Pro-Israel Event at U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Reported to Bias Team 50 Times
This event “normal[izes] Israeli policies of apartheid and military occupation.”
This is a perfect example of why bias teams shouldn’t even exist. The left abuses them to enforce their views.
The College Fix reports:
‘Dangerous’ pro-Israel event reported 50 times to U. Illinois bias team: public records
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign affiliates reported Young Americans for Freedom to the bias team around 50 times for hosting conservative commentator Elisha Krauss, according to public records obtained by The College Fix.
The Fix recently obtained Bias Assessment and Response Team reports via a public records request with the university. The reports, numbering around 200, cover the fall 2023 semester.
A staffer reported the YAF chapter to the bias team for its event called “Gaza Hates Gays & Gals” event with Krauss on Nov. 28, 2023. Most of the reports do not list the affiliation of the reporter.
The report said the event name “is racism and xenophobia at its peak” and is “discrimination” because it implies “people of Gaza and from Gaza hate women and people of the LGBTQIA+ community.”
The event “dangerously ‘pink-washes’ the ongoing genocide in Gaza and takes a hateful stance against the Palestinian people.”
“‘Pink-washing aims to focus on Palestinian homophobia, marking Palestinians as ‘less civilized,’” the staff member wrote. It also “normal[izes] Israeli policies of apartheid and military occupation.”
“Pink washing subsequently highlights the Zionist agenda to erase Palestinians altogether, as they are not representing Palestinians as a multi-dimensional society with a just struggle for freedom,” the report states.
Submitted complaints described Krauss as “racist and homophobic,” “hateful,” and a “known bigot.”
Some reports encouraged the university to “stand against the racist, homophobic sentiments promoted on campus.”
Others said the event was “anti-Arab.” Most put the desired action to be taken by the university in response to their complaint as “other,” indicating none of the available actions were considered enough. Some complaints described the event as “dangerous.”
Krauss, in emailed comments to The College Fix, said her event discussed the “horrors” of the October 8, 2023 terrorist attack on Israeli civilians by Hamas.
She said the reports reveal “that the Left and higher education has ‘won’ the narrative because they have made words equal to physical violence and the people who speak words others might disagree with as an assault.”
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More importantly this is why Red State Legislatures should be proactive in regulation of education.
We could all say what we want, without influence these bias teams will continue to exist and continue to be enforcers of the left.
Other ways to have influence is to ban foreign governments and their proxies from contributing money goods or services to American institutions of higher education to give American donors influence they frankly lost to Qatar and China.
As of right now most of Gen Z is socialist, and the same will apply to Gen Alpha if nothing is done.
Bias teams are BS but the problem here isn’t the bias team it is the peopke making reports to the bias team including school staffers. Those people should be fired.
“I’m telling mommy on you!”
More like “punch/no punch back.”