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56 professors at the University of Southern California are speaking out against their colleagues in the Gender Studies Department who endorsed an anti-Semitic statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Jewish students and anyone who supports the right of the State of Israel to exist and are enrolled in one of the endorsing department's classes might now expect, quite reasonably, that they are not welcome as peers and that their academic careers will be harmed because of their beliefs or identity," the August 8 letter reads. The letter elaborates to claim that the department’s actions feed into the growing marginalization of Jewish students on USC’s campus. The offending statement, "Gender Studies Departments In Solidarity With Palestinian Feminist Collective," is signed by multiple gender studies departments across the country....Last year, several of the 56 faculty members signed another letter condemning vicious personal attacks against an undergraduate student named Rose Ritch, who claimed she felt pushed into resigning her position as the vice president of the Undergraduate Student Government because of her support for Israel's right to exist. "In her heartbreaking resignation letter, Rose described the intense pressure and toxic conditions that led to her decision –specifically the anti-Semitic attacks on her character and the online harassment she endured because of her Jewish and Zionist identities," USC President Carol L. Folt wrote to the USC community.
Somewhat surprising. I thought being anti-Israel/pro-Palestinians was required in academia.
