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Editor’s note: Since the barbaric Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7th, American universities have become an undeniable locus of Jew hatred within our nation. Much attention has deservedly been paid to the radical campus groups like Students for Justice in Palestine who call for the genocide of the Jews and cheer the terrorists of Hamas. What has received less attention—but should in fact rank as the universities’ worst offense—is the Jew hatred promoted by official departments and institutes of the universities themselves. In the case of our campuses, Jew hatred is “the call coming from inside the house.”
The Freedom Center is exposing these academic institutes and programs as “The Top Ten Jew-Hating Academic Departments” in a new report. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. The Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota is #5 on our list.
Just a glance at the website for the University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies reveals it to be a highly politicized unit of the wider university, dedicated to progressive activism. The site declares that “As a place where research, education, and social change go hand in hand, GWSS identifies, analyzes, and challenges structural inequalities, while imagining and creating just and transformative futures for all.” Instead of searching for truth and knowledge, the Department openly acknowledges that its vision includes “social change,” “challeng[ing] structural inequalities,” and “creating just and transformative futures for all.”
So it should come as no surprise, that like much of the progressive left, the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (DGWSS) is a vile fount of Jew-hatred on the University of Minnesota campus.
Just six days after the brutal and barbaric Hamas attack on Israel, in which innocent civilians were brutalized and raped, parents killed in front of children, children killed in front of parents, bodies gleefully mutilated by terrorists on camera, DGWSS released a “Faculty Statement on Palestine” in which they described the massacre as “Hamas fighters” (not terrorists) who “brought down border fences.” The statement went on to demonize Israel and its defensive response to the worst attack in its history as “not self-defense but the continuation of a genocidal war against Gaza and against Palestinian freedom, self-determination, and life.” The statement declared “We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and with Palestinian scholars and organizers.” DGWSS might as well have said, “We stand with Hamas.”
The statement goes on to make clear that the Department stands for Palestine, and only Palestine. “We strongly reject the media coverage that condemns ‘both sides,’ or seeks to tell a one-sided story of an unprovoked terrorist attack,” it states. “Israeli leaders are wielding a violent power that subjugates the Palestinian people and constructs them as dehumanized terrorists, upon whom any bloodshed can be meted out.”
Ironically, the Department even claims that its glorification of Hamas “fighters,” who raped and brutalized innocent Israeli women en mass, is a stance for feminism. “As scholars and solidarity workers who seek justice everywhere, we respond to the call of Palestinian feminists and Palestinian freedom fighters for transnational solidarity and assert that Palestine is a feminist issue,” claims the statement. “None of us will be free unless the Palestinian people are free and Palestinian land is liberated.”
Unsurprisingly, the statement goes on to “reaffirm support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement,” a genocidal attempt to isolate and destroy the world’s only Jewish state.
At the very end of the lengthy diatribe against Israel, one sentence appears to apparently mediate the clear tension created by an academic department putting forth such a horrific and anti-Semitic tirade: “This statement reflects our individual views and we do not purport to speak for the University.” This caveat is obviously a lie. Individual professors in the department could have put out a statement under their own auspices and promoted it on their personal social media accounts. Instead, DGWSS chose to place it prominently on the official department webpage of the University of Minnesota website, where it remains several months later, amended only by a brief note, added on November 20th, 2023, which states, in part, “This statement was written collectively by the tenured core faculty of the Department of Gender Women and Sexuality Studies. This statement does not reflect the position of the University of Minnesota.” That legalistic note seems unlikely to reassure Jewish and Israeli students who are forced to take classes within the Department.
Largely in response to the DGWSS statement, the U.S. Department of Education is now conducting an investigation into whether the University of Minesota has violated federal anti-discrimination law due to anti-Semitism on campus.
The investigation was prompted by a letter sent to federal officials by former University of Minnesota regent Michael Hsu and law professor Richard Painter who argued, according to MPR News, that the DGWSS statement “is antisemitic because it condemns Israel while ‘justifying the terrorist attacks by Hamas.’”
“This is not about being pro-Palestinian,” Painter told MPR News. “This is about official statements of departments on websites paid for by the Minnesota taxpayers that justify the actions of Hamas.”
For its politicized use of official university resources to promote anti-Semitism and glorify Hamas, the University of Minnesota Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies belongs on the list of the worst Jew-hating academic departments in America.
Previous articles in series:
[1] ‘Jew-Hating’ Asian American Studies Program Exposed at Northwestern University.
[2] UIUC’s Department of Latino Studies Endorses ‘Jew Hatred’.
[3] U. Maryland Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Case Study in ‘Jew Hatred’.
[4] University of Colorado-Boulder Ethnic Studies Department: Shilling for Hamas.
[5] UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies: Celebrating October 7th.
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.” — Zuheir Mohsen, PLO official, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
We got rid of 2 outa four!
Save BILLION$ by getting rid, banning, all classes and degrees with STUDIES in the title.
All used to recruit and radicalize the young and naive with the ultimate goal… to turn them into Democrats.
Many students are alone, and they want to feel accepted, they then meet other students in the first week of Welcome Back Days when student organizations set up tables with info to seek new members.
They want to live their dream, their parent’s dream, of getting a degree that promises of a successful life, to buy a home, to start a family…. THEN… ALL DREAMS turn into a NIGHTMARE when they change their degree to a Studies degree.
I was on tour and spent a week at a Pennsylvania college with only four-thousand students. On the Student Union window used for posters and flyers, there were ELEVEN PROFESSORS ADVERTISING FOR STUDENTS… IN WOMEN STUDIES! ELEVEN??? Then I noticed in the music department, all female partners except for one male/female couple. Same around campus. The males didn’t have female or male partners that I noticed. Also, the women were very overweight and even obese.
NOW THEY’RE TURNING THEM INTO RAGING PSYCHOTICS, SO WHAT ARE THESE PROFESSORS TELLING THEM?
Women’s Studies, Black Studies, Tranny Studies, Dead Non-Binary Poet’s Studies, blah, blah blah. They could all be named “Woke” Studies” and save money on signs and ink.
And “Studies” Studies. Time to defund the Uni’s. Even Stanford, which has the Hoover think tank with its brilliant scholars and people of letters, the Uni itself is rotten to the core, paid for by us. Defund, and the Uni’s can’t adhere to the government narrative and propaganda. I attended a Jr. College in the 1980’s. Graduated out of a top University in the 1990’s. It was starting to happen even back then. But I prevailed and got through it. The students today are not as resilient, and its far worse now., But history repeats itself. I am noticing a lot of young people in their 20’s and 30’s whom I met when we acted as delegates at our State Convention. Super conservative, and smart.-a glimmer of hope for us all..
No student not enrolled in a Bachelor of Science curricula should be ineligible for any and all federal student loans.
Bachelor of Arts degrees are a dime a dozen and are of little to no value to employers; barely more than a high school degree.
During the 1930s Minneapolis was considered the most antisemitic city in the United States. It was so Jew hating that the local AAA automobile club and Kiwanis clubs (a serice organization) barred Jews.
So little has changed. The main differences are that many of the avowed antisemites in the land of 10,000 lakes are Muslims, have blue hair and are of indeterminate sex, and they think they’re “progressive” and make half-assed attempts to disguise their Jew hating as “Anti-Zionism”.
A studies department that hates dem Joos? I’m shocked! Shocked, I say. Yeah, surprised every university in the country doesn’t have a “We Hate Jews Studies Department.”
Higher education has become lower education. Best to encourage our young people to learn useful trades.
Time to totally cut off all Fianacial support of leftists run Campuses by 100%
They have been richly endowed by the Gulf States and other muslim countries for decades, hence the current situation. Incidentally, it is thanks to this golden manna from the Middle East – and the favors derived from it – that Barak Obama, who otherwise hadn’t a chance of ever enter it, was accepted at Harvard.
Extract from “Why We Fight” by Guillaume Faye
“Neo-primitivism – The present process of observable cultural involution toward primitive mass behaviour, a weakening of the cultural memory, and the advent of social savagery.
The signs of this new primitivism are multiple: the rise of illiteracy in the schools, the explosion of drug use, the Afro-Americanisation of popular music, the collapse of social codes, the decline of general culture, knowledge, and historical memory among the young, the dissolution of contemporary art into a brutal, vacuous nihilism, the mass coarsening and de-culturation fostered by audio/visual media (the ‘cathodic religion’), the increase of criminality and uncivil behaviour, the decline of civic duty, the accelerated crumbling of social norms and collective disciplines, the deterioration of the language, etc.”
“… we respond to the call of Palestinian feminists …”
Hmm.
All these so called “studies departments” should be eliminated. They contribute nothing to society. In fact they do the opposite. They turn out radicalized, brainwashed students who are filled with hate. These students are not prepared for any career except for joining the faculties of these so called “studies departments” Unfortunately most of their graduates end up in human resource departments where they use their power to intimidate, indoctrinate and terrorize employees who actually produce results for the company. These graduates produce nothing and contribute nothing. All DEI officers in the U.S. should be terminated and barred from any white collar employment. . Not one dollar of tax payer money should be used prop up these factories of hate and radicalism.
I think the term Islamomarxist jihadi is better. These fascists are not nationalists as the Nazis were.
We have to name our enemy to defeat it. Right words matter because they pinpoint reality.
You will get on your knees, and you will suck my dick.
Come on! I don’t have all day!
a-a-a-a-a-lllahahahaha’s snackbar!!!!
Do you go for that mohammed the pig-faced dog? He likes to f*** the donkeys. Sulaiman Ahmad is the donkey.