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Friday, October 13, 2023

Liberal Hypocrisy: Stanford Instructor Suspended For Making Jewish Students Feel Bad

Reason reports that "[a]n instructor at Stanford University has been suspended for what the president and provost called 'identity-based targeting' of students in connection with the Israel-Gaza war." 

    Rabbi Dov Greenberg, director of the Chabad Stanford Jewish Center, said he was told by three students who were in the room that the instructor asked Jewish and Israeli students to identify themselves during a session for a required undergraduate course called "Civil, Liberal and Global Education."

    The teacher told the Jewish students to take their belongings, stand in a corner, and said, "This is what Israel does to the Palestinians," Greenberg said, citing the student accounts. The instructor then asked, "How many people died in the Holocaust?" When a student answered, "Six million," the lecturer said, "Colonizers killed more than 6 million. Israel is a colonizer."

I wonder where the instructor might have gotten the idea that his or her stunt would go unpunished?

Of course, when I was in junior high and high school, it was de jour, when teaching about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, to take a group of white students and cram them together under a table so they would get an idea of how confined blacks were on the slave ships. And who, from that same period, can forget the film of a white school teacher that segregated her elementary age students by eye-color to teach them about racism. That was okay as well. 

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