{"id":1106696,"date":"2021-12-10T16:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106696"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:14:10","slug":"overwhelming-number-of-diversity-officers-at-us-colleges-hold-anti-israel-views-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/overwhelming-number-of-diversity-officers-at-us-colleges-hold-anti-israel-views-study-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming Number of Diversity Officers at US Colleges Hold Anti-Israel Views, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foverwhelming-number-of-diversity-officers-at-us-colleges-hold-anti-israel-views-study-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.264406779661\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/\">Campus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Findings come as anti-Semitic attacks on students have skyrocketed in recent years<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-736x464.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1536x967.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-2048x1290.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-452665810-1400x882.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tA pro-Palestinian protest sign (Adam Berry \/ AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 December 10, 2021 4:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"133.88078958977\">\n<p>An overwhelming number of diversity, equity, and inclusion officers at American universities, who are ostensibly hired to create a welcoming space on campus, use social media to bash Israel and Jews, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers reviewed the Twitter feeds of 741 diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) officials at 65 different U.S. universities to determine their attitudes on Israel and, for purposes of comparison, China. They found that DEI staff &#8220;tweeted, retweeted, or liked almost three times as many tweets about Israel as tweets about China.&#8221; Of the tweets in question, 96 percent were critical of Israel, and 62 percent of the China-centered tweets were favorable. &#8220;The overwhelming pattern is that DEI staff at universities pay a disproportionately high amount of attention to Israel and nearly always attack Israel,&#8221; the study concludes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/education\/report\/inclusion-delusion-the-antisemitism-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-staff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, <em>Inclusion Delusion: The Antisemitism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff at Universities<\/em>, was released this week by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based think tank, and provides one of the first evidence-based looks into the anti-Israel attitudes of campus diversity, equity, and inclusion officials. The average U.S. college employs 45 DEI officials, and that number is growing as schools seek to combat hatred on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Greene, one of the study&#8217;s authors, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>&nbsp;that his findings indicate that DEI staff are acting as political activists, rather than combating bias and creating a safe space for all college students as their job dictates. &#8220;We have documented, established the fact, that DEI staff are overwhelmingly hostile to Israel in a way that clearly shows anti-Semitic motivations,&#8221; Greene said.<\/p>\n<p>The findings come as anti-Semitic attacks on students have skyrocketed in recent years, putting the pro-Israel community on edge. There were at least 244 documented anti-Semitic incidents during the 2020-2021 school year, compared with 181 during the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>After compiling the Twitter feeds of the 741 DEI officials, researchers found 605 tweets that bash Israel and just 28 that praise the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1546455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM.png\" alt width=\"1590\" height=\"1020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM.png 1590w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-300x192.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-1024x657.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-768x493.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-1536x985.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-1400x898.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-736x472.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-10-at-1.34.32-PM-700x450.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1590px) 100vw, 1590px\" \/>&nbsp;<\/strong>In one case, a Multicultural Student Center staffer wrote, &#8220;Condemn the Apartheid State of Israel for their Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian.&#8221; One tweet from an assistant director of an Office for Institutional Equity and Diversity said, &#8220;No apology for a pro apartheid Zionist organization holding a reception? I guess there&#8217;s no justice for Queer Palestinians here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report withholds the identities of these individuals but quotes a litany of similar tweets that bash Israel and employ anti-Semitic language. Jews, in many cases, are accused of committing &#8220;genocide&#8221; and &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; against the Palestinians. One DEI official working for Graduate School Diversity Programs liked a tweet that stated, &#8220;Y&#8217;all love to add the word liberal in front of the most evil things and it&#8217;s unhingedddd. Wtf is a liberal Zionist? What&#8217;s next? Liberal Nazi? Liberal colonizer? Liberal murderer? Liberal imperialist? Liberal fascist?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greene\u2014who authored the report along with James D. Paul, research director at the Educational Freedom Institute\u2014said the hostility toward Israel and Jews is a product of a radical liberal ideology in which all issues are viewed through the lens of &#8220;oppressor and oppressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That ideology is one that the world can be divided into oppressor and oppressed. Then, it&#8217;s a question of which groups belong in the \u2018oppressor&#8217; category and which belong in the \u2018oppressed,'&#8221; Greene explained. &#8220;They believe the \u2018oppressors&#8217; deserve the harsh treatment they receive and the \u2018oppressed&#8217; deserve the assistance they can offer.&#8221; Jews, he added, &#8220;inevitably get put into the \u2018oppressor&#8217; group and once they&#8217;re put into that group it justifies the harsh treatment they receive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greene and his coauthor recommend that American universities undertake a wholesale reevaluation of DEI staff given the data that indicate these school officials are not living up to their job requirements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truly achieving diversity, especially ideological diversity, and helping all students feel included requires a dramatic change in how universities approach DEI. Existing staff need to be dramatically reduced, and the remaining DEI infrastructure needs to be reoriented toward serving the true purposes of diversity and inclusion,&#8221; the study concludes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus Findings come as anti-Semitic attacks on students have skyrocketed in recent years  A pro-Palestinian protest sign (Adam Berry \/ AFP via Getty Images) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}