Email Threat against Pro-Palestinian University Student and Activist

We are outraged to learn that on April 6, Sana Javed, a leading activist, member of the Muslim Students’ Association and a candidate with the Student Power Party, received a threatening e-mail from a classmate urging her to “withdraw from Middle Eastern Politics class” because of the role Javed played in helping to organize last month’s Palestinian Solidarity Week. The e-mail stated that “if you don’t withdraw, things could potentially get nasty” as the classmate is “loosing [sic] my ability to control myself in relations to you.”

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