UCSD and the Palestine Exception to Free Speech
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
James talks to a UCSD faculty member facing disciplinary proceedings for their participation in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment about UCSD’s history, the Palestine exception to free speech, and campus organizing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
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| 0:11.2 | Hi, and welcome to the show. |
| 0:13.2 | It's me, James, today. |
| 0:15.0 | And I'm very fortunate to be joined by a member of the UCSD faculty, |
| 0:19.0 | someone who is a professor of environmental physics |
| 0:21.4 | at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, also teaching the Critical Gender Studies Department. |
| 0:26.5 | And we're talking today about the disciplinary action that they are facing for participation |
| 0:32.6 | in the Gaza Solidarity Incampant. So welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:37.5 | Thank you, James. I'm really happy to be here. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah, it's great to have you. I'm glad we can share our platform and talk about this. |
| 0:45.6 | So I think to begin with, you know, it's been a little while, perhaps I know a lot of people |
| 0:50.1 | have sort of been investigating and changing their politics in the last year or so. |
| 0:54.4 | So perhaps you could explain a little bit about the Guards of Solidarity encampment, |
| 0:59.2 | the moment that came in and the role that it played in the anti-genocide of Palestinian liberation |
| 1:05.4 | movement at UC San Diego more broadly. |
| 1:08.4 | Yes, I guess again for this opportunity. |
| 1:10.6 | So the encampment at UCSD was set up on May 1st, |
| 1:17.7 | 2024, and that was happening in the context of encampments that were being set up at universities |
| 1:26.7 | across the U.S. I believe that the UCSD |
| 1:31.9 | encampment was approximately the 100th encampment set up in the U.S. at that time. |
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