UC-Santa Cruz Doubles Down on Antisemitism in Insult to Jewish Students
“thumbed its nose at the US government and doubled down on condoning faculty antisemitism”
This is unbelievable. Someone should be held accountable for it.
Algemeiner reports:
Anti-Zionist Faculty at UC Santa Cruz Defy the Law and Betray Jewish Students
Harvard University, responding to two anti-discrimination lawsuits threatening its Federal funding, recently agreed to acknowledge on its official website, “For many Jewish people, Zionism is a part of their Jewish identity. Conduct that would violate the Non-Discrimination Policy if targeting Jewish or Israeli people can also violate the policy if directed toward Zionists.”
The same day that Harvard’s agreement was announced, the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) — also party to a recent agreement following a Federal investigation into charges of faculty antisemitism – made a different kind of announcement, which thumbed its nose at the US government and doubled down on condoning faculty antisemitism.
Prominently displayed on UCSC’s campus-wide Events page was an announcement for an Education Department talk subtitled, “Centering an Anti-Zionist Commitment in (Early Childhood) Teacher Education,” clearly suggesting the speaker would be advocating for instilling in children as young as pre-school age a hatred of Israel and its supporters.
The only thing missing from the announcement were the words “Jews not welcome here” – though that message came through loud and clear.
Tellingly, this talk was also promoted on the website of UCSC’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapter, a group that shares the speaker’s “anti-Zionist commitment” and passion for expressing that commitment in educational spaces. It’s worth noting that more than 40% of the university’s Education Department’s core faculty have publicly allied themselves with this group, which was established a few weeks after Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre, mutilation, rape, and kidnapping of more than 1,400 Israelis.
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Portlands “pre-school for all” program is exactly that, indoctrination of 3 year olds because if left till 5yo, some might retain an ability for free thought.
Someone should ask Gruesome Newsome why he condones antisemitism in a state school.
Of course he’d repeat these people’s claim that they’re only anti-zionist and not antisemitic at all, as if there were that much daylight between the two.
It’s true there is some difference, and it is technically possible to be anti-zionist without also being antisemitic, but I’ve given this a lot of thought and I can think of only three non-antisemitic arguments against zionism, none of which explains these people’s hostility to it.
And I can’t think of any non-antisemitic argument for opposing zionism and supporting the “Palestinian” cause, which is what these people do. As far as I can tell antisemitism is the only possible motive for that.