The members of the organization struggle against the complicity of Israeli academia in the occupied Palestinian territories, and actively combat abusive labour relations, sexual harassment, and the silencing of critical voices in Israel and around the world.
[1] Prominent members include Joel Beinin, Uri Davis, Neve Gordon, Alon Harel, Rela Mazali, Vered Slonim-Nevo, and Oren Yiftachel.
The team advances awareness to "first-generation" as an intersectional policy tool in an effort to tackle institutional blindness to the issue, and address the enormous challenges of diversity work in the context of Israeli academia.
The team has previously been involved in several activities, including the joint international campaign launched in 2016 by University of Kadoorie and Academia for Equality demanding the removal of military forces from campus territories, monitoring the imprisonment of Palestinian academics and students from the west bank and supporting their release, cooperation with the international organization "Scientists for Palestine" and Palestinian academics in the struggle against academic freedom violations committed by Israel, the establishment of the "complicit academy" database that documents the involvement of Israeli academia in the occupation, and the struggle against the cooperation between the IDF and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem through the intelligence unit "Havatzalot" as well as other activities at the Mount Scopus campus directed and the adjacent neighborhood Isawiya.
[5] This activity has gained the support of the European Anthropological society,[6] as well as the human rights committee of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
The organization has sounded protest in cases where academic freedom was violated due to political reasons, including in the case of Lara Al Qasem, the cancellation of a lecture at the Free University of Berlin by the Palestinian research Lila Sharif due to political pressure, and ending the search for candidates for a professorship named after Edward Said at Fresno University in California because all the candidates were of Arab origin.