Lecture by Israeli Prof at Queens College Disrupted by Antisemitic Slurs
“Officials condemned the incident, with the college emphasizing its commitment to combating anti-Semitism and promoting tolerance.”
Colleges have to start punishing this behavior with severe measures or it’s just going to continue.
Campus Reform reports:
Queens College lecture by Israeli professor disrupted with anti-Semitic slurs
An online lecture at Queens College was disrupted on Sept. 8 by a barrage of anti-Semitic and obscene attacks that halted the event.
Israeli law professor Yofi Tirosh had only just begun her lecture when multiple attendees allegedly exploited a Zoom vulnerability to share pornography, violent images, and slurs, including “kill all the Jews” and “go back to Auschwitz,” according to The New York Times.
Tirosh and a moderator quickly removed the disruptors, allowing her to complete the lecture, which had centered around Israeli women and “minorities.”
The annual event, sponsored by the college’s Center for Jewish Studies, was open to the public. A Queens College spokeswoman said the disruption stemmed from one individual registering multiple accounts and abusing a screen-sharing setting.
Officials condemned the incident, with the college emphasizing its commitment to combating anti-Semitism and promoting tolerance.
“Queens College unequivocally denounces the heinous act of antisemitism that interrupted a Sept. 8 Zoom lecture, ‘Law, Religion, and Gender Equality in an Age of Democratic Backsliding: Field Notes from Israel,’ “ the college stated.
Tirosh questioned the effectiveness of the obscene demonstration.
“There’s nothing for Palestinians in this protest,” she said. “It doesn’t do anything for the cause of ending the war.”
An online biography explains that Dr. Yofi Tirosh is the former dean of Sapir Academic College’s School of Law, specializing in civil rights and anti-discrimination law. She has held fellowships and visiting positions internationally, received multiple awards for legal research, and is a prominent civil rights activist.
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Of course, the disruptors could demonstrate their anonymous “courage” thanks to the online nature of the talk and that it was not limited to students. By relying upon pornography and mindless antisemitic insults they were attempting to answer Prof. Tirosh’s lecture with reasoned arguments of their own, thereby demonstrating the principled nature of their own cause, viz. exterminating the Jews. Such a demonstration would have been most effective at ameliorating the situation of Palestinians if it had only been allowed to continue. Alas, the disruption was itself disrupted, and Prof. Tirosh’s lecture was enabled to continue, with the attendant deaths of an additional 2,000,000 innocent Hamas freedom fighters and their supporters. Sad!