{"id":1842660,"date":"2023-02-10T16:49:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1842660"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T21:49:51","slug":"hundreds-of-academics-urge-george-washington-university-to-suspend-anti-semitic-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-of-academics-urge-george-washington-university-to-suspend-anti-semitic-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Academics Urge George Washington University To Suspend Anti-Semitic Professor"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhundreds-of-academics-urge-george-washington-university-to-suspend-anti-semitic-professor%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=1842660&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-->\n<\/p>\n<p>Lara Sheehi claims that a &#8216;right-wing cabal&#8217; made &#8216;baseless\u2019 claims against her George Washington University professor Lara Sheehi. \/ Twitter    <\/p>\n<p>Over 500 academics have called for George Washington University&#8217;s suspension of a professor who called all Israelis &#8220;racist,&#8221; It would be argued. &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221; Jewish students are forced to attend her class.<\/p>\n<p>The academics,\u00a0not all of whom are Jewish or Zionist, say the university should not force &#8220;Jewish and Israeli students to take a course&#8221; with psychology professor\u00a0Lara Sheehi. Lara Sheehi, psychology professor, online remarks &#8220;rife with profanity and hateful rhetoric against Zionism and Israelis,&#8221; According to the group consisting of mental health specialists and university professors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This letter follows allegations made by Sheehi&#8217;s Jewish student in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GWU-Title-VI-Complaint-Final-Press.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal civil rights complaint<\/a> They claimed that the professor had discriminated against them in a compulsory diversity course, and then retaliated when confronted about her anti-Semitic remarks. The academics claimed that the Jewish students&#8217; claims are false. &#8220;quite plausible&#8221; In light of Sheehi\u2019s public remarks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine the scandal that would erupt if a group of students from another background\u2014Black students, Muslim students, or LGBT students\u2014alleged that their professor excluded and shamed them based on their religion, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation in a required course on diversity,&#8221; The academics wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd2FcNESdBBEXNz3s_NDHJiFJSMidQ_rqzm9FBRYD6ihu_evg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an open letter<\/a> Last week, to the university. &#8220;The calls for such a professor&#8217;s resignation or removal would be swift and severe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George Washington University taps a &#8220;third party&#8221; The federal complaint against Sheehi was filed shortly after Sheehi&#8217;s allegations were made. Sheehi was immediately investigated. The university did not respond when we asked for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sheehi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blackflaghag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Deleted<\/a> her Twitter account following a Washington Free Beacon report on the complaint, as well as other comments she has made, including accusing Zionists of having a mental illness and\u00a0that\u00a0Jewish people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/george-washington-university-professor-accused-of-anti-semitism-says-zionism-is-a-mental-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/george-washington-university-professor-accused-of-anti-semitism-says-zionism-is-a-mental-illness\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1676149891956000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1RTMAsTwUtMsJ1MykFMff3\">They can cause severe injury.<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;violence&#8221; By their mere presence.\u00a0She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/03\/on-targeting-an-arab-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Her own response was published<\/a> Last week, the allegations were made that a large number of people had been involved in an illegal drug deal. &#8220;right-wing&#8221; Campaign by the Free Beacon and other groups to defame professors, like her &#8220;who critically engage settler-colonialism, white supremacy, anti-blackness, gender (especially trans issues), sexuality, disability, reproductive rights.&#8221; She also attacked StandWithUs anti-Semitism watchdog, which assisted in filing the complaint. &#8220;baseless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been targeted specifically because I am an Arab woman whose scholarship and activism advocates for Palestinians and, in the process, critiques Israeli settler-colonial Apartheid,&#8221; Sheehi said. Sheehi didn&#8217;t respond to a request.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 500 academics are calling for George Washington University to suspend a professor who has called all Israelis &#8220;racist,&#8221; arguing it would be &#8220;highly inappropriate&#8221; to force Jewish students to take her class.<br \/>\nThe post Hundreds of Academics Urge George Washington University To Suspend Anti-Semitic Professor appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1810250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[11937,5977,5811,3627,4269,6134,4861,4927,4086],"class_list":["post-1842660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-academics","tag-anti-semitic","tag-george","tag-hundreds","tag-professor","tag-suspend","tag-university","tag-urge","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842660","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}