{"id":2169920,"date":"2024-02-07T05:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-lee-praises-carnegie-mellon-professor-who-likened-israel-to-nazi-germany\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T05:48:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:48:14","slug":"summer-lee-praises-carnegie-mellon-professor-who-likened-israel-to-nazi-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-lee-praises-carnegie-mellon-professor-who-likened-israel-to-nazi-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Lee commends Carnegie Mellon professor for drawing parallels between Israel and Nazi Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fsummer-lee-praises-carnegie-mellon-professor-who-likened-israel-to-nazi-germany%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=2169920&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--><h2>&#8216;Big news!&#8217; Pennsylvania congresswoman celebrates promotion of antiracist\u2062 professor Uju Anya to tenured\u200c professor<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Uju Anya (L) and Summer Lee (C) (@UjuAnya\/Twitter)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pennsylvania\u200d congresswoman Summer Lee,\u200c who \u200bis\u200c facing a \u200dprimary challenge\u2062 driven by \u200bher hostility toward Israel, praised a Carnegie Mellon University\u2063 professor who \u200bhas compared\u2064 the Jewish state to Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Lee took to \u2064social\u200b media to congratulate Uju Anya, \u2063a\u200b self-described &#8220;antiracist feminist&#8221; who teaches \u2063language at the Pittsburgh\u2062 college,\u200d for\u200c securing tenure. Anya \u200dhas\u2062 emerged as\u2062 an outspoken critic of Israel following Hamas&#8217;s Oct.\u2064 7 attack, routinely accusing the Jewish \u200dstate of &#8220;genocide&#8221; and &#8220;ethnic cleansing.&#8221; In\u200b a Nov. 6 post, Anya even compared Israel&#8217;s retaliatory war on Hamas\u2062 to &#8220;the Nazi campaign\u200b to exterminate Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jewish lawyer \u200cRaphael Lemkin coined the term genocide in 1943\u200d to describe the Nazi campaign to exterminate \u2062Jews,&#8221; Anya wrote. &#8220;Genocide describes, for example, \u2064the mass \u2064slaughter of\u200b 3 million\u200c Biafrans\u2063 in Nigeria. Genocide also describes what the state \u200cof Israel is doing to people \u200bof Palestine.&#8221; Anya\u2063 went\u200c on to\u200b argue that Israeli citizens and &#8220;Jewish people around \u2062the\u2064 world&#8221; are \u2063uniting in \u2062opposition to the\u2064 war on Hamas\u2014more than 80 percent\u2063 of\u200d American Jews support the war, according to a\u200d December poll, while 88 percent of Jewish Israelis approve of \u2062the Israeli military&#8217;s performance since Oct. \u20627.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s\u2064 support for Anya\u2014her Thursday post\u2063 lauded the professor&#8217;s tenure announcement as &#8220;Big news!&#8221;\u2014comes as the congresswoman navigates\u2062 a \u2063difficult primary race\u2064 against a Democratic \u2062challenger, Bhavini Patel, who has attacked Lee&#8217;s anti-Israel views.<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big news! Congratulations to \u200bDr. Anya and a Happy\u2064 Black History Month to us all! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D3qmzPVdE3\">https:\/\/t.co\/D3qmzPVdE3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Summer Lee (@SummerForPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SummerForPA\/status\/1753154519431627076?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1,\u2062 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lee, a \u2064member\u2062 of the left-wing &#8220;Squad&#8221; \u2064who was elected in\u2062 2022 with support from the \u2062Democratic\u200b Socialists of \u200dAmerica, was\u200c one of just\u2064 nine Democrats to vote against a bipartisan resolution &#8220;standing with Israel\u200b as it\u2064 defends itself against the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israel-war-rashida-tlaib-among-democrats-who-voted-against-israel-support-resolution\/\" title=\"Rashida Tlaib, along with other Democrats, opposed resolution supporting Israel in war.\">barbaric war launched<\/a>\u200b by Hamas and other terrorists.&#8221; Lee, like Anya, has also accused Israel of conducting\u2063 &#8220;a genocide of \u200dinnocent \u200dGazans, half \u200cof them children.&#8221; In October, she falsely accused\u2064 Israel of bombing a Gazan \u200bhospital, which she called\u200b &#8220;reprehensible and a war crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s vote and anti-Israel rhetoric prompted criticism from Rabbi Seth Adelson \u200dof Pittsburgh&#8217;s Congregation\u200b Beth Shalom, who said he was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; Lee was not &#8220;more proactive&#8221; in supporting her district&#8217;s Jewish community. Forty Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh similarly \u2063skewered Lee\u2064 in\u2064 a November letter, which called on the congresswoman to &#8220;exercise better \u2062leadership and join her colleagues in upholding the moral obligation \u2063for Israel to \u2064protect its citizens against Hamas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Patel, a Pittsburgh-area borough councilwoman, has also attacked Lee&#8217;s anti-Israel stance, which she says &#8220;keeps coming up&#8221; in conversations with voters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Something \u200bthat keeps coming up in my conversations is\u2064 that congresswoman Lee continues to equivocate,&#8221;\u2062 Patel told the <em>New \u200dYork Times<\/em> in \u200cOctober. &#8220;We&#8217;re responding to something that is evil\u2014the murder, rape,\u200d kidnapping of children, men, women, \u2063and grandparents. There\u2064 shouldn&#8217;t \u2062be any equivocation on \u2064this.&#8221; Patel went on to accuse Lee\u2063 of stoking\u200c &#8220;hatred and anti-Semitism&#8221; \u200cin a\u200b fiery candidate\u2064 forum held last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2014whose district includes the Tree of Life synagogue, the site of the \u200dnation&#8217;s deadliest\u200b anti-Semitic \u2063attack\u2014did not return a request for comment, while\u2062 Anya \u200bdeclined to answer questions about her relationship with Lee. &#8220;F\u2014 you,&#8221; the professor wrote in an email to the\u2064 <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anya publicly supported \u2062Lee&#8217;s 2022 campaign, and Lee took a photo with Anya at a campaign event held shortly after her\u200d election. \u2062Carnegie\u200d Mellon \u2064later issued a statement celebrating Lee&#8217;s\u2062 &#8220;historic swearing-in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElectionDay?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElectionDay<\/a> and\u2062 I\u2019m so\u2064 excited to vote for \u200d*TWO* Black women progressives. Summer Lee for US Congress and La\u2019Tasha\u2062 D. Mayes for Pennsylvania\u2064 State Representative. Bonus joy: \u2064La\u2019Tasha \u2064is an\u200c out lesbian who \u200bran on reproductive justice! \u2063Taking my\u200b children with me to\u2062 the polls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CV0f7jyReu\">pic.twitter.com\/CV0f7jyReu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Uju Anya (@UjuAnya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UjuAnya\/status\/1589993056497176583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never had a US representative so closely aligned with our progressive values,&#8221; Anya said in December 2022.\u2064 &#8220;Excited for Summer Lee&#8217;s leadership and plans to move \u2064Pennsylvania and our Congressional District 12 forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How has Congresswoman Lee&#8217;s support for Uju Anya&#8217;s promotion sparked controversy?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Big news! Pennsylvania congresswoman Summer Lee recently celebrated the promotion of Uju \u2063Anya,\u200d an antiracist \u2062professor, to tenured professor \u2064at Carnegie Mellon University. However, this announcement has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-state-department-is-putting-brazilian-trans-activists-in-english-classes\/\" title=\"Brazilian trans activists are receiving English classes from Biden's State Department.\">sparked controversy due<\/a> to\u2063 Anya&#8217;s outspoken \u200dcriticism of Israel and comparison of the country to Nazi \u2063Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Anya, who describes herself as an &#8220;antiracist feminist,&#8221; has been \u200bteaching language at the Pittsburgh college and\u200c has gained attention for her views on Israel.\u200c Following Hamas&#8217;s attack in October, \u2062Anya has accused the Jewish state of &#8220;genocide&#8221; and &#8220;ethnic cleansing.&#8221; In a social media post, she even compared \u2064Israel&#8217;s retaliatory war on Hamas \u2063to the Nazi campaign to exterminate\u200d Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Anya&#8217;s \u2064comparison has drawn criticism from many who argue that it is inappropriate and minimizes\u2062 the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. \u200cJewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin,\u200d who coined the term genocide, used it to describe the Nazi campaign against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy surrounding Anya&#8217;s views, Congresswoman Lee took to social media\u200c to congratulate her on securing tenure. Lee&#8217;s support for Anya comes at a crucial time, as she faces a difficult primary race\u200b against Democratic candidate Bhavini Patel. Patel has attacked Lee&#8217;s anti-Israel views, further adding fuel to the\u200b controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Congresswoman Lee, a member of the left-wing\u2064 \u201cSquad\u201d and elected with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America, has been vocal about\u2064 her opposition to Israel. She was one of just nine\u2063 Democrats who voted against a bipartisan resolution that expressed support for Israel as it\u2063 defended itself against Hamas and \u2064other terrorists. Lee has accused Israel of conducting a genocide of \u2062innocent Gazans, including children, and falsely claimed that Israel bombed a Gaza hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Lee&#8217;s anti-Israel rhetoric and \u2063voting record have drawn criticism from Jewish community leaders in her district. Rabbi Seth Adelson of Pittsburgh&#8217;s Congregation Beth Shalom expressed disappointment\u200c in Lee&#8217;s lack of support for the Jewish community, urging her to be more proactive. Forty Jewish leaders\u200c in \u200cPittsburgh also penned a letter calling on Lee to exercise better leadership and recognize Israel&#8217;s moral\u200d obligation to protect its citizens against \u200cHamas.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/possible-gop-challenger-to-ohio-sen-sherrod-brown-endorses-trumps-2024-run\/\" title=\"GOP challenger to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown backs Trump's 2024 bid.\">primary race heats<\/a> up, the celebration of Anya&#8217;s promotion by Congresswoman Lee has further highlighted the ongoing debate surrounding Israel and its treatment of Palestinians. While freedom of speech and the encouragement of diverse opinions \u2063are important, it is crucial to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cia-director-slanders-pro-2a-christian-american-patriots-as-no-different-from-hamas-terrorists\/\" title=\"Former CIA Director equates pro-Second Amendment Christian American Patriots with Hamas terrorists\">approach sensitive topics<\/a> with empathy and historical accuracy. The promotion of \u200bprofessors who\u2063 perpetuate controversial views can lead to a divisive academic environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-pro-lgbt-legislation-seeks-to-overturn-same-sex-marriage-ban-in-3-states\/\" title=\"New legislation aims to reverse same-sex marriage ban in 3 states, supporting LGBT rights.\">requiring careful consideration<\/a> by educational institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania congresswoman, Summer Lee, celebrates the promotion of Uju Anya, an antiracist professor, to tenured status. 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