From our colleagues at the Texas Conference of the AAUP:
Academic workers, please consider signing this statement in support of Texas Tech assistant professor Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores, who has been targeted, doxxed, and slandered due to his pro-Palestine commitment and online speech.
We believe that regardless of their own political positions all scholars should be deeply concerned about this harassment of Professor Funez-Flores by right-wing media, the attempt to use his personal correspondence against him, and the attack on his livelihood. The blatant persecution and intimidation against Professor Funez-Flores is sad evidence of the insidious erosion of academic freedom and the return of political persecution of intellectual dissent. The quality of our pedagogy, our ability to further academic discourse and thought, is contingent on the institutional protections around academic freedom, which have long been a core value of our academic institutions. This commitment demands unwavering solidarity against such attacks.
Read and sign the full open letter here.