George Washington University Professor Accused of Anti-Semitism Says Zionism Is a Mental Illness

Lara Sheehi believes that Israeli Jews are the most successful. ‘violence embedded’ Lara Sheehi, a professor at George Washington University, is included in them. / Twitter

George Washington University’s clinical psychologist professor teaches Zionism is a mental illness. He claims that Jews have committed Zionism. “violence” They are against every Palestinian they meet.

Lara Sheehi is the professor in the middle of students’ discrimination complaint filed She has a history of making antisemitic statements about the university in lectures, publications, interviews, and on social media. As an assistant professor in the school’s Professional Psychology Program, she refuses to acknowledge Her Jewish students are taught by her that Israel’s existence is not a problem. inflict “violence.”

Sheehi also accuses Zionists having A “settler psychosis” They must be identified. “liberated” To interact with “indigenous” people.

“You’re a settler interacting with indigenous people, there’s violence embedded in that no matter what, no matter how good you are,” Sheehi claimed that in the past year a podcast interview. “Settlers, liberate yourself from your ideology.”

Sheehi didn’t respond to our request for comment. George Washington University referred Washington Free Beacon Its statement last week, which condemned anti-Semitism while defending academic freedom, can be found here.

According to the report, Jewish students complained that Sheehi harassed and discriminated against them in a diversity course she taught last year. a complaint Filed last week with Department of Education.

“It’s not your fault you were born in Israel,” She reportedly told one student at the beginning of class.

Sheehi declared all Israelis “fucking racist” And she said that she wants to “destroy Zionism” Follow us on Twitter. She has deleted Her account since the Title VI complaint had been filed.

Roz Rothstein (cofounder and CEO of Stand With Us), told the Washington Free Beacon that Sheehi’s “personal politics” Should not “cross the line into discriminatory conduct targeting students based on their identities.”

Rothstein says college administrators “too often” fail to “recognize the clear difference between a professor expressing her personal political views, which academic freedom does protect, and identity-based discriminatory and retaliatory conduct, which it absolutely does not.”

Sheehi is the president-elect for the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. This division of the American Psychological Association. Stephen Sheehi, her husband, is a member of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. He chairs the College of William & Mary’s Middle East Studies section.