Members of Psych Dept. at U. New Mexico Demand School to Drop Charges Against Anti-Israel Protesters

Members of Psych Dept. at U. New Mexico Demand School to Drop Charges Against Anti-Israel Protesters

More coddling of the mob, this time by people who claim it’s a mental health issue.

Campus Reform reports:

UNM psych department calls for dropping charges against pro-Palestine protesters

Members of the psychology department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque authored an open letter last month to the university administration that demanded that all charges levied against pro-Palestine protesters at the school be dropped.

The Daily Lobo reported that, as of Aug. 11, UNM leadership has not yet responded to the statement from its psychology department community.

The July 19 letter is signed by the “undergraduate, graduate, staff, and faculty members in the Psychology Department,” with dozens of names listed. The Daily Lobo reported that it was authored by five individuals within the department, including a faculty member.

“As a department that’s concerned with mental health and the well-being of individuals, we are concerned with what the [UNM] administration did and what the administration had the police do,” Donia Hijaz, a signatory of the letter and a psychology doctoral student, told the Daily Lobo.

“I felt safe [at the encampment],” Hijaz continued. “I’m so grateful for what it provided for all of us and I definitely feel like it helped [our] mental health. It was a safe space, and it allowed our voices to be heard.”

The letter—which has been co-signed by nearly 70 psychology students, faculty, staff, and alumni—takes a definite position on the war between Israel and Palestnie, accusing Israel of  committing “genocide.”

“As Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza,” the letter states, “with a death count of over 36,000 Palestinian civilians and horrifying images of massacre after massacre continuing to emerge from Gaza, it is crucial that we stand with students, faculty, staff, and alumni at UNM and across the country who are putting their lives and futures on the line to fight for the rights and dignity of Palestinians.”

The open letter also demands that UNM President Garnett Stokes and university leadership “drop all charges against student and community protesters and support student’s rights to activism and free speech.”

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