Gomez, New York University
Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Colin Gordon, University of Iowa
Linda Gordon, New York University
Van Gosse, Franklin & Marshall College
Greg Grandin, Yale University
Karen Graubart, University of Notre Dame
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Michigan
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union, New York
Sarah Gualtieri, University of Southern California
Frank Guridy, Columbia University
Steven Hahn, New York University
Jacquelyn Hall , University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Catherine Hall, University College London
Douglas Haynes, Dartmouth College
Christina Heatherton, Trinity College
Marc Lamont Hill, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Daniel Horowitz, Smith College
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside
Walter Johnson, Harvard University
Gil Joseph, Yale University
Marion Kaplan, New York University
Temma Kaplan, Rutgers University
Rebecca E. Karl, New York University
Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California, Los Angeles
Kevin Kenny, New York University
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University
Monica Kim, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Claudia Koonz, Duke University
Karen Kupperman, New York University
Nitzan Lebovic, Lehigh University
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo
Julie Livingston, New York University
Zachary Lockman, New York University
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
David Ludden, New York University
Ussama Makdisi, University of California, Berkeley
Kris Manjapra, Northeastern University
Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh, AHA President 2016
Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University
Afshin Matin-Asgari, California State University, Los Angeles
Sarah Maza, Northwestern University
Erik S. McDuffie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David McNally, University of Houston
Michael Meeropol, Western New England University
Edward Miller, Dartmouth College
Leslie Page Moch, Michigan State University
Bethany Moreton, Dartmouth College
Dirk Moses, City College of New York
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Ashoka University
Donna Murch, Rutgers University
Pamela S. Murray, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Maha Naasar, University of Arizona
Aseel Najib, Dartmouth College
David Nasaw, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Golnar Nikpour, Dartmouth College
Mary Nolan, New York University
James Oakes, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Amy C.Offner, University of Pennsylvania
Jocelyn Olcott, Duke University
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College
Paul Ortiz, Cornell University
Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College
Kim Phillips-Fein, Columbia University
Kenneth Pomeranz, University of Chicago, AHA President 2013
Margaret Power, Illinois Institute of Technology
Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
Anupama Rao, Columbia University
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Dylan Rodriguez, University of California, Riverside
David Roediger, University of Kansas
Doug Rossinow, Metro State University
E. Natalie Rothman, University of Toronto
Sara Roy, Harvard University
Barnett R. Rubin, New York University
Dana Sajdi , Boston College
Andrew Sartori, New York University
Chelsea Schields, University of California, Irvine
Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva University
Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Raz Segal, Stockton University
Sherene Seikaly, University of California, Santa Barbara
William H Sewell Jr, University of Chicago
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Ahmad Shokr, Swarthmore College
James Sidbury, Rice University
Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
Pete Sigal, Duke University
Nikhil Pal Singh, New York University
Quinn Slobodian, Boston University
Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College
Marc Stein, San Francisco State University
Margaret (Peg) Strobel, University of Illinois at Chicago
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Rice University
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Princeton University
Emma Teitelman, Cornell University
Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine
Barry Trachtenberg, Wake Forest University
Enzo Traverso, Cornell University
Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University-Newark
Judith E. Tucker, Georgetown University
Pamela Voekel, Dartmouth College
David L Waldstreicher, City University of New York, Graduate Center
Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
Barbara Weinstein, New York University, AHA President 2007
Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
Jon Wiener, University of California, Irvine
Gabriel Winant, University of Chicago
John Womack Jr, Harvard University
Salim Yaqub, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kevin A. Young, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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