As leaders in and advocates for the prevention of gender-based violence, we strongly support the National Code as a crucial step to push universities to act. Without enforcement of the National Code to ensure providers comply with its requirements, we are concerned that universities are still not doing enough, and students are bearing the consequences.

We should mostly be talking about the genocide in Palestine: the horrifying toll of bodies, the thousands or tens of thousands of amputees, the bereavement at a national scale, the gutting intergenerational trauma. In the face of all this, we should not have to talk about universities in the West. But nowhere in society has the breakdown of liberal institutions under Zionist pressure been faster or more obvious.