American universities may have found one academic freedom they actually support: the academic freedom to be an antisemite.
A Title VI discrimination complaint
alleges
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.
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That all sounds bad, but it is actually much more ridiculous than it sounds. This was all in a psychology course. 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 Washington Free Beacon, “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 a
fireable
offense. That is the current state of higher education.
One 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.
— Noah Pollak (@NoahPollak) January 13, 2023
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Academic freedom no longer applies at most universities now, as that freedom allows professors to question or
criticize
the prevailing progressive dogma to which these universities adhere. But antisemitism has become a
normal and accepted
feature of these universities, as far-Left faculty and student leaders peddle antisemitic lies. It is the only acceptable form of “academic freedom” universities allow now.
Antisemitism runs deep in universities’ rotten culture. Just as we have seen with cancel-culture liberals moving from university protests to workplace protests, this will bleed into the rest of society as well unless people who actually oppose discrimination and hate stand up and address it.
