Left: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights is based. Right: San José State University's Clark Hall, home of the College of Social Sciences and the Justice Studies Departement. Photo Credit: San José State University . Sang Hea Kil became the first tenured professor to be fired from a public university in the US over Palestine activism since October 7, 2023. Kil was fired from San José State University (SJSU) in...

The Trump administration sued the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) on November 18, 2025, citing the university’s refusal to turn over personal information about its Jewish employees. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) had subpoenaed information such as “names, phone numbers and physical addresses” for Jewish employees at UPenn as part of an ongoing antisemitism investigation against the university. As reported by The New York Times on November 21, 2025, the requested...

Photo credit: Human Rights Watch Azerbaijani economist, opposition politician, and New University in Exile Consortium scholar Gubad Ibadoghlu has been under arrest for more than two-years on spurious counterfeit currency charges in a case regarding the activities of local non-governmental organizations. After nearly a year in pre-trial detention, Dr. Ibadoghlu was transferred to house arrest in April 2024. He is still under house arrest as his case has been indefinitely frozen with no...