{"id":1433867,"date":"2023-10-22T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1433867"},"modified":"2023-10-22T02:10:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T06:10:00","slug":"university-of-california-professor-threatens-pro-israel-journalists-and-their-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/university-of-california-professor-threatens-pro-israel-journalists-and-their-families\/1433867\/","title":{"rendered":"University Of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists And Their Families"},"content":{"rendered":"

University Of California Professor Threatens Pro-Israel Journalists And Their Families<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

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The University of California at Davis is embroiled in a controversy involving one of its faculty threatening \u201czionist journalists\u201d in a violent tirade on X<\/strong>. UC Davis Professor (and undergraduate adviser) Jemma Decristo<\/strong> posted the screed on October 10th referencing the homes and family of those who support Israel as possible targets. The university is investigating the matter, but Decristo\u2019s embrace of violence is nothing new for faculty around the country. For years, faculty members have engaged in violent rhetoric directed toward conservatives and Republicans with little response from universities.<\/p>\n

\nDecristo wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cone group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation<\/strong> \u2026 they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the bottom, you can see a knife emoji, an ax emoji, and three red drops of blood after saying \u201cthey should fear us more.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That strikes me as a rather direct and obvious threat.<\/p>\n

Decristo is an assistant professor of American Studies at the public school with a \u201cfocus \u2026 on the interplay between sound, race, gender and embodiment.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0statement<\/a>, a UC Davis spokesperson said campus leaders \u201creject all forms of violence and discrimination, as they are antithetical to the values of our university.<\/strong> We strive to foster a climate of equity and justice built on mutual understanding and respect for all members of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The University of California system has a long history of violence and violent rhetoric from the left.<\/p>\n

At the University of California, Santa Barbara,\u00a0feminist studies associate professor Mireille Miller-Young physically assaulted pro-life advocates and tore down their display.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

She pleaded guilty to criminal assault, but the university refused to fire her. Instead, some faculty and students defended her, including claiming that pro-life displays constitute terrorism. The University of Oregon later\u00a0honored Miller-Young as a model for women advocates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Around the country, faculty routinely use violent rhetoric with little push back in the media or on campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have discussed professors advocating \u201cdetonating white people<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0denouncing police<\/a>,\u00a0calling for Republicans to suffer<\/a>,\u00a0strangling police officers,\u00a0celebrating the death of conservatives<\/a>,\u00a0calling for the killing of Trump supporters<\/a>, supporting the\u00a0murder of conservative protesters,\u00a0and other outrageous statements.<\/p>\n

University of Rhode Island professor\u00a0Erik Loomis\u00a0<\/a>defended the murder of a conservative protester and said he saw\u00a0\u201cnothing wrong\u201d with such acts of violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the most recent violent professors was Hunter College Professor Shellyne Rodr\u00edguez who was only fired after being arrested for holding a machete to the neck of a New York Post reporter and threatened to \u201cchop you up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, she was not fired after she destroyed the pro-life display of a group of students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since her machete attack, Rodr\u00edguez has now been hired by Cooper Union<\/a> to teach its students.<\/p>\n

These faculty members have long been part of the radical chic of academia<\/a>, including a professor recently at Cornell expressing his \u201cexhilaration\u201d after watching the Hamas attack on Israel.<\/p>\n

The response to conservatives accused of racist or insensitive comments has been quite different. We discussed<\/a>\u00a0how St. Joseph\u2019s University refused to renew a contract for a professor who actually prevailed in such a free speech fight.<\/strong> A conservative North Carolina professor\u00a0\u00a0faced calls for termination over controversial tweets and was pushed to retire<\/a>. Dr. Mike Adams, a professor of sociology and criminology, had long been a lightning rod of controversy.\u00a0In 2014, we discussed his prevailing in a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0that alleged discrimination due to his conservative views.\u00a0 He was then targeted again after an inflammatory tweet calling North Carolina a \u201cslave state.\u201d\u00a0 That led to his being pressured to resign with a settlement. He then\u00a0committed suicide<\/a>\u00a0 just days before his last day as a professor.<\/p>\n

For years, conservative and Republican faculty and students have been subjected to such violent acts or rhetoric with little support from most faculty or the media. Indeed, figures like Jennifer Rubin and Laurence Tribe recently came under fire<\/a> for their comments after the massacre despite years of such attacks and false claims directed at the right.<\/p>\n

Universities are now facing pressure from donors to address such violent rhetoric. I continue to oppose any form of censorship<\/a> for faculty or students. However, the real problem is the academic echo chamber created from decades of bias in hiring and promotion. That is unlikely to change the lack of viewpoint diversity on faculties or the purging of conservative or libertarian professors. There is no evidence that universities are prepared to take real action to address the hostile environment for many on our campuses in espousing dissenting views or values.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/21\/2023 – 22:10<\/span><\/p>\n

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