U. of California Faculty Ask Regents to ‘Stop Professors from Using University to Promote Hatred of Israel’

U. of California Faculty Ask Regents to ‘Stop Professors from Using University to Promote Hatred of Israel’

It’s amazing that this even needs to be said, but obviously it does.

The Jewish Journal reports:

405 University of California Faculty to Regents: Stop Professors from Using University to Promote Hatred of Israel

Dear University of California Board of Regents,

We, the undersigned, are faculty members from a number of UC campuses, who are deeply concerned about the growing hostility and harassment targeting Jewish members of the campus community in the wake of Hamas’ October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians. Of particular concern is the role played by individual faculty members and whole departments in fomenting the hostile, antisemitic climate that exists on many of our campuses, through their use of the University’s name, facilities and resources to engage in anti-Zionist political expression, whose goal is to demonize, delegitimize, and ultimately dismantle the Jewish state.

At the November Regents meeting Chair Leib acknowledged with alarm the growing anti-Jewish hostility on UC campuses and underscored the contribution of UC faculty to the problem. He specifically noted reports of “discrimination in the classroom,” “episodes of abuse” by faculty, and students’ horror at hearing faculty praise Hamas’ “unspeakable brutality” and seeing it “justified on many University websites.” Chair Leib unequivocally stated that such faculty abuse was “in violation of the faculty code of conduct and our University policies,” emphasizing, “We have no patience for faculty who abuse their positions and willfully violate our policies.”

We greatly appreciate Chair Leib’s public acknowledgement and condemnation of faculty who contribute to campus antisemitism by abusing their University positions and state resources to promote anti-Zionist advocacy and activism. However, we believe that the Regents themselves must take decisive action to ensure that University policies proscribing such behavior are robustly enforced, since neither the academic senate nor campus administrators have been willing to exercise their due diligence in addressing a problem that threatens to do great harm not just to Jews, but to the entire University.

A glaring example of UC faculty flagrantly violating University policy by using their departmental status and the University’s name and resources to promote political propaganda and activism – with complete impunity – can be found in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department (CRES) at UC Santa Cruz.

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