Cornell U. Instructor Cancels Class in Show of Support for ‘Global Strike for Palestine’
“mourn[s] the fact that all universities in Gaza have been destroyed or demolished by Israeli military forces.”
The virtue signaling is strong with this one.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
Cornell University Instructor Cancels Class for ‘Global Strike for Palestine’
A Cornell University instructor who once said Israelis should “rot in the deepest darkest pits of hell” canceled her first class of the semester in solidarity with a “Global Strike for Palestine,” an email obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.
Alyiah Gonzales, a Ph.D. student at Cornell who teaches an English class on “race, writing, and power,” emailed her students Monday to say she was “canceling class in solidarity with collective calls for a Global Strike for Palestine,” according to a screenshot of the message. Gonzales in her email said she “mourn[s] the fact that all universities in Gaza have been destroyed or demolished by Israeli military forces.” In lieu of class, she asked her students to write an essay on “the relationship between writing, power, and systems of oppression.”
Gonzales’s message comes as Cornell and other Ivy League institutions grapple with a federal investigation into anti-Semitic incidents on campus. In late October, a Cornell junior was arrested and charged with posting anti-Semitic threats online—in one message, the student allegedly said he would “bring an assault rifle to campus and shoot all you pig Jews.” Cornell history professor Russell Rickford, meanwhile, praised Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel during a campus rally, calling it “exhilarating” and “energizing.”
While Rickford went on leave after a video of his comments surfaced, it’s unclear whether Gonzales will do the same. A Cornell spokeswoman did not return a request for comment on whether the school plans to discipline Gonzales, instead pointing the Free Beacon to a Tuesday afternoon statement from provost Michael Kotlikoff. That statement, which was sent to Cornell faculty and instructors, did not mention Gonzales by name but did refer to “canceling classes as a political call to action.”
“Faculty and instructors should conduct their classes and schedule them in a way that is academically appropriate,” Kotlikoff said in his statement. “Canceling classes as a political call to action, or using one’s role in instruction to promote a personal or political belief, diminishes our role as educators.”
Blue hair. Of course.
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Well, then. Sounds like an opportunity to demand a refund of tuition.
Of course, the people taking her class probably agree with the move, so….
Also, what universities in Gaza?
These universities. Every one of them, of course, controlled by terrorists and functioning at least in part as a terrorist base.
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Gonzales’ description on Indeed: “Currently researching Black womxn’s literature through Queer of Color critique and Black lesbian feminist theories.”
That’s what Ph.D.’s have come to in our woke institutions.
Rickman is his own gender category, “douchefluid.”
Douche fluid. Does it leave her feeling fresh and clean? /ducking
Thank you, Cornell, for keeping this disturbed woman away from the rest of society.
On the other hand, this is the very type of Instructor which Cornell reviewed and offered a position.
An action which is just part of why the congressional committee will be digging deeper on how Cornell is/has perpetuated the very reasons on the ever growing list for Federal oversite and accountability of DEI bias policies by segregation, faiths and ethnic heritage incorporated into hiring, staffing and administration.
Race, Writing and Power? Isn’t it amazing how creative our universities are becoming with classes? This is what parents are paying tens of thousands of dollars for their kids to study!
Given the class, this cancellation is probably good news regardless of the purported rationale.
Can students sue for the failure to provide a lesson they’re paying good money for? It’s failure to fulfil the terms of the contract no?
Cornell and similar cultures have become the new open borders lunatic asylums, where insanity is normalized by delusional mirroring. Once the reality checks are cancelled “normal” becomes whatever is is locally self-affirmed. That’s how the once fringe party Nazis became mainstreamed for most Germans. Such systems become fanatically and ruthlessly self protective, so don’t expect radical academia to go down without a big fight!
At one time, the Freshman Writing Seminars (FWS) were closely supervised with the graduate student instructors submitting lesson plans and writing assignments for approval. Was the session cancelation and first writing assignment a part of her original plan, or was this a last-minute shift? Ms. Gonzales taught the same course in the fall.
Why is this person teaching a course at an Ivy League school? Because she wrote a trashy novel ? I had no idea that they had no standards for this anymore. My instructors at Tulane when I went all had to have at least a Masters degree and some type of scholarship outside of fan fiction and being a super dork. Wow those poor kids that have to learn from this moron.