UC-Santa Barbara Black Studies Faculty Plan ‘Day of Interruption’ to Protest Protections for Jewish Students
“Campus leaders last week closed the Multicultural Center and suspended its social media accounts after pro-Palestinian students occupied the venue and hung a parade of antisemitic posters”
This comes as Jewish students across the country are facing unprecedented levels of hatred. Talk about tone deaf.
The College Fix reports:
UCSB Black Studies faculty plan ‘day of interruption’ to protest protections for Jews
The UC Santa Barbara Black Studies Department has organized a “day of interruption” for March 7 and subsequent “work slowdowns” to protest steps administrators recently took to support Jewish students and quell antisemitic protests on campus.
Campus leaders last week closed the Multicultural Center and suspended its social media accounts after pro-Palestinian students occupied the venue and hung a parade of antisemitic posters with statements such as “Zionists not allowed,” pictures posted on social media show.
Other signs included: “Get these Zionists out of office,” “Zionists not welcome,” “When people are occupied, resistance is justified,” and “It was never about Hamas, never will be.”
The student government president (pictured), who is Jewish, was also called out and threatened by name. One sign said, “You can run but you can’t hide, Tessa Veksler supports genocide.”
Veksler, the daughter of refugees from the Soviet Union, has been an outspoken supporter of Zionism in her year as student president. In response, she said on Instagram “I am not afraid and I’m not going anywhere.”
Campus leaders temporarily closed the Multicultural Center in response, prompting outrage from Black Studies faculty, who released a statement a few days later calling for the “day of interruption.”
The professors called the MCC closure a “displacement” of students of color, and also cite proposed policies that would allow administrators to have editorial control of UCSB departmental websites, a proposal to allow police on campus for major events, and leaders’ refusal to condemn Israel.
All this amounts to a “threat to BIPOC, queer, and trans students’, staff’s, and faculty’s ability to engage in free and public intellectual activity both in person and virtually.”
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Why don’t the queer and trans protestors ever want to talk about not being made to feel “welcome” by islamofascists?
The whole secret to civil society is precisely to make chronic troublemakers feel unwelcome. We need much, much more of this aimed at the left.
If I were in a position to do it, there wouldn’t be a single ethnic studies department left on any University campus anywhere in the country. They are all such nonsense.
I am sick of “black” whatever. They’re 13% of the population and we are blasted 24/7 with propaganda about how special they are. Any “white” professor organizations? Any “straight” professor organizations? Yet we are swamped with an endless list of “black” organizations. Who’s the racist?
You and me, both.
Great. Arrest those involved in “Interruption” on campus. Expel the students and fire the “professors”.
Protest civilly, ok.
Of course there may still be vigorous mocking.
This crap would never have flown when I was there (86) Glad the admin is finding their backbone.
Money talks as the arrogant fools at Oberlin discovered. The miscreants making this threat are employees of the university and of the State of California. Title VI provides for money damages for intentional discrimination. Sue them.
To clarify, in light of what these faculty are doing as their jobs, it might be hard for anyone to demonstrate any harm from a walk-out. The violation of Title VI by the employees and by the university and the State is if employees are allowed to shirk their duties to protest the protection of Jews under circumstances where a slow-down or the like (or even a vocal protest) opposing protections for any other group would never be tolerated.