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Students and faculty at Atlanta<\/a>\u2019s Emory University have been targeted by an outside group posting and handing out flyers labeling 14 of their colleagues \u201canti-Israel\u201d. The flyer, titled \u201cSecurity Alert\u201d, included the names, ages and mugshot-style photos of each of them, arranged under the word \u201cArrested\u201d.<\/p>\n Campus Reform, a national group of conservative students, put its logo on the flyer, which refers to arrests made during last April\u2019s protests<\/a> seeking Emory divestment from Israel. Charges for most of that day\u2019s 28 arrests remain unresolved and awaiting trial, after several faculty leaders have been unsuccessful in efforts<\/a> to get Emory president Gregory Fenves to ask prosecutors to drop them.<\/p>\n The flyers were distributed on Monday as classes began again and have left several faculty members and 11 students \u2013 and others who supported last year\u2019s protests \u2013 concerned for their own safety and awaiting a response from the school\u2019s administration, according to interviews with the Guardian.<\/p>\n Campus Reform\u2019s past efforts have led to faculty on campuses across the nation receiving \u201cthreats of harm\u201d \u2013 including violence or death, according to research<\/a> by the American Association of University Professors. The Leadership Institute,<\/a> funded by the Koch family and others, runs the group.<\/p>\n Related: <\/span>Georgia\u2019s Emory University called \u2018thuggish\u2019 over unilateral protest rules<\/a><\/p>\n The flyers, which students and the school\u2019s Open Expression team have now removed from campus, appeared only days before the new school year\u2019s first protest on divestment from Israel, part of a nationwide Walkout for Palestine scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n One of the students who appears on the flyer spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, due to safety concerns. She recounted how she approached the campus quad or central plaza on the morning of 25 April to observe last semester\u2019s protest, then only several hours old. \u201cI was there two minutes [\u2026] when a police officer came up behind me, grabbed my hands and put zip ties on me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n On Monday afternoon, friends began sending her messages about the flyer. \u201cIt\u2019s scary,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be targeted. I\u2019m scared someone will see the flyer, see me, feel afraid and call the cops on me.\u201d<\/p>\n Emil\u2019 Keme, a professor in the Native American and Indigenous Studies program, was also on the flyer. An Indigenous K\u2019iche\u2019 Maya scholar and one of only two Indigenous tenured faculty members at Emory, Keme told the Guardian that he came to the US as a teenager from Guatemala, escaping \u201ca civil war against my people \u2026 involving the Guatemalan army, who received training from Israelis\u201d.<\/p>\n Keme went to observe the protest 25 April and saw \u201cpolice immediately began to force people to move. I felt like I was in a war zone, with all the police and their weapons, the rubber bullets \u2026 I held on to one of my students. Police took the student next to me, pushed an older lady nearby and then pushed me.\u201d<\/p>\n After seeing the flyers this week, he said: \u201cI feel uncomfortable and disoriented.\u201d As with others who spoke to the Guardian, Keme said he wants to see Emory respond to Monday\u2019s events.<\/p>\n No\u00eblle McAfee, chairperson of Emory\u2019s philosophy department and also featured on the flyer, sent an email Tuesday afternoon to Brad Slutsky, Emory\u2019s general counsel, asking what the university \u201cwill do to notify the [Campus Reform] organization that it is has violated our rules and, absent any invitation from any member of the campus community, is not welcome here\u201d.<\/p>\n McAfee said the flyer is defaming students and faculty mentioned by calling them \u201canti-Israel\u201d and claiming that all those arrested were involved in \u201csetting up an encampment\u201d. \u201cThere\u2019s no evidence [of this],\u201d she said. \u201cThe whole thing is lies.\u201d<\/p>\n Spokesperson Laura Diamond did not reply to a query from the Guardian about whether the school\u2019s administration will be making a statement or taking any action in response to the flyers but wrote in an email: \u201cEmory condemns any attempt to publicly harass and intimidate members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n