Universities only care about the 'academic freedom' to be anti-Semitic, writes ZacharyFaria.
that George Washington University professor Lara Sheehi singled out Jewish students in the classroom. After students complained to the administration, Sheehi reportedly retaliated against them, disparaging them to other faculty members. Sheehi’s course contained antisemitic coursework and lectures. She invited a guest speaker who claimed that Israel tests missiles on Palestinian children.
. It is also a mandatory “diversity” course that these students were forced to take at George Washington University. A George Washington University spokeswoman said that the university"strongly condemns antisemitism and hatred" but"also recognizes and supports academic freedom." But the university apparently was not even a passive party here. According to the, “the Jewish students were told faculty had voted to discipline them but were not made aware of their specific offenses” and would receive a “permanent negative mark” on their records if they repeat the undescribed offenses.
In case you are keeping track of what constitutes “academic freedom” at universities in recent weeks, being openly antisemitic and building an antisemitic course is considered academic freedom. Showing a class two paintings of the Prophet Muhammad is hateful and aOne of the many amazing things about these incidents is how they reveal the profound rot in academia. 25 years ago this nutcase would have been wearing a sandwich board outside the AIPAC conference; today she's a professor at GW.
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