Experts agree: Israel is a modern-day colonization project that practices apartheid and is currently committing genocide.

You have a right to not like Israel.

It’s guaranteed by the First Amendment. And academic freedom.

So why is everyone on the University of Kentucky campus terrified of speaking their minds about Israel?

Because if you do, Zionist astroturf organizations will slander you. Your elected representatives will pass laws to muzzle you. And your university president will try to fire you.

It doesn’t matter who you are. Staff. Student. Or a tenured professor.

There’s a phrase for this: It’s called Zionist repression. It’s happening all over America. President Capilouto just brought it to University of Kentucky.

But you have a right to not like Israel. You have a right to speak. And a right to think.

Especially at a university.

Don’t let them take it away from you.

When UK law professor Ramsi Woodcock spoke out about what Israel is, a Zionist astroturf organization sprang into action, demanding that the Kentucky legislature make Israel the only country in the world that you’re not allowed to criticize on campus.

The legislature complied.

That law clearly violates the First Amendment. Instead of challenging the law, UK President Eli Capilouto used it as a pretext to suspend Professor Woodcock from teaching and investigate him on a bogus charge of antisemitism.

Antisemitism?

We know that opposition to Israel is about opposing colonization, apartheid, and genocide. We opposed these things when protestants did them in South Africa. We opposed them when eastern orthodox Christians did them in Bosnia. We opposed them when the French did them in Algeria. Or when the British did them in India. And when the Russians did them in Ukraine. And we oppose them now. We couldn’t care less that this time around the perpetrators are Jewish—or falsely claim to speak for all Jews, which they most certainly do not.

No one gets to commit colonization, apartheid, and genocide.

And anyone who supports a colonization project that practices apartheid and is committing genocide, whatever his creed or color, definitely doesn’t get to tell us what to think or what to say.

We have a right to not like Israel.

The motto of the University of Kentucky is:

United we stand; divided we fall.

We need to take a stand.

How?

Supporters of Israel know that they will never win a debate about what Israel is or what Israel does, because experts agree that Israel is a colonization project that practices apartheid and commits genocide. So they don’t debate their critics, they shut them up.

The best response to deplatforming, is platforming.

Give those that the Zionist movement wants to shut up a place to speak. Invite Professor Woodcock to speak to your student group, department, center, college, or school about the Antizionist Legal Studies movement. He will explain why Israel is functionally an American colony in Palestine, her genocide of Palestinians is an American genocide, and why that should matter for everything an American university does.

Or if you can’t give those that the Zionist movement wants to shut up a place to speak, do what they’re doing. Stop living in fear. Don’t let the Zionist movement intimidate you. Tell the world how you feel about Israel. The more people speak out, the safer everyone becomes. United we stand; divided we fall. One way to do that is to sign the End Israel Now petition (law professors may prefer to sign a similar petition specifically of law professors antizionist.net).

Finally, tell the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky legislature how you feel about their attempts to take away your right to not like Israel. (And you can do that even if you do like Israel.)