Will NY Times Support Jewish Prof Persecuted for Opposing BDS the Way it Supported Prof Who Called for Murder of Israelis?

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Somehow I don’t think the New York Times will start clamoring about academic freedom in this case the way that it did for mass murder enthusiast Steven Salaita.

In those tweets, as RealClearPolitics editor Carl Cannon explains, “Salaita reveals himself to be a foul-mouthed fanatic whose antipathy for Israel is so thorough that he calls for the country’s destruction, fantasizes about the mass murder of Jewish settlers [and] blames Jews themselves for anti-Semitism … .”

Ever nasty, Salaita also suggested that a pro-Israel reporter’s story “should have ended at the pointy end of a shiv.”

The New York Times and multiple other media outlets came to the defense of Salaita’s mass murder fantasies. But in this case I think they will go on playing the silent game.

After all it’s a Jewish professor being persecuted for being pro-Israel.

Anastasia Coleman, Fordham’s Director of Institutional Equity and Compliance, and its Title IX Coordinator, wanted to meet with me. “It has been alleged,” she wrote, “that you may have acted in an inappropriate way and possibly discriminated against another person at the University.”…

It was this stand that led Fordham’s Title IX officer to launch the proceedings. During an emotional meeting convened to discuss the appropriate response to the measure, I stated that should Fordham’s program fail to distance itself from the boycott, I will resign from the program and fight against it until it took a firm stand against bigotry. The program’s director, Michelle McGee, in turn filed a complaint against me with the Title IX office, charging that I threatened to destroy the program. (As if I could? And what does this have to do with Title IX?) This spurious complaint (the meeting’s minutes demonstrated that I did not make such a threat) ushered me into a bruising summer that taught me much about my colleagues, the university, and the price I must be willing to pay for taking on the rising tide of anti-Zionism on American campuses.

Coleman never asked to meet me, and I assumed that the attempt to muzzle my opposition to the boycott died down. In late July, however, I received Coleman’s report in which she cleared me of the charge of religious discrimination. It was the first time that I learned what I was actually accused of doing, so I’m still not sure how opposing anti-Semitism amounts to religious discrimination…

It was a sobering summer. I have had to defend my reputation against baseless, ever-evolving charges, ranging from sex discrimination to religious discrimination. I went through a Kafkaesque process in which I was never told exactly what I supposedly did wrong, nor was I ever shown anything in writing. Eventually I learned that the charge was religious discrimination born of my opposition to anti-Semitism. The implication is that anti-Semitism needs to be tolerated at Fordham, and that those who dare to fight it run afoul of university rules.

BDSers love to play victim even as they engage in constant and ruthless aggression. It’s academic freedom when they lose a job that they didn’t have for spewing hate on Twitter. But it’s safe spaces when they want to muzzle Jewish professors on campus.

  • Gee

    They learned from the Arabs, whom commit rape, robbery, ethnic cleansing and genocide and whine how it all started when the Jews shoot back

  • Samuel

    He wasn’t persecuted for supporting Israel, he was persecuted for threatening another professor. We don’t know whether he did it not, but he seems like a dangerous man.

    • mjsmart

      If you consider anyone who champions integrity and truth dangerous, if you believe those who exercise their First Amendment rights dangerous, and if you consider anyone who speaks out against injustice dangerous, then yeah, he’s dangerous. And God bless him for it.

      “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
      Because I was not a Socialist.

      Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
      Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

      Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
      Because I was not a Jew.

      Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

      • Breaker Morant

        When do they come for Obama?

      • herb benty

        Sadly, that’s exactly how commies do things and Obama is a commie.

    • herb benty

      A good man stands up to academic racism and, “he” is dangerous? He said he would fight the program, moron.

  • Samuel

    Sorry, I meant he was dangerous for physically threatening the woman. Again, we don’t know the details, but she was scared enough to report the incident.

    • Larry Larkin

      Nah, it was micro-aggression because he didn’t become a doormat and let himself be walked on by the nuffnuff anti-semites.

    • herb benty

      She was scared for her cushy job. Pinko.

  • herb benty

    Jealousy, the GREEN monster! Jews hold more Nobel Prizes than any other people, you’ld think the world, especially academia, would celebrate Israel and the Jewish people. I am beginning to see why that twit said “religious discrimination”. A Jew, or a Christian, just by existing, is an affront to atheistic socialists. Jews and Christians are a constant reminder to the godless that their IS a God.

  • Reuven

    I read The NY Times, but never pay for it. I either read it in the library or in a coffee shop that lets me read it for free. Boycott the anti-Semitic NY Times. Everyone knows that the rag won’t support this courageous Jewish professor!

  • N Owens

    Lovely title! Obviously, you have neither read the tweets nor understood the context in which they occurred. Awesome job! Keep going!

    Now, I have to ask: are you secretly jealous of the professor who failed you in freshman rhetoric?