Members of Psych Dept. at U. New Mexico Demand School to Drop Charges Against Anti-Israel Protesters
“I’m so grateful for what it provided for all of us and I definitely feel like it helped [our] mental health. It was a safe space, and it allowed our voices to be heard”
More coddling of the mob, this time by people who claim it’s a mental health issue.
Campus Reform reports:
UNM psych department calls for dropping charges against pro-Palestine protesters
Members of the psychology department at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque authored an open letter last month to the university administration that demanded that all charges levied against pro-Palestine protesters at the school be dropped.
The Daily Lobo reported that, as of Aug. 11, UNM leadership has not yet responded to the statement from its psychology department community.
The July 19 letter is signed by the “undergraduate, graduate, staff, and faculty members in the Psychology Department,” with dozens of names listed. The Daily Lobo reported that it was authored by five individuals within the department, including a faculty member.
“As a department that’s concerned with mental health and the well-being of individuals, we are concerned with what the [UNM] administration did and what the administration had the police do,” Donia Hijaz, a signatory of the letter and a psychology doctoral student, told the Daily Lobo.
“I felt safe [at the encampment],” Hijaz continued. “I’m so grateful for what it provided for all of us and I definitely feel like it helped [our] mental health. It was a safe space, and it allowed our voices to be heard.”
The letter—which has been co-signed by nearly 70 psychology students, faculty, staff, and alumni—takes a definite position on the war between Israel and Palestnie, accusing Israel of committing “genocide.”
“As Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza,” the letter states, “with a death count of over 36,000 Palestinian civilians and horrifying images of massacre after massacre continuing to emerge from Gaza, it is crucial that we stand with students, faculty, staff, and alumni at UNM and across the country who are putting their lives and futures on the line to fight for the rights and dignity of Palestinians.”
The open letter also demands that UNM President Garnett Stokes and university leadership “drop all charges against student and community protesters and support student’s rights to activism and free speech.”
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What of the mental health of, safe spaces for, and allowing the voices of Jewish, pro-American, and pro-Israel folk to be heard?
Why is it only the barbarians inside the gates that are defended?
If you’re on the side of rapists, and kidnappers of children, you’re on the wrong side. Shame on UNM and New Mexico.
I remember a time when rape, murder, and kidnapping were frowned upon. Y’know, as a general rule. Even in a faculty lounge.
Allie Beth Stuckey has written a book TOXIC EMPATHY — I think that this is the sort of thing that she writes about. It’s suicidal.
UNM needs somebody like Christopher Rufo or Ben Sasse. It’ll never happen, I realize.
This won’t end well.
It’s hard to ignore the thought, “How much money did the university receive from Qatar etc?”
“We demand all charges be dropped”
“No. What are you going to do about it”
“Not sure. We thought that would work”