Lynn University Prof Proclaims Innocence After Being Accused of Living in a ‘Nazi Fantasy’
“The hackers then posted those fake images to a social media page that has no connection to me. It went viral, and no one questioned its veracity”
When you hear the professor’s side of this, he sounds credible. Weird things like this can happen on social media.
Toni Airaksinen writes at Substack:
“I am innocent” says Boca Raton Professor Accused of Living a “Nazi Fantasy”
An instructor at Lynn University in Boca Raton has been accused by The Jew Hate Database (JHD) of making antisemitic remarks and living a “Nazi fantasy.” However, the professor denies the allegations and points to a sizable donation he made to a local Jewish preschool last year as evidence of his innocence.
“I am the proud descendant of a Jewish grandmother who celebrates my family’s lengthy contributions to this country,” Steven McGillicuddy told Liberty Affair in an interview on Sunday, two days after JHD published its post about him.
“Last week, someone breached my social media account, grabbed three family pictures from the Allied landing site in Normandy, and doctored those images to make it appear as if I supported antisemitic ideology,” McGillicuddy claimed.
“The hackers then posted those fake images to a social media page that has no connection to me. It went viral, and no one questioned its veracity,” he added.
The post in question was published by JHD, a highly influential Instagram page with 120,000 followers that tracks antisemitic incidents across college campuses and in the corporate world.
“Steven, when he’s not teaching in the classroom, spends his free time commenting pro-Nazi ideas on photos of Jewish students,” JHD alleged in the first slide of their Instagram carousel about him.
In the next slide, there’s a photo of three Yale University gymnastics members dressed up for Hanukkah. This is followed by a screenshot of a comment that appears to show McGillicuddy asking, “Wo ist ein Panzer, wenn man ihn braucht?” or “Where’s a tank when you need one?”
A Panzer (short for Panzerkampfwagen) is a German tank used by the Nazis during World War II.
“We think that whoever did this—whatever their reason—wanted to make it look like I speak German, which would make it more believable that I posted it. The ironic thing is, even though I’m a historian and a teacher, and this is my [academic] specialty, I can pretty much only say hello or goodbye [in German],” McGillicuddy said.
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Plus, you don’t have to “breach” a social media account to lift photos from it.
Would a random hacker do this to someone? Or is it more likely someone deliberately targeted McGillicuddy?
Some random professor at a college no one has heard of in Boca Raton, FL isn’t just randomly attacked like this. Someone went after him. His “I was hacked” sounds a great deal more plausible than when celebrities get caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
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