Mr. Choudhury's trial has begun. Current information can be found at We, the undersigned scholars and other individuals of good will, petition the Government of Bangladesh to drop all charges against Muslim journalist Salah Choudhury. We understand that he faces charges under the Bangladesh Penal Code of "sedition, treason, blasphemy and espionage," which are punishable by death. Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is editor of the The Weekly Blitz. A practicing , Choudhury wrote about the...

"We are academics, scholars, researchers and professionals of differing religious and political perspectives. We all agree that singling out Israelis for an academic boycott is wrong. To show our solidarity with our Israeli academics in this matter, we, the undersigned, hereby declare ourselves to be Israeli academics for purposes of any academic boycott. We will regard ourselves as Israeli academics and decline to participate in any activity from which Israeli academics are excluded....

We, the undersigned, college and university faculty from around the world, wish to commend you and express to you our deep appreciation for your courageous and principled stand in calling to account the purveyors of anti-Israel material on the McMaster campus during recent “Israeli Apartheid Week” activities. The very linkage of the word “apartheid” to the State of Israel is a vile canard that is designed to criminalize, demonize and delegitimize the Israeli state...

We, the undersigned college and university professors from around the world, wish to thank the Italian government for removing the that targeted 162 academics and others as being part of a "Zionist " lobby in Italian academia after they signed the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East protesting the proposed boycott of Israeli academics by British university college faculty unions. We stand in solidarity with and thank those colleagues from Italy, of different faiths and...

(Petition editor's note: When signing this petition, please indicate your relationship with Columbia University...faculty, student or alumni. Please note that we believe this petition will be most effective if only Columbia faculty, student and alumni sign. You are however encouraged to help support this petition's being published in an ad in the NYTimes with a contribution to or as indicated below. That would help very much. Thank you.) We, the undersigned members of the Columbia University...