The topic is essential for our field, considering the assault on academic freedom is growing on University campuses. We aim to address the context within which this assault takes place and the forces/factors that continue to animate it, factors that in some respects are increasing in both organization and intensity. Particularly, we would address the cases of defamation, intimidation, and suspension that faculty are being subjected to in the United States and beyond in order to raise awareness of the conditions and pretenses under which such violations occur and provide resources to contend with them, not least in support of the most vulnerable targets. We are proposing a session that would host faculty members who have been targeted for their support of Palestine during Israel’s ongoing Genocide in Gaza, as well as legal experts and other active interlocutors. One the one hand, faculty will be given a platform to share their own stories and address the context of their scholarship and advocacy, as well as how their academic freedom was violated. On the other hand, the conversation will tackle the legal, institutional, and political context of such narratives with the aim of understanding and challenging this widespread assault.