The University of Pennsylvania acted swiftly to clean
house amid the backlash their president, Liz Magill, brought upon the
school, delivering a heinous response on antisemitism in front of the
House Committee on Education and the Workforce last week. When asked by
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) if calling for Jewish genocide constituted
harassment and bullying, Magill offered a detached and cold response
that didn’t answer the question. In short, she wouldn’t give a clear
answer, merely saying that such incidents should be viewed in context.
The academic route blew up in her face, where she made it seem as if
UPenn enabled the views that support genocide against Jews. Harvard
President Claudine Gay and MIT head Sally Kornbluth gave similar
answers. UPenn’s board of trustees met immediately following this
disastrous hearing and recommended Magill's resignation. She submitted
it formally on Saturday, but we might have found a school that’s just as
bad, if not worse, than UPenn on this issue. Meet the faculty panel at
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, who
might as well be staffers for the al-Shifa medical facility in Gaza,
the nerve center of Hamas’ operations in the region. They said Hamas
terrorists have the right to resistance (via NY Post):
George
Washington University’s medical school hosted a faculty panel last week
that declared Hamas terrorists have a “right of resistance” against
Israel, according to video footage exclusively obtained by The Post.
The
Dec. 4 discussion was titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and
Palestine” and was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health
Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East
Studies.
Panelists referred to the Jewish state’s military
operation in the Gaza Strip as “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide,” while
failing to discuss atrocities Hamas committed in its Oct. 7 attack
against southern Israel, its designation as a foreign terrorist
organization or that it is still holding more than 100 Israeli and US
civilians hostage.
“Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I
also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right
of resistance,” Michael Barnett, a professor of international affairs
and political science, said during the panel.
“All of us have
been shaken by the events of Oct. 7,” added Shira Robinson, a professor
of history and international affairs. “But we all recognize that those
events have a history.”
[…]
Several concerned students and
faculty tried to ask questions about the panel’s presentation but were
ignored — with some also berated by anonymous users in the chat box
during the Zoom meeting.
Jewish students at the medical school
were particularly appalled by the panel discussion and told The Post
that it had only contributed to the spread of antisemitism on campus
that has exploded in the wake of Hamas’ terror attack.
Diversity
and Inclusion Dean Yolanda Haywood apologized to the medical school
community after the panel, but her statement on the fallout from the
discussion neither mentioned Jewish students nor denounced
antisemitism.
[…]
Jewish students who spoke with The Post
stressed that the statement was part of a pattern of “generic corporate
apologies” by administrators who have not “taken any actionable steps to
make their Jewish students feel safe on campus.”
“Being a
medical student at GW now has made me feel alone and scared for the
future of health care,” one said. “I am astonished how a medical school
and its students, who dedicate their careers to preserving life, have
been silent since Oct. 7.”
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Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel did expose how American
antisemitic, pro-terrorist acolytes have infested academia, college
campuses, and newsrooms. It’s not a total shock. We’ve seen former
editors and reporters, namely Bari Weiss, formerly of The New York
Times, flee their jobs due to the virulent antisemitism that percolated
the halls. Antisemitism has always been around, but this has been a Mt.
St. Helens-like explosion over the past few weeks. It’s not just
students, but as you can tell from above, medical professionals,
therapists, lawyers, and other professionals openly supporting Hamas on
social media. Colleges are factories that are creating more
antisemites—we’re seeing the fruits of that labor right now.
At
least UPenn forced its Jewish genocide-enabling president to resign,
which, tragically, might be the only time where one of these academic
clowns are held accountable for their terrible positions on the
subject.
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