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Mark Crispin Miller

<a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Mark_Crispin_Miller">Dr. Mark Crispin Miller</a>, a professor at New York University warned that President Bush was spreading propaganda in order to form a theocracy in the United States. He also compared Bush to Hitler, saying “All the major war-drives in modern history&#8230; in Germany, in the Soviet Union, and in the Middle East &#8212; have been impelled by people who believed that they were at risk, that they were being persecuted, that they faced annihilation. Hitler actually believed that &#8216;world Jewry&#8217; threatened Germany, and that his bloody enterprise was a means of self-defense against the Jews. We know all too well that al-Qaeda&#8217;s people universally regard the Jews and Christians as plotting to wipe out Islam. And the Christo-fascist types now in control of the United States believe that they&#8217;re the victims of non-Christians.&#8221;

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<a href="https://med.nyu.edu/faculty/arthur-l-caplan">Arthur Caplan</a> is the Dr. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University (NYU) and Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU.

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As <a href="http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6690">reported</a> by Campus Reform, Caplan compares Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to the rise of Adolf Hitler.

In the weeks following Donald Trump’s <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-announces-2016-presidential-campaign-make-country/story?id=31799741">announcement</a> that he would seek the 2016 Republican nomination, Caplan writes in <a href="https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/commentary-the-danger-of-laughing-at-donald-trump/">Poynter, </a> a non-profit journalism and research center, that news organizations must hold Trump and the Republican party accountable “for the damage [Trump] does.” Caplan characterizes Trump’s views as racist and legitimizing of those American citizens who fear changing demographics.

While acknowledging that he views Trump’s chances as winning the nomination for the presidency unlikely, Kaplan draws parallels between Trump's campaign and the unexpected rise of Hitler in Germany.

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Caplan further states in the same article that Trump is dangerous and that his speech is a classic ploy to generate fear and sow divisiveness.  Caplan urges journalists to treat more seriously the “danger” that Trump poses. Caplan accuses Trump of characterizing Mexicans as being criminals, rapists, and carrying diseases. Caplan says that these characterizations are similar to the rhetorical tactics used by the Nazi party against the Jews.

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Despite his comparisons of Trump to Hitler, Caplan <a href="http://www.bioethics.net/2005/07/misusing-the-nazi-analogy/">argued</a> against the use of Nazi analogies to describe other people or political movements. In an article for bioethics.net, Caplan <a href="http://www.bioethics.net/2005/07/misusing-the-nazi-analogy/">states</a> that often those who draw analogies in arguments to Nazis, “do not know what they are talking about.”

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In the same article, Kaplan states that it is “ethically incumbent” on those who use these analogies to understand the history behind the Nazis, and not to diminish the horror of their atrocities. Kaplan describes the “cavalier” use of these analogies as “unethical.”

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Updated, Spring 2021

<a href="http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Mark_Crispin_Miller">Dr. Mark Crispin Miller</a>, a professor at New York University warned that President Bush was spreading propaganda in order to form a theocracy in the United States. He also compared Bush to Hitler, saying “All the major war-drives in modern history... in Germany, in the Soviet Union, and in the Middle East -- have been impelled by people who believed that they were at risk, that they were being persecuted, that they faced annihilation. Hitler actually believed that 'world Jewry' threatened Germany, and that his bloody enterprise was a means of self-defense against the Jews. We know all too well that al-Qaeda's people universally regard the Jews and Christians as plotting to wipe out Islam. And the Christo-fascist types now in control of the United States believe that they're the victims of non-Christians."

<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ulrich-c-baer.html">Dr. Ulrich Baer</a> is a Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He wrote an editorial in the New York Times supporting the suppression of free speech on college campuses. He claimed "The idea of freedom of speech does not mean a blanket permission to say anything anybody thinks. It means balancing the inherent value of a given view with the obligation to ensure that other members of a given community can participate in discourse as fully recognized members of that community."

As of January 25, 2024, Husain has been <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/january/statement-by-nyu-spokesperson-john-beckman-regarding-amin-husain.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> by NYU for remarks made about Zionism and Hamas during a teach-in arranged by Students for Justice in Palestine. A shortened video of the talk can be viewed in a report compiled by <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a>. 

During the lecture, which took place at The New School, Husain made several controversial statements about the Israel and Palestine conflict. Mentioning other locations that are friendly to Palestinians, the professor suggested such is not the case in a “Zionist city” like New York. He also said he embraced the “Anti-Semitic” epithet that had been attached to him by the <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Amin_Husain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canary Mission</a> for his views on the Palestinian resistance efforts towards Israel:
“I have a petition going around, right, because I’m antisemitic. I won the honors of antisemitic multiple times.”
During the teach-in, Husain explained his solution for those who “don’t like Hamas” and justified the political and military motives of the various Palestinian resistance groups. The professor stated,
 “If you don’t like Hamas.. free the land and the people. But if you don’t like Hamas, also read their <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-2017-document-full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charter</a> in 2017… These groups are fighting for the liberation of their people and their land. That’s a right. You do it.”
In October 2023, a Change.org <a href="https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-dismissal-of-nyu-professor-amin-hussain-for-promoting-hate-speech">petition</a> was put in place by NYU alumni calling for Husain’s dismissal from the university.

Husain said he participated in the First Intifada riots in Palestine in 1987. <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/nyu-prof-tells-students-hamas-atrocities-untrueu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Free Press</a> noted “At a Times Square rally in 2016, [Husain] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lhMCj4ESw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>, ‘Living 18 years in Palestine, I was fighting in the first uprising, I was throwing rocks, Molotov cocktails, the like.’”

Concerning the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023, Husain denied that any Israeli citizens were raped or beheaded. He alleges such events to be lies put forth by the media:
“Don’t take what the media says. It’s really important… Because these kind of questions try to put you on the defensive. They try to say. . .‘Oh my God, you’re supporting rapists and people that behead babies,’ both of which, you know… we know it’s not true.”
 As of the publication Husain has yet to comment on his suspension or the statements that prompted it.
Updated - January 31, 2024
<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/amh20.html">Amin Husain</a> is a part-time faculty member at New York University and the Pratt Institute. According to the university’s website, Husain’s work focuses on “resistance and liberation, movement generated theory and practice.”

Husain is also confounded and directs the NYC-based activist group, “<a href="https://decolonizethisplace.org/">Decolonize This Place</a>” (DTP).  According to their website, DTP events center around “Indigenous Struggle, Black Liberation, Free Palestine, Global Wage Workers, and De-Gentrification.”

Husain and DTP are known for their extreme rhetoric and aggressive confrontations with law enforcement. Husain and DTP utilize ANTIFA style-tactics during protests. The <a href="https://decolonizethisplace.org/">homepage</a> of DTP regularly features videos of burning police vehicles.

Prior to the Museum of Natural History’s decision to remove their statue of Theodore Roosevelt, Husain joined a chorus of activists demanding that the statue be removed. DTP itself <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c5e0c57d86cc9226827c754/t/5ee7ad184833d0007a2078fd/1592241433767/How+To+Take+Down+A+Monument_Poster.jpg">posted</a> a detailed graphic with instructions on toppling statues.

In January, DTP posted the following graphic for an upcoming <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14391">protest</a> against the NYP. The damage from the protests led by Husain resulted in 13 arrests and over $100,000 in <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/15/nyu-professor-founded-anarchist-group-that-attacked-subways-last-month/">damages</a> to the NYC subway system.

As a member of NYC Solidarity With Palestine, Husain is known for using his position to entwine his anti-police and anti-Israel views. Husain projected his radicalism at the June “No To Annexation” rally, hosted by the anti-Israel group <a href="https://www.wolpalestine.com/about">Within Our Lifetimes</a>. Husain can be seen telling the crowd that police "are our enemy" in a video captured by the Middle-East watchdog the <a href="https://www.memri.org/tv/no-to-annexation-anti-israel-rally-abolish-police-israel-american-government-death-to-america">Middle East Research Institute</a>.

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At an Al-Quds Day rally in 2016, Husain spoke <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1lhMCj4ESw&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=325">glowingly</a> of Islamic Jihadists.

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In a piece for <a href="https://theconversation.com/trumps-promotion-of-an-image-of-strength-after-assassination-attempt-borrows-from-authoritarian-playbook-235038" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a>, Ben-Ghiat wrote about the personal and sociopolitical effect of the July 13 assassination attempt on President-Donald Trump. She compared the assassination attempt with attempts made on fascist leaders in the 20th century:

“The effects of the assassination attempt on Trump are so far in line with authoritarian history. Chief among its aftereffects is a boost to Trump’s victimhood persona.” 

Ben-Ghiat continued on the same subject:
“[W]ith each failed attempt, the personality cult themes about the leader’s macho toughness, resilience and invincibility gain credence among his followers. This was certainly the case with Castro and Mussolini, and it has been the case so far with former President Donald Trump.”
The professor further claims that Trump wearing a bandage to cover his gunshot wound is a gesture similar to that of Benito Mussolini, who wore a large bandage on his nose after he was almost assassinated. 

According to Ben-Ghiat, these attempts-–including the one on Trump—have been used throughout history to justify authoritarianism:

“The assassination attempt on Trump may be used as justification for these measures, just as other attacks have been used by other authoritarians in history.”

Ben-Ghiat claims the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, were a “self-coup” by former President Donald Trump that influenced other similar alleged “coups” throughout the world. In a July 2024 blog <a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/autocrats-like-trump-and-maduro-want" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Ben-Ghiat wrote the following:

“Although Trump’s ‘self-coup’ failed (the term used for attempts by incumbents to stay in power illegally), it was influential abroad, inspiring Jair Bolsonaro’s failed Jan. 8, 2023 Brazilian insurrection. Having had a coup that led to a decades-long dictatorship, the Brazilians took the danger of propagating electoral fraud seriously, convicting Bolsonaro for it and banning him from politics until 2030.”  

The professor then drew connections between Chinese head of state Xi Jinping and President-elect Donald Trump:

“When Trump <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/184076/trumps-alarming-new-rant-praising-dictators-shows-media-failing-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praises</a> Chinese head of state Xi Jinping for his ability to rule ‘with an iron fist,’ he is praising a situation in which opposition parties don’t exist, which makes elections moot and ‘simplifies’ political life.”

At the conclusion of her post, Ben-Ghiat claimed President-electTrumps' goal is to do away with elections altogether:

“The endgame of MAGA election denial is not challenging this or that election, but convincing Americans that elections as a practice are unnecessary. Trump would be delighted to relieve us of the ‘burden; of voting, just like Mussolini did for Italians a century ago.”

Around the same time as the publication of The Conversation piece, Ben-Ghiat did an interview with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/13/ruth-ben-ghiat-strongmen-book-authoritarian-playbook">The Guardian</a> titled “Rule of the lawless: what does the authoritarian playbook look like?”

In the interview, Ben-Ghiat claimed that President-elect Trump will greatly benefit from the U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf">ruling</a> in favor of presidents having broad immunity from criminal prosecution. She also stated that Trump ran for president only to escape legal issues:

“Trump is part of the category of authoritarians who run for office, to get back into office, because they have charges against them, and they must get into power so they can make their legal problems go away. Regular politicians don’t want to run for office if they have indictments or charges, but the strongman must run for office because he must make himself feel safe from prosecution… Authoritarianism is about replacing the rule of law with rule by the lawless…”

In another interview in June with <a href="https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-authoritarian-leaders-dismantle-democracy-trump-orban-netanyahu-meloni-by-ruth-ben-ghiat-2024-06-1-2024-06?h=zqERgfHOrWvhXfSv10C5SHJXn2IpYOHBijyEtez%2fd0M%3d&amp;]" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Syndicate</a>, Ben-Ghiat focused on Trump’s alleged tyrannical goal regarding presidential immunity: 

“I have no doubt that Trump would try to exert dictatorial power so that he could end his legal troubles and repress his critics and investigators without consequences.”

“Now add Trump’s quest to achieve personal immunity for any crimes he will commit, his efforts to attract more unscrupulous cronies by promising pardons, and his vow to grant police officers immunity from prosecution. It becomes easy to see how the rule of law would be transformed into rule by the lawless, with Trump as chief thug.”

Please send tips and updates on Ruth Ben-Ghiat to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ruth-ben-ghiat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat</a> is a Professor of Italian and History at <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York University</a>. Her <a href="https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/ruth-ben-ghiat.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">professional biography lists her as an expert on fascism, authoritarianism, war, propaganda, and Donald Trump.</a> She is the author of the book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Strongmen-Mussolini-Present-Ruth-Ben-Ghiat/dp/1324001542" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strongman: From Mussolini to the Present</a>,” and frequently makes appearances on CNN and MSNBC.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat frequently criticizes conservatives, characterizing them as violent and an outright threat to democracy. She additionally alleges that supporters of the second-amendment birthed a culture that directly resulted in the January 6th “insurrection.”

In an article for CNN—titled, “Parental control is a smokescreen tactic for right-wing activists”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/14/opinions/parental-control-smoke-screen-right-wing-activists-ben-ghiat/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounces parents who object to COVID-19 restrictions in schools</a>.

She is referring to <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/orange-county-parents-protest-vaccine-mandates-at-school-board-meeting/ar-AAPZFid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation-wide protests occurring at county and district school boards</a>. Peaking during the Fall 2021 semester, parents with <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/education/2021/11/03/virginia-parents-democrats-crt-transgender-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school-age children are vocally objecting to mandatory masking, COVID-19 vaccinations, and curriculum containing elements of critical race theory.</a> The epicenter of protests against county school boards stemmed from Loudon County, which saw Board Members <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/loudoun-county-parents-demand-resignations-over-sexual-assault/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly participate in a cover-up of a sexual assault in a local high school.</a>

Users can learn more about <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/loudoncountypublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudon County and other school boards by visiting TPUSA’s School Board Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat describes these parents as elements of the “authoritarian culture” that is eroding democracy. She specifically cites their opposition to mandatory masking and vaccination of children, alleging it stems from a “Q-Anon” belief.

She states that “anti-vaccine militants” and “white-christian evangelicals” are using “parental rights” as a smokescreen to abolish private education. She decries parents allegedly “censoring” books that would teach children about the “centrality of racism and slavery” to this country’s founding. She further criticizes calls for parental control in education, describing it as the installation of “authoritarian culture” in towns and local school boards.

In a separate article for the Washington Post—titled,”<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/26/gun-violence-authoritarianism-normalization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">America’s Gun Culture is Priming Us for Authoritarianism</a>,”—Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges the Capitol Riots are the inevitable result of an armed citizenry.

She is referring to the incident surrounding January 6, 2021 at the Capital <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election</a>, some violently so. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.</a>”

Dr. Ben-Ghiat alleges that general access to lethal weapons enables “mass death” and a “democratic decline” in America. She bizarrely connects the January 6th “insurrection” to civilian ownership of firearms, alleging the later enables “mass death” and desensitizes others to human life.

Dr. Ben-Ghiat further alleges that gun owners are willing to harm others in exchange for their freedoms, alleging that no loss of life seems to deter them:

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She then connects gun ownership to a rise of fascism in America, alleging that dictators controlled masses through a climate of fear and mass death. She states that gun owners are using this same formula to encourage “fundamentalist and cult ideologies'':

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<a href="https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&amp;personid=47170" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deborah Archer</a> is a Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequity, and the law at NYU School of Law. Courses taught by Archer include the titles “Race and Inequality Colloquium”, “Civil Rights Clinic Seminar”, and “Critical Race Theory Seminar.” The <a href="https://its.law.nyu.edu/courses/description.cfm?id=29639" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for CRT Seminary</a> says,

“This seminar explores Critical Race Theory, a movement that examines the relationship among race, racism, and the U.S. legal system and the role of law in constructing and upholding racial hierarchy…We will also consider the theoretical promises of CRT, its application to the law, and its practical and theoretical limitations in addressing contemporary legal issues.”

In 2020, Archer published “<a href="https://cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-wp0/wp-content/uploads/sites/278/2020/10/19130728/White-Mens-Roads-Through-Black-Mens-Homes-Advancing-Racial-Equity-Through-Highway-Reconstruction.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Men’s Road Through Black Men’s Homes”: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction</a>” in the Vanderbilt Law Review. The paper discusses segregated public transportation in the United States prior to Civil Rights reform. Archer’s introduction says,

“The passage of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act or the Interstate Highway Act, buoyed both highway construction and the destruction of Black communities. Often under the guise of ‘slum removal,’ federal and state officials' purposes targeted Black communities to make a way for massive highway projects.”

She continued,

“In other communities, the highway spared Black homes but became a permanent racial barrier between white and Black neighborhoods, further entrenching racial segregation and walling off economic opportunities.”

Archer’s efforts and research to end racial segregation continue through the Center on Race, Inequity, and the Law. The Center published a video titled “The Enduring Problem of School Segregation” in which civil rights activists and lawmakers are interviewed regarding the progress of integration in the American education systems.

Archer celebrated a long-awaited victory in Tennessee by posting the following Tweet:
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It’s ridiculous that we have to fight for and celebrate this in 2022, yet here we are. <a href="https://t.co/mJnNb4iUzv">https://t.co/mJnNb4iUzv</a>
— Deborah Archer (@DeborahNArcher) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeborahNArcher/status/1590445275940032512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/srl3.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sarah Leonard</a> is a part-time faculty member at the New York University - Gallatin. Her interests include feminism, history of technology, and cultural criticism. Her university profile says she “works at the intersection of old and new left-wing publications in New York City…Her writing about feminism, work, and technology has been widely published.”

Leonard teaches “<a href="https://gallatin.nyu.edu/academics/courses/2022/SP/pract-ug1460_001.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PRACT-UG1460</a>: The Politics of New Media: How the Internet Works and for Whom.” The course description says,

“We will examine surveillance historically and theoretically, with a focus on the role of emerging technologies. We will work our way up to the early anonymous days of the internet, the rise of social media platforms, and finally the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=edward+snowden&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1026US1026&amp;ei=gpWHY_LJMtDekPIPnIe3oAQ&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjyku7Iudb7AhVQL0QIHZzDDUQQ4dUDCBA&amp;uact=5&amp;oq=edward+snowden&amp;gs_lcp=Cgxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAQAzIHCC4QsQMQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIFCAAQgAQyBAgAEEMyBwgAELEDEEMyBQgAEIAEOgoIABBHENYEELADOgQILhBDOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCC4QsQMQgwEQ1AI6DgguELEDEIMBEMcBENEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToICAAQsQMQgwE6CAguEIAEELEDOgUILhCABDoLCC4QgAQQsQMQgwE6CAgAEIAEELEDOgsILhCABBCxAxDUAkoECEEYAEoECEYYAFDCDViYHmCVIGgCcAF4AYABdYgBqgiSAQQxMi4ymAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz-serp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snowden</a> revelations, the Trump administration and an understanding of the internet…”

Leonard <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Future_We_Want/7IYpAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authored a book</a> titled “The Future We Want: Radical Solutions for the 21st Century”. In the introduction, she writes,

“The most grotesque feature of the 2016 election is the razor-thin spectrum of solutions proposed by the front runners to a historic set of problems…no viable candidate [offered] any hope for a radically more equal society: the policies on offer would merely mitigate the dire inequality that has been growing since Reagan…The United States is now, in effect, an oligarchy.”

In the chapter Sex Class, she says, 

“Gender currently divides the working class — women’s struggles are often pushed aside as if they are not half the population — but it shouldn’t be central to our struggle, an asset…The first step toward gender justice would require a reexamination of the nuclear family.”

After the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Leonard — who serves as the editor-in-chief for Lux Magazine — published an opinion editorial titled “<a href="https://lux-magazine.com/article/the-next-abortion-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Next Abortion Strategy</a>.” In the opening paragraph, she writes,

“Some part of me laughs as these conservatives grasping for control over women when somewhere, right now, a pregnant person is self-managing an abortion and a hundred Brett Kavanaughs can’t stop it. We’ve always had abortions and we will tomorrow and the next day.”

Leonard was featured in <a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/nyu-hosts-panel-on-sexual-reproductive-justice-featuring-professor-who-defended-violence-against-pro-life-centers-and-universitys-associate-director-of-sexua/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article from Young America’s Foundation</a> (YAF) after she appeared as a panel member for New York University’s discussion “Sexual &amp; Reproductive Justice.” YAF identified Leonard as a “[defender of] the actions of violent abortion activists following the landmark Dobbs victor in the Supreme Court..”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/danielle-elleman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Elleman</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work, Supervisor of the Bellevue Hospital Victim Services Program, and the Associate Director of New York University’s Center for Sexual and Relationship Respect Services. 

Elleman is a co-host of the Center’s podcast <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/students/health-and-wellness/services/healthy-living/good-sex-at-nyu.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Sex @ NYU</a>, where guests join her to discuss sexually explicit topics and answer general questions from students on campus. The podcast homepage — which describes the show as “sometimes serious, sometimes funny, always sex-positive” — says,

“We aim to destigmatize conversations around sex and relationships while providing practical information to NYU students and our community. From stories of pleasure to compassionate insights, you’ll hear NYU community members discuss how they feel about their sexual journey, helpful information on the stigma around sex, education, and so much more!”

In October 2022, Elleman was a participant in NYU’s Student Government Association panel discussion on “Reproductive and Sexual Justice.” The session was closed to the general public but the description on Instagram says the event was held “to spread awareness about advocacy motives and initiatives on campus and beyond.”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://www.sps.nyu.edu/homepage/academics/faculty-directory/19002-gabrielle-n-simpson.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gabrilelle Gambrell</a> is “an Adjunct Instructor in Marketing and Public Relations at New York University (NYU). According to her university profile, she “teaches graduate-level courses in integrated marketing, digital and social media, media relations, corporate communications and more.”

In a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzjy8qMUNi4">program</a> for the Dr. Phil Show, Gambrell was consulted for her opinions on censorship and the effect of “offensive” tweets on a person’s job. 

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Responding to Dr. Phil’s question about the censorship of “hate speech,” Gambrell stated: 

“I am extremely in favor of the First Amendment…but we have seen things that happen when social media is not censored…where there’s negativity there should be censorship.” She cited what she deemed were instances of racist, homophobic, and other types of “nasty” behavior recorded on social media posts, but gave no examples.

Gambrell believes that, “In certain instances where [a social media post is] harmful, in certain instances where it can hurt people, where there’s negative intent, there should be censorship.” 

The NYU professor — who formerly held jobs in U.S. media — went on to say she feels satisfaction when users of hate speech lose their jobs because of what they posted on social media:
“In some instances where I see viral videos where someone is clearly racist or homophobic or anything nasty and then the video goes viral, they lose their job, I’m like ‘score’ because that person does not deserve to have this title which can impact certain communities, they need to work on themselves.”
Gambrell’s <a href="https://www.giftofgabrielle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> states that she is “a champion for diversity, equity and inclusion,” which are also problems she seeks to solve through “e​​xecutive, corporate and brand consulting services.”
Published - January 30, 2023

<a href="https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/isabella-hammad.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isabella Hammad</a> is an Artist in Residence at New York University. She is also an author and novelist. 

In an interview with <a href="https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2021/summer/always-more-place-conversation-about-palestine-isabella-hammad-keija-parssinen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Literature Today</a>, Hammad discussed her book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parisian-Isabella-Hammad/dp/0802129439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Parisian</a>.” While discussing her novel’s protagonist “Midhat,” Hammad claims that Western individualism cannot apply to those who are not European or American:
“You could say that Midhat initially embraces a model of Western individualism, which he then realizes doesn’t apply to him, because the model of the Western individual is only available to the white European or American.”
She proceeds to discuss one of her purposes in writing the novel:
“So if it serves an educational purpose in enlightening some readers who, for example, might have fallen victim to the idea that before the state of Israel was created, Palestine was “a land without a people,” then I’ll be happy about that. But I think that in order for such a thing to happen effectively, the book has to succeed as a novel on its own terms, and it must convince the reader aesthetically and emotionally.” 
To close the interview, Hammad addressed her desire for the Palestine/Israel conflict:
“I don’t want to talk about hope—but I can talk about dreaming and desire. What do I desire? No more house demolitions, no more separation wall, no more administrative detention, no more withholding Palestinian corpses, no more separate roads for Palestinians and Israelis, no more deliberately complicated bureaucratic procedures, no more making the act of staying where you live an exhausting act of resistance, no more arms deals with America, no more testing out weapons and surveillance technology on Palestinians, no more ideology that perceives Palestinians as a demographic threat, no more ‘mowing the lawn’ in Gaza, no more night raids, no more stealing water and selling it back, no more siege, no more killing unarmed civilians, no more checkpoints, no more, no more.”
She continued:
“It’s easy to say what you don’t want and harder to say what you do. Let’s start with this: civil and political rights for everyone on the land. My dream is that one day Palestine will no longer be a cause, it will just be a place, where some of us happen to be from, and we could fly into the airport without being interrogated and drive over to Nablus for lunch and then go further up to Akka and swim in the sea . . .”
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> was hosted at the University of Pennsylvania in September 2023, at which Hammad was a <a href="https://palestinewrites.org/participants-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participant</a> speaker and presenter.

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/upenn-hosting-antisemitic-literature-festival-featuring-speakers-who-said-death-to-israel-donned-nazi-outfit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports that the festival featured “speakers who have made ‘antisemitic’ comments, including ‘Death to Israel,’ and someone who has worn a Nazi-style uniform.”
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/chenjerai-kumanyika/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chenjerai Kumanyika</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. According to his faculty profile, “Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing.”

RACE IDEOLOGY

During his time as a professor at Rutgers University, Kumanyika was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-journalism-prof-claims-language-matters-compares-death-cult-gop-fecal-matter/16410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Rutgers journalism prof claims ‘language matters,’ then compares ‘death cult’ GOP to ‘fecal matter.’” The source said, “In February [2020], [Kumanyika] appeared at an event with Boston University for Anti-Racist Research Director Ibram Kendi in which he declared that ‘language matters.’”

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Kumanyika called conservatives “fecal matter” on social media and told his “liberal friends” to “call out” and “organize against” the Biden-Harris administration if they tried to work with opposition leaders. 
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You don't have to wait and "work with them" for two years as Republicans work to shit out something even more putrid in 2022. <a href="https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx">https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx</a>
— Chenjerai Kumanyika (@catchatweetdown) <a href="https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1331002330284765186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a 2020 Resilience article called “Seeing White: Chenjerai’s Challenge,” Kumanyika provides a transcript of a podcast where he asked the host <a href="https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/john-biewen-joins-kenan-institute-for-ethics-as-director-of-storytelling-and-public-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Biewen</a>, “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Kumanyika also posed questions such as, “[W]hen was whiteness good? It’s kind of like, when was America great?” Later in the episode, he told Biewen:

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Send tips, updates, and information on Chenjerai Kumanyika to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Tess Winkelmann

Professor Tess Winkelmann is an Assistant Professor of U.S Foreign Relations at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Winkelmann made headlines after a video surfaced of the professor openly blaming President Trump for the horrible massacre that occurred in Las Vegas just a few days before. In the video, Winkelmann can be heard saying, &#8220;When he got elected, I told my classes three semesters ago, some of us won&#8217;t be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die. Other people will die because of this.&#8221; The school has yet to take any action, and Winkelmann has yet to issue a statement on the matter.

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University of Nevada - Las Vegas

<a href="https://www.unlv.edu/people/michael-green">Dr. Michael Green</a> is a Professor of History at UNLV. He said that Trump was "a syphilitic Nazi" in a Facebook discussion with a former student. In an editorial about Republicans, he also made many misleading statements about Cabinet nominees, describing them as "a health secretary who opposes health, a secretary of state who may love Vladimir Putin even more than his president, a housing and urban development secretary who thinks his department is a movie that starred Paul Newman, and an education secretary who hates public education and those who work in it, but thinks school is a good place for kids to learn to shoot grizzlies".

Professor Tess Winkelmann is an Assistant Professor of U.S Foreign Relations at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Winkelmann made headlines after a video surfaced of the professor openly blaming President Trump for the horrible massacre that occurred in Las Vegas just a few days before. In the video, Winkelmann can be heard saying, "When he got elected, I told my classes three semesters ago, some of us won't be affected by this presidency, but others are going to die. Other people will die because of this." The school has yet to take any action, and Winkelmann has yet to issue a statement on the matter.

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Alexandra Filindra is an <a href="https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/filindra-alexandra/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology</a> at the University of Illinois Chicago. She focuses on American gun politics, immigration policy, race and ethnic politics, public opinion, and political psychology.
Professor Filindra has been outspoken about her beliefs that gun ownership and racism are related.
She co-authored a study titled <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-015-9326-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preferences in Contemporary America.”</a> The study states that “the language of individual freedom used by the gun rights movement utilizes the same racially meaningful tropes as the rhetoric of the white resistance to black civil rights that developed after WWII and into the 1970s.” Filindra claims the study’s results show “racial resentment is a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of white opposition to gun control.”
She co-authored another study titled <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soin.12388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment or Sexism? White Americans’ Outgroup Attitudes as Predictors of Gun Ownership and NRA Membership.”</a> This study sought to link racial and gender ideologies to gun ownership among white Americans. She states: “We find strong evidence that racial resentment is associated with gun ownership, rationales for owning firearms, and NRA membership, but the results for sexiam are generally not consistent with expectations.”
Professor Filindra led a research group that conducted an online survey to compare views on American identity, guns, and political violence between white and black participants. Filindra commented on the group’s findings in a <a href="https://today.uic.edu/survey-measures-whites-blacks-views-on-american-identity-guns-political-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UIC press release</a>:
“We cannot ignore that a non-negligible minority of Americans believes that gun rights extend to the context of political protests, that people should have the authority to shoot at protesters based on their personal judgments of danger, and that a substantial number of gun owners would bring their firearms to a political event.”
She continued:
“The free exchange of political ideas, a citizen’s right to assemble and to petition government is inconsistent with the public carry of firearms. Weapons do not foster political exchange; they are designed to hamper it.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by email: pols@uic.edu or phone: 312-996-3105
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Published &#8211; October 14, 2022

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University of Illinois - Chicago

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, O'Brien retired from her position."
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Dr. Patricia O’Brien, a <a href="https://today.uic.edu/excellence-in-teaching-patricia-obrien">former</a> Professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago, believes that women should not be put in prison and that women’s prisons should be shut down. She believes that the only reason women are in prison is that they are marginalized and disrespected in society not because they are criminals.

<a href="https://billayers.org/biographyhistory/">Dr. William Ayers</a> is a <a href="https://creativewriting.uchicago.edu/people/william-ayers">member</a> of the Visiting Faculty and Lecturers at the University of Chicago and is formerly a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Ayers was the leader of the “Weather Underground” group responsible for setting off bombs that destroyed government property and infrastructure. Of his group, he said, "We are a guerrilla organization. We are communist women and men ... deeply affected by the historic events of our time in the struggle against U.S. imperialism."

Alexandra Filindra is an <a href="https://pols.uic.edu/profiles/filindra-alexandra/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology</a> at the University of Illinois Chicago. She focuses on American gun politics, immigration policy, race and ethnic politics, public opinion, and political psychology.

Professor Filindra has been outspoken about her beliefs that gun ownership and racism are related.

She co-authored a study titled <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-015-9326-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment and Whites’ Gun Policy Preferences in Contemporary America.”</a> The study states that “the language of individual freedom used by the gun rights movement utilizes the same racially meaningful tropes as the rhetoric of the white resistance to black civil rights that developed after WWII and into the 1970s.” Filindra claims the study’s results show “racial resentment is a statistically significant and substantively important predictor of white opposition to gun control.”

She co-authored another study titled <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/soin.12388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Racial Resentment or Sexism? White Americans’ Outgroup Attitudes as Predictors of Gun Ownership and NRA Membership.”</a> This study sought to link racial and gender ideologies to gun ownership among white Americans. She states: “We find strong evidence that racial resentment is associated with gun ownership, rationales for owning firearms, and NRA membership, but the results for sexiam are generally not consistent with expectations.”

Professor Filindra led a research group that conducted an online survey to compare views on American identity, guns, and political violence between white and black participants. Filindra commented on the group’s findings in a <a href="https://today.uic.edu/survey-measures-whites-blacks-views-on-american-identity-guns-political-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UIC press release</a>:
“We cannot ignore that a non-negligible minority of Americans believes that gun rights extend to the context of political protests, that people should have the authority to shoot at protesters based on their personal judgments of danger, and that a substantial number of gun owners would bring their firearms to a political event.”
She continued:
“The free exchange of political ideas, a citizen’s right to assemble and to petition government is inconsistent with the public carry of firearms. Weapons do not foster political exchange; they are designed to hamper it.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by email: pols@uic.edu or phone: 312-996-3105
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Published - October 14, 2022

<a href="https://hist.uic.edu/profiles/mccloskey-deirdre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deirdre McCloskey</a> is a Distinguished Professor of History, Economics, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago. McCloskey is the author of 15 books and is a trans woman who says he has been “socially performing” as a woman for 27 years.

Professor McCloskey was scheduled to <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/180576/news/status-of-transgenderism-and-womanhood-debate-at-pitt-uncertain-after-participant-drops-out/#photo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate the topic of “Transgenderism and Womanhood”</a> with Michael Knowles at an event hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s College Republicans and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Leading up to the event, a petition was circulated around campus calling for the event to be canceled. On March 11, in response to this, McCloskey tweeted:
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A thousand people have signed a petition against Michael Knowles 'debating" me on transgender matters on April 18 at Pittsburgh. They should be ashamed. True, Knowles is an anti-Jesus Catholic, a fascist advocating state power over ideas. But we live in a free country.
— Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeirdreMcClosk/status/1634660304465321990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with <a href="https://pittnews.com/article/180187/news/deirdre-mccloskey-discusses-upcoming-debate-with-michael-knowles-criticizes-petition-to-cancel-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Pitt News</a>, McCloskey said:
“That people recommend it’s a good idea to stop open conversation in a university because someone says something they don’t agree with is counter to the purposes, the noble purposes, of the University of Pittsburgh. It’s a complete undermining of the ideals of Western civilization.” 
McCloskey also claimed:
“Opposing him speaking is exactly what he wants because then the cruel conservatives, which he’s a good example [of], can say, ‘Ah, you see, those leftists, they don’t believe in free speech.’ That’s the kind of people they are. So you can see how stupid it is to oppose this.” 
However, just a few weeks later, McCloskey <a href="https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/trans-professor-backs-out-of-debate-with-conservative-commentator-the-ideology-is-indefensible/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled out of the debate</a>. Michael Knowles announced the news on Twitter, saying:
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I've just learned that Prof. McCloskey has dropped out of our debate scheduled for next week. For weeks, he's baselessly smeared me as a "fascist" but nonetheless insisted upon the importance of debating ideas rather than running from them. Apparently he's changed his mind. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/pKJaLECR26" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pKJaLECR26</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1645832971507716096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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McCloskey told <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21940" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> the appearance was canceled because Knowles is “utterly uninterested in finding the truth,” adding:
“He is interested in stirring up hatred and violence towards people who do not fit his extremely conservative Catholic beliefs, beliefs quite contrary to those of, for example, Pope Francis. I decided not to participate in giving [Knowles] a platform.”
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Published - April 19, 2023

<a href="https://education.uic.edu/profiles/muhammad-gholnecsar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad</a> is an Associate Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture at the University of Illinois Chicago. According to her university profile, she “studies black historical excellence within educational communities with goals of reframing curriculum and instruction today.” She is the author of the book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cultivating-Genius-Culturally-Historically-Responsive/dp/1338594893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cultivating Genius</a>: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.”

Muhammad <a href="https://www.ace-ed.org/teaching-toward-genius-an-equity-model-for-pedagogy-in-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">created the “HILL” model of teaching</a> which “responds to students’ histories, identities, literacies and liberation.” Muhammad describes her education model as:
“The HILL model is an equity framework for teaching and learning across all disciplines. Honoring traditions and theories of culturally responsive learning, this model is historically responsive and grounded in Black education and Black excellence. Members of 19th century African American literary societies had four collective goals toward advancing their education.” 
Muhammad defines these four goals as: Identity, Skills, Intellectualism, and Criticality. For Identity, she writes:
“Because we are complex beings, we have racial, cultural, gender, environmental, and community identities, to name a few. Not only is it important to teach youths who they are, but educators should also teach students about the identities and cultures of others different from them.” 
The description for Criticality reads:
“Criticality is the capacity and ability to read, write, think, and speak in ways to understand power and equity in order to understand and promote anti-oppression. In Cultivating Genius, I define oppression simply as any wrongdoing, hurt, or harm, including racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, or any other oppression. Unlike lower case “c” critical, which is just deep and analytical thinking, Critical with a capital “c” is related to power, equity, and anti-oppression. As learning takes place, one asks, ‘How am I developing an understanding of power, equity, anti-racism and anti-oppression?’” 
In 2018, Muhammad founded <a href="https://hillpedagogies.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HILL Pedagogies LLC</a>. According to its website, the company is a “consultation and presentation agency with a focus on the historical foundations of literacy development and the writing practices among Black communities. The agency offers professional learning that shapes the national conversation for educating youth who have been underserved and works with teachers and young people across the United States and abroad in best practices in culturally responsive instruction.”

<a href="https://defendinged.org/report/gholnecsar-muhammad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents Defending Education</a> reports Muhammad received a grant of $749,896 in 2018 from the U.S. Department of Education. The <a href="https://news.gsu.edu/2018/11/26/muhammad-receives-749895-grant-to-support-secondary-school-teachers-stem-literacy-instruction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grant</a> was intended “to study a professional development model designed to improve secondary school teachers’ literacy instruction in STEM content areas.”

Muhammad received $4,000 from Olentangy Schools for a one-hour presentation and $2,875 from Naperville Community Unit School District 203 for a two-hour virtual workshop. She also participated in a “Black Futures &amp; Black Joy” panel with Castro Valley Unified School District and was named Los Angeles Unified School District’s “Equity Champion in Residence.”

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Published - August 24, 2023

<a href="https://education.uic.edu/profiles/morton-terrell/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terrell Morton</a> is an Assistant Professor of Identity and Justice in STEM Education at the University of Illinois Chicago. According to his university profile, Morton “works to transform STEM learning environments, creating spaces that are recognized and understood as extensions of students' identity rather than sites of oppression that perpetuate hostility and exclusion.”

Morton published an article in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01271-5.epdf?sharing_token=RoV77bDjzlvUTQdh8RUTYNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0PTC_5KGRwngX4s8AJcmQPKX1Y_ambGQDJcXzrJrKIgVWt2ZpHkTDBnR7ZPe2xAlHOG3jQM9YwzHHi7XTQotfYdTCrcMeOqrrP_5_yBrTJRmhpcB10GDPO9hkg4UnazmIk%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nature Chemistry</a> titled, “Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry.” He begins by stating, “Critical race theory—an academic framework that serves to understand systemic racism in the USA and beyond—can help inform endeavors to advance justice and equity in the chemistry community.”

Morton argues that the field of science underrepresents black people and “favors white, cisgender, middle-to-high socioeconomic status, heterosexual, non-disabled men.”

Professor Morton discusses critical race theory’s (CRT) core tenets and how they apply to the field of chemistry. Morton defines one core tenet, racial realism, as the belief that “racism is endemic, permanent, systemic and integral to all social institutions.” He believes this tenet explains the “continuing numerical underrepresentation of Black people” as “an outcome of structural racism or gendered racism.”

He also argues <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-professor-dismisses-meritocracy-myth-advocates-crt-false-reality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meritocracy</a> is a myth, saying, “The belief in individualism and the bootstrap mentality communicated through US laws and social norms is a false reality given racism and its de facto outcomes.”

Morton believes that “structural change” is needed, writing:
“Inequities in the field of chemistry can also be mitigated as the field collectively validates the systemic presence and continuous influence of racism and gendered racism on scientific inquiry and education. Each person should evaluate their position and actions towards social justice - with respect to their identity, privilege, exposure, awareness and commitment.” 
When discussing his article with <a href="https://today.uic.edu/education-professor-probes-causes-of-systemic-racism-in-chemistry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UIC Today</a>, Morton said:
“One of the things that scientists have struggled with understanding is that racism is structural and systemic, not just interpersonal. There are power structures at play that impact our everyday experiences, including the research that is done, how we do the research, who gets access to that research and who we recognize as a chemist.” 
In April 2021, Morton gave a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/identity-and-justice-scholar-explores-structural-racism-in-chemistry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a> at Utah State University titled, “<a href="https://www.usu.edu/safe-at-usu/speakers/TMorton_UtahStatePresentation.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deprogramming Whiteness</a> to Advance Liberation: A Critical Examination of the ‘Self’ in Social Justice Endeavors.”

In this 21-slide presentation, Morton says, “The practicing of justice (recognition and action) are driven by individual and societal philosophical ideologies of reality, knowledge, and ethics (morality)...where the underlying conceptions of normality are rooted in a culture of whiteness.” He also advised participants “check your ‘self,’” which he defines as “biases, privileges, position, power, commitments, and actions.”

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Published - September 11, 2023

<a href="https://glas.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadine Naber</a> is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her <a href="https://gws.uic.edu/profiles/naber-nadine/">profile</a> says:
“Dr. Naber’s research interests lie at the intersections of transnational feminisms; women of color and queer of color theory; de-colonizing feminisms; empire studies; critical race studies; and Middle East Studies; and Arab American Studies. Drawing upon these fields, Dr. Naber’s research theorizes the racialization of Arab and Muslim Americans within the contexts of empire and diaspora.”
In December 2023, Naber wrote a <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/when-abolitionists-say-free-them-all-we-mean-palestine-too/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TruthOut opinion editoria</a>l called “When Abolitionists Say ‘Free Them All,’ We Mean Palestine Too.” She compared Israel’s response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack to the police response during the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Ferguson#ref1204126" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ferguson riots in 2014</a>. 

In 2021, Naber <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43566" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in an interview</a> to discuss her article “The Radical Potential of Mothering during the Egyptian Revolution.” When asked why she wrote <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.47.1.0062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the publication</a>, Naber replied:

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While conducting research and interviews for the paper, Naber said her observations revealed the “exclusion” of mothers from social movements who lack childcare or want to participate in adult-only meetings. Naber’s <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.47.1.0062" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> requires JSTOR credentials, but the following excerpt was included in her interview transcript:
“Asserting the radical potential of mothering allows us to recognize how heteropatriarchal concepts and traditional gender norms can be disrupted and how we might imagine an ever-expansive revolution that is not limited to the boundaries of a public square or to a singular notion of the revolutionary actor.”
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Alongside <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professo</a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">r</a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Maya </a><a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/mayamikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mikdashi</a>, Naber participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/P62E9was7G4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University panel discussion</a> called “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle.” During her presentation, Naber gave a trigger warner before stating:
“Indeed the practices of rape and sexual assaults that have been well documented during the founding of Israel, that continue today, are not an exception or a secondary impact of colonial violence. But [they] are part of the settler, colonial, white supremacist logics and practices of Israel, that conflate colonized women with the land and nature and assume that, therefore, to dominate the land necessitates dominating Palestinian women’s bodies and their reproductive capacities from 1948 until today.”
The full speech can be heard below.

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In the past, Naber participated in another <a href="https://youtu.be/4GX3m-8k8m4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> on the “feminism and liberation struggles” of Palestinian people who — according to the host, Professor Sabina Vaught — are victims of an “ongoing US-Israeli colonization, occupation, settlement, and genocide.” Naber also led a TEDx Talk titled “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_naber_arab_feminism_is_not_an_oxymoron" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arab Feminism is Not an Oxymoron</a>,” discussing the history of head coverings.

During the Talk, Naber remarked that Muslim women in the 1980s held different beliefs about covering their hair. She then declared, “[T]he ‘veil’ has taken on new meaning in the 21st century — at a time when people are increasingly turning to religion as a refuge across the globe, including in the United States.”

She continued, “Especially after September 11 [2001] — in response to increased anti-muslim racism and war — more and more Arab Muslim women are proudly claiming their faith, and their Muslim identity, by covering their hair.” 

According to the Middle East Research and Information Project:

“Many accounts have suggested that the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/intifada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intifada</a> has enabled Palestinian women to make great strides toward their social as well as political liberation … it is also true that the intifada has been the context for a vicious campaign in Gaza to impose the hijab (headscarf) on all women. The campaign included the threat and use of violence and developed into a comprehensive social offensive.”

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Please send tips, updates, and information on Nadine Naber to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - June 5, 2024

Anti-Law Enforcement

Anti-2nd Amendment

Racial Ideology

Alexandra Filindra

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Marcus Venable is a current graduate student and previous graduate assistant at Louisiana State University. According to the university’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230124144033/https://www.lsu.edu/hss/sociology/people/graduate_students.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, his interests include “criminology, sexual assault, sex-offender recidivism, and sex-offender registries.”
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lsu-sociologist-calls-republican-legislator-f-moron-for-opposing-trans-surgeries-for-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Venable left a vulgar message for State Senator Michael “Big Mike” Fesi. Venable called him a ”f*cking moron” for overriding a bill regarding transgender surgeries for children which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed. 
He called the Senator a “fat f*cking piece of sh*t&#8221; and said &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to read your name in the f*cking obituary. I will make a g*dd*mn martini made from the tears of butthurt conservatives when we put your f*cking ass in the ground.”
You can listen to the full voicemail below. Warning: vulgar and inappropriate language is used. Listener discretion is advised.
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UNHINGED: This is a voicemail that was sent to Louisiana State Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_BigMikeFesi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_BigMikeFesi</a> after he voted to override Gov. John Bel Edwards&#8217; veto on the bill to ban child sex changes in which <a href="https://twitter.com/LSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LSU</a> Professor Marcus Venable calls him a &#8220;fat fucking piece of shit&#8221; and says &#8220;I can&#8217;t… <a href="https://t.co/IEKisCF6mg">pic.twitter.com/IEKisCF6mg</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1681844952362303490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/lsu-graduate-assistant-banned-from-teaching-over-f-bomb-filled-voicemail-to-state-senator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Venable will no longer be eligible to teach at the university. However, he can continue his graduate studies. 
​​Legal analyst Franz Borghardt told <a href="https://www.wafb.com/2023/07/20/lsu-grad-student-no-longer-allowed-teach-university-after-allegedly-leaving-profanity-laced-voicemail-state-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WAFB</a> that First Amendment rights are not guaranteed in all situations. Furthermore:
“If your words or your expression are threatening, if they are harmful, they are not necessarily absolutely protected. So, can LSU respond to a faculty member, albeit an LSU grad student making a profane, potentially threatening voicemail to a member of the legislature, yes I think they can. Because candidly at the end of the day, the call borderlines on a criminal act, whether it be assault, whether it be terrorizing. So, I think LSU can act, but LSU didn’t expel the grad student who is also a teacher.”
The Professor Watchlist team contacted Venable at his listed LSU address and the LSU media relations team. 
LSU media relations shared a statement with the Professor Watchlist team: 
“As a university, we foster open and respectful dialogue. Like everyone, graduate students with teaching assignments have the right to express their opinions, but this profanity-filled, threatening call crossed the line. This does not exhibit the character we expect of someone given the privilege of teaching as part of their graduate assistantship. The student will be allowed to continue their studies but will not be extended the opportunity to teach in the future.”
As of publication, Venable has not responded to the Professor Watchlist&#8217;s request for comment. 
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Published – July 21, 2023

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Louisiana State University

<a href="http://www.lsu.edu/physics/people/faculty/schaefer.php">Dr. Bradley Schaefer </a>is a distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. In one of Dr. Schaefer's courses he paused class to ask his students how they thought the government should combat global warming, and made students sit in different areas of the classroom based on their answers. He then proceeded to openly mock the “conservative” students by stating that they were “part of the problem” and that blood would be on their hands.

<a href="https://www.lsu.edu/hss/religious-studies/people/finley.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Stephen Finley</a> is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies &amp; African and African American Studies—in addition to serving as the Director for the latter department—at <a href="https://lsu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana State University</a>.

Dr. Finley is a scholar and contributes positive articles about the Nation of Islam (NOI). He has <a href="https://laist.com/news/nation-of-islam-leader-hails-nipsey-hussle-as-a-prophetic-voice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further praised Louis Farrakhan,</a> the organization’s leader, for allegedly brokering peace between gangs in an article for LAist.

A <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/louis-farrakhan-what-to-know-controversial-nation-of-islam-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prominent black nationalist</a> that has led the NOI for decades, <a href="https://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2018/03/24/the-20-worst-quotes-from-louis-farrakhan-liberal-americas-favorite-racist-n2463869" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Farrakhan is known for virulent anti-white and antisemitic statements.</a> He has called for the formation of black militias, stating that “white people need to die,” and even praised Adolf Hitler as a “very great man” in a speech comparing himself to the Nazi dictator.

As a critical race scholar, the bulk of Finley's work is concentrated on “whiteness studies,” itself a branch of critical race theory.

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges that <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.

<a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-whiteness-studies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whiteness studies</a>, itself a branch of critical race theory, examines the place of white people in modern society. The theory argues that white people—whether aware or unaware of their privilege—contribute and benefit from racialized systems of oppression. Therefore, critical theorists work to dismantle “whiteness” and the structures that underline it.  Another facet of whiteness studies—one that Dr. Finley subscribes to—notes that when people of color attempt to replace these systems, white people will oppose the efforts to achieve racial equity—oftentimes violently—in order to preserve their own racial privilege.

As the author of <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jafrireli.3.4.0443" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“God IS a White Supremacist</a>,” Dr. Finley, defines “God” as the current state that manifests as white supremacy in everyday life, particularly in the lives of black Americans. This state inflicts racial violence towards black Americans through institutions like the police There is no recourse for this carnage as this God-like state is “divine and above reproach” to many white Americans.

Dr. Finley is also a contributing author of the book, “<a href="https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/46538/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Religion of White Rage</a>,” which alleges how white people go to great lengths to preserve their own racial privilege. Over the course of his chapters, Dr. Finley develops his own concept, positing that whiteness—and thus, “white rage”—is a religion to most white people.

Dr. Finley defines religion as a mechanism for people to comprehend their place and purpose in the world. In this context, whiteness is the framework for white Americans to position themselves apart from people of color in order to maximize the benefits of racial privilege that our society confers. This is done through a series of institutions that explicitly benefit white Americans—such as the police—at the expense of black Americans.

Dr. Finley posits that all whites benefit from and work to uphold these racist structures. Whenever they are challenged by the social progress of African Americans, white Americans will often respond violently.

The term that Dr. Finley uses to define this phenomenon is “white rage;” Whiteness causes white Americans to react violently whenever their privilege is challenged by social or racial progress.

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The specific instances that Dr. Finley cites are the white supporters of Donald Trump and the “MAGA Movement” at large. He alleges that the rise of Donald Trump is a backlash to the racial progress brought on by a black president (Barack Obama).

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This in turn drew a “violent response of white communities” over their perceived loss of racial entitlements.

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He writes further that Donald Trump draws upon the “myth of the white worker”—or a nostalgic return to a mythical era—to “activate the white populace” to protect their privilege.

Rather than a fringe scholar, Dr. Finley’s work is openly promoted by the university. At his most <a href="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/theadvocate.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/ae/2aed5752-7568-11eb-8871-4f0d6325ef45/6034426fa5d8a.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent event</a>, the communications department hosted Dr. Finley to discuss his book alongside other whiteness and critical race scholars.

The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEcLCvgE6rc&amp;ab_channel=LSUManshipSchoolofMassCommunication">full lecture may be viewed below</a>.

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In a press release preceding the event, Dr. Finley characterizes the <a href="https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/theadvocate.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/ae/2aed5752-7568-11eb-8871-4f0d6325ef45/6034426fa5d8a.pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">religion of the white people as the “motivating factor” for the rise in white supremacist </a>sentiment, which in turn resulted in the “Capitol Insurrection.”

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Finley for comment, but he declined to respond prior to publication.

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`Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.lsu.edu/hss/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Humanities and Social Sciences</a> of Louisiana State University at (225) 578-3141
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Updated - March 30th, 2022
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Marcus Venable is a current graduate student and previous graduate assistant at Louisiana State University. According to the university’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230124144033/https://www.lsu.edu/hss/sociology/people/graduate_students.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, his interests include “criminology, sexual assault, sex-offender recidivism, and sex-offender registries.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lsu-sociologist-calls-republican-legislator-f-moron-for-opposing-trans-surgeries-for-kids/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Venable left a vulgar message for State Senator Michael “Big Mike” Fesi. Venable called him a ”f*cking moron” for overriding a bill regarding transgender surgeries for children which Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed. 

He called the Senator a “fat f*cking piece of sh*t" and said "I can't wait to read your name in the f*cking obituary. I will make a g*dd*mn martini made from the tears of butthurt conservatives when we put your f*cking ass in the ground.”

You can listen to the full voicemail below. Warning: vulgar and inappropriate language is used. Listener discretion is advised.
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UNHINGED: This is a voicemail that was sent to Louisiana State Senator <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_BigMikeFesi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sen_BigMikeFesi</a> after he voted to override Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto on the bill to ban child sex changes in which <a href="https://twitter.com/LSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LSU</a> Professor Marcus Venable calls him a "fat fucking piece of shit" and says "I can't… <a href="https://t.co/IEKisCF6mg">pic.twitter.com/IEKisCF6mg</a>
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1681844952362303490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/lsu-graduate-assistant-banned-from-teaching-over-f-bomb-filled-voicemail-to-state-senator/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Venable will no longer be eligible to teach at the university. However, he can continue his graduate studies. 

​​Legal analyst Franz Borghardt told <a href="https://www.wafb.com/2023/07/20/lsu-grad-student-no-longer-allowed-teach-university-after-allegedly-leaving-profanity-laced-voicemail-state-lawmaker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WAFB</a> that First Amendment rights are not guaranteed in all situations. Furthermore:
“If your words or your expression are threatening, if they are harmful, they are not necessarily absolutely protected. So, can LSU respond to a faculty member, albeit an LSU grad student making a profane, potentially threatening voicemail to a member of the legislature, yes I think they can. Because candidly at the end of the day, the call borderlines on a criminal act, whether it be assault, whether it be terrorizing. So, I think LSU can act, but LSU didn’t expel the grad student who is also a teacher.”
The Professor Watchlist team contacted Venable at his listed LSU address and the LSU media relations team. 

LSU media relations shared a statement with the Professor Watchlist team: 
“As a university, we foster open and respectful dialogue. Like everyone, graduate students with teaching assignments have the right to express their opinions, but this profanity-filled, threatening call crossed the line. This does not exhibit the character we expect of someone given the privilege of teaching as part of their graduate assistantship. The student will be allowed to continue their studies but will not be extended the opportunity to teach in the future.”
As of publication, Venable has not responded to the Professor Watchlist's request for comment. 

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Published – July 21, 2023

<a href="https://law.lsu.edu/directory/profiles/ken-levy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ken Levy</a> is a Professor of Law at the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Law. According to his faculty profile, Levy “teaches criminal law, criminal theory, international criminal law, white-collar criminal law, and tort law.”

According to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2025/01/30/deja-vu-lsu-prof-who-talked-trump-class-faces" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a>, during a January 14 lecture, Levy exclaimed multiple expletive-filled rants to his class. 

After saying “F*** the governor!’” Levy ranted to his class about his political views and opinions of the President:


“You probably heard I’m a big lefty, I’m a big Democrat, I was devastated by — I couldn’t believe that f***er won, and those of you who like him, I don’t give a s***, you’re already getting ready to say in your evaluations, ‘I don’t need his political commentary.’ No, you need my political commentary, you above all others.”

Having a no-recording policy in his class, Levy said jokingly that anyone who records his lectures will be put in prison. 

On X, Governor Landry called on LSU to <a href="https://lailluminator.com/2025/02/10/landry-lsu-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discipline</a> the professor. Levy was forthwith removed from his teaching status at LSU for the remarks. 

The professor defended his comments and claimed they were protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. His legal defense argued his academic freedom and right to due process were violated by the university.

However, on February 11, a judge in the 19th Judicial District ruled to reinstate the professor to his classroom. According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/lsu-professor-louisiana-landry-trump-571c90b3c939ca2d187120957318777a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>:

“During two days of testimony, law students and another professor spoke about the ‘chilling effect’ Levy’s removal had on them and that it exacerbated fears over speaking freely in the classroom.”
Published - February 18, 2025

LGBTQ

Violence

Marcus Venable

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<a href="https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/morse/index/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicole Morse</a> is a transgender professor of Gender Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Morse uses “they/them/theirs” pronouns and “examines diversity within LGBTQ communities, especially issues related to race, class, incarceration, and misogyny.”
After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, Morse penned an op-ed for the <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/letters/2023/10/09/house-gop-must-engage-in-the-world-and-support-israel-and-ukraine/71072003007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palm Beach Post</a> titled, “War steeped in Palestinian oppression.” Morse wrote:
“For 75 years, Palestinians have faced brutal oppression, and every US taxpayer is complicit in this violence and oppression. The root of today’s violence is this history of oppression, which is funded by the U.S. and supported without question by South Florida politicians.”
“As a Jew and as a human being committed to human rights, I must speak out against this complicity and I hope that others will join me in demanding that the U.S. end military support for Israel.” 
Later in October 2023, Morse was <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/florida-atlantic-university-gender-studies-professor-arrested-at-pro-hamas-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested at a “stand with Palestine” rally</a> outside of Senator Rick Scott’s office. The rally was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace’s South Florida chapter—a pro-Palestine organization of which Morse is a member—and accused Israel of overseeing a “genocide in Gaza.”
<a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/fau-trans-studies-professor-arrested-during-pro-palestine-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> reports:
“Morse, along with a group of protesters, entered the lobby of the building after 5:00 p.m. and blocked its front entrance while holding signs urging Scott to call for a ceasefire. When building security asked the protesters to continue their rally on public property, they ‘refused to move,’ the affidavit reads. Officers gave the protesters a second chance ‘but they again refused.’”
Morse and three others were taken to the Coral Gables Police Department where they were charged with misdemeanors. To escape jailtime, Morse signed a promise to appear document where she agreed to appear in court on her trial date.
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Published &#8211; October 31, 2023

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Florida Atlantic University

<a href="https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/faculty/morse/index/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicole Morse</a> is a transgender professor of Gender Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Morse uses “they/them/theirs” pronouns and “examines diversity within LGBTQ communities, especially issues related to race, class, incarceration, and misogyny.”

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel on October 7, Morse penned an op-ed for the <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/letters/2023/10/09/house-gop-must-engage-in-the-world-and-support-israel-and-ukraine/71072003007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palm Beach Post</a> titled, “War steeped in Palestinian oppression.” Morse wrote:
“For 75 years, Palestinians have faced brutal oppression, and every US taxpayer is complicit in this violence and oppression. The root of today’s violence is this history of oppression, which is funded by the U.S. and supported without question by South Florida politicians.”
“As a Jew and as a human being committed to human rights, I must speak out against this complicity and I hope that others will join me in demanding that the U.S. end military support for Israel.” 
Later in October 2023, Morse was <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/florida-atlantic-university-gender-studies-professor-arrested-at-pro-hamas-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested at a “stand with Palestine” rally</a> outside of Senator Rick Scott’s office. The rally was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace’s South Florida chapter—a pro-Palestine organization of which Morse is a member—and accused Israel of overseeing a “genocide in Gaza.”

<a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/fau-trans-studies-professor-arrested-during-pro-palestine-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> reports:
“Morse, along with a group of protesters, entered the lobby of the building after 5:00 p.m. and blocked its front entrance while holding signs urging Scott to call for a ceasefire. When building security asked the protesters to continue their rally on public property, they ‘refused to move,’ the affidavit reads. Officers gave the protesters a second chance ‘but they again refused.’”
Morse and three others were taken to the Coral Gables Police Department where they were charged with misdemeanors. To escape jailtime, Morse signed a promise to appear document where she agreed to appear in court on her trial date.

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Published - October 31, 2023

Protests

Nicole Morse

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Diana Sokol is a<a href="https://contacts.mesacc.edu/diana.sokol"> Dual Enrollment Instructor</a> at Mesa Community College. She also serves as an English teacher at<a href="https://rmhs.mpsaz.org/staff?page_no=5"> Red Mountain High School</a> within Mesa Public Schools. 
The Watchlist team intercepted an English Composition assignment (see below) that Sokol presented to students on the second day of class. The writing exercise asks students to consider ideas of “structural racism,” “white indifference,” and “reparations for black Americans.”
On<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> pages 429-430</a>, the author Shelby Steele, asks, &#8220;The victims of the Nazi Holocaust have received monetary reparations from the German government. Should the United States government, in a similar fashion, pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves?&#8221;
<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> Page 431 says</a>: “White Americans today aren’t guilty of carrying out slavery and segregation. But whites have a moral and political responsibility to acknowledge the continuing burden of history’s structural racism.” 
<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive">Page 436-437 claims</a>, &#8220;[T]he greatest problem black America has had over the past 30 years has been precisely a faith in reparation uplift &#8211; the idea that all the injustice we endured would somehow translate into the means of uplift.&#8221;
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3093 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-1024x781.png" alt="" width="640" height="488" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-1024x781.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-300x229.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-768x586.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-1536x1172.png 1536w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-1200x915.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM.png 1746w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
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<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3096 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422-1024x832.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="520" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422-1024x832.jpg 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422-300x244.jpg 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422-768x624.jpg 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422.jpg 1126w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" />
The Professor Watchlist team reach out to Professor Sokol for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly.
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Published &#8211; August 8, 2023

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Diana Sokol is a<a href="https://contacts.mesacc.edu/diana.sokol"> Dual Enrollment Instructor</a> at Mesa Community College. She also serves as an English teacher at<a href="https://rmhs.mpsaz.org/staff?page_no=5"> Red Mountain High School</a> within Mesa Public Schools. 

The Watchlist team intercepted an English Composition assignment (see below) that Sokol presented to students on the second day of class. The writing exercise asks students to consider ideas of “structural racism,” “white indifference,” and “reparations for black Americans.”

On<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> pages 429-430</a>, the author Shelby Steele, asks, "The victims of the Nazi Holocaust have received monetary reparations from the German government. Should the United States government, in a similar fashion, pay monetary reparations to the descendants of slaves?"

<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive"> Page 431 says</a>: “White Americans today aren’t guilty of carrying out slavery and segregation. But whites have a moral and political responsibility to acknowledge the continuing burden of history’s structural racism.” 

<a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/my-drive">Page 436-437 claims</a>, "[T]he greatest problem black America has had over the past 30 years has been precisely a faith in reparation uplift - the idea that all the injustice we endured would somehow translate into the means of uplift."

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3093 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.01-PM-1024x781.png" alt="" width="640" height="488" />

<img class="size-large wp-image-3094 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-08-at-12.52.57-PM-1024x886.png" alt="" width="640" height="554" />

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3096 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PWL-QUOTES-1-e1691524571422-1024x832.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="520" />

The Professor Watchlist team reach out to Professor Sokol for comment. This profile will be updated accordingly.
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Published - August 8, 2023

Diana Sokol

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<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Clark</a> is an English professor at Iowa State University.  She received national <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-state-professor-black-lives-matter-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attention</a> for banning her students from debating certain topics in her class.
In a leaked syllabus for an English 250 class, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/iowa-state-professor-forbids-students-from-criticizing-blm-gay-marriage-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark threatened to dismiss</a> any student who engages in “racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, and body shaming.”
Forbidding any opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion, Clark stated that expressing any alternative views “are grounds for dismissal from the classroom.” She went on to state:<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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“The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.”<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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Ironically, Clark states that a “central concept” of the course includes the formulation and presentation of arguments by students:
“An argument can be any text – written, spoken, aural, or visual – that expresses a point of view…In this course, you’ll summarize, analyze, and evaluate various types of communication and then use those skills…” <a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/"> 
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Although the university announced that the syllabus had been corrected, Clark has a history of attempting to limit her students’ freedom of speech.
<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">At a weekly </a><a href="https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-ames-feminist-friday-chloe-clark-margaret-sloss-center-for-women-and-gender-equity-house-discussion-monster-othering/article_5785b85e-fce2-11e9-b46b-8f4cb810f8a1.html">“Feminist Friday”</a> event hosted by Clark the prior semester, she discussed how the use of the term “illegal alien” was a form of “othering,” or an act of discrimination – a theme that she admits to teaching in her classes. She also asks her students to reflect on the way their “privilege” may negatively impact others:
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-3733" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1024x791.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="464" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-300x232.jpg 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-768x594.jpg 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1200x927.jpg 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl.jpg 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />
Published in 2020

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<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chloe Clark</a> is an English professor at Iowa State University.  She received national <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/iowa-state-professor-black-lives-matter-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attention</a> for banning her students from debating certain topics in her class.

In a leaked syllabus for an English 250 class, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/iowa-state-professor-forbids-students-from-criticizing-blm-gay-marriage-abortion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clark threatened to dismiss</a> any student who engages in “racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, and body shaming.”

Forbidding any opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and abortion, Clark stated that expressing any alternative views “are grounds for dismissal from the classroom.” She went on to state:<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
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“The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.”<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
</a>
Ironically, Clark states that a “central concept” of the course includes the formulation and presentation of arguments by students:
“An argument can be any text – written, spoken, aural, or visual – that expresses a point of view…In this course, you’ll summarize, analyze, and evaluate various types of communication and then use those skills…” <a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/">
</a>
Although the university announced that the syllabus had been corrected, Clark has a history of attempting to limit her students’ freedom of speech.

<a href="https://engl.iastate.edu/chloe-clark-version-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">At a weekly </a><a href="https://www.iowastatedaily.com/news/iowa-state-ames-feminist-friday-chloe-clark-margaret-sloss-center-for-women-and-gender-equity-house-discussion-monster-othering/article_5785b85e-fce2-11e9-b46b-8f4cb810f8a1.html">“Feminist Friday”</a> event hosted by Clark the prior semester, she discussed how the use of the term “illegal alien” was a form of “othering,” or an act of discrimination – a theme that she admits to teaching in her classes. She also asks her students to reflect on the way their “privilege” may negatively impact others:

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3733" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/pwl-1024x791.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="464" />
Published in 2020

Anti-1st Amendment

Abortion

Chloe Clark

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<a href="https://www.mcad.edu/faculty/asheen-phansey">Asheen Phansey</a> is an Adjunct Faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Phansey was the Director of Sustainability at Babson College before <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/fired-babson-professor-defends-controversial-facebook-post-about-iran/">he was fired</a> from the school.
Phansey suggested in a Facebook post that Iran’s leaders should list 52 cultural sites in the United States to bomb. His post suggested the Mall of America and one of the Kardashian residences as potential targets. 
The comment references then-President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/04/trump-doubles-down-on-iran-trading-threats-with-regime/">list of 52 Iranian sites that would be bombed</a> as retaliation if the threats made by Iran’s military to strike American targets were carried out. 
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2752 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.38.47-AM.png" alt="" width="628" height="263" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.38.47-AM.png 628w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.38.47-AM-300x126.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px" />
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210516043251/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/Babson-professor-fired-Iran-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phansey stated</a> that he was “disappointed” by the college&#8217;s decision to let him go “just because people willfully misinterpreted a joke I made to friends on Facebook.” He also stated, “As an American, born and raised, I was trying to juxtapose our ‘cultural sites’ with ancient Iranian churches and mosques.” 
His lawyer, Jeffrey Pyle, stated, “I say that it was a pretext because they fired him in order to stop the criticism on social media.” He also claimed that backlash was “racially intolerant.” Continuing, he claimed, “I think that makes it doubly unfortunate that Babson couldn’t defend him when some of the vitriol thrown his way was of that nature.” Pyle and Phansey alleged people called to deport him or prosecute him on social media. 
<a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/01/28/babson-college-employee-fired-for-controversial-social-media-post-warns-of-chilling-effect-self-censorship-on-college-campuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Babson college stated that Phansey’s comments</a> do “not represent the values and culture of Babson College.”
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<a href="https://www.babson.edu/about/our-leaders-and-scholars/faculty-and-academic-divisions/faculty-profiles/kevin-bruyneel.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Bruyneel</a> is a professor of Politics at Babson College whose areas of study are critical race theory, indigenous studies, racial capitalism, colonialism, and political theory.

On April 7, 2022, Bruyneel wrote that the Atlanta Braves' <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/major-league-baseball-braves-team-name_n_624dee20e4b007d3845e7b9a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Tomahawk chop”</a> celebrates genocide and the theft of Native Lands. He claims that Braves fans perpetuate a “dehumanizing caricature of Native Americans.” He also states that these fans suffer from “settler memory.” According to Bruyneel, “it represents the accompanying belief that indigenous people’s lives today are not relevant.”

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/04/07/college-professor-claims-braves-tomahawk-chop-is-violence-toward-native-americans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Bruyneel, the Tomahawk Chop advances beyond racism and approaches a celebration of genocide. </a>“It is the logic of genocide, and this is what these names, logos, chops, and chants reinforce: the elimination of Indigenous people from these lands.” He continues by stating “the claim of racism thus does not go far enough.”

He ends the article claiming that “these team names and representations honor genocide by another name.” If the team names continue to exist, society will be blind to the “reality and complexity of Indigenous people’s lives and politics.”

Bruyneel also supports the #Landback movement that pushes for Indigenous land to return to Indigenous hands.  <a href="https://twitter.com/kbruyneel/status/1559407973398716417">In a tweet from 2022,</a> he called popular conservative commentator Matt Walsh the “bearded face of fascism.”
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Matt Walsh is a horror of a human being and is trying to get someone killed because their expression of freedom upends his patriarchal worldview and fantasies. He's the bearded face of fascism today. <a href="https://t.co/AeSQIA0U0A">https://t.co/AeSQIA0U0A</a>
— Kevin Bruyneel (he/him) (@kbruyneel) <a href="https://twitter.com/kbruyneel/status/1559407973398716417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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He also insinuated that Matt Walsh actively operates to encourage the killing of people for their beliefs.

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Students and parents may contact the History and Society Division at <a href="https://www.babson.edu/about/our-leaders-and-scholars/faculty-and-academic-divisions/faculty-profiles/kandice-hauf.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(781)-239-4337</a>
Published - October 6, 2022

<a href="https://www.mcad.edu/faculty/asheen-phansey">Asheen Phansey</a> is an Adjunct Faculty at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Phansey was the Director of Sustainability at Babson College before <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/29/fired-babson-professor-defends-controversial-facebook-post-about-iran/">he was fired</a> from the school.

Phansey suggested in a Facebook post that Iran’s leaders should list 52 cultural sites in the United States to bomb. His post suggested the Mall of America and one of the Kardashian residences as potential targets. 

The comment references then-President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/04/trump-doubles-down-on-iran-trading-threats-with-regime/">list of 52 Iranian sites that would be bombed</a> as retaliation if the threats made by Iran’s military to strike American targets were carried out. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-2752 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-29-at-10.38.47-AM.png" alt="" width="628" height="263" />

<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210516043251/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/11/us/Babson-professor-fired-Iran-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phansey stated</a> that he was “disappointed” by the college's decision to let him go “just because people willfully misinterpreted a joke I made to friends on Facebook.” He also stated, “As an American, born and raised, I was trying to juxtapose our ‘cultural sites’ with ancient Iranian churches and mosques.” 

His lawyer, Jeffrey Pyle, stated, “I say that it was a pretext because they fired him in order to stop the criticism on social media.” He also claimed that backlash was “racially intolerant.” Continuing, he claimed, “I think that makes it doubly unfortunate that Babson couldn’t defend him when some of the vitriol thrown his way was of that nature.” Pyle and Phansey alleged people called to deport him or prosecute him on social media. 

<a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/01/28/babson-college-employee-fired-for-controversial-social-media-post-warns-of-chilling-effect-self-censorship-on-college-campuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Babson college stated that Phansey’s comments</a> do “not represent the values and culture of Babson College.”

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Published - December 29, 2022

Terror Supporter

Asheen Phansey

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Kayum Ahmed

<a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kayum-ahmed">Kayum Ahmed</a> is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University. According to his university profile, “Ahmed serves as Division Director at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where he leads the global portfolio on access to medicines and innovation at the Public Health Program based in New York.”
On April 22, Ahmed, along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 
Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
In October 2017, Professor Kayum Ahmed <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/lecturer-files-discrimination-complaint-speaker/10009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a “discrimination and harassment complaint” against the College Republicans after they invited Tommy Robinson to speak on campus, arguing that the invitation itself was an “act of violence” against him.
Published &#8211; May 10, 2024

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Columbia University

<a href="https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/dale-maharidge">Dale Maharidge</a> is a Journalism Professor at Columbia University who ironically does not take well to criticism. After finding out he was under investigation on Project Veritas' "To Catch A Journalist" he reacted with a series of explicit and sophomoric rants on social media.

<a href="http://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty/adjunct/kathy-boudin/">Dr. Kathy Boudin</a> teaches social work classes at Columbia University, despite having a lengthy criminal record. Boudin, a convicted murderer and a member of Bill Ayers' domestic terrorism group the Weather Underground, had no problem finding a job teaching at Columbia. According to The Daily Beast "In 1984, Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, a violent, oafish association of upper-class “revolutionaries,” pled guilty to second-degree murder in association with the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack, New York. Babbling in the language of anti-racism and anti-imperialism, Boudin assisted in ending the life of three people, including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force, and left nine children fatherless. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2003, Boudin was released; by 2008 she had landed a coveted teaching position at an Ivy League university."

<a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kayum-ahmed">Kayum Ahmed</a> is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University. According to his university profile, “Ahmed serves as Division Director at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) where he leads the global portfolio on access to medicines and innovation at the Public Health Program based in New York.”

On April 22, Ahmed, along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
In October 2017, Professor Kayum Ahmed <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/lecturer-files-discrimination-complaint-speaker/10009" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a “discrimination and harassment complaint” against the College Republicans after they invited Tommy Robinson to speak on campus, arguing that the invitation itself was an “act of violence” against him.
Published - May 10, 2024

<a href="https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/williams-p.html">Patricia Williams </a>is a Professor of Law and Humanities at Northeastern University. Williams, in an editorial for The Nation, wrote " the history of the right to bear arms is shaped by exclusionary privilege based on race and gender. It is almost exclusively white men who may “reasonably” carry firearms to protests outside Target or political conventions", although still 20% of Hispanic and African-American homes own guns according to Pew research.

<a href="https://history.columbia.edu/faculty/khalidi-rashid/">Dr. Rashid Khalidi</a>, a Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, laced criticism of Trump's foreign policy with Anti-Semitism. Discussing Trump's position on Israel, Khalidi said "They have a vision whereby there is no such thing as the Palestinians. They have a vision whereby international law doesn’t exist. They have a vision whereby the United States can unilaterally cancel a decision of the United Nations. And unfortunately, these people infest the Trump transition team, these people are going to infest our government as of January 20th. And they are hand in glove with a similar group of people in the Israeli government and in Israeli political life who think that whatever they think can be imposed on reality."

<a href="https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/hamid-dabashi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamid Dabashi</a> is a Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. According to Dabashi’s university profile, “he is also the author of over 100 essays, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian and Islamic Studies, comparative literature, world cinema, and the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics).”

On April 23, 2024, Dabashi wrote an article for <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-election-biden-trump-two-sides-murderous-coin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> titled “US elections: Biden and Trump are two sides of the same murderous coin.” Towards the end of the article, Dabashi encouraged his readers to dismiss the American political system:
“We should all abandon any false hope in American democracy, and begin from the ruins of Gaza and the slaughtered corpses of Palestinians buried under those ruins and rebuild a new political imagination.”
“It is obscene to walk into any voting station and vote for anyone in this fundamentally flawed and irredeemable ‘American democracy.’ We cannot salvage this diabolical political system. We must save our own souls.”
On May 9, 2024, Dabashi wrote an article for the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-us-europe-bear-blame-Israel-war-Palestinian-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Middle East Eye</a> titled “US and Europe bear direct blame for Israel’s war on Palestinian education.” In the article, Dabashi claimed that Israel’s existence entails the destruction of Palestine: 
“Israel cannot seem to fathom a future for itself as a settler colony without simultaneously exuding a diabolical urge to destroy the very existence of Palestine. It is even scared of images of <a href="https://time.com/6326312/watermelon-palestinian-symbol-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watermelon slices</a>.”
He then addresses Israel’s current military actions towards Palestine and their consequences and then issues a demand for the world to hold Zionists “accountable” and to aid them: 
“The message they are sending to the world is this: sit there and watch as Israel slaughters an entire nation, killing people in their tens of thousands, their bodies and souls, their minds and their very collective existence, with astounding savagery - and don’t you dare utter a word in protest, or we will label you an antisemite.”
“The world must hold the genocidal Zionists in their garrison state, and their enablers in the US and Europe, accountable. Provisions must be made for all major universities in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia to build campuses in Gaza and lend their resources to these institutions, which must be run, staffed and administered by and for Palestinians.”  
According to Dabashi: 
“Scholars from around the globe must be allowed to go to Gaza and spend sabbatical leave there. Palestinian scholars and students must be invited to spend time in North American and western European universities. Meanwhile, the <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/academic-boycott-against-israeli-universities-grows-every-day/3154023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">academic boycott</a> of Israeli universities must continue until they open their doors to Palestinian students and scholars from the entirety of the Palestinian homeland.”
As a board member of the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, Dabashi is ferociously <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hamid_Dabashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Israel</a>, going so far as <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/18/education/mideast-tensions-are-getting-personal-on-campus-at-columbia.html">cancelling classes</a> so that his students can attend anti-Israel rallies.

When Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia, Dabashi was one of his most vocal defenders against fellow professors. <a href="https://www.nysun.com/new-york/columbia-professor-calls-bollinger-white/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Writing</a> for an Egyptian newspaper, Dabashi accused Ahmadinejad’s critics of racism, claiming “the most ridiculous clichés of the neocon propaganda machinery, wrapped in the missionary position of a white racist supremacist carrying the heavy burden of civilizing the world.”

In 2018, Dabashi received criticism for a now-deleted <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10484" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook post</a> in which he accused the Women’s March of being “deeply infiltrated” by “Zionists”, who want to hijack the organization to benefit Israel.
“The Woman’s (sic) March has now emerged as a major movement in the US and of course the Zionists have deeply infiltrated it the way they infiltrated the Civil rights Movement of the 1960s and sought to twist it to the advantage of Israel.” 
Published - May 15, 2024

<a href="https://polisci.columbia.edu/content/jeffrey-r-lax">Jeffery Lax</a> is a professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He also serves as Deputy Chair of Columbia's Political Science Department.

<a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=14870">In an online dispute</a> over the President of the United States, Lax publicly accosted a Columbia student online. After accusing the President of murdering Americans, Lax then attacked Gabriel Montalvo, a conservative, referring to him as “stupid” and “evil,” in posts provided by Montalvo on his <a href="https://twitter.com/Baron_Montalvo/status/1247164493748146178">twitter account</a>.

Further on, he referred to Montalvo, who is Hispanic, as a “neo-nazi” after telling him to “drop dead”. Lax called Montalvo a neo-Nazi multiple times in the exchange and even insinuated that he brandishes a swastika.

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<a href="https://directory.columbia.edu/people/uni?code=jbc2167">James Comey</a>–the former FBI director best known for directing the Russia investigation against President Trump– is now a lecturer at Columbia University <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/12/02/ex-fbi-director-james-comey-to-teach-at-columbia-law-school/">for the Spring 2021 semester</a>. Comey’s course is titled “Lawyers and Leaders.”  The <a href="https://reuben-mark.law.columbia.edu/content/reuben-mark-initiative-announces-spring-2021-leaders-residence">university’s website</a> writes that Comey’s experiences as a federal prosecutor and FBI director “represents a broadening of the Mark Initiative’s focus to include leadership of major public institutions, complementing existing offerings relating to corporations and law firms.”

In 2016 under Comey’s leadership, the FBI opened an investigation to determine whether the Trump campaign had colluded with the Russian government to defeat his opposing  Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton. It is important to note that Special Counsel Robert Muller <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-collusion-attorney-general-william-barr-emily-zanotti">later determined that there was no evidence against President Trump.</a>

Much of the underlying information that formed the basis of the investigation was provided by a former-British spy, Christopher Steele– known as the “Steele Dossier.” <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/steeles-dossier-source-was-a-suspected-russian-spy/">Steele relied on a series of rumors from a sole source that was later determined to be a suspected Russian spy</a>. Members of Comey’s own <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged">FBI flagged the allegations in the dossier as false and were</a> ignored. This information was eventually used to obtain surveillance warrants for individuals involved with the Trump campaign. Despite being fired by the FBI for misconduct, <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/400810-opinion-how-a-senior-justice-official-helped-dems-on-trump-russia-case">Steele was still used as a source–with Bruce Ohr serving as his conduit to ferry information to the Bureau</a>.

Once Trump assumed office, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/11/why-did-obama-tell-the-fbi-to-hide-its-activities-from-the-trump-administration/">Comey withheld evidence from the Trump Administration</a> about his investigation. The FBI had briefed President Trump’s campaign regarding Russian interference into the election, but failed to disclose that members of the campaign were the subject of the investigation itself.

Comey played a pivotal role in the perjury trap that resulted in the firing and prosecution of General Michael Flynn. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates testified that <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/05/sally-yates-comey-went-rogue-in-launching-perjury-trap-on-flynn/">Comey “went rogue” in his pursuit to prosecute Flynn</a>. Sources claim that the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-official-on-mueller-team-says-flynn-prosecution-was-used-to-get-trump-says-collusion-probe-was-not-there">FBI zealously pursued the investigation of Flynn in order to get him to flip and inform on any potential crimes committed by Trump.</a>

An Inspector General’s Report later <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/02/latest-inspector-general-report-slams-comeys-fbi-for-massive-failures-to-document-fisa-claims/">excoriated Comey for the abuses that were committed under his leadership</a>. When questioned in a congressional hearing, Comey claimed that he<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/30/comey-its-not-my-job-to-make-sure-fisa-applications-are-accurate/"> bore no responsibility to ensure whether or not the information in the warrants were accurate</a> and could <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/01/supercut-james-comey-doesnt-recall-anything-about-anything/">remember little else about the investigation that he oversaw</a>.

Comey was also cited by the Department of Justice for <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-russia-comey/doj-declines-to-prosecute-comey-despite-finding-that-he-leaked-info-idUSKCN1VJ1UO">improperly leaking sensitive information to the press</a>. When Columbia announced that he had taken a position at their Law School, it was revealed that he would teach alongside the professor to whom <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comey-columbia-law-school-professor-leaked-trump">Comey leaked his private conversations with President Trump</a>.
Updated - Sping, 2021

<a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">Anthony Zenkus</a> is an Adjunct Lecturer in the School of Social Work at Columbia University and has also taught at Adelphi University in the Graduate School of Social Work. His Columbia University bio <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">describes</a> Zenkus as an “activist” on issues of racial justice and income inequality and that he was trained by former Vice President Al Gore as a presenter in the Climate Reality Project.

In addition, the biography <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">describes</a> Zenkus as an organizer with the <a href="http://occupywallst.org/about/">Occupy Wall Street</a> movement and that Zenkus advocates for raising the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.  Zenkus’s Columbia biography also <a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty/adjunct/anthony-zenkus/">states</a> that in addition to his work as an adjunct lecturer, his work involves the training of professionals on trauma, child abuse, and family violence.
Socialism 
Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10395">reports</a> that, in an exchange on Twitter, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/952967568851111937">states</a> that slavery, genocide, and World Wars I and II are the result of capitalism.

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In the same Twitter thread, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/953040573857976326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E953040573857976326%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsarahd-313035%2F2018%2F01%2F15%2Flunacy-is-fun-columbia-prof-totally-beclowns-himself-with-anti-capitalist-mini-rant%2F">responds</a> to a Twitter user who states that Nazism is “a movement of the left,” to which Zenkus alleges that Adolf Hitler was, in fact, a capitalist.

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In another tweet, Zenkus <a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/1317083235797565440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1317083235797565440%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theblaze.com%2Fnews%2Fcolumbia-professor-american-flag-genocide">states</a> that the American flag is a symbol of genocide. Zenkus replies to a now-deleted tweet from another user that stated, "The hammer and sickle is a symbol of genocide. What are you gonna admire next, the swastika?”  In his retort, Zenkus claims that America has committed “centuries” of slavery and genocide.

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Zenkus maintains that capitalist societies are physically harmful to children that grow up in poverty. In a talk called, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">“Watch the Gap: How Capitalism Negatively Affects Development</a>,” given at a TEDx event, Zenkus claims that capitalism is the cause of massive inequality and widespread poverty in the country.

At the same event, Zenkus <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">attributes</a> everything from racism and brain damage in children to the inequality that he alleges is inherent in our society. In order to alleviate poverty, Zenkus calls for a “transformational distribution of wealth.”

Below is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK1DVinPg98&amp;t=2s&amp;ab_channel=TEDxTalks">video</a> of Professor Brandzel’s TEDx, "Watch the Gap."
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The Professor Watchlist Team has reached out to Zenkus for comment, but have not received a response by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact Columbia University at (212) 854-1754
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw">Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> is a Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the <a href="https://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)</a>. She also teaches law as a professor at the <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia School of Law</a>.

Dr. Crenshaw is best recognized as a founding scholar of critical race theory and intersectionality. She has continued to make significant contributions to each field throughout her career. Both concepts have been widely adopted by the radical left as the basis for their activism and movements.

Dr. Crenshaw <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3Ad80f43d375e3f40179924f768317a237&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first defined intersectionality in a landmark paper published for the Stanford Law Review, titled, “Mapping the Margins.</a>” In it, she praises identity politics as necessary to the lived experiences of American minorities.

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However, Dr. Crenshaw then comments that identity politics does not go nearly far enough, countering that intersectionality is needed to successfully combat what she alleges is the systemic oppression minorities face in America.

Intersectionality is used by activists and academics to depict racial and sexual oppression as interconnected amongst various minority groups. For example in “Mapping the Margins,” Dr. Crenshaw claims that a black woman would suffer from both systemic racism and sexism in America. She further characterizes the theory as the link between <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/">contemporary politics and postmodernism</a>. Academic James Lindsay describes <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality as the “birthplace of wokeness.”</a>

Much of intersectionality’s academic framework was used by Dr. Crenshaw to develop concepts of critical race theory. She drew additional inspiration from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical legal studies, which, like critical race theory, posits that no American law can truly be neutral or impartial.</a>

Ben Shapiro defines critical race theory—also referred to as critical theory—in an article for Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of critical race theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Crenshaw herself further defined the concept in an appearance on MSNBC in July of 2021, She characterized her theory as a method to understand how racial inequality is produced—or acts as a “conduit”—from laws, institutions, and historical oppression, all of which are referenced interchangeably with white supremacy. The full video may be viewed below.

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One such institution that Dr. Crenshaw targets are police departments and policing as a whole. In a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet from September 2020</a>, she demanded that all police departments be defunded, a move deemed necessary for the full dismantlement of “white nationalism.”
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The call to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DefundThePolice</a> should be a mandate to dismantle the hyper-militaristic, racist functions of the police as the coercive power of white nationalism.
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Crenshaw’s work and activism have been instrumental to school districts adopting critical race theory into their curriculums. One district in Illinois allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-illinois-school-district-forced-students-on-privilege-walks-compared-whiteness-to-the-devil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated students by race during a “privilege walk</a>” and compared “whiteness” to the devil during class lessons. Another school district in Buffalo, New York taught students that<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> America is, “built on racism,” and all Americans, “have an implicit racial bias.</a>”

Dr. Crensaw’s work has spawned other prominent critical race theorists like Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project. She has described <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-does-intersectionality-mean-2021-kimberle-crenshaws-podcast-must-listen-way-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jones work as “phenomenal” to the rethinking of the American founding</a>.

Dr. Jones <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims</a> that America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England. <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

Readers can visit the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile of Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a> to learn more.

Despite evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a number of pundits on the left claim that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools</a>. However, Dr. Crenshaw herself has written that the theory may serve as a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?s=27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-all” for race-based scholarship</a>.
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Well well well, if it's isn't Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term "critical race theory" can be "used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue"—exactly as I've been saying all along. 👍<a href="https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GP7mLZAm9x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GP7mLZAm9x</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact UCLA School of Law at (310) 825-4841 and Columbia Law School at (212) 854-2640
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Updated - September 21, 2021

Dr. Kendall Thomas is a <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/kendall-thomas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nash Professor of Law</a> at Columbia University. His areas of study include Family, Gender, &amp; Sexuality and Social Justice &amp; Human Rights. Dr. Thomas is the co-founder and director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University, and he is co-editor of <a href="https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Founded the Movement</a> with fellow Professor Watchlist professors Dr. <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/crenshaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> and Dr. <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/garypellar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary Pellar</a>. In his free time, he is a professional jazz vocalist.

When Dr. Thomas isn’t teaching in the law classroom or singing jazz music, he can be found vehemently supporting critical race theory. <a href="https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/local-news/2021-06-01/critical-race-theory-for-k-12-graders" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a radio clip for Hawaii Public Radio</a>, Dr. Thomas discussed his beliefs about critical race theory in the classroom. In his opinion, critical race theory should be taught to children, including K-12 classrooms. He claims that the American Revolution of 1776 isn’t comprehensive of our country’s history, and we need to be teaching about the slavery that occured in 1619 to really understand this country.

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During <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/what-critical-race-theory-why-do-some-want-ban-1587389" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a conversation with a journalist at Newsweek</a>, Dr. Thomas discusses critical race theory and why some are against it. Dr. Thomas alleges that conservatives and others are “over-the-top attacking” critical race theory despite having no idea what CRT actually is. He asserts that conservatives want to shut down critical race theory so they won’t “lose the national debate… about institutional racism.”

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<a href="https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/in-focus-shows/2021/06/13/teaching-critical-race-theory--it-s-about-history--not-guilt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a video interview with Spectrum News NY1</a>, Dr. Thomas discusses how he believes critical race theory is about history, not guilt. He argues that if you care about the future of our democratic republic, you need to support the teachings and learning that CRT stands for. Dr. Thomas states that critical race theory is a body of writing and method of research about the meaning of race both today and historically.

Dr. Thomas often takes to Twitter to discuss critical race theory, politics, and his disdain for conservatives. <a href="https://twitter.com/Ill_Legitimacy/status/1326013415178039302" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In one tweet</a>, he accused conservatives of weaponizing the government in attempts to undo the 2020 presidential election results. Some of his tweets can be viewed below:

https://twitter.com/Ill_Legitimacy/status/1326013415178039302

https://twitter.com/Ill_Legitimacy/status/1457763685674496005

https://twitter.com/ColumbiaLaw/status/1393217815398821891

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Parents and student can contact Columbia University at (212) 854-1754.

<a href="https://gca.columbia.edu/people/flores-forbes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Flores Forbes</a> is an Associate Vice President for Community Affairs at Columbia University. Mr. Flores is a convicted murderer who served as Huey Newton’s enforcer in the Black Panther Party.

The organization was<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> formed by black nationalists, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, in 1966 as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.</a> The group’s early activities included monitoring police and social programs for urban communities.

<a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/am_left.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The party was explicitly organized along</a> Marxist-Leninist lines. Members were <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/reflections-panthers-john-perazzo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">required to read communist texts such as Mao Zedong’s, Red Book and Che Guevara</a>. Bobby Seale was known to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fondly quote Soviet Dictator, Joseph Stalin</a>.

Despite their alleged philanthropy, the Panthers used their community programs–dubbed survival programs—as a front for criminal activity. David Horowitz—who worked for the Panthers at the time—observed the Panthers' <a href="https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/pbs-propaganda-machine-black-panther-killers-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">embezzling and illegal trafficking operations based out of the Oakland Community Center.</a>

The Panthers were feared for their mob-like enforcement and brutality. Members were <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/whitewashing-the-black-panthers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known to pour boiling water over suspected </a>police informants and fire-bomb the cars of journalists. Co-founder, Huey Newton, was convicted—which was later overturned by an appellate court—and spent time in prison for the murder of police officer, John Frey. He is further <a href="https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspected to have taken part in multiple murders</a> committed by the Panthers.

Known as Newton’s “internal enforcer”, Mr. Forbes carried out at least one execution on behalf of his boss. <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/radical-son-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flores was ordered to perform a hit against Crystal Gray</a>, who had witnessed Newton murder a prostitute—Kathleen Smith—and was set to testify in his trial.

However, Mr. Forbes and the other assassins mistakenly arrived at the address of a fellow Panther, who returned fire and injured Mr. Forbes before he was killed. Following a nationwide manhunt, Mr. Forbes turned himself in, where he was convicted and spent 5 years in prison for second-degree murder.

Mr. Forbes is also suspected in the murder of Betty Van Patter. As a book-maker for the Panthers, Patter <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160110093526/http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5016589" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was a first-hand witness to the organization’s criminal activity and threatened to expose the Panthers to the press</a>. After missing for five weeks, her body was recovered in the San Francisco Bay.

Although Mr. Forbes is believed by Patter’s daughter and the <a href="https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/12/radical-son-frontpagemagcom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI to be responsible for her killing</a>, no arrests were made. Furthermore, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211353/http://fbidocs.com/betty-van-patter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI destroyed all files relating to Patter in 2009</a>, so the apparent murder will remain unsolved. The Black Panther party dissolved in 1984 and Huey Newton was murdered in 1989. Mr. Forbes went on to author a book about his time in the Panthers—titled, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Will-You-Die-Me-Panther/dp/0743482689" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will You Die with Me?</a>— and <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/cu-people-flores-forbes-urban-planner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has worked at Columbia since 2007</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact <a href="https://gca.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Office of Government and Community Affairs</a> at (212) 854-5915 or at communityaffairs@columbia.edu. 
Updated - March 15th, 2022

<a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/kf2119/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Karen Froud</a> is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Education at the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City.

In a letter to colleagues, Dr. Froud urged them to boycott Israel and its universities, accusing both of contributing to apartheid-like conditions in the Palestinian territories.

Her remarks were spurred by the comments of another colleague, Gerry Leisman, who asked fellow scientists to continue their reviews for his research. Dr. Talisman is a neuroscientist at the University of Haifa in Israel.

“Hi, 

I am the guest editor of a special issue of the Journal Brain Sciences and we are producing a special issue of the journal entitled, “The Brain Goes to School, details for which can be found at the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/.../brai.../special_issues/brain_school

We are recruiting both reviews and results of experimental studies that related to human learning, its difficulties, remediation strategies, models, cognitive science, cognitive neuropsychology all essentially attempting to translate 150 years of cognitive neuroscience into classroom Applications [sic].” 

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In her reply, Dr. Froud urges her colleagues to refuse the request <a href="https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2022/03/columbia-bds-professor-little-unclear.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the grounds that the University of Haifa is an “apartheid institution,” and adhere to the demands of the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement</a>.”

“Dear colleagues - 

I urge you to consider this request in light of the Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions Movement for freedom and justice in Palestine. Like many/most academic institutions in Israel, Haifa University is an apartheid institution. 

<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/tags/haifa-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://bdsmovement.net/tags/haifa-university</a>

I recognize that many of you work within this institution and hope you are also doing your part for academic freedom.

Warm wishes for a peaceful and just world - which after all is where educational neuroscience as a field points us. 

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Karen Froud, Ph.D

Program Director, Neuroscience &amp; Education

Columbia University Teachers College,”

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BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—supporters embrace the following three tenets as a feature of the campaign:

- Boycotting all goods that originate from the state of Israel;

- Divesting all funds (private or public) that are allocated to Israel; and

- Placing sanctions exclusively on Israel.

Mr. Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of the BDS movement, admits that the ultimate outcome of these steps is the <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantlement of the state of Israel</a>.
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WATCH: The video BDS doesn't want you to see!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BDS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BDS</a> co-founder Omar Barghouti admits that their goal means the end of Israel. <a href="https://t.co/wulUA5hqdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/wulUA5hqdE</a>
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) <a href="https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1267561561565958144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Froud further serves as the Director of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and Education, the Neurocognition of Language Lab, and the Chair of the Institutional Review Board.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Froud for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Teachers College</a> of Columbia University at (212) 678-3000
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Updated - March 23rd, 2022

<a href="https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/bl2938/">Bettina L. Love</a> is a Professor of Education at Columbia University. A prominent critical race theorist, Dr. Love is responsible for the anti-racist curriculum that schools across the country use to teach students. Her work has been described as the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/abolishing-america-biden-and-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“single most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the ideology of the CRT movement in education.</a>”

<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a>—also referred to as critical theory—that alleges <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white supremacy infects all political, legal, and cultural institutions</a> in America. Many prominent critical theorists, including professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even claim that the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nation’s true founding year is 1619</a>—rather than 1776—when the first slave stepped foot in North America.

Dr. Love describes herself as an <a href="https://bettinalove.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abolitionist and anti-racist activist educator</a> who works to understand and critique “systemic and structural racism in education.”<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/12/meet-bettina-l-love-a-critical-race-theorist-coming-to-a-school-near-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> She further details her beliefs</a> in her book, “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622408/we-want-to-do-more-than-survive-by-bettina-love/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Want to Do More Than Survive.</a>”

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Dr. Love is the founder of the Abolitionist Teaching Network (ATN) whose goal is to provide educators with the resources for abolitionist teaching, which Dr. Love characterizes <a href="https://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/news-center/news/2021/01/abolitionist-teaching-a-conversation-with-bettina-l-love.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as “calling out” fellow teachers who are racist, homophobic, or Islamophobic.”</a>

ATN’s own documents encourage abolitionist teachers to promote the “liberation” of people of color and “embody the spirit” of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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The page is found in ATN’s “<a href="https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8d4b8aa7-b12e-4df8-9836-081a29841523/downloads/ATN%20Guide%20to%20Racial%20and%20Restorative%20Justice%20in.pdf?ver=1639147237108" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guide to Racial and Restorative Justice.</a>” Dr. Love’s organization distributes the document to school districts across the country as a resource for teachers. The resource instructs educators to demand the following from their school districts:

- Hire more black, brown, and indigenous teachers,

- Hire abolitionist teachers,

- Free anti-racist therapy for white educators,

- Reduce class sizes for the benefit of black, brown, and indigenous children,

- Remove any and all police officers from schools,

- Reparations for minority children,

- Teaching standards that promote “Black, Brown, and Indigenous liberation.”

The document further accuses schools of the “spirit murder” of minority studies via disciplinary practices. Dr. Love uses this phrase in a separate article <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210106043843/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-how-schools-are-spirit-murdering-black-and-brown-students/2019/05" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to accuse white educators of levying racist punishments to humiliate and “destroy” their students of color.</a>

The article appeared in EducationWeekly where Dr. Love contributes articles that are full of racial invectives and diatribes. One claims that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211011180846/https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-grit-is-in-our-dna-why-teaching-grit-is-inherently-anti-black/2019/02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching students to work hard is racist.</a> Her article—<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210722025254/https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-dear-white-teachers-you-cant-love-your-black-students-if-you-dont-know-them/2019/03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dear White Teachers: You Can’t Love Your Black Students If You Don’t Know them</a>—accuses white teachers of being incapable of teaching black students.

Dr. Love's work is promoted and incorporated into school districts across the country. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/critical-race-theory-activist-education-department-connections" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Department of Education under the Biden administration once listed ATN and Dr. Love’s work as resources</a>. She was invited to address the Virginia Department of Education’s Equity Summit where she called to dismantle capitalism and systemic racism in schools.

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Dr. Love was also invited to the San Diego Unified School District, where she <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/radicals-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly told attendees that white teachers are responsible for the suffering of “dark children.”</a>  Slides presented during her lecture stated, “Whiteness reproduces poverty, failing schools, high unemployment, school closings, and trauma for people of color.”
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Love for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://coe.uga.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mary France Early College of Education of the University of Georgia</a> at (706) 542-6446
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Updated - March 30th, 2022
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<a href="https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/anders-levermann" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Anders Levermann</a> is an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University.

On September 8, 2022, Dr. Levermann published a <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220907192546.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research paper</a> claiming that climate change leads to increased levels of hate speech online. The study utilizes the United Nations' definition of hate speech, which states, “Cases of discriminatory language with reference to a person or a group on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, color, descent, gender or other identity factors.” 

The paper alleges that hate speech increases, regardless of income bracket or belief system, when the temperature rises above 86 degrees or falls beneath 54 degrees Fahrenheit. The study further states that hateful posts on Twitter decrease when the temperature is between 59 degrees to 65 degrees Fahrenheit. 

Dr. Levermann states that “even in high-income areas where people may have air conditioning, an increase in hate speech was seen on ‘extremely hot days.’” Dr. Leverman concludes by claiming, “Protecting our climate from excessive global warming is also critical to our mental health.”

Dr. Levermann has a long history of <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">climate activism</a> and has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/individuals-climate-crisis-government-planet-priority" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “[I]t’s true: people drive too much, eat too much meat, and fly too often.” 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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Hillary Rodham Clinton is Columbia University’s professor of practice in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). A <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/news/secretary-hillary-rodham-clinton-will-join-sipa-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the dean of SIPA says Clinton is “now bringing her leadership and expertise to SIPA…to prepare the next generation of global policy leaders…”

On January 5, 2023, <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/hillary-rodham-clinton-join-columbia-community" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia News announced</a> that Clinton “will help lead a major SIPA effort to convene outstanding policy thinkers from around the world to develop innovative policy solutions.” The publication also says she will help college executives “explore the fundamental questions on how to advance efforts to renew democracy and foster effective engagements with women and youth in [the United States] and around the world."

Columbia University <a href="https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/situationroom">announced</a> on March 22 that Clinton will be co-teaching a foreign policy course with Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo titled "Inside the Situation Room." The university stated that the goal of the course is: 
"[T]o give students a holistic understanding of the many facets of foreign policy decision-making. As future participants in the policy process, this course will provide vital background that they can draw on should they, too, find themselves facing high-pressure decisions with implications for national security and global stability. It will also enhance their ability to counsel intelligence officers, military leaders, advisors, or other government officials by improving their ability to anticipate other actors' actions, perceptions, and motivation."
Students at Columbia University must apply in order to take the course. 

Accompanying the course announcement is a skit featuring Clinton and Yarhi-Milo (see video below). In the skit, the co-teachers talk about basic details of the course after scenes are shown of students reacting to the news that Clinton “is running again,” (that is, running a new course). Clinton says that she will cover “what it was actually like in the [situation] room during the Bin-Laden Raid, the Iran Sanctions, the Gaza Cease Fire, [and] you name it.”

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EARLY YEARS
Clinton—who graduated in 1969 from Wellesley College as Hillary Rodham—allegedly wrote her senior thesis on political activist and grassroots strategist Sal Alinski. In 1972, he <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rules-Radicals-Practical-Primer-Realistic/dp/0679721134/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1FU7H88O8OXHA&amp;keywords=rules+for+radicals+by+saul+d.+alinsky&amp;qid=1673991341&amp;sprefix=rules+for+%2Caps%2C203&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=0679721134&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored</a> “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realist Radicals,” which centers on disrupting societies through revolutionary community organizing. Alinski infamously dedicated the volume of writing to the fallen angel and nemesis of God, Lucifer. Alinski is rumored to be Clinton’s “mentor” and a major influence on her flux from a stalwart Republican to a progressive Democrat by graduation. 

Although Clinton’s thesis is referenced in multiple media publications, the full composition is neither accessible through online archives nor searchable on her <a href="https://www.wellesley.edu/news/journalists/hillary-rodham-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wellesley alumni profile</a>. According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17388372" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, the academic paper is “available to anyone who visits the archive room of the prestigious women’s college outside Boston.”

Throughout her time at Wellesley, Clinton served as the head of Wellesley’s Young Republicans Club from 1966-67; she also pursued a research assistant internship for the House Republican Conference during the summer of 1968 in D.C. A <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/04/11/395302391/5-things-you-should-know-about-hillary-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio</a> (NPR) article says, “In high school [Clinton]...considered herself a Republican and even became a <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/barry_goldwater_of_arizona.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldwater</a> Girl.” NPR included a quote from Clinton’s book “Living History”:

“‘My ninth-grade history teacher…encouraged me to read Senator Barry Goldwater’s book, The Conscience of a Conservative. That inspired me to write my term paper on the American conservative movement…I liked Senator Goldwater because he was a rugged individualist who swam against the political tide.’”

Clinton earned a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1973, joined the University of Arkansas Law School faculty in 1975, and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as a member of the board of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978. Clinton’s law career includes the controversial case of a 12-year-old sexual abuse survivor Kathy Shelton. Clinton, who served as legal counsel for rapist Thomas Alfred Taylor, worked to shorten his prison sentence. 

According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3729466/Child-rape-victim-comes-forward-time-40-years-call-Hillary-Clinton-liar-defended-rapist-smearing-blocking-evidence-callously-laughing-knew-guilty.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyMail</a>, “One of Clinton’s first moves was to raise questions about the credibility of the…victim. In a July 18, 1975 affidavit, Clinton asked the court to order Shelton to undergo a psychiatric examination from a doctor selected by Taylor’s legal team.” Clinton accused Shelton of wanting attention from older men and subjected her to intense psychological interrogations. Clinton negotiated a plea deal and Taylor spent one year in county jail.

SECRETARY OF STATE
From 2009-2013, Clinton served as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. During this time, she used private email servers instead of State Department accounts to send classified, sensitive information. According to a <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> released by the FBI, “Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain.” 

The FBI goes further into detail on thousands of work-related emails that Clinton withheld, several of which included highly sensitive information on unclassified personal servers. The FBI also discovered Clinton was using her personal email in and out of the country.

In 2016, <a href="https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/clinton-foundation-donations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Investors Business Daily</a> reported that Clinton and her organization, the Clinton Foundation, were also undergoing an FBI investigation for violating “tax laws by converting donations into personal or political use.” An annual report (below) shows donations plummeting when Clinton was not running for a public office, and sharp increases when she ran for President of the United States. After Clinton lost the election, donations fell by 88%.

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The Clintons, as well as advocates for the foundation, defended the organization’s reputation insisting that “the foundation was doing great work for mankind.” According to the <a href="https://observer.com/2016/08/the-six-clinton-foundation-scandals-everyone-needs-to-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Observer</a>, foreign countries such as “Australia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and a Canadian government agency…all donated to the Clinton Foundation.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/hillary-clinton-presidential-campaign-charity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> also reported that Saudi Arabia, a country that heavily restricts the rights of women, donated more than $10 million to the foundation during Hillary’s <a href="https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2016 Presidential Campaign</a>.

The screenshot below shows some of Clinton's campaign promises under "Women's Rights and Opportunity":

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RUSSIAGATE
Clinton spent her time in public office leveraging several foreign connections. During her time as First Lady, from 1993-2001, Clinton <a href="https://spectator.org/chinagate-and-the-clintons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">solicited foreign donations to the Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) from businessmen with connections to the Chinese Communist Party. The scandal would eventually be known as “Chinagate.” 

While serving as Secretary of State, Clinton approved the sale of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/10/23/7-uranium-one-facts-every-american-should-know/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">20% of U.S. uranium reserves</a> to a Russian company. The financial backers of the venture funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation before the sale. Bill Clinton was paid $500,000 for a speech in Moscow the same month the deal was finalized.  

In October 2016, Clinton released a statement via advisor Jake Sullivan—who was later appointed as <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-jake-sullivan-national-security-adviser/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Security Advisor</a> to Joe Biden— accusing Donald Trump of coordinating with Vladimir Putin to hack the DNC’s servers and release sensitive information. She alleged this was accomplished through a backchannel to the Kremlin through Alfa Bank. 
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Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. <a href="https://t.co/8f8n9xMzUU">pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU</a>
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/793250312119263233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 1, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Although this was <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/21/fbi-file-disproves-trump-alfa-bank-link/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">known to be false</a>, DNC lawyer Michael Sussman <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/sussmanns-cozy-relationship-with-the-fbi-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approached the FBI </a>and provided the agency with the fraudulent information. The <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/03/31/fec-fines-the-clinton-campaign-and-dnc-for-the-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton campaign also funded</a> what became known as the “Steele Dossier”—a document containing <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/10/31/key-source-identified-for-debunked-trump-russia-claim-in-steele-dossier/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">salacious and fallacious information</a> alleging Trump was connected to Russian intelligence. Despite knowing the information was also unverified, the FBI used the dossier to obtain <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/04/16/new-fisa-abusegrassley-n2567020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warrants to surveil</a> Trump’s 2016 Presidential Campaign.

BENGHAZI
On September 11, 2012, four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/what-happened-during-after-benghazi-attack-2012" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed during an attack</a> on an American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/113/crpt/srpt134/CRPT-113srpt134.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate Select Committee’s Benghazi Report</a> shows Clinton ignored the “ample strategic warning that [the] security situation in eastern Libya was deteriorating and that U.S. facilities and personnel were at risk in Benghazi.” 

Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/286438-obstruction-lies-and-dishonor-hillarys-benghazi-legacy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified that he had identified</a> “three distinct capabilities” to deploy to Benghazi by 6 pm and had “issued the order to deploy the identified assets” by 7 pm. However, at 7:30 pm, a “Deputies Meeting” was convened in the White House. The meeting featured Clinton and deputies from State, the Pentagon, and the White House, while both the President and Secretary of Defense were absent. 

During this meeting, Clinton obstructed the direct order from the President, noting that her “State department emphasized any deployment of U.S. Forces into Libya needed approval from the Government of Libya.” 

The Americans in Benghazi were ultimately rescued by a group of former Gaddafi loyalists not affiliated with the Libyan government while American forces were in a “stand-by posture” awaiting the resolution of Secretary Clinton’s obstruction.  After the attacks, Secretary Clinton <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Benghazi-Ops-Alert-FOIA-Page-10-11.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued an official statement</a>, claiming the assault may have been in “a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.” 

However, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2015/03/03/new-documents-blow-lid-off-obamaclinton-benghazi-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request</a> by Judicial Watch show that Clinton’s top three staff members were forwarded an email on September 11, 2012, at 6:06 PM with the subject line “Update 2: Ansar al-Sharia Claims Responsibility for Benghazi Attack (SBU).” The email, from State Department Foreign Service Officer Lawrence Randolph, read: “(SBU) Embassy Tripoli reports the group claimed responsibility on Facebook and Twitter and call for an attack on Embassy Tripoli.” Despite knowing this, Clinton and other government officials stuck to the theory that the attacks were in response to a YouTube video.

Clinton will assume the position with Columbia University on February 1, 2023.
Published January 25, 2023

<a href="https://www.mabdou.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mohamed Abdou</a> (according to his <a href="https://www.mei.columbia.edu/scholars-and-fellows/mohamed-abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University profile</a>) is “a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island.”

In 2020, Abdou wrote an article for <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ROAR</a> titled “Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution.” He recommends that leftists support political alternatives to that of the current “liberal-progressive.” The thesis of the article reads:
“Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote.”
Abdou addressed his view of the origin of the U.S. and how that relates to the idea of “manifest destiny”:
“Need history remind us, the US was founded on the violent Euro-Christian crusading doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery. As Patrick Wolfe<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> notes</a>, 1492 is ‘not an event.’ Rather, it established a structure with a religious character known as ‘conquistador settler-colonialism’ as Tiffany Lethabo-King <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-black-shoals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> and many other Indigenous scholar-activists like<a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/557744ffe4b013bae3b7af63/t/570d362c9f7266ca3ced2285/1460483648296/Before_Dispossession_Or_Surviving_It_by.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Eve Tuck</a> and<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43811591/Red_Pedagogy_Native_American_Social_and_Political_Thought_Sandy_Grande" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Sandy Grande</a> have noted.”
He then claims that white supremacy influences both the conservative and leftist political movements:
“While white supremacist ideologies and assumptions inform conservative right-wing parties and positions, the greater danger is how they disguise themselves within (neo)liberal progressive and even leftist positions. Some perceive Heineken and Johnnie Walker-sponsored pride parades and Women’s Marches as resistance, despite the fact that these movements are often premised on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38647128/Ph_D_Thesis_Islam_and_Queer_Muslims_Identity_and_Sexuality_in_the_Contemporary_CH2?email_work_card=title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bleached</a> notions of non-violence, gay marriage, coming-out narratives, pride and shame.”
Towards the conclusion of the article, Abdou mentions what “decolonization” means to him”:
“Decolonization means recognizing that struggles from ‘Jerusalem to the Grand River are one.’ That there is no freeing Palestine without freeing Indigenous and Black peoples in the heart of US Empire because all our fires are interconnected.”
“As an antidote, decolonization necessitates building non-statist, anti-authoritarian, land-based spiritual alternatives and being able to defend them tactically, with arms if need be. Decolonization means abolishing the punitive prison-judicial and imperialist-military industrial complexes and replacing them with transformative and not just restorative justice. Only the former addresses the underlying state structure of settler-colonialism that frames abolition and Indigenous sovereignty while the latter does not.”
During a U.S. Congressional hearing on campus anti-semitism, Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik was <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-president-shafik-antisemitism-israel-hamas-congress/5330062/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about Abdou’s comments in response to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Abdou had expressed support for Hamas at that time and has since faced repercussions for such support. According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13349149/Im-Hamas-Hezbollah-professor-publicly-backed-Islamic-jihad-repeatedly-Oct-7-invasion-Israel-hired-teach-Columbia-House-speaker-Mike-Johnson-calls-President-Shafik-resign.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>, Abdou wrote the following on Facebook on October 11, 2024:

“I'm with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point - given ultimate differences over our ethical political commitments; that's the difference between a strategy and tactic too.”
In January, Abdou <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Mohamed_Abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> “I might be with Hamas and support the resistance, absolutely.”

Shafik told the U.S. House Hearing Committee that Abdou has been terminated and that he “is grading his students’ papers and will never teach at Columbia again.” 

Abdou has been involved in a pro-Palestinain protest at Columbia University, where protesters have established an <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/ayfkm-columbia-president-told-congress-prof-terminated-now-appears-holding-class-inside-columbias-gates-among-pro-hamas-camp/25277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encampment</a> that has caused inconvenience to university members (see tweet below). Some have been unable to enter university buildings.
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Looks like Professor Mohamed Abdou hasn't lost his campus privileges after all. Here he is with the pro-terror mob on Columbia's campus today.
Days ago, Columbia president Dr. Shafik said that Abdou “will never work at Columbia again.”

After the Oct. 7 attack, Abdou announced:… <a href="https://t.co/5Avz9up0lQ">pic.twitter.com/5Avz9up0lQ</a>

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1781381759591977287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As of April 23, Abdou’s university profile has not been removed from the university’s site. According to his X posts, he remains active at the protest (see post below):
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Salam alikum &amp; peace be upon you-our siblings-from our zone to yours @ Zionist land grab Cornell

May Allah safeguard &amp; protect you all &amp; shine a light upon our paths

You’re with us in spirit

Keep us in yours

We are many &amp; one towards a free Turtle Island, Africa &amp; 🇵🇸 <a href="https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk">https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk</a> <a href="https://t.co/MLdzr7AjIf">pic.twitter.com/MLdzr7AjIf</a>
— Dr. مُحَمَّد‎ (@minuetinGmajor) <a href="https://twitter.com/minuetinGmajor/status/1783499837192708430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://history.columbia.edu/person/brown-christopher/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Brown</a> is a Professor of History at Columbia University. According to his university profile, Brown’s “current research centers on the history of European experience on the African coast at the height of the Atlantic slave trade, and continues early commitments to the rise and fall of slavery in the British Empire.”

Brown was among <a href="https://bwog.com/2024/04/student-workers-and-faculty-hold-walkouts-to-demand-amnesty-for-students-and-faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several professors</a> who spoke in favor of the ongoing pro-Palestine protests at the university, including a tent encampment on campus. The protests — which have included a call for the university to divest funds from Israel — are causing considerable inconvenience to university members on campus who are not involved in the protest. Brown’s speech was captured on video and posted on X. 
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My marvelous colleague Prof Christopher Brown (<a href="https://twitter.com/CUHistoryDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@CUHistoryDept</a>) brought the 🔥 at today's Columbia faculty action opposing the arrests of students, suppression of free speech and the congressional threat to independence in higher education. Here's the whole thing.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoCopsOnCampus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#NoCopsOnCampus</a>… <a href="https://t.co/QuxLe5LWH3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/QuxLe5LWH3</a>
— Jennifer S. Hirsch #BlackLivesMatter (@JenniferSHirsch) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferSHirsch/status/1782535593320202497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Thursday, April 18, 2024, will be remembered as a shameful day in Coloumbia’s history,” Brown began his speech. 

The professor called Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s decision to employ “riot police” at the university in light of the protests “unprecedented, unjustified, disproportionate, divisive, and dangerous.”
“The NYPD does not belong on this campus except for [inaudible]. That show of force was a sign of weakness.”
Toward the close of his speech, Brown addressed the importance of Columbia University and how that is being undermined by the university’s current leadership: 
“The United States has the greatest colleges and universities in the world and that’s why people come from around the world to study here, research here, and to teach here. That’s our inheritance, universities like this one and we would be fools not to defend it in every quarter from those who do not believe in the academic in the pursuit of academic excellence.”
He finished his speech with the following exclamation, calling for Shafik’s resignment:
 “She has forfeited the privilege to lead this great university.”
Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://mesaas.columbia.edu/faculty-directory/joseph-massad/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Massad</a> is a professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University.

According to his university profile, Massad “has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion.”

In response to October 2023 Hamas attacks on Israel, Massad wrote an article for <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/just-another-battle-or-palestinian-war-liberation/38661" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Electronic Intifada</a> titled “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?”

Massad opens his article with the following question:
“What can motorized paragliders do in the face of one of the most formidable militaries in the world?”
He answers that question in the subsequent paragraph:
“Apparently much in the hands of an innovative Palestinian resistance, which early on Saturday morning <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/hamas-fighters-gaza-storm-israel-capture-and-kill-soldiers/38631" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched a surprise attack</a> on Israel by air, land and sea. Indeed as stunning videos show, these paragliders have become the air force of the Palestinian resistance.”
In a favorable tone toward Hamas, Massad addresses what he deems the “major achievement” of the “Palestinian resistance”:
“Perhaps the major achievement of the resistance in the temporary takeover of these settler-colonies is the death blow to any confidence that Israeli colonists had in their military and its ability to protect them.”
Regarding the “<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-flee-rocket-and-gunfire-at-all-night-desert-nature-party-dozens-missing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of Israelis</a> [who] were fleeing through the desert on foot to escape the rockets and gunfire” Massad exclaims,
“In the interest of safeguarding their lives and their children’s future, the colonists’ [Israelis’] flight from these settlements may prove to be a permanent exodus. They [Israelis] may have finally realized that living on land stolen from another people [Palestinians] will never make them safe.”
Massad said he found “awesome… the scenes witnessed by millions of jubilant Arabs who spent the day watching the news, of Palestinian fighters from Gaza breaking through Israel’s prison fence or gliding over it by air.”

The article was concluded with the following observation for the future of the war:
“But as the ongoing war between the Israeli colonial army and the indigenous Palestinian resistance has only just begun, the days to come will surely be crucial in determining if this is the start of the Palestinian War of Liberation or yet another battle in the interminable struggle between the colonizer and the colonized.”
According to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/a-columbia-professor-called-hamas-terror-attacks-awesome-and-astounding-in-an-article-a-petition-for-his-removal-has-passed-34000-signatures-/articleshow/104473320.cms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider India</a>, a Columbia student started “an <a href="https://www.change.org/p/petition-for-the-immediate-removal-of-joseph-massad-from-columbia-s-faculty?recruiter=1319212248&amp;utm_campaign=signature_receipt&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=share_petition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online petitio</a>n” to remove Massad from the Columbia faculty.
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/katherine-m-franke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine M. Franke</a> is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University (CU). Her specialty areas are “Gender and Sexuality Law” and “Racial Justice.” Her areas of study include, “Family, Gender, and Sexuality,” “Social Justice and Human Rights,” and “Legal History.”

According to Franke’s profile, she is the Director of the <a href="https://gender-sexuality.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Gender &amp; Sexuality Law</a>. “She is also on the Executive Committees of Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, and the <a href="https://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Palestine Studies</a>. She is among the nation’s leading scholars writing on law, sexuality, race, and religion drawing from feminist, queer, and critical race theory.”

The Center of Sexuality and Gender’s mission is “to formulate new approaches to complex issues facing gender and sexual justice movements.” The Center’s main page states:
“In Spring 2022, as part of Professor Katherine Franke’s Gender Justice class exam final, she invited students to offer newly-seated Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson advice on how ‘to sow the seeds for a new approach to reproductive rights.’”
During Justice Brown’s interview, she <a href="https://youtu.be/BWtGzJxiONU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamously said</a> she could not define what a woman is.

On social media, Franke has spoken disapprovingly of CU President Minouche Shafik while commending the student protests that erupted across CU’s campus.
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The lawsuit filed ag <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> this week claims that Columbia has maintained an environment hostile to Jewish students. Peaceful student protests are described as "pro-Hamas mobs" &amp; the evidence of my antisemitism includes that I am teaching a course on the history of Palestine. <a href="https://t.co/kTV4Y9HGNV">pic.twitter.com/kTV4Y9HGNV</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1761135125016756376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The President of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/O7PZLQJKji">pic.twitter.com/O7PZLQJKji</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1781456229115580586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In case you don't know: <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> suspended students before a hearing or evidence of misconduct. The suspensions meant they had 24 hours to leave university housing, lost access to dining halls/food &amp; to health care - never mind that they couldn't finish their classes. <a href="https://t.co/IiHrTDm6wc">https://t.co/IiHrTDm6wc</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1777518467228328084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Franke was featured in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/nyregion/jospeh-massad-katherine-franke-mohamed-abdou-columbia-university.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times article</a> entitled “Who Are the Columbia Professors Mentioned in the House Hearing?” The author <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/where-shafik-columbia-university-president-keeps-low-profile-fights-keep-job-amid-campus-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explains</a> how Franke and two other faculty members responded to Columbia University President Nemat Minouche Shafik’s <a href="https://youtu.be/qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony</a>. 

New York Times wrote, “[Franke] … was also mentioned in the hearing for her activist role and a comment that ‘all Israeli students who served in the I.D.F. [Israeli Defense Forces] are dangerous and shouldn’t be on campus.’”

Franke told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/17/us-news/the-columbia-university-professors-ripped-for-allegedly-antisemitism-pro-palestine-indoctrination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>:
“I actually said, ‘[M]any Israeli students who come to Columbia’s campus are coming right out of their military service and have been known to harass Palestinian and other students on our campus.”
Franke has also encouraged the general public to sign an open letter “making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic.”
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Columbia/Barnard faculty have signed an open letter supporting our students, making the point that identifying with the suffering of Gazans and historically contextualizing the current war in Israel/Gaza is not anti-Semitic. Please read and share. <a href="https://t.co/IXMCs2PxhN">https://t.co/IXMCs2PxhN</a>
— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1718404916194996717?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The open letter states, in part:
“As scholars who are committed to robust inquiry about the most challenging matters of our time, we feel compelled to respond to those who label our students anti-Semitic if they express empathy for the lives and dignity of Palestinians, and/or if they signed on to a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHe5p0in9g4h9xURoTx6NPn-v2rb-m7k6ZIm4YNGqOPRVsFQ/viewform">student-written statement</a> that situated the military action begun on October 7 within the larger context of the occupation of Palestine by Israel… 
“In our view, the student statement aims to recontextualize the events of October 7, 2023, pointing out that military operations and state violence did not begin that day, but rather it represented a military response by a people who had endured crushing and unrelenting state violence from an occupying power over many years.”
The letter goes on to state, “One could regard the events of October 7th as just one salvo in an ongoing war between an occupying state and the people it occupies or as an occupied people exercising a right to resist violent and illegal occupation.”

Please send tips, updates, and information on Katherine Franke to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://classics.columbia.edu/joseph-howley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joseph Howley</a> is an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. His research interests include “Intellectual history,” “Media History and Studies,” and “Early modern printing of Classical texts.”

Following pro-Palestinian protests and riots that began at Columbia University on April 17, 2024, Howley was allegedly caught on film praising students for getting arrested.
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Professor Howley of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> was speaking to a student today near the Hamas camp on the West Lawn. Someone inadvertently captured him praising a student for getting arrested in this video.
Howley states: “Well that was fun…So you got arrested . . . good for you . . . this is… <a href="https://t.co/DnEIykCEZi">pic.twitter.com/DnEIykCEZi</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1783304445809319990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Howley was also filmed amid a Columbia protest encampment. 
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As of publication, the NYPD has <a href="https://youtu.be/8UDmYsHtav0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> more than 100 people (some nonstudents) associated with the Columbia protests. 

In an <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/encampments-faculty-cheerleader-oversees-columbias-core-curriculum-in-humanities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Encampent’s Faculty Cheerleader Oversees Columbia’s Core Curriculum in Humanities,” The Washington Free Beacon said:
“Since the encampment went up over a week ago, Howley has emerged as one of its most prominent champions, giving interviews from inside its perimeter and dismissing the idea that the unsanctioned protest — which has included calls to murder Jewish students and threats that ‘Columbia will burn’ — poses a safety risk.”
At one point, Howley used a bullhorn to address a crowd on the street outside the campus.
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I spoke to the crowd of faculty, postdocs, students and staff outside our locked gates today about how we got here, what we’ve learned, and who we are. <a href="https://twitter.com/Fsjp_cbt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Fsjp_cbt</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nm9YR5ea9R">pic.twitter.com/Nm9YR5ea9R</a>
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1785798005326574012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
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He also posted about his media tour encouraging the protests, which he called a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.”
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Fulfilled the dream of every terminally online left twitter user and recorded a podcast with <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeerJeet</a> for <a href="https://twitter.com/thenation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thenation</a> to talk about the Solidarity Encampment protest movement at Columbia and beyond from a faculty perspective. <a href="https://t.co/RhGpBDX0XM">https://t.co/RhGpBDX0XM</a>
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1784592903706194308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an interview with <a href="https://www.thenation.com/podcast/activism/ttom-042824-howley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Nation</a>, Howley discussed his thoughts about police being called as well as House Speaker Mike Johnson’s <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/30/us-news/house-speaker-mike-johnson-tells-biden-to-see-antisemitism-virus-at-columbia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">campus visit</a>. 

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A social media post from Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus revealed Howley’s attempt to show the campus protests in a victimized light.
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Pro-Hamas Professor Joseph Howley of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> enjoys playing the victim. He goes so far as to claim that “From day 1 this has been about suppressing protests on behalf of Palestine.” Howley also suggests that he approves of pro-Hamas mob going to the President Shafik’s home to… <a href="https://t.co/l4ZrBKe6fV">pic.twitter.com/l4ZrBKe6fV</a>
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1787133678507745640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Professor Howley’s article titled, “A Year Under the Palestine Exception at Columbia University,” was published today by The Nation.
In the article, Howley claims that JVP and SJP were unfairly suspended and that there is no evidence that Jewish students were being harassed by… <a href="https://t.co/TVevF6gPgW">pic.twitter.com/TVevF6gPgW</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1787906637992231202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Students are opposing an historic atrocity carried out with the express approval of the country's ruling class, and most of the faculty supporting them in various ways have an incredible amount to lose.
— Joseph A. Howley (@hashtagoras) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtagoras/status/1787122815218421931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://english.columbia.edu/content/bruce-robbins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Robbins</a> is a Professor at Columbia University. His research interests include “Transnational Literature,” “Political Theory,” “Marxism,” and “Critical Social Theory.”

On <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, Robbins referred to <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/marklamonthill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marc Lamont Hill</a> as a “person of high principle.” Hill was <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/05/penn-rally-marc-lamont-hill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited to speak</a> at a rally during a pro-Palestinian protest at Penn State.  In 2018, Hill was fired from CNN for anti-Israel remarks, including the statement “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
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A person of high principle. <a href="https://t.co/BaPjP7Pkua">https://t.co/BaPjP7Pkua</a>
— Bruce Robbins (@BruceRobbins6) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6/status/1782716749651087700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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On April 22, 2024, Robbins wrote an <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> entitled “At Columbia,” commenting on Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s response during her <a href="https://youtu.be/qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony.</a> Robbins wrote:
“When Minouche Shafik … testified before the House of Representatives on 17 April, she didn’t fall into the traps set a few months earlier for the presidents of Penn, MIT, and Harvard, two of whom are now gone … She presented herself as a relentless scourge of antisemitism. Her head will not fall – at least not as a result of congressional displeasure.
“There is some question, however, about her future at Columbia. First, because of her craven and embarrassing submission to the House [Representatives]. And second, because on the following day she brought the police in to demolish a student tent encampment protesting against the Israeli slaughter in Gaza.”
Robbins announced his publication on social media using the photo below.
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— Bruce Robbins (@BruceRobbins6) <a href="https://twitter.com/BruceRobbins6/status/1782507906765627635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Robbins also joined a panel to debate opposing views to the campus protests <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/28/gps-0428-college-campus-protests-over-gaza.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted by CNN</a>. When asked what he thought went wrong at Columbia, he stated:

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In light of Robbin’s views, Jewish students reported feeling unsafe on Columbia’s campus and stated that they had to hide their ethnicity.

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Robbins was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/columbia-prof-excuses-hamas-terrorism-we-shouldnt-allow-distracted-oct-7-massacre/25286" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after publicly stating that he “[believed] in the Palestinian cause in spite of the fact that an atrocity was committed in that cause.”
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Professor Bruce Robbins of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a>’s Department of English and Comparative Literature joined the jihadists illegally occupying the West Lawn.
In this video posted on the pro-Hamas faculty’s social media account, Professor Robbins says, “We shouldn’t allow ourselves to be… <a href="https://t.co/bULTTfhmjq">pic.twitter.com/bULTTfhmjq</a>

— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1782793438653546657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring issues with Bruce Robbins and Columbia University. Please send tips and updates to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 8, 2024

<a href="https://arts.columbia.edu/directory/munir-atalla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Munir Atalla</a> is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Columbia University. According to his university profile, “Munir’s narrative work explores unique subcultures across continents and time with a journalistic eye for detail and nuance.”

<a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Munir_Atalla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Canary Mission</a> reported that Atalla “<a href="https://archive.ph/F3ArP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> Hamas terrorist war crimes at an anti-Israel rally in <a href="https://archive.ph/F3ArP" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 2023</a>. Atalla <a href="https://archive.ph/asjWX">co-organized</a> the rally as a member of the <a href="https://archive.ph/Di4Wp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)</a> chapter in New York, New York (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/nycpym/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PYM NYC</a>).”

According to <a href="https://www.news18.com/world/pro-israel-pro-palestine-demonstrations-erupt-in-new-york-after-hamas-attack-8608757.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News 18</a>, Atalla made the following exclamation a day after the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel:
“What we saw yesterday was the people of Gaza breaking out of their open-air prison. It’s impossible to view the events of this week, without first understanding the context that the Israeli regime is founded on violence… it’s founded on the erasure and annihilation of Palestinians.”
At this time Atalla also stated, “We want to show the world that when Palestine rises up in resistance, the diaspora rises with it.”

According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/23/us-news/columbia-professors-slammed-over-grotesque-rally-that-publicly-backed-ivy-league-schools-anti-israel-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>, Munir Atalla was a participant in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” that took over Columbia University’s campus in April 2024. Atalla “was seen speaking with students inside the encampment” on April 23. 

On April 22, Atalla, along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
Published - May 9, 2024

<a href="https://music.columbia.edu/bios/russell-orourke">Russell J. O’Rourke</a> is a Core Lecturer in Music Humanities at Columbia University. 

O’Rourke sent an email to his students after the New York Police Department was called to clear out the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” stating he was “appalled by the decisions of the administration” concerning the student protests. He also said he would accommodate students regarding the course and provide assistance to those students who have been evicted due to their actions while protesting (see image below). 

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On April 22, O’Rourke along with several other faculty members, wrote and signed a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024/04/22/untenured-faculty-stand-in-solidarity-with-our-students/">letter</a> in support of the protesters and against their treatment by the Columbia University administration during the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus. 

Addressing Columbia University students directly, the letter states: 
“Our message is simple: We stand with you in solidarity, we are appalled by what has been happening on our campus, and we want to help you reclaim your University.”
Concerning the protesters’ treatment by the New York Police Department and university administrators, the writers state the following in their defense: 
“Some of you have been arbitrarily suspended by your school, <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/18/shafik-authorizes-nypd-to-sweep-gaza-solidarity-encampment-officers-in-riot-gear-arrest-over-100/">arrested and physically removed</a> from campus by the New York Police Department, told to leave your dorms, and surveilled and threatened by University administrators. Many more of you have learned about these disturbing actions, directly or by rumor, and wonder whether you will be targeted, too, for engaging in activism that the University supposedly prides itself on fostering, for protesting on the basis of your sincere moral and political views, or simply for holding those views.”
The writers claim that both students and faculty have “real authority” over campus events: 
“In the weeks and months ahead, we look forward to working alongside you to restore norms of shared governance at the University and to ensure that students and faculty alike have real authority over what happens on our campus, rather than simply being informed of decisions taken by small groups of administrators. We want to help you to take back the University.”
The letter concludes with the following statement in support of the protesting students: 
“Most of all, we want you to feel at home here. We deeply regret that so many of you do not feel that way any longer—or that you never did. We are committed to working to change the University so that you do.”
Published - May 9, 2024

<a href="https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/susan-bernofsky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Bernofsky</a> is an Associate Professor of Writing and the Director of Literary Translation at the Columbia University School of Arts. 

Amid pro-Palestinian protest encampments and reports of antisemitic demonstrations on Coumbia’s campus, Bernofsky provided favorable commentary in <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/gaza-encampment-college-faculty-walkout-protest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article entitled</a> “College Faculty Members Are Teaching a Lesson in Solidarity.” 

She was also among over 200 Columbia faculty who staged a walkout on April 22, 2024, to protest police presence on campus. Bernofsky reportedly said:
“To stand there and watch policemen grabbing students and picking them up and dragging them out of campus was traumatic. We did not consent to police being brought onto campus to arrest students, and the administration did it anyway. Faculty members at Columbia have a wide range of political opinions about a lot of things, but we’re pretty united that we do not want our students mass arrested.”
During the walkout, Bernofsky posed with a sign that said, “Unsuspend My Students.”
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Professor Susan Bernofsky of <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a>’s School of the Arts, Writing Program, advertised her support for the pro-Hamas students who’ve been suspended by the university for violating multiple school policies after numerous warnings.

This same professor also penned an op-ed with… <a href="https://t.co/qMARQOn1wr">pic.twitter.com/qMARQOn1wr</a>
— Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus (@CampusJewHate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CampusJewHate/status/1782943661103215048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She further admonished police response on campus.
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Has <a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Columbia</a> hit rock-bottom now, or is there still further down we can go? President Shafik and CU's trustees have failed us abysmally. (Also, as per the mayor's press conference last night, the 'outside agitators' myth was just a myth.) Some of our students are still in jail. <a href="https://t.co/eji5KCNKhn">https://t.co/eji5KCNKhn</a>
— Susan Bernofsky (@translationista) <a href="https://twitter.com/translationista/status/1786023767665234172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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She reposted a tweet from gender and sexuality professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/katherinefranke" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Franke</a>, who opposed Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLDpp2Ruxys" target="_blank" rel="noopener">congressional testimony</a>.
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— Katherine Franke (@ProfKFranke) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfKFranke/status/1788319312320561156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bernofsky has a history of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/susanbernofsky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and participating in anti-Israel protests.

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Bernofsky also participated in an anti-fossil fuel rally.
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Please send tips and updates on Susan Bernofsky to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - May 13, 2024

<a href="https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/life/community/students-faculty/faculty/james-schamus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Schamus</a> is a Professor of Professional Practice Film and Media Studies at Columbia University. Schamus is a also a notable producer, screenwriter, and CEO of Focus Features. 

In light of the White House’s withdrawal of $400 million dollars of funding from Columbia University, Schamus wrote an article for <a href="https://lithub.com/a-columbia-professors-message-to-his-fellow-jewish-faculty-members/">Literary Hub</a> in which he addressed his fellow Jewish faculty. 

Schamus claimed President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are striking a “white nationalist hammer” on Columbia University: 

“So the white nationalist hammer is coming down on Columbia University, which is being made an example of, in order to scare all institutions of higher education into falling in line with the Musk/Trump plan to destroy any and all potential civil society nodes of resistance to the authoritarian regime they are putting in place.”

He claims that Columbia University is being targeted by the White House under the guise of being an antisemitic institution: 

“Don’t be fooled: the excuse they are using to destroy the institution—that Columbia is incorrigibly antisemitic—is, of course, the exact opposite of what is happening. They are coming after Columbia precisely because the University is, to the (not-) “populist” base in front of whom they perform their Hitler salutes and at whom they hose their antisemitic memes, an emblem precisely of Jewishness: it’s ‘globalist,’ ‘cosmopolitan,’ New York-based, ‘liberal,’ etc.”

He concluded his address by directing his attention Columbia’s Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, <a href="https://stockwelllab.fas.columbia.edu/people/brent-r-stockwell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brent Stockwell</a>, who is also Jewish. Stockwell had claimed, according to the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/nyregion/trump-columbia-antisemitism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a>, that divesting money from the university will affect Jewish university members. Regarding Stockwell’s comments, Schamus stated: 

“They’re coming for the ‘good’ Jews too; indeed, they have already come—they’ve come today, for you. So we’re all in this together now. And by ‘we’ I mean not only us Jews, but every right-thinking defender of the values this university is supposed to stand for. And we should, and can, regardless of our differences of opinion over Israel, join now in common cause to fight the evil engulfing our students and colleagues.”
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<a href="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/croseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a> is an Associate Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
In October 2023, Roseman and University of Notre Dame Professor Cara Ocobock penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> where they questioned the existence of only two genders. The op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—argued that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.” The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Roseman and Ocobock say the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”
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<a href="https://english.illinois.edu/directory/profile/cprender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catherine Prendergast</a> is a Professor of English and an affiliate of the Russian East-European, and Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (REEEC). According to the <a href="https://reeec.illinois.edu/about/mission-and-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> for the REEEC, the center serves as an “intellectual and institutional center for members of the university community and the public interested in Eastern Europe, Russia, and the newly independent states of Eurasia.”

In the book titled, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World</a>, Prendergast states that English is the first language of capitalism.

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Prendergast claims in the same <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buying_into_English/9qBqcG-rYsYC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=inauthor:%22Catherine+Prendergast%22&amp;printsec=frontcover">book</a> that the adoption of English by Slovakia’s citizens will result in them being “manipulated and controlled” in a capitalist economy by “more powerful players in more powerful countries” as the nation transitions to a free-market economy.

In a separate tweet, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293601731415343116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that the reason that we do not have socialism in America is due to “racism.”

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For more information on Prendergast's stance on capitalism in developing countries, readers may view her research paper’s abstract to, ‘<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767720701855642?needAccess=true">We live and Learn’: English and Ambivalence in a new capitalist state</a>. According to her paper’s abstract, Prendergast argues that as Slovaks increasingly learn English, they increasingly embrace a Western, capitalist way of life.

Catherine Pendergast also refers to conservatives as Nazis. In light of this characterization,  she <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715240374861829">urges</a> white people not to vote for two election cycles.

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In the same thread of tweets, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1265715647666884609">refers</a> to conservatives and Trump supporters as “Nazis” that should not have a place in law enforcement.

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In reference to Pastor <a href="https://www.gracechurch.org/Leader/MacArthur/John">John MacArthur’s</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/us/pastor-macarthur-church-california/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defiance of California’s COVID regulations</a>, which limited worship services to 100 or less congregants, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1293930470749732866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweets</a> that Christians will “kill us all” for gathering in a church to worship during a pandemic.

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Prendergast also <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1266079870586585088" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacks</a> Turning Point USA students as “abusive bullies” in a tweet.

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Additionally, when the Professor Watchlist team reached out to Prendergast for comment prior to the publication of her profile, Prendergast <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382046820516380677">launched into a tirade</a> against a staff member of the Professor Watchlist team. Prendergast also publicly <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382051991296348172">hurled slanderous claims</a> against a staff member and tweeted other <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/1382067461898571782">outrageous claims</a> against TPUSA.

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Prendergast did not, however, choose to answer the Professor Watchlist team’s questions about her statements.

Prendergast briefly made her Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/cjp_still" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> private soon after our publication, but has since made the account public.

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Parents and Students may  contact the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at 
(217) 333-1000
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<a href="https://afro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/schajua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sundiata Cha-Jua</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at the University of Illinois. According to his university profile, Cha-Jua is also a founding scholar/trainer of the Policing in a Multiracial Society Program (PSMP.)

His biography states the “PMSP provides systematic anti-racial bias education and training for police recruits attending the University of Illinois’s Police Training Institute (PTI) and researches the racial attitudes of police and the effectiveness of anti-racist training.”

Professor Cha-Jua writes a bi-weekly op-ed column called “RealTalk: A Black Perspective” for The News-Gazette. He published a two-part series titled “White Supremacy in White and Black Face” where he discusses candidates for local elections. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221009143647/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-i/article_1909e728-85e6-50c2-8905-45c65d995db5.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In part one, he maligns conservatives</a> while writing about Regan Deering, a candidate running for the 13th Congressional District.
“Like nearly the entire Republican party, Deering seeks to end democracy as we’ve known it. She opposes mail-in voting and supports racist ID laws. … She may not perform the Seig Heil or Nazi salute, but she marches in rhythm with the MAGA fascists.” 
Part two <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221023120559/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-white-supremacy-in-white-and-black-face-part-ii/article_b5a0e8f8-abea-5847-83e2-a3ff60ff462d.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">focuses on the race for Champaign County Clerk,</a> between a black Democrat named Aaron Ammons and a black Republican named Terence Stuber. He begins the article by saying that the majority of black Republicans who run for office “are truly MAGA Black White supremacists who pursue neoliberal policies despite their negative impact on the majority of Black people.”

He compares Stuber to the “incompetent, subliterate and coonish Herschel Walker,” saying he too “reiterates “massa” Trump’s talking points.” <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/coon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dictionary.com</a> defines “coon” as “extremely disparaging and offensive” and describes it as a “contemptuous term used to refer to a black person.”

Cha-Jua ends his piece by writing:
“What kind of Black Republican is Stuber? His words and deeds indicate he’s a genuine MAGA Black White supremacist.” 
Cha-Jua has a history of controversial op-eds. In July 2022, he wrote a piece titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220703120602/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-the-fourth-of-july-is-not-my-independence-day/article_4a0fb847-7762-5fc0-a131-ea5e3645818f.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Fourth of July is not my Independence Day.”</a> He states:
“Though adolescents, we knew where the red, white, and blue flew in abundance - White neighborhoods - was dangerous territory for us.” 
He adds:
“As long as racial oppression and capitalist exploitation exist, I’ll pass on celebrating the Fourth of July.” 
Another op-ed, titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220110075511/https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/real-talk-we-are-all-to-blame-for-gun-violence/article_30a8ed11-beb9-5baf-9b95-8d35834b4aff.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“We are all to blame for gun violence,”</a> features more of Cha-Jua’s anti-capitalist sentiments. He argues that capitalists and police are to blame for gun violence, writing:
“The White capitalist class is guilty of operating an exploitative economic system built on a foundation of anti-Black racial oppression. Black folk and other racially oppressed people are kept in place by a well-armed network of police and private citizens.” 
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You can contact the Department of African American Studies by phone: 217-333-7781 or email: afro-public@illinois.edu.
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Published - November 3, 2022

<a href="https://education.illinois.edu/faculty/rochelle-gutierrez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rochelle Gutierrez</a> is a Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. According to Gutierrez’s university profile, her “scholarship focuses on issues of identity and power in mathematics education, paying particular attention to how race, class, and language affect teaching and learning.” 

Her biography says she “builds upon Indigenous principles and has argued for a new form of mathematics where humans are no longer centered. This form of mathematics is referred to as living mathematx.” 

Gutierrez published a chapter in a 2017 anthology for math teachers titled, “<a href="https://www.infoagepub.com/products/Building-Support-for-Scholarly-Practices-in-Mathematics-Methods" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Building Support for Scholarly Practices in Mathematics Methods</a>.” <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10005" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports Gutierrez writes:  
“On many levels, mathematics itself operates as Whiteness. Who gets credit for doing and developing mathematics, who is capable in mathematics, and who is seen as part of the mathematical community is generally viewed as White.” 
Gutierrez believes that using terms such as “Pythagorean theorem” and “pi” gives the perception that math “was largely developed by Greeks and other Europeans.” She also argues, “If one is not viewed as mathematical, there will always be a sense of inferiority that can be summoned.” She claims there are many minorities who “have experienced microaggresions from participating in math classrooms… [where people are] judged by whether they can reason abstractly.” 

Gutierrez also says all knowledge is “relational,” writing, “Things cannot be known objectively; they must be known subjectively.” 

In a statement to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/white-privilege-bolstered-by-teaching-math-university-professor-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, John Wilkin, Interim Provost at the time, stated: 
“As with all of our faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Prof. Gutierrez has the rights of academic freedom necessary to pursue scholarship and research on important subjects and to reach conclusions even if some might disagree with those conclusions.” 
He continued: 
“The issues around equity and access in education are real - with significant implications to our entire educational system. Exploring challenging pedagogical questions is exactly what faculty in a world-class college of education should be doing.”
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Published - March 31, 2023

<a href="https://anthro.illinois.edu/directory/profile/croseman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Roseman</a> is an Associate Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

In October 2023, Roseman and University of Notre Dame Professor Cara Ocobock penned an op-ed for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-understand-sex-we-need-to-ask-the-right-questions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scientific American</a> where they questioned the existence of only two genders. The op-ed—titled “To Understand Sex, We Need to Ask the Right Questions”—argued that “binaries” about sex in humans “start to fail us once we move into questions about how organisms live out their lives.” The authors write:
“This can be seen in the example of transgender athletes. Arguments revolving around including or excluding trans athletes often rest on notions of strict binary differences in hormone type and concentration that associate female individuals with estrogen and male ones with testosterone. This assumes testosterone is at the root of athletic performance. These hormones do not hew to a strict binary, however.” 
Their argument continues:
“Female and male people need both estrogen and testosterone to function, and they overlap in their hormone concentrations. If we are interested in how estrogen and testosterone affect athletic performance, then we need to examine these respective hormone levels and how they correlate with athletic outcomes. We cannot rely on gross average differences between the sexes as evidence for differential athletic success. Adherence to a sex binary can lead us astray in this domain of inquiry.” 
Roseman and Ocobock say the discussion about sex <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/professor-biologist-bashed-questioning-existence-two-genders-op-ed-depends-context" target="_blank" rel="noopener">might benefit from asking the question</a>, “If ‘sex’ is the answer, what was the question?” The authors conclude they have “no warrant to make authoritative declarations on this issue from a scientific standpoint that is uninformed by ethical, moral, or social considerations.” They believe they are in “good company” because they “doubt any one medical, scientific or humanistic practitioner would be able to come up with a question that encompasses all of the ways in which humans are affected by sex, however it is construed.”
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Published - October 31, 2023

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On January 2, 2024, <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/harvard-president-reigns-following-refusal-to-condemn-antisemitism-on-campus?utm_campaign=Advancement%20TPUSA%20Weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=2&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hFolse9exN61ocxk6aL6gdlUpP75ptHE-ZLqrTXQI95H-6YArBFTPfeu0TanyhMWv4WtUHY6V6HslQ9IKwMkXpVSvSA&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TPUSA Live reported</a>, “Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has received public backlash for her refusal to adequately denounce antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, has issued a letter of resignation.”
As of January 11, over 10,000 people <a href="https://www.change.org/p/resist-the-call-for-the-resignation-of-claudine-gay-as-harvard-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed the Change.org petition</a> calling for Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. The shift away from public support started after Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/oklC-xpSOWc?list=TLPQMTIxMjIwMjOdO_R_5s2NVQ">congressional testimony</a> where she refused to condemn anti-Jewish protests on campus. 
During the December 5, 2023 hearing, New York Representative Elise Stefanik <a href="https://youtu.be/lwu3rBAWvOQ">asked</a> Gay whether inciting violence and genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s rules on bullying or harassment. Gay said, “It can be, depending on the context.” When grilled further about the context, Gay explained, “[When it’s] targeted at an individual.”
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After the October 7 Hamas terrorist invasion that killed over 1,000 Jewish citizens, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/6/unrecognized-student-group-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 30 pro-Palestine student groups</a> began protesting on Harvard’s main campus. The Crimson reported that 33 student groups also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement of responsibility</a> wherein Israel is solely blamed for the attack.
In November, at the height of pro-Hamas protests on campus, Gay released a statement:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views. But that’s a far cry from endorsing them. It’s in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters, and we reveal the character of our institution.…”
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On December 11, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-president-claudine-gay-accused-of-plagiarizing-sections-of-her-ph-d-dissertation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> broke the story on Gay in an article titled, “Harvard President Claudine Gay accused of plagiarizing sections of her Ph.D. dissertation.” Quoting <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo’s report</a>, The College Fix said, “‘First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s paper, ‘Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,’ while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language…’”
​​Gay’s resignation also came amid growing controversy surrounding plagiarized publications throughout her career. Gay initially <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/claudine-gay-denies-newly-surfaced-plagiarism-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied all allegations</a> of plagiarism and<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-rallies-behind-president-claudine-gay-amid-calls-for-resignation-2023-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> garnered support</a> from more than 500 faculty members.
On December 12, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/billionaire-confirms-harvard-president-was-dei-hire-as-dozens-more-plagiarism-accusations-emerge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay appeared</a> in The College Fix again. The source said, “Billionaire hedge fund founder Bill Ackman said on [Twitter] he has confirmed that Harvard University’s selection of [Gay] for president was a decision based on diversity, equity and inclusion principles.”
Despite Gay’s lack of integrity and unethical practices, <a href="https://youtu.be/CNXPq6OppJE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> announced that she will remain a professor at Harvard University and will keep her nearly $900,000 salary.
Please send updates and information on Claudine Gay to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated &#8211; January 11, 2024
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Claudine Gay is the Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University — which is the largest division of the university. She’s also a Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and African and African-American Studies.
<a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/pages/dean-claudine-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Gay’s university profile</a> states, “[S]ince 2006, Gay has studied political behavior, considering issues in her research such as: how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government…how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among black Americans…and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among the poor.”
<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/cgay/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay’s personal statement</a> says, “I bring many of these interests to my undergraduate and graduate advising and teaching, including my courses on Post-Civil Rights Black Politics; Democratic Citizenship; and Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration.” 
In a publication titled <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/cgay/files/political_behavior_vol_36_p99-124.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-pressures and Black Partisanship</a>, Gay states, in part, “Political observers have long recognized the socially conservative tendencies of the Black mass public. In stark contrast to their views on racial and social welfare, African Americans are firmly anchored to the political right of whites (and other minorities) on a range of moral and cultural issues, including abortion, gay rights, and women’s role in society.”
Professor Gay is also affiliated with <a href="https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Inequality in America program</a> – “a multidisciplinary effort to elevate and energize teaching and research on social and economic inequality and to use what we learn to inform the public debate and public response to these challenges.” 
<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/8/gay-thrilled-taeku-hire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Gay’s enthusiasm for expanding the school’s ethnic studies program as she welcomed a new faculty recruit. The article says, “Following more than four decades of lobbying by Harvard students and alumni for an ethnic studies concentration, Gay launched a search for faculty specializing in Asian American, Latinx, and Muslim studies in June 2019.”
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<a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/danielle-allen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Danielle Allen</a> is a Professor of Government at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Allen’s profile says “she is Founder and President for Partners In Democracy, where she continues to advocate for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy and drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all.”

In 2016, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/moment-of-truth-we-must-stop-trump/2016/02/21/0172e788-d8a7-11e5-925f-1d10062cc82d_story.html">published an opinion editorial</a> authored by Allen. She titled the piece “The Moment of Truth: We Must Stop Trump.” She starts the article by stating:
“Like any number of us raised in the late 20th century, I have spent my life perplexed about exactly how Hitler could have come to power in Germany. Watching Donald Trump’s rise, I now understand. Leave aside whether a direct comparison of Trump to Hitler is accurate. That is not my point. My point rather is about how a demagogic opportunist can exploit a divided country.”
She further parallels former President Trump and Hitler, writing:
“To understand the rise of Hitler and the spread of Nazism, I have generally relied on the German-Jewish  émigré philosopher <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437565/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0142437565&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thewaspos09-20&amp;linkId=PQAKLU5NRJOETRXB%22%3EThe%20Portable%20Hannah%20Arendt%20(Penguin%20Classics)%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=thewaspos09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0142437565" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Arendt</a> and her arguments about the banality of evil. Somehow people can understand themselves as ‘just doing their job,’ yet act as cogs in the wheel of a murderous machine.”
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Allen was <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2024/03/harvard-kennedy-professor-danielle-allen-discusses-justice-democracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> in The Brown Daily Herald wherein the author covered a speaking engagement connected to the release of Allen’s book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Means-Democracy-Danielle-Allen-ebook/dp/B0BVC2FX2S/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VqxGd4owAqzRflOXiBODXN17y4JJUJ1SVHYoRKSEDi6q-l886siA49NkC9H1kQpqVTCFXCSP_tdMncZOaeI8qZRoOQSHNELNFHZcBBT7HIHiT1vCs5-ECUpnUkPX8MrgUwMYyWF99EapLhAECkgLZTSghDVrj8oaZbf6drUcWGl3zoSJputR0fYZybjA7eJTxgZ6VHZUCs4sELHMdEbmsJXcA3rlY8ymu77DAiOkKPg.jTBse05m42CEISz-twypjIyY7S93TNNoT9Q_KLXmonU&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;gad_source=1&amp;hvadid=693980244929&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9061155&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=15248354058227898116--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=15248354058227898116&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1965987004000&amp;hydadcr=22158_13517514&amp;keywords=justice+by+means+of+democracy&amp;qid=1722025745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B0BVC2FX2S&amp;revisionId=f2ca3fa9&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice by Means of Democracy</a>.” The writer said, “Allen argued that American democracy has prioritized negative liberties over positive ones for too long, resulting in those with power ‘not listening to the people who are affected by policies’ being enacted.”

In the book, Allen asked, “What is the relationship between political economy, political philosophy, and a theory of justice?” She then states:
“As economic theorists from <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Smith/The-Theory-of-Moral-Sentiments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adam Smith</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Karl-Marx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karl Marx</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/John-Maynard-Keynes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Maynard Keynes</a> to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/money/F-A-Hayek" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Friedrich Hayek</a> have recognized, any given economic system is built out of a set of underlying rules of human interaction … All recognized that the rules of the game structuring human interaction and those generating particular forms of economy embodied distinctive sets of social ideals and could be redesigned.” 
She also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/26/allen-permissible-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> contrasting “academic freedom” with “free expression.” She said, “Harvard’s values statement contains two guidelines that help distinguish between good and bad speech … Scholarly standards and longstanding norms from the art of rhetoric make concrete how to live by these values.”

The following chart was included under the heading Speech Distinctions — Regime, Quality, Permissibility.

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<a href="https://divinity.wfu.edu/academics/faculty/jonathan-l-walton/">Dr. Jonathan L. Walton</a>, Dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University and formerly of Harvard University, called the NRA a "domestic terrorist organization". In a sermon on campus after the Las Vegas mass shooting, Walton, who has a Ph.D. in religion and society from Princeton, blamed "Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries [for] eating away at the soul of this nation," Walton later calls President Donald Trump a "Madman" who "embodies the worst aspects of our country's cultural disease."

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/mark-tushnet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Tushnet</a> is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. According to Tushnet’s faculty profile his research interest “includes students of constitutional review in the United States and around the world and the creation of other ‘institutions for protecting constitutional democracy.’”

In May 2016, the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/10/harvard-professor-start-treating-christians-nazis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Times</a> featured Tushnet in an article titled “Harvard professor: Start treating Christian conservatives like Nazis.” The Times said: 
“Mr. Tushnet said liberals should stop being so hesitant to advance their agenda through the judiciary, saying a majority of federal judges have been appointed by Democrat presidents, and they need not worry ‘reversal by the Supreme Court now that former Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is dead.”
Tushnet wrote a <a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/05/abandoning-defensive-crouch-liberal.html">blog post</a> that same year where he challenged readers to “abandon defensive-crouch liberalism” and to “aggressively exploit the ambiguities and loopholes in unfavorable precedents that aren’t worth overruling.” 

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On August 1, 2023, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=23715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform reported</a> that Tushnet sent an open letter to the Biden Administration wherein he “labeled the [SCOTUS] conservative majority as ‘MAGA justices,’ implying the judges have a political relationship to former President Donald Trump…”

Campus Reform noted how Tushnet “used the recent ruling on affirmative action as an example and proposed that Biden could emphasize that the ruling applies only to certain college institutions, while still vigorously pursuing affirmative action in other contexts…”

<a href="https://balkin.blogspot.com/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-biden-administration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In the letter</a>, Tushnet states: 
“We do not believe that President Biden should simply ignore every MAGA ruling. The President should act when MAGA justices issue high-stakes rulings that are based on gravely mistaken constitutional interpretations…Such actions could help contain the grave threat posed by MAGA justices.”
He continues:
“In this particular historical moment, MAGA justices pose a grave threat to our most fundamental commitments because they rule consistently to undermine democracy and to curtail fundamental rights, and because many of their rulings are based on misleading and untrue claims.”
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Dr. Michelle Morse is an internal medicine and public health doctor who, according to her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-morse-251a0ba1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a> biography, “works to achieve health equity through global solidarity, social medicine and anti-racism education, and activism.” Her <a href="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty biography</a> describes her position as “an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-founder of the EqualHealth and Social Medicine Consortium.”

Morse has several, notable publications, including “<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33640157/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reparations for Black American descendants of persons enslaved in the U.S. and their potential impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission,</a>” and “<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2789583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Act Upon Racism- not Race- as a Risk Factor</a>.” The former publication, regarding reparations, made the claim that the United States should pursue racial-justice interventions, including reparations payments, to ameliorate racial disparities that originated through COVID-19.

According to a report by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=23630" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, Morse was featured as a keynote speaker for a medical residency graduation ceremony. <a href="https://onebrooklynhealth.org/about-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One Brooklyn Health</a>, a New York-based network of hospitals, held its ceremony on June 7, 2023, that included Dr. Michelle Morse as the keynote speaker for the second consecutive year.

Morse began her speech by mentioning contributors to what she called “scary times,” including:

“Misinformation about what is contained in COVID vaccines, misinformation about the ways public school teachers instruct students about our country’s violent founding and enslavement, settler colonialism, patriarchy, structural racism, or what really happened on January 6.”

She recalled her experiences during the AIDS epidemic and how it motivated her to become an “even more radicalized student activist,” and that she returned to the United States to “do more direct activism for social justice during residency.” Within the speech, she also asserted that “the current state of our country is unfair and unjust towards people of color, period.”

After the speech, a graduate attendee shared some thoughts with a Campus Reform reporter, saying that many students are discontent with the rise of woke ideology in the medical field, but are afraid to speak up because they feel as though they are “slaves to debt,” and cannot afford to risk losing their jobs by speaking out.
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<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/michelle-evelyn-morse">Michelle Evelyn Morse</a>, M.D. is a Instructor of Medicine and an Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University.  She is also co-founder of the <a href="http://www.socialmedicineconsortium.org/campaign-against-racism/">Campaign Against Racism</a>, which describes itself as an organization that seeks to “dismantle structural racism and its effects on health around the world.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.pri.org/stories/2020-06-02/health-care-part-systems-oppression-says-harvard-medicine-professor">The World</a>, Morse outlined what she believes is structural oppression in the healthcare field. She explained how the Coronavirus is exposing divides caused by racism:

“And I think what we're seeing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on communities of color is that these are the fault lines that have existed for generations. And the sources are the very social arrangement that puts white people on top and black and brown people on the bottom.” 

 Morse has admitted that the long-term goal of her organization is to destroy capitalism, saying, “...the systems of racial capitalism and structural racism that we're trying to impact and upend and break down are going to take much, much longer” 

Morse is also very candid about utilizing the coronavirus pandemic to accomplish her organization’s ambitions of fundamentally transforming the country: 

“We have to seize on this moment. We have to make sure that health workers are not just assumed to be the heroes of COVID-19, that we actually do the work of upending the sources of oppression that have led to these inequities and that we recognize that that takes time and that that takes constant pressure.”

<a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/people/cornel-r-west">Dr. Cornel West</a> is a former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and a Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. West is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and has used the organization’s platform to <a href="https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/cornel_west_endorses_bernie_sanders/">endorse</a> Bernie Sanders for president.  

West is known for his vocal opposition to Donald Trump, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14389">describing</a> him at a rally for Bernie Sanders as a “neo-fascist gangster.”

West is also notable for his mistrust of the official narrative of 9/11. As <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5054">reported</a> by Campus Reform, he relayed his suspicion when asked if 9/11 was an inside job during the Million Muslim March in Washington D.C. “At this point, I’m still uncertain. I think there might be a possibility but my hunch is that with Bin Laden’s definitive investment, he must have had something to do with it,” explained West.

Among West’s other peculiar beliefs, he is an avowed socialist that has served as an honorary chair for the DSA. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zYAH-BZZTs">interview</a> with Laura Flanders, he praised Karl Marx for having an “indispensable” analysis of America, declaring that American capitalism forces people to live in “wage slavery.” When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuc6C2_Txmw">challenged</a> by Tucker Carlson for his support of Socialism, most notably for its repeated and abysmal failures, West deflected and accused the US of interfering in preventing the implementation of authentic socialism in places like Venezuela.

Perhaps the most disturbing example of Dr. West’s radical beliefs is his sustained relationship and defense of notorious Nation of Islam (NOI) leader, Louis Farrakhan. 

Farrakhan is noted for his virulent and antisemitic remarks praise of Adolf Hitler made during NOI sermons:
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 	<li>“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a VERY great man.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"...there were many Israeli’s and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Satanic Jews have infected the whole world with poison and deceit.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">"The Jews have control over those agencies of government. When you want something in the world, a Jew holds the door."</li>
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Despite a bevy of disgusting remarks, Dr. West continues to collaborate with and defend Farrakhan. He most recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfC-z80GCSk">appeared</a> with him at an event in Chicago, hosted by PBS, to discuss issues in the black community. Numerous other academics and community leaders were present. His association with Farrakhan goes back decades, as is exhibited in a lecture given at Harvard University where he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KwhXPXjjMw">flouted</a> his agreement with him that white supremacy is ingrained in America. In another lecture,  Dr. West openly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qmuSqlvWE4">admitted</a> that he works with Farrakhan. 

When <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwhYShH-pE">pressed</a> by Roland Marted about his relationship with Farrakhan, West refused to disavow him. West responded that “people need to stop lying about my brother,” and denied that Farrakhan had ever made anti-Semitic remarks. West went on to praise Farrakhan for his “consistency” on white supremacy.   

Dr. West has also openly embraced ANTIFA. <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/1/cornel_west_us_moment_of_reckoning">Appearing</a> on Democracy Now!, Dr. West claimed that ANTIFA “saved his life” when protesting in Charlottesville and lambasted the Trump administration's decision to label ANTIFA a terrorist organization:

“...ANTIFA saved my life in Charlottesville. There’s no doubt about it, that they provided the security, you see. So the very notion that they become candidates for a terrorist organization, but the people who were trying to kill us — the Nazis, the Klan — they’re not candidates for terrorist organization status — but that’s what you’re going to get. You’re going to get a Trump-led neofascist backlash and clampdown on what is going on. We ought to be very clear about that. The neofascism has that kind of obsession with militaristic imposition in the face of any kind of disorder. And so we’ve got to be fortified for that.”

Cornel West is a vocal critic of Israel. In 2014 - though aware that terrorist group Hamas was launching thousands of rockets into Israeli civilian areas - he nonetheless <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFVnRfpj7w&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=281">accused</a> Israel of state-sponsored terrorism and urged “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinians.

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet">Elizabeth Bartholet</a> is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard University. Bartholet’s work is primarily centered around child welfare. She <a href="https://bartholet.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/children.pdf">believes</a> that “poverty and social justice are the root causes of most child maltreatment” and that early childhood intervention by social services is needed to prevent abuse. 

Bartholet is a vocal and visceral opponent of home-schooling, describing it as “near-absolute parental power” and “inconsistent” with the human rights of children. In a <a href="https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf">paper written for the Arizona Law Review</a>, she advocates for an outright ban on homeschooling. Bartholet sees homeschooling as a danger to society, and accuses parents who decide to remove their children from public schools of promoting segregation and misogyny:  

“...parents can now keep their children at home in the name of homeschooling free from any real scrutiny as to whether or how they are educating their children. Many homeschool because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to our democracy, determined to keep their children from exposure to views that might enable autonomous choice about their future lives. Many promote racial segregation and female subservience. Many question science. Abusive parents can keep their children at home free from the risk that teachers will report them to child protection services. Some homeschool precisely for this reason.”

Bartholet repeats and expands on her position, claiming that homeschooling may lead to child abuse: 

“Parents can choose to teach that biblical truth trumps all, that all science is false science, that women should be educated to be subservient to men, that people of color are inferior to whites, that people with nontraditional sexual orientations or gender identities should be “cured” or condemned. Parents can choose to put their children to work, notwithstanding child labor laws. Parents can choose to beat their children, starve them, or chain them up…”

Bartholet then critiques the inability to enact any legislation due to the “outdated nature of the Constitution, 

“The U.S. Constitution with its negative rights structure is an anomaly, outdated and inadequate by the standards of the rest of the world Negative rights— rights to be free from state intervention—are particularly inadequate for children...The U.S. Constitution’s focus on negative rights represents an older western constitutional tradition, “increasingly out of step with emerging constitutional norms…”

Bartholet’s hostility towards homeschooling appears to stem from the fact that a disproportionate amount of these parents are conservative Christians and not progressives: 

“It is the religious ideologues who dominate the homeschooling movement...Nor is there any other significant advocacy organization designed to represent the views of the highly educated nonreligious homeschoolers, the descendants of the John Holt progressive wing of the homeschooling movement.”

Bartholet had been slated to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14850">appear</a> at a Harvard-sponsored summit that was described as an “anti-homeschooling conference.” Titled “<a href="https://cap.law.harvard.edu/homeschooling-summit-june-18-19-2020/">Homeschooling Summit: Problems, Politics, and Prospects for Reform</a>,” it has since been postponed after receiving fierce backlash.

Dr. David R. Williams is a <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tenured professor at Harvard University</a>. He specializes in several subjects, including Public Health, Sociology, and African American Studies. Dr. Williams has also delivered many lectures and written a substantial number of publications that discuss discrimination and racism in the United States, particularly in healthcare, and the negative health impact conservatives have on Democrats and minorities.

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In 2016, Dr. Williams appeared in a TED Talk titled, “<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick/transcript?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Racism Makes Us Sick</a>”. In this 16 minute video, he discusses how stereotypes in the subconscious minds of healthcare professionals lead to lesser quality care for minorities. He attributes this to implicit biases and explains how it’s an unconscious process that occurs “even among the most well-intended individuals.” According to Williams, when a person of color is being treated by a non-minority medical professional, that provider holds unconscious and inherent biases that cause them to unknowingly provide lesser quality healthcare.

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A topic Dr. Williams discusses often, particularly on Twitter, is white privilege and supremacy in politics. In an <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/williams_medlock_nejm_elections_and_health_2017.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article published by the New England Journal of Medicine</a> in 2017, Dr. Williams alleges that President Donald Trump’s candidacy reignited pre-existing hostile attitudes towards racial and ethnic minorities and migrants. He goes on to describe how Democrats in particular experienced negative health effects after the 2016 election, as they feel they are direct targets of hostility and discrimination, particularly white American conservatives.

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He further accuses the conservative-run Tea Party, which materialized after the election of Barack Obama, of increasing racial animosity in the United States. Dr. Williams claims a large uptick in racism on social media occurred after Obama’s election, as well as a resurgence of historically racist stereotypes. He attributes all of this to the Tea Party.

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<a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tea Party</a> is an organization that was created in response to the 2008 financial and housing crisis in the United States. Outraged by the Obama administration’s policies - such as the mortgage bailouts in 2009 - the Tea Party was born. <a href="https://www.teaparty.org/about-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to their website</a>, the Tea Party claims to have millions of members nationwide, consisting of Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, and Independents alike.

Dr. Williams is also credited with developing the “<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/davidrwilliams/node/32397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Everyday Discrimination Scale</a>” that is widely used as a measure of subjective experiences of discrimination in order to measure feelings of racism. This scale is used in schools to measure students’ perceived level of discrimination in their everyday lives. On the flip side, if students score very low on the scale, teachers and professors want to know why students think they aren’t being discriminated against. This typically boils down to the color of their skin.

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The scale is used in several major universities, particularly in healthcare studies. The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies uses the scale to measure “subjective experiences of daily discrimination against the minority population.” Further details about their use of the scale <a href="https://elcentro.sonhs.miami.edu/research/measures-library/daily-discrimination-scale/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be found here</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Williams for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.
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Parents and Students may contact the <a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health</a> at (617) 495-1000.

On January 2, 2024, <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/harvard-president-reigns-following-refusal-to-condemn-antisemitism-on-campus?utm_campaign=Advancement%20TPUSA%20Weekly&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=2&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hFolse9exN61ocxk6aL6gdlUpP75ptHE-ZLqrTXQI95H-6YArBFTPfeu0TanyhMWv4WtUHY6V6HslQ9IKwMkXpVSvSA&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_source=hs_email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TPUSA Live reported</a>, “Harvard President Claudine Gay, who has received public backlash for her refusal to adequately denounce antisemitism on Harvard’s campus, has issued a letter of resignation.”

As of January 11, over 10,000 people <a href="https://www.change.org/p/resist-the-call-for-the-resignation-of-claudine-gay-as-harvard-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed the Change.org petition</a> calling for Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. The shift away from public support started after Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/oklC-xpSOWc?list=TLPQMTIxMjIwMjOdO_R_5s2NVQ">congressional testimony</a> where she refused to condemn anti-Jewish protests on campus. 

During the December 5, 2023 hearing, New York Representative Elise Stefanik <a href="https://youtu.be/lwu3rBAWvOQ">asked</a> Gay whether inciting violence and genocide against Jews violated Harvard’s rules on bullying or harassment. Gay said, “It can be, depending on the context.” When grilled further about the context, Gay explained, “[When it’s] targeted at an individual.”

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After the October 7 Hamas terrorist invasion that killed over 1,000 Jewish citizens, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/6/unrecognized-student-group-protests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 30 pro-Palestine student groups</a> began protesting on Harvard’s main campus. The Crimson reported that 33 student groups also <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/10/psc-statement-backlash/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement of responsibility</a> wherein Israel is solely blamed for the attack.

In November, at the height of pro-Hamas protests on campus, Gay released a statement:
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views. But that’s a far cry from endorsing them. It’s in the exercise of our freedom to speak that we reveal our characters, and we reveal the character of our institution.…”
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On December 11, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-president-claudine-gay-accused-of-plagiarizing-sections-of-her-ph-d-dissertation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> broke the story on Gay in an article titled, “Harvard President Claudine Gay accused of plagiarizing sections of her Ph.D. dissertation.” Quoting <a href="https://christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-gay-a-plagiarist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo’s report</a>, The College Fix said, “‘First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s paper, ‘Race, Sociopolitical Participation, and Black Empowerment,’ while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language…’”

​​Gay’s resignation also came amid growing controversy surrounding plagiarized publications throughout her career. Gay initially <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/11/news/claudine-gay-denies-newly-surfaced-plagiarism-accusations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied all allegations</a> of plagiarism and<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-rallies-behind-president-claudine-gay-amid-calls-for-resignation-2023-12" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> garnered support</a> from more than 500 faculty members.

On December 12, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/billionaire-confirms-harvard-president-was-dei-hire-as-dozens-more-plagiarism-accusations-emerge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay appeared</a> in The College Fix again. The source said, “Billionaire hedge fund founder Bill Ackman said on [Twitter] he has confirmed that Harvard University’s selection of [Gay] for president was a decision based on diversity, equity and inclusion principles.”

Despite Gay’s lack of integrity and unethical practices, <a href="https://youtu.be/CNXPq6OppJE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The National Desk</a> announced that she will remain a professor at Harvard University and will keep her nearly $900,000 salary.

Please send updates and information on Claudine Gay to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Claudine Gay is the Edgerly Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University — which is the largest division of the university. She’s also a Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and African and African-American Studies.

<a href="https://www.fas.harvard.edu/pages/dean-claudine-gay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Gay’s university profile</a> states, “[S]ince 2006, Gay has studied political behavior, considering issues in her research such as: how the election of minority officeholders affects citizens’ perceptions of their government…how neighborhood environments shape racial and political attitudes among black Americans…and the consequences of housing mobility programs for political participation among the poor.”

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/cgay/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gay’s personal statement</a> says, “I bring many of these interests to my undergraduate and graduate advising and teaching, including my courses on Post-Civil Rights Black Politics; Democratic Citizenship; and Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Immigration.” 

In a publication titled <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/cgay/files/political_behavior_vol_36_p99-124.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-pressures and Black Partisanship</a>, Gay states, in part, “Political observers have long recognized the socially conservative tendencies of the Black mass public. In stark contrast to their views on racial and social welfare, African Americans are firmly anchored to the political right of whites (and other minorities) on a range of moral and cultural issues, including abortion, gay rights, and women’s role in society.”

Professor Gay is also affiliated with <a href="https://inequalityinamerica.fas.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Inequality in America program</a> – “a multidisciplinary effort to elevate and energize teaching and research on social and economic inequality and to use what we learn to inform the public debate and public response to these challenges.” 

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/4/8/gay-thrilled-taeku-hire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Gay’s enthusiasm for expanding the school’s ethnic studies program as she welcomed a new faculty recruit. The article says, “Following more than four decades of lobbying by Harvard students and alumni for an ethnic studies concentration, Gay launched a search for faculty specializing in Asian American, Latinx, and Muslim studies in June 2019.”

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Published - October 6, 2022

Dr. Robin Ely is the Diane Doerge Wilson <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=7287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair</a> of the Harvard Business School’s (HBS) Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative. Ely’s research focuses on race and gender relations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change.

A <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/race-gender-equity-initiative.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Newsroom press release</a> described the initiative as “both a renaming of the Gender Initiative and a reflection of work done to understand…racial equality in organizations and business…”

Dr. Ely said, “Our faculty pursue research in a wide range of fields related to equity, creating knowledge that helps leaders drive change in their organizations and the world,” according to Harvard Newsroom.

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Ely has published several books and journal articles. In 2018, she co-authored an article titled <a href="https://hbr.org/2018/03/beating-the-odds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beating the Odds: Leadership Lessons from Senior African-American Women</a> in which she claimed, “Too often we see business leaders struggle to advance members of underrepresented groups because they model their development strategies on their own paths to success.”

The article concludes by stating, “When African-American women are underrepresented in an organization’s senior leadership roles despite robust academic credentials and work experience, their struggles often suggest a broader problem: a workplace that fails to offer every employee equal access to opportunities for growth.”

In a 2018 symposium, Race, Work &amp; Leadership: Learning About &amp; From Black Experience, Ely said, “[I] take an intersectional approach with the Gender Initiative…I think this is where the energy in the world is right now…gender really shape[s] the lives and livelihoods of people and also our workplaces.”

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Published in 2022

<a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/susan-farbstein/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Farbstein is a Clinical Professor at Harvard Law School</a> (HLS) and the Director of the International Human Rights Clinic. Her work and research focus on human rights in South Africa and socio-economic rights and racial justice in the United States. She has also served as a human rights attorney for South African Apartheid Litigation and other “transitional justice” cases.

In 2017, Farbstein gave <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlU7yaWoCjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an informal talk to male and female HLS students</a>. She opened the meeting by stating she was “happy to celebrate and acknowledge all [they] had achieved as women while being mindful of the many ongoing struggles [for equality] across all spheres – political, economic, social, and cultural in the U.S. and around the world.”

She also said, “We know and feel the many ways that women are under attack,” while acknowledging the women sitting in the room were “comparatively privileged.”

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<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/harvard-law-celebrates-women-inspiring-change/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today reported</a> that Farbstein received recognition during an International Women’s Day celebration in 2018. She received recognition alongside “the creator of the ‘Me Too’’ movement, the first openly transgender woman of color elected to public office in the United States,” and women’s advocates from the Middle East. 

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Martin Nowak is a <a href="https://oeb.harvard.edu/people/martin-nowak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Mathematics and Biology at Harvard University.</a> His university profile says he “works on the mathematical description of evolutionary processes” including research on HIV, HBV, and cancer treatment.

In 2021, Nowak was censured by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay</a>, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences after it was revealed that he had connections to Jeffrey Epstein, a sex trafficker who allegedly committed suicide while awaiting trial in 2019.

<a href="https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/03/martin-nowak-sanctioned-for-jeffrey-epstein-involvement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Magazine said</a>, “In an email sent to faculty members, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in the department of mathematics and organismic and evolutionary biology…Gay announced disciplinary actions against Nowak…stemming from his connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.”

Harvard Magazine continued, “[B]etween 1998 and 2008, Epstein made gifts of $6.5 million to the Program of Evolutionary Dynamics, which was run by Nowak.” Despite Gay initially announcing Nowak would no longer hold his positions at Harvard, it was later confirmed that he would “remain on the faculty of the mathematics department, but Gay listed two-year limits that would be placed on his advising and research activities.”

<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvard-punishes-professor-who-had-ties-jeffrey-epstein-n1262187" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News reported</a> that Nowak “gave Epstein ‘unrestricted’ access to campus…[and] an office in Nowak’s campus research center, along with a building key card, and allowed Epstein to visit even after [his] 2008 sex crimes conviction.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Yanilda Gonzalez is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/yanilda-gonzalez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School</a>. She teaches Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times, as well as Policing, Citizenship, and Inequality in Comparative Perspective. Both courses offer guidance for analyzing systemic inequalities and injustice in American society.

According to her university profile, Professor Gonzalez focuses her research on “policing, state violence, and citizenship in democracy, examining how race, class, and other forms of inequality shape these processes.” She has also published several scholarly articles and one book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Authoritarian_Police_in_Democracy/afwAEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=authoritarian+police+in+democracy&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America</a>.”

The book explores why “police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law [and] the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization.”

In a <a href="https://youtu.be/CkGBLBCHaXM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School video discussion</a> of her book, Gonzalez said her inspiration for the publication started when she was a “young and impressionable college student who was starting to learn about democracy as a political science major.” After witnessing alleged human rights abuses during 9/11, working for the <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/publications/forces-against-progress-are-gathering-new-york-must-lead-way-forward">New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)</a>, and studying post-dictatorship policing in South America, Gonzalez came to wonder “how can democratic systems perpetuate authoritarian practices.”

The NYCLU’s is a non-profit organization that focuses on racial justice, voting reform, transgender rights, and the rights of incarcerated people. The group’s legislative goals include lowering incarceration rates among Blacks by decriminalizing minor drug possession and eliminating “taxes on poverty” — these are court fees and fines collected by local governments as a “major source of funding.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Aminta Ossom is a <a href="https://hrp.law.harvard.edu/faculty/aminta-ossom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law</a> at Harvard University. Her research interests and teaching consist of equality, inclusion, economic and social justice, as well as human rights diplomacy and the role of identity in advocacy.

Ossom was featured in a 2020 Harvard Law Today article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/event-series-explores-racial-justice-and-human-rights/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Event Series Explores Racial Justice and Human Rights</a>.” She hosted a series of talks “between students, scholars, and practitioners on the role that race plays both in the practice and substance of international human rights work.” When asked what inspired her to convene the event series, Ossom said,

“The series is inspired most directly by the ongoing discussions about systemic racism that have accompanied protests for racial justice around the world…Observations about human rights practice can spark ideas that lead to great legal scholarship.”

In the wake of the high-profile deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Ossom co-authored <a href="https://deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=229087098105069064000019124018110099098073020038068011091083024111002018074073066027060118002034019104038016068000078089071026020039005023014121118068002073064111119010065042002003091113006102093092118006112003102116125029086103080105100088068072110090&amp;EXT=pdf&amp;INDEX=TRUE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Toward an Antiracist Clinical Community, Pedagogy, &amp; Practice</a>. The research paper “is intended to serve that goal [of antiracist work], turning the focus inward to interrogate how the status quo of a clinic’s structure, practices, and teaching methods might contribute to racial inequities in the learning environment and legal field.”

During a <a href="https://youtu.be/zRG0pQ_pzio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtual discussion</a>, “Human Rights, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” Ossom joined a panel of social justice activists to discuss the legacy of slavery, race violence, and police brutality. Ossom primarily served as the moderator but joined the conversation to share thoughts on the “defund the police” movement:

“I’m also hearing, too, that issues of trust aren’t just issues of trust for the police. They’re also issues of trust for systems of education, nutritional security, water and sanitation, [and] in other systems...But I should also point out that there’s also distrust among other institutions because of the fact that they failed to provide for Black American communities.

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Published - October 20, 2022
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John Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster <a href="https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/john-comaroff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology</a> at Harvard University. His teaching and research interests include crime, policing, and democracy in postcolonial politics. 

In June 2022, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/6/29/comaroff-amended-complaint/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Harvard Crimson</a> as an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault crimes on campus. The Crimson said, “Comaroff is facing new allegations of sexual harassment in an <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.242149/gov.uscourts.mad.242149.35.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amended lawsuit</a> that includes accounts of unwanted touching, kissing, and sexual remarks during his three decades as a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he allegedly engaged in multiple sexual relationships with students.”

When accusations resulted in a lawsuit against the college, Comaroff was placed on unpaid administrative leave in January. Comaroff’s colleagues immediately rallied in support with nearly 40 faculty and staff adding signatures to <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.thecrimson.com/pdf/2022/02/04/1353924.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an open letter</a>. The letter states:

“Harvard’s Office of Dispute Resolution (ODR) found that Comaroff had ‘engaged in verbal conduct that violated the FAS Sexual and Gender-Based Harassment Policy and the FAS Profesional Conduct Policy. Although Comaroff had been accused by three students, only one allegation was found by Harvard's ODR to have any merit.”

“We the undersigned know John Comaroff to be an excellent colleague, advisor and committed university citizen who has for five decades trained and advised hundreds of Ph.D. students of diverse backgrounds…We are dismayed by Harvard’s sanctions against him and concerned about its effects on our ability to advise our own students.”

By February 10 — when details of the lawsuit became public — the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/2/10/comaroff-faculty-letter-retraction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crimson reported</a>, “Almost all of the Harvard professors who signed an open letter that questioned the results of misconduct investigations into professor Comaroff have retracted their support.” In turn, “some of Harvard’s most prominent scholars signed a letter of retraction” and one sent an email to recant their support.

According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/02/10/harvard-sexual-misconduct-comaroff/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washinton Post</a>, “The reversal came after three Harvard graduate students filed a lawsuit accusing the university of ignoring sexual harassment allegations against Comaroff…Attorneys for Comaroff said he categorically denies ever harassing or retaliating against any student…The lawsuit characterized Harvard’s response to complaints as ‘deliberate indifference…’”

As of September, Comaroff was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/09/accused-harasser-john-comaroff-returns-harvard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removed from administrative leave</a> and allowed back in the classroom. The lawsuit against Harvard and Comaroff is ongoing.

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Published - November 3, 2022

Sandra Susan Smith is the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/sandra-susan-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice</a> and Faculty Director for the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard Kennedy School. Part of her research interests is focused on racial inequality in pretrial detention and diversion. Smith believes criminal offenders — particularly those in black communities — who are monitored electronically incur unfavorable psychological, social, and economic injuries.

<a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/parole/electronic-monitoring/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronic monitoring (EM)</a> is an incarceration alternative that allows pretrial offenders to avoid bail payments or extra time behind bars while awaiting court hearings.

Harvard Kennedy School published an article featuring Smith titled <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/san-francisco-has-fewer-pretrial-detainees-jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“San Francisco has few pretrial detainees in jail. But at what cost?”</a> Smith’s research into pretrial detainees revealed that “more than 40% were black, despite black people making up only about 5% of San Francisco’s population.” In the article, Smith argues:

“Reforms like pretrial EM, while presumably meant as a move toward lower incarceration, end up trapping participants in cycles of interaction with the criminal legal system even before they’ve been convicted of a crime. EM, like incarceration itself, reproduces inequalities by race and class and prevents participants from becoming full members of society.”

Essentially, Smith advocates that the mental health of offenders who are monitored is a greater risk than the probability of them committing further crimes while awaiting trial. She “hopes that as reforms continue to happen in the criminal justice system…and that San Francisco will substantially scale back its use of pretrial EM,” according to Harvard Kennedy School.

Smith teaches Section A: Exploring Institutions and Modes of Racial Domination of a course called “<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives</a>.” The section description says, 

“This module…[examines] power and oppression in the contemporary American context. We will explore key theoretical and empirical insights from the social sciences to highlight the role of institutions of racial domination have played in producing durable racial hierarchies…”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Cornell Williams Brooks — a former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — is the Hauser Professor of the Practice of Nonprofit Organizations and Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership and Social Justice. 

His <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/cornell-william-brooks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a> states he was a visiting professor of social ethics, law, and justice movement at Boston University’s School of Law and School of Theology. On the Gloria Purvis Podcast, Brooks discussed how “black” churches in America should respond to social justice issues. He said the church was “tremendously consequential” in his life and his decision to become a minister.

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<a href="https://sacobserver.com/2022/10/the-reparations-debate-continues-as-advocates-push-for-broader-societal-acceptance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Brooks supports reparations for the descendants of African slaves.</a> In October 2022, Brooks’s thoughts were included in The Observer article titled “The Reparations Debate Continues as Advocates Push for Broader Societal Acceptance.” The article states, “Although African-Americans were purportedly freed by President Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, they have never been totally free from being under the boot of white domination and supremacy.”

Brooks told The Observer,

“‘There are a great many studies about harm and repair [that are] [sic]regular and routine…Data suggests that reparations is [sic] commonplace. For example, veteran’s injuries, losing property, bad vaccines and when farmers lose their crops. Reparations is not aberrational but is a customary means of redress.”

In May 2020, Brooks was featured in an NPR publication titled “<a href="https://www.delawarepublic.org/national-headlines/2020-05-31/former-naacp-head-cornell-brooks-blames-derek-chauvin-for-violence-at-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Former NAACP Head Cornell Brooks Blames Derek Chauvin for Violence at Protests.</a>” At the height of the controversy — when netizens and politicians were blaming Antifa and far-left radical extremist groups, Brooks said he thought “the police officer who knelt on Floyd’s neck should be blamed for violent protests, too.”

NPR quoted Brooks saying,

“In these marches and demonstrations, there are anarchists and white supremacists and others who show up…[b]ut to be clear: There would be no protests, there would be no demonstrations, had Derek Chauvin not killed George Floyd.” 

“[Chauvin] should also be charged with looting, with arson, and with sowing the seeds of chaos and dissension in our public. He is an accomplice, he is a co-conspirator [and] a co-participant in the destruction were are experiencing as a country.”
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Rioters may have burned Minneapolis &amp; Atlanta—but matches were supplied by Derek Chauvin &amp; Donald Trump. Who supplied or lit matches won’t matter to a Black mother who loses her child to a fire or bullet.
Don’t give them a victory—or our lives. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/atlantaprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#atlantaprotest</a> <a href="https://t.co/LrWYh5DzGe">pic.twitter.com/LrWYh5DzGe</a>

— Rev. &amp; Prof. Cornell William Brooks (@CornellWBrooks) <a href="https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/status/1266573016923869186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Marks serves as a <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.</a> Her professor profile says her “research and teaching interests focus on the intersection of conflict and political violence.” Her work also explores race, gender, and equality.

She teaches International and Intersectional Approaches to Race and Racism — this is “section C” of a class titled “Race and Racism in Public Policies, Practices, and Perspectives.” The <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/race-and-racism-public-policies-practices-and-perspectives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> says, 

“Students will confront legacies and explore key frameworks, from caste to global antiblackness, for understanding and redressing how racism shapes our lives and our world. Each student will build a personal toolkit of intersectional policy analysis skills and concepts…we will work toward concrete policy and advocacy solutions to system racism.”

Zoe Marks is an outspoken supporter of pro-abortion policies, social justice, and women’s rights. In an opinion titled “Breaking the Silence,” she told <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/fairness-justice/roe-v-wade-has-been-overturned-what-does-mean#zoe-marks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School News</a>,

“The Supreme Court’s decision to let state legislatures control people’s access to abortion care is the latest chapter in a decades-long conversation that most Americans have been reluctant to have…As a historical reference point, it’s useful to remember there is no record of women being discussed at the Constitutional Convention…”

She continued,

“For millions of enslaved women, who were held as property and legally denied bodily autonomy and personhood, sharing knowledge of birth control and abortifacients was a way to claim their sovereignty and resist white capitalist violence.”

Marks co-authored an article titled “<a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2022-02-08/women-rights-revenge-patriarchs?check_logged_in=1&amp;utm_medium=promo_email&amp;utm_source=lo_flows&amp;utm_campaign=registered_user_welcome&amp;utm_term=email_1&amp;utm_content=20221101" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Revenge of the Patriarchs: Why Autocrats Fear Women</a>” in which she discusses the role of women throughout world history and politics. From Marks’ perspective, “Countries with authoritarian-leaning leaders, such as Brazil, Hungary, and Poland, have seen the rise of far-right movements that promote traditional gender roles as patriotic while railing against ‘gender ideology.’”

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In the same publication, Marks also said,

“Even the United States has experienced a slowdown in progress toward gender equity and a rollback of reproductive rights…During his presidency, Donald Trump worked with antifeminist stalwarts…to halt the expansion of women’s rights around the world.”

“And despite the Biden administration’s commitment to gender equity at the national level, Republican-controlled states are attempting to reverse the constitutional right to abortion, which is now more vulnerable than it has been in decades.”

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Published November 3, 2022

Erica Chenoweth is <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/beyond-roe-mutually-reinforcing-nature-misogyny-and-autocracy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described by Foreign Affairs</a> as “one of the world’s foremost experts on the history of civil resistance, mass movements, and political repression.”

According to her <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/erica-chenoweth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Kennedy School profile</a>, Chenoweth is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies.

Chenoweth is an active member of the LGBT+ community who prefers the pronouns “they/them/their.” Her publications include several books and articles focused on civil, “nonviolent resistance.”

In her paper “<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erica-Chenoweth/publication/256063007_Terrorism_and_Democracy/links/5d9eb26992851cce3c910876/Terrorism-and-Democracy.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Terrorism and Democracy,</a>” Chenoweth explores links between terrorism and democratic societies. In response to research findings, she states,

“Democracies with low levels of legitimacy, poor human rights practices, intermediate levels of political and economic development, and unresolved conflict among ethnic and political groups experienced the most terrorism.”

As the director of <a href="https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/non-violent-social-movements?_gl=1*1q1l377*_ga*NjQ4MTM2OTgyLjE2NjQ5MDU5MTg.*_ga_72NC9RC7VN*MTY2NzM0NDUzOS43LjEuMTY2NzM0NDU0Ni4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard’s Nonviolent Action Lab</a>, Chenoweth leads a cause that “produces and disseminates up-to-date knowledge on nonviolent action, how it works, and global trends in success and failure.” In 2020, the Lab featured an article she co-authored titled “<a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/oct/20/erica-chenoweth-and-jeremy-pressman-black-lives-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter protesters were overwhelming peaceful, our research finds.</a>” She defends the “mostly peaceful protests” narrative and cites data from a Homeland Threat Assessment:

“[T]he report misleadingly added that there had been ‘over 100 days of violence destruction in our cities,’ referring to the anti-racism uprisings this past summer. In fact, Black Lives Matter uprisings were remarkably nonviolent.”

“Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism…our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.”

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Published November 3, 2022

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/jesse-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jesse McCarthy</a> is an Assistant Professor of English as well as a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His interests include African American Literature, Modernism, and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies.

McCarthy authored a collection of essays entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Who-Will-Pay-Reparations-Soul-ebook/dp/B08D1K6354/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=who+will+pay+reparations+on+my+soul+essays&amp;qid=1668008114&amp;sprefix=who+will+pay%2Caps%2C279&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B08D1K6354&amp;revisionId=5b7726f8&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?</a>” in which he argues “for the central role of art and intellection culture in an age of widening inequality and moral crisis,” according to the publisher’s summary. In his introduction, A Note on Style and Usage, McCarthy says,

“Pride in culture and rooted history have always been important to our struggles. Historically, W.E.B. Du Bois and others fought to have the word ‘Negro’ capitalized for this very reason. In that case, ‘the Negro’ became a demonym specifically denoting US racial blackness. The word ‘Negro’...reflects and will always be associated with the history of black Americans under the racial regime of Jim Crow.”

When <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/06/jesse-mccarthy-discusses-his-new-essay-collection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette asked McCarthy</a>, “Where does the title of the collection come from?”, he said, 

“The title is an homage to Gil Scott-Heron…a writer, a poet, and a musician who used his art as a vehicle for ideas and politics and critical thinking…I’m more interested in asking and provoking questions than providing answers.”

He continued,

“This isn’t a prescriptive book — you can’t open it and find an answer to the question of reparations for racial injustice in America or anywhere else. But hopefully, you can open the book and it will provoke you to think about those problems in new ways and raise a bunch of new ones too.”

In 2021, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/review/jesse-mccarthy-who-will-pay-reparations-on-my-soul.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured McCarthy discussing his collection of essays</a> in an article titled To This Essayist and Cultural Critic, the Black Tradition is Resistance. Regarding McCarthy’s target audience for the book, the commentary says, “Some potential readership came of age in the period bookended by the police killings of Michale Brown, in 2014, and both Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, in 2020 — the same period during which McCarthy wrote the essays…”

The New York Times continued, “[McCarthy] mainly hopes to convey ‘the basic premise that nothing is outside our purview, that there are no limits to the ideas, realms of knowledge, creative traditions or political histories that we can lay claim to and incorporate…[McCarthy] convincing explained [his] personal decision to resist the trend of capitalizing ‘Black’ in reference to the community to which he happens to belong.”

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Published - November 10, 2022

<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lawrence D. Bobo</a> is the Dean of Social Science and the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. His faculty profile also says he served as the Chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies, and his research focuses on the “intersection of social psychology, social inequality, politics, and race.”

In June 2020, <a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/06/lawrence-d-bobo-examines-police-killings-of-black-men/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Gazette published a Q &amp; A</a> titled “The Fire This Time.” The subheading says, “[Bobo] dissects police killings of Black men and the history and cognitive forces behind racial bigotry and violence, and why he sees signs of hope.”

The Gazette asked, “In the majority of police-related killings of Black people, the assailants are white. Is that enough to conclude that racism is the cause, or are their other causes also at work?” Bobo responded,

“Certainly racism, and both the historic legacy of racism and the long, deeply etched legacy of racism in terms of our current social conditions and circumstances…have been profoundly distorted by racism.”

He continued,

“It’s really important to recall that what slavery did…was to forge a tight link between our social class structure and a kind of racial hierarchy. It created a bottom rung of people who were racially stigmatized and in the deepest economic disadvantage and poverty.”

Bobo co-authored a book entitled, “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Racial_Attitudes_in_America/mPOWMEEKpY0C?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=Racial+Attitudes+in+America&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations</a>.” Chapter 3: Trends in White Racial Attitudes discusses six questions surrounding trends “of how white racial attitudes changed over the past half-century.” Regarding affirmative action, Bobo et al., stated,

“The first affirmative action steps had been attempts to eliminate what came to be called ‘institutional racism’...A second, more active type of affirmative step was to devote government funds to improving the lives of black Americans…Finally, a third and still more dramatic step was to give preference to blacks in employment and educational situations, as a way of…accelerating the move toward equality of outcomes.” 

Bobo was named among the “Top 10 Black Sociologists from the last 30 Years” in a publication from <a href="https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/black-scholars/sociologists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academic Influence</a>. Bobo’s profile is dated from 1900-present [sic], ranks him #79,953 “Most Influential Person,” and links to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_D._Bobo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bob’s Wikipedia page</a>. Harvard’s Department of Sociology issued a “wholehearted endorsement” of <a href="https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/sociology/files/george_floyd_and_our_times.pdf?m=1591301322" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bobo’s statement on the death of George Floyd</a> in which Bobo said he was “encouraged by the level of mass mobilization and civil protest[s]” that took place across the United States and around the world.

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marcella Alsan</a> is a Professor of Public Policy and Faculty affiliate in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. <a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/alsan/files/cv_alsan.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to her CV</a>, she’s taught in the fields of medicine, health research and policy, and economics since 2013.

From 2021 to 2022, Alsan served on the Committee on Improving the Representation of Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Clinical Trials and Research at NASEM (<a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine</a>). According to the About page, NASEM is a nonprofit institution that “works to shape sound policies, inform public opinion, and advance the pursuit of science, engineering, and medicine.”

Alsan and her committee <a href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/improving-the-representation-of-women-and-underrepresented-minorities-in-clinical-trials-and-research#sectionPublications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a study</a> that concluded, “While progress has been made with the representation of white women in clinical trials and clinical research, there has been little progress in the last three decades to increase participation of racial and ethnic minority population groups.”

Alsan also co-authored a paper titled “<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24787/w24787.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Does Diversity Matter for Health? Experimental Evidence From Oakland</a>.” Citing previous studies, the introduction says,

“African-American men have the lowest life expectancy of any major demographic group in the United States and live on average 4.5 few years than non-Hispanic white men. Reasons for this disparity are multifactorial and include lack of health insurance, lower socioeconomic status, and structural racism.”

Alsan et al., further state,

“There are several ways in which racial diversity could play a role in medicine, specifically as it relates to the patient-doctor relationship. Taste-based discrimination on the part of the patient or doctor could imply that individuals are averse to interacting with those who do not share their racial background. On the other hand, internalized racism…could lead to the opposite phenomenon…” 

In 2020, Alsan <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/wiener-conference-calls/marcella-alsan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined a Weiner Conference Call</a> to talk about the “economics of infectious diseases” where she discussed the Covid-19 virus, vaccines, and some research conducted by Dr. Anthony Fauci’s — the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) who was <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed for allegedly covering up origins of the Covid-19 pandemic</a>.

During the questions section, the moderator asked on behalf of a student, “‘Very open the terms ‘minorities’ and ‘marginalized communities’ are used interchangeably…During Covid-19, has it been important or relevant to make a distinction between the two groups from a policy point of view?’” 

Alsan gave a hesitant, incoherent response, “I think what…I work mostly in the United States and I think it’s important to think about who is historically disadvantaged, and, um, who might need…who [is] particularly vulnerable. Because simply being less than the majority doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll be equally vulnerable.”

On October 17, 2022, the National Academy of Medicine <a href="https://nam.edu/national-academy-of-medicine-elects-100-new-members-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Aslan as a newly elected member</a>. The announcement says she was elected for “her scholarly insights on understanding the origins of medical mistrust and the role it plays in understanding health disparities. Her work has shaped policy in addressing disparities…and improving messaging in reaching historically marginalized and vulnerable populations.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/people/shirley-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Shirley Greene</a> is the Associate Dean of Students at the Harvard Extension School. She’s also a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences - <a href="https://edib.harvard.edu/DCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Division of Continuing Education</a>. Her profile says she’s “dedicated to furthering diversity, inclusion, and belonging” at Harvard.

Dr. Greene’s primary role is the Title IX Resources Coordinator — a position that gives her unrestricted access to all complaints of sexual discrimination, as well as reports of retaliation or system issues that may continually raise once complaints are processed.

Dr. Greene is an affiliate and ally of Harvard’s <a href="https://oge.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office for Gender Equity (OGE)</a>. The organization provides “professional training” to recognize, report, investigate and appeal sexual misconduct. The About page states, 

“The [OGE] empowers and supports the Harvard community to advance a climate of gender equity and inclusion through evidence-based educational initiatives, excellence in research and practice, and delivery of direct services.”

In a video titled “<a href="https://youtu.be/yCb5bUnfzMI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Brief History of Juneteenth,</a>” Dr. Greene begins her talk by asking, “What does Juneteenth mean to you?” She follows up by giving her interpretation of the holiday and says,’

“Juneteenth marks the day slavery officially ended in the United States on June 19, 1865. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation promised freedom to enslaved people in the Confederate states on January 1, 1863, following the four-year Civil War.”

She continued,

“However, it was a full two and half years before all states were compelled to honor this executive order, effectively freeing the 250,000 people still being held under slavery in Texas. We join you in giving this holiday the national recognition it deserves, while acknowledging that many members of the African-American community continue to struggle for the dignity, access, equality, equity, and inclusion that was envisioned by the Emancipation Proclamation.”
Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/crystal-s-yang/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal S. Yang</a> holds a Ph.D. in Economics and is the Bennett Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Her areas of interest include civil rights, law and equity, poverty law and economic justice.

Yang’s faculty appointment was announced in a 2019 article from <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-13-named-professor-of-law-at-harvard-law-school/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Law Today</a>. The report says,

“Yang’s recent empirical projects focus on the effects of the bail system on defendants’ short and long-term outcomes, racial bias in the criminal justice system, the spillover effects of deportation fear, and the use of algorithms in the criminal justice system.”

Yang co-authored a study titled “<a href="https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/133/4/1885/5025665?redirectedFrom=fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Bias in Bail Decisions</a>.” The abstract states, 

“We motivate our analysis using <a href="https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-gary-becker-saw-the-scourge-of-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[Gary] Becker’s model of racial bias</a>, which predicts that rates of pretrial misconduct will be identical for marginal white and marginal black defendants if bail judges are racially unbiased. In contrast, marginal white defendants will have higher rates of misconduct than marginal black defendants if the bail judges are racially biased…”

Yang et al., continued,

“We find suggestive evidence that racial bias is driven by bail judges relying on inaccurate stereotypes that exaggerate the relative danger of releasing black defendants.”

Yang was also featured in the Winter 2019 issue of Harvard Law Bulletin in an article titled “<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/today/crystal-yang-an-empirical-approach/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crystal Yang: An Empirical Approach: Making the Case for Criminal Justice Reform</a>.” The author said, “While pretrial detention is often justified as a crime deterrent, Yang and her colleagues found that it actually has a criminogenic effect.” Yang was credited with researching and developing “tools that judges could use to make more-informed decisions.”

In 2021, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/the-economic-costs-of-pretrial-detention/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brookings reported</a> Yang’s research on bail disparities led her to co-author a study that led to the conclusion of how “reducing pre-trial detention…would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals…their families and communities.”

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Published - November 23, 2022

<a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/alejandra-caraballo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alejandra Caraballo</a> is a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School’s (HLS) Cyberlaw clinic. Caraballo is a transwoman — a biological male at birth who identifies as female — and prefers feminine pronouns. His Harvard University profile says,

“Alejandra previously served as the Secretary of the LGBTQ Rights Committee of the New York City Bar Association and was appointed as the first openly trans community board member in Brooklyn. Alejandra's areas of interest include the intersection of technology and disability rights, [prostitution], and the implications of quantum computing on encryption.”

In July 2022, <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19822" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform featured Caraballo</a> in a piece titled “Harvard Law instructor: ‘It is our civic duty to accost’ the ‘6 justices who overturned Roe.’” The article cites several Twitter posts, most of which are no longer available on his public profile:

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In November 2021 Caraballo was <a href="https://clinics.law.harvard.edu/blog/2021/08/meet-the-first-trans-women-of-color-to-teach-at-harvard-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a Harvard Law publication</a> titled “Meet the first trans woman of color to teach at Harvard Law.” He joined another man who identifies as a trans woman to discuss their positions at HLS. Harvard Law said, 

“Both instructors, who identify as Latina…are excited to start a new chapter at Harvard after dedicating years to LGBTQ+ legal and advocacy work. They are also both familiar with the unique pressure and emotional weight of their presence in the legal field — where systematic hurdles still block trans people from entry…”

Harvard Law continued,

“Requirements when taking the bar in some states…only allow applicants to be addressed with ‘Mr.’ or ‘Ms’ honorifics...The depth of details that students need to disclose before taking a bar exam…has historically ‘been a problem for trans people who wanted to break into the law...You’re essentially forced to out yourself to a bar committee,’ [Caraballo] said.”

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There is no moral difference between a business turning away a gay couple or an interracial couple. Both rely on refusing to do business because of their immutable identities. I can't see any rule that can differentiate between the two.
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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/diane-l-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Rosenfeld</a> is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.

Rosenfeld teaches a course titled <a href="https://hls.harvard.edu/courses/bonobo-sisterhood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bonobo Sisterhood</a>. A description for the class promises to explore “the power and potential of female alliances to disrupt patriarchal systems.” 

She has also written a book titled, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bonobo-Sisterhood-Revolution-Through-Alliance/dp/0063085070" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Bonobo Sisterhood Revolution Through Female Alliance</a>.” The description states that Rosenfeld will “harness the power of the #MeToo movement into a road map for sex equality” by analyzing the social relations of bonobo monkeys.

In the book, <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she writes</a>, “Racism and sexism go hand in hand…Each is based on white male supremacy and reflects a foundation in law authored by and judged over by, overwhelmingly, white men. White supremacist patriarchy places white men above everyone else.” 

Rosenfeld <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/20/bonobo-sisterhood-primate-ancestors-patriarchy-diane-rosenfeld/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims these monkeys have no patriarchal roles</a>, “Evolutionarily, they have eliminated male sexual coercion.” Rosenfeld states, “A new idea of the bonobo sisterhood is to think about equality among women, not measuring our equality solely in relation to men.” 

She states that “Bonobos offer us a model for female sexuality outside of patriarchy,” but claims it will only work if “<a href="https://msmagazine.com/2022/10/19/diane-rosenfeld-bonobo-sisterhood-female-alliance-patriarchy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white women get on board</a>.” Rosenfeld hopes to “let men know that stepping outside the harmful tropes of masculinity will be liberating and better for all.” 

Rosenfeld continues, “This calls for a serious reckoning—especially among white women—about racism and white supremacy. My hope is that this can contribute to a huge leap forward for humankind.” 

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Published - December 29, 2022
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Former CNN correspondent Brian Stelter is the <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/programs/fellowships/walter-shorenstein-media-democracy-fellowship/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Shorenstein Media &amp; Democracy Fellow</a> at the Harvard Kennedy School. Stelter joined the university’s Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy in the Fall of 2022. Details of Stelter's position were featured in a <a href="https://shorensteincenter.org/stelter-shorenstein-fellow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard press release</a>:

“As the Walter Shorenstein Fellow, Stelter will convene a series of discussions about threats to democracy and the range of potential responses from the news media. These discussions with media leaders, policymakers…and faculty will help deepen public and scholarly understanding about the current state of the information ecosystem and its impacts on democratic governance.”

Stelter received the Walter Shorenstein appointment shortly after being terminated from his position as the host of CNN’s Reliable Sources (RS). The show ran for 30 years with Stelter at the helm from 2013 until its cancellation in August 2022. According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-taps-journalism-expert-brian-stelter-for-teaching-gig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, "Stelter was let go by CNN after its new chairman and CEO, Chris Licht, took the reins from Jeff Zucker, who encouraged Stelter to make criticism of right-wing media the focus of his show…”

In a video announcing his departure, Stelter said,

“As most of you know, CNN has a new owner. Warner Brothers Discovery is making big changes across the company. And there’s going to be more change all across the company including here at CNN. And I’m sad I won’t be here to cover it.”

He continued,

"This entire hour is a special hour and it's about change. It's about change all across the media world. What's changing, what might change, and what must never change about the accountability function of journalism. You know I love this show, this small but mighty show that punched above its weight for so many years."

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In August 2020, Stelter <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hoax/PKv5DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a book</a> titled“Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.” Publishers said the novel includes “never before reported details [that expose] the media personalities who, though morally bankrupt, profit outrageously by promoting the President’s propaganda and radicalizing the American right.”

Under the section subheading, The Cult, Stelter wrote,

“The MAGAsphere targeted journalists who pointed out Trump’s falsehoods and flubs. Fox’s truth-tellers faced some of the most vociferous attacks because they were perceived to be turncoats.“

He continued later in the chapter,

“Once unbound from the shackles of truth, Fox’s power came from what it decided to cover — its chosen narratives — and what it decided to ignore. Trump’s immature, erratic, and immoral behavior? His sucking up to Putin? His mingling of presidential business and personal profit? Fox talk shows played dumb and targeted the ‘deep state’ instead.”
Published January 11, 2023

<a href="https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/jason-bryan-silverstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Silverstein</a> is a Global Health and Social Medicine Lecturer and the Co-Director of Math of Science in Media, Medicine, and Health at Harvard Medical School. In May 2022, one month before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 ruling Roe v. Wade, Silverstein submitted a narrative to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a39970410/abortion-saved-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Health Magazine</a>. The article retells the story of a woman who underwent an abortion procedure that allegedly saved her life. Silverstein introduced the publication by stating, 

“While many states will make exceptions for the life of the mother, medical emergency exceptions are not as clear as they may seem—how close to death does a woman have to be before an abortion is legal isn’t black-and-white…What is clear is that many women are alive today because they could have an abortion…”

The woman that Silverstein wrote to Men’s Health about was experiencing an ectopic pregnancy —a potentially life-threatening condition caused by a fertilized egg growing outside the uterus (i.e. in the fallopian tubes). The abnormality can cause severe internal bleeding and laparoscopic surgery (which usually results in terminating the pregnancy) is often required to successfully treat the issue.

In September of the same year, Men’s Health <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a34044035/covid-19-need-real-lockdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a Silverstein article with the title, “We Can’t Beat COVID-19 Without a 6-Week Lockdown.” Under the heading, “Why a lockdown is a reasonable move,” Silverstein said,

“By now the evidence is clear: lockdowns work. We know that strict lockdowns worked in China, slowing down how fast the virus spreads. In Wuhanm, the unprecedented 76-day lockdown, in which people were barred [from] leaving the city or their homes for once every three days for food, stopped new infections by two-thirds.”

After praising lockdown policies in Italy, France and New Zealand, he continued,

“The lack of any real lockdown plus patchwork of state policies feels like a strategy designed by the COVID virus itself…Just as cases started to surge in the summer, states decided to relax what orders they had…[B]ecause the first lockdowns were half-assed, now the need for a second may be a death sentence for some small businesses…

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<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/people/alex-keuroghlian-md-mph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Keuroghlian</a>, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and a Faculty Advisor for the LGBTQ+ and Allies at Harvard Medical School (<a href="https://lgbt.hms.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LAHMS</a>). Keuroghlian’s faculty profile says “[h]is clinical practice and research focus[es] on sexual and gender minority health.”

Keuroghlian is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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AP News <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-transgender-infants-intersex-540241339130" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended</a> Keuroghlian’s course in a publication titled, “Harvard med school class isn’t about ‘trans infants.’” The source said, “Claim: A class at Harvard Medical School trains students to teach transgender infants. AP’s assessment: False. The Harvard class…discusses intersex infants in the context of their physical development…The portion of the course that focuses on infants does not cover gender identity or sexual orientation…”

The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Keuroghlian currently works as the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/search?Text=alex%20Keuroghlian&amp;Start=1&amp;MaxResults=10&amp;summary=context&amp;MethodName=getglobal&amp;PageNumber=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the MGH Psychiatry Gender Identity Program; he’s accepting new patients in his clinic. 

Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Surgical</a> Program. The former “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The latter “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”

Keuroghlian is the Director of the Division of Education and Training at Boston’s Fenway Institute in Boston. <a href="https://fenwayhealth.org/we-must-replace-psychiatric-gatekeeping-with-informed-consent-for-gender-affirming-surgery/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a newsletter</a>—titled “We must replace psychiatric gatekeeping with informed consent for gender-affirming surgery”— the organization reflected on gender-affirming surgical protocols: 

“The prior standard requiring assessment of suitability for surgery by a mental health care professional was designed to prevent regret about undergoing surgical procedures [but]...regret for gender-affirming surgical procedures is very rare, and there is no evidence that presurgical mental health screening reduces rates of regret.”
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Alex Keuroghlian, MD MPH <a href="https://twitter.com/FenwayHealth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FenwayHealth</a> on threats toward youth pursuing gender-affirming care, their families, and medical providers. <a href="https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q">https://t.co/IW4gM5jD6q</a> <a href="https://t.co/yW2K1nuWSI">pic.twitter.com/yW2K1nuWSI</a>
— MGH Psychiatry (@MGHPsychiatry) <a href="https://twitter.com/MGHPsychiatry/status/1620266773290582017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Alberto Puig is the <a href="https://meded.hms.harvard.edu/people/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Dean</a> for Undergraduate Medical Education at Harvard Medical School and the <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/doctors/18740/alberto-puig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director</a> of the Clinician Educator Service in the Department of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). 

Puig’s MGH profile shows he’s a hospitalist who treats adults. However, Puig is one of the course directors for <a href="https://medcatalog.harvard.edu/coursedetails.aspx?cid=IND510M.3&amp;did=250&amp;yid=2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IND510M.3</a>-Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Sex Development. 

The course description states, “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan from infants to older adults...Based on individual interests, students will have the opportunity to engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor related to gender and sexual minority health.”

A snapshot of the curriculum can be viewed below.

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The course description also lists Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) as the main location. Notably, the hospital encompasses a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/transgender-health-program">Health</a> Program and a Transgender <a href="https://www.massgeneral.org/surgery/plastic-surgery/treatments-and-services/treatments/transgender-surgical-program">Surgical</a> Program. 

The health program “integrates clinical care…[with] a commitment to community-based a commitment to community-based research to advance health care for the transgender community [and]...transgender health education.” The surgical program  “works closely with providers from the Transgender Health Program…to develop a safe and all-inclusive surgical plan that aligns with the patient’s personal goals.”
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-change/team/gaurab-basu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaurab Basu</a> is a physician and co-founder of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy as well as an instructor at Harvard Medical School (HMS). His university profile also says he co-directed a social medicine course and served on an anti-racism task force.

Basu is an outspoken proponent of climate change who advocates for removing gas powered appliances from modern homes.

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No gas into the house. Gas meter removed! <a href="https://t.co/bSqPC3GOST">pic.twitter.com/bSqPC3GOST</a>
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620206106562936832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Heating rooms and water cause the greatest emissions so heat pumps and a water heater heat pump is best to start. But yes the stove causes most indoor pollution. I should have an op Ed coming out next week to say more! Boston Standard company is great and coordinated everything.
— Dr. Gaurab Basu (@GaurabBasuMDMPH) <a href="https://twitter.com/GaurabBasuMDMPH/status/1620219734091522049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In 2021, Basu <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/united-nations-climate-change-report-heat-east-coast-20210810.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial titled</a>, “Amid devastating climate report and heat waves coming our way, we need courage.” In the article, Basu said he sympathized with students who described their emotions toward climate change as “doom, fear, hopelessness, and paralysis.”

He stated, “As a doctor, I live with the clear understanding that as climate change bears down upon us, it will continue to threaten my patients’ health…Our planet is in a precarious situation…More importantly, activists worldwide have galvanized attention to climate change.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/2/3/hms-climate-curriculum/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a>, "Harvard Medical School voted [in January 2023] to embed climate change into the school’s curriculum…The effort was led by Basu…and a group of students from the HMS organization Students for Environmental Awareness in Medicine."

The Crimson also said, “The curriculum change aims to integrate climate change themes throughout students’ medical school education rather than creating new courses specifically around climate change.”

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Published February 16, 2023

<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sogie/sogie-team/tishelman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amy Tishelman</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (HMS). She’s also the Director of Clinical Research in the Behavioral Health, Endocrinology and Urology Program, and Gender Multispecialty Service at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Tishelman’s HMS profile says she was “selected by the World Association of Transgender Health (WPATH) to be the international lead developing new global standards of care for prepubescent children.”

Tishelman, along with several “transgender specialists,” authored WPATH’s “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/26895269.2022.2100644" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People, Version 8</a>.” The publication was intended to “provide clinical guidelines for health professionals to assist transsexual, transgender and gender nonconforming people with safe and effective pathways to achieving lasting personal comfort…”

Addressing gender identity in minor patients, Tishelman et al., stated:

“Our understanding of gender identity development in adolescence is continuing to evolve…For some youth, gender identity development appears fixed and is often expressed from a young age, while for others there may be a developmental process that contributes to gender identity development over time.”

The authors’ “Statement of Recommendation”  for healthcare professionals includes:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“...possess a general knowledge of gender diversity across the lifespan.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">…develop expertise in autism spectrum disorders and other neurodiversity or collaborate with an expert with relevant expertise when working with autistic/neurodivergent, gender-diverse children.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">...respond supportively to children who desire to be acknowledged as the gender that matches their internal sense of gender identity.”</li>
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According to Tishelman et al., “At present, no clinical cohort studies have reported on profiles of adolescents who regret their initial decision or detransition after irreversible affirming treatment.”

Tishelman was a panel speaker during WPATH’s <a href="https://www.wpath.org/media/cms/Upcoming%20Conferences/2022/WPATH%202022%20Prospectus%20Final.pdf?_t=1649279057" target="_blank" rel="noopener">27th Scientific Symposium</a> in September 2022. WPATH’s stated goal is to work to “further the understanding of the range of interventions, modalities, medical and surgical gender-affirming treatments” while providing “opportunities for professionals to…communicate with each other in the context of research and treatment of gender incongruence…”

A portion of Tishelman’s Symposium presentation—where she admitted to manipulating age restriction information to avoid industry lawsuits— was leaked to social media:

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Published - July 5, 2023

<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 9, 2023

<a href="https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walter Johnson</a> is the Winthrop Professor of History and a Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Johnson’s focus areas are “slavery, capitalism and imperialism in the nineteenth century.” His <a href="https://college.harvard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-spotlights/walter-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Spotlight</a> profile states: 

“As Johnson approaches his work, he is fueled not only by <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/michael-brown-killed-by-police-ferguson-mo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">events in Ferguson</a> and his work in St. Louis but also the current reckoning over American racism and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

In a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/05/17/west-is-relevant-our-long-history-anti-blackness-not-just-south/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Post op-ed</a> titled “The West is relevant to our long history of anti-blackness, not just the South,” Johnson wrote:
“While we commonly think of slavery, sharecropping and segregation in the South as driving anti-blackness in American history, the process of western expansion, with the attendant notion of ‘the white man’s country,’ that undergirded the development of cities such as St. Louis and the United States, is equally essential to explaining the power and persistence of anti-blackness today.”
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On November 15, 2023, Johnson was featured in <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/15/faculty-condemn-president-gay-statement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> publication titled “More than 100 Harvard Faculty Sign Letter Criticizing President [Claudine] Gay’s Censure of Pro-Palestine Slogan.” The Crimson stated:

“[Johnson], a History professor and the first listed signatory on the letter, confirmed in an email that the letter was referring to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/11/11/thayer-proctor-relief-of-duties/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elom Tettey-Tamaklo</a>, a Harvard doctor who was relieved of his position after appearing in a video confrontation at a “die-in” supporting Palestine at Harvard Business School.”

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Johnson et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Please send information on Walter Johnson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/kirsten-weld" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kirsten Weld</a> is a Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. Her research “explores 20th-century struggles over inequality, justice, historical memory, and social inclusion.” 

On November 9, 2023, Weld took to X/Twitter to protest Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s notice condemning antisemitism. In response to Gay’s criticism of the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” —which overtly calls for the extermination of Jewish people—Weld said she “Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation…”
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Via email from the president of <a href="https://twitter.com/Harvard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Harvard</a>, my employer. Can't recall any prior instance of a contested phrase/idea receiving official condemnation like this, or having one singular "specific historical meaning" imputed to it, in my 11 years on this campus. <a href="https://t.co/NlW5V0AoQB">pic.twitter.com/NlW5V0AoQB</a>
— Kirsten Weld (@kirstenweld) <a href="https://twitter.com/kirstenweld/status/1722731996818842097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Weld is listed as the second signatory of more than 100 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/harvarduniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard professors</a> who <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter</a> demanding that Gay “[resist] calls to suspend and/or decertify the Palestinian Solidarity Committee in retaliation for its public statements and advocacy…” 

The letter, “Harvard Faculty Statement In Support of Academic Freedom,” claims Gay’s <a href="https://youtu.be/HDI2P4dOsJ8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">message on November 9</a> contained “outright racism” and that there “must be room on a university campus for debate about the actions of states, including the State of Israel.”

According to Weld et al.:
“[T]he phrase ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” has a long and complicated history. Its interpretation deserves, and is receiving, sustained and ongoing inquiry and debate. Singling it out as necessarily implying removalism or even eliminationism…is imprudent as a matter of university policy and badly misjudged as an act of moral leadership.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nFVNyLNT6DfgtFdB8sQB31-907hucQeA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Weld’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the Fall 2023 term.

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Published - November 27, 2023

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jennifer-hochschild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Hochschild</a> is a Professor of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Her faculty profile states, “Hochschild studies and teaches about the intersection of American politics and political philosophy—particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration—as well as educational and social welfare policies.”

On January 13, 2024, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/harvard-professor-forced-to-awkwardly-backtrack-after-denigrating-harvard-grads-in-attempted-own-on-conservative-writer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite News wrote</a>, “Professor [Hochschild] faced major backlash to a message she posted on [Twitter] about writer and activist Christopher Rufo, who was a key figure in the revelations about now-ousted Harvard president <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/claudinegay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claudine Gay’s</a> past plagiarism.”

Despite Hochschild’s work being reportedly plagiarized by Gay, Hochschild made no attempts to point out the former Harvard president’s lack of integrity.
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On Rufo: what do integrity police say about his claim to have “master’s degree from Harvard,” which is actually from the open-enrollment Extension School? Those students are great - I teach them- but they are not the same as what we normally think of as Harvard graduate students
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1743135440729694434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Does Chris Rufo have a 2nd agenda, beyond pushing Pres. Gay out of Harvard presidency?
"I think the entire corporation needs to resign as well as President Gay," Rufo said in an interview. "I would be happy to join the corporation to help turn it around."
-- Wall St J., 12.29/23
— Jennifer hochschild (@Jenniferhochsc2) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2/status/1741124183088664601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> featured Hochschild in an undated article titled “Harvard Prof. Hochschild Apologizes For Comments on Rufo Extension School Degree.” The Crimson said, “In a series of posts earlier this month, Hochschild…suggested that [Rufo]…had misrepresented his master’s degree from the [Harvard] Extension School.”

On <a href="https://twitter.com/Jenniferhochsc2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her Twitter page</a>, Hochschild ranted about courses at the Harvard Extension School (HES). She also expressed “regret” that her posts “dragged” colleagues and students “into a dispute.”

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<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/13/harvard-extension-hochschild/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to The Crimson</a>, “The Harvard Extension Student Association (HESA) appeared to address Hochschild’s remarks in a statement, writing that they ‘are deeply concerned and disappointed by the recent comments made by [Hochschild]...Generalizations that denigrate HES students do more than unjustly diminish individual achievements; they erode the foundational values of diversity, respect, and academic rigor that are essential to the fabric of Harvard University…”

Hochschild has since issued an apology to HES students prompting this response from Rufo:
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This is awesome. You dumped on your own school in an attempt to delegitimize my degree, then turned around and said it is, in fact, a wonderful, rigorous, and bona fide Harvard degree. You made a fool of yourself not once, but twice. That takes commitment. 🫡
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1745925508616061093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Please send information on Jennifer Hochschild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 23, 2024

<a href="https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=271812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Francesca Gino</a> is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Gino’s faculty profile shows her on administrative leave with no return date listed.

Gino made headlines after she was accused of falsifying research data. Gino’s lawyer has publicly stated that Harvard lacked evidence for its allegations.

On March 16, 2024, <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/harvard-honesty-professor-allegedly-tampered-data-and-should-be-fired" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just The News</a> featured Gino in an article entitled “Harvard honesty professor allegedly tampered with data and should be fired, according to probe.” Just The News said, “[Gino], considered a star behavioral scientist … allegedly tweaked observations in four of her studies to boost her hypothesis.”

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/harvard-professor-of-honesty-tampered-with-data-and-should-be-fired-probe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reported on the university’s findings, stating, “The university report detailed that Harvard began a preliminary investigation of Gino’s work in October 2021 after the Data Colada researchers brought their concerns about the papers’ sketchy data to the school.”

The Post continued, “A full probe was conducted in 2022 and 2023, with three [Harvard] faculty members interviewing Gino and people who worked with her on the papers, in addition to reviewing her data, emails, and papers’ manuscripts. An outside forensics firm also was hired to analyze her studies’ data.”

<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/15/gino-harvard-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Harvard Crimson</a> reported that the university’s report recommended Gino’s termination. The source said, “The report says that Gino asserted that ‘an unknown actor with malicious intentions was a more plausible explanation than honest errors or intentional data falsification by herself.’”

The source said, “The investigation concluded that Gino had ‘significantly departed from accepted practices of the relevant research community and committed research misconduct intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly.’”

Gino has filed a $25 million lawsuit against Harvard Business School claiming that she has undergone “reputational damage along with loss of income and career opportunities,” according to the New York Post. 

The Professor Watchlist will continue monitoring this story. Please send tips and information on Francesca Gino to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 18, 2024

<a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/timothy-patrick-mccarthy">Timothy Patrick McCarthy</a> is a Lecturer on Education, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

According to his faculty profile, McCarthy “is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration.” He also “teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters.” 

McCarthy is an “award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/fire-professors-who-oppose-gender-affirming-care-harvard-faculty-chair-says/">The College Fix</a>, McCarthy was interviewed by <a href="https://nyunews.com/features/news/2025/02/24/affiliates-tied-to-anti-trans-practices/">Washington Square News</a> and stated that professors who oppose “gender-affirming” care should be “removed and stripped of their academic titles.”

In the interview, McCarthy stated “there’s a particular place in hell for academics who use their academic expertise and power to distort and do violence to people in the world.”

The College Fix wrote to McCarthy for further information. His response was confrontational:

“I see what you’re doing here—it’s a tired, ancient playbook—and I hope you know that you have picked a fight with the wrong veteran of these culture wars,” McCarthy responded.

McCarthy told Washington Square News, those who question the validity of gender-affirming care “poison the waters” around the practice of “transgender” care. 

Legal scholar Jonathan Turley wrote an <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/03/14/harvard-professor-calls-for-the-firing-of-any-faculty-not-supporting-gender-affirming-policies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> criticizing the comments of McCarthy. According to Turley, the professor “was targeting two professors at NYU who are affiliated with groups critical of surgical and chemical interventions for gender dysphoria.” 

In 2017, McCarthy made the following comments about the play <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/14/fifteen-professors-2017-timothy-mccarthy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard Crimson</a> “Hamilton”, alleging that the US founding was a matter of whiteness and masculinity. Certain characters based on US Founders are considered queer: 

“[T]his is a very masculine play, and the traditional reading of the founding is not just white but also male. The two characters that are most queer include Thomas Jefferson, who is widely criticized as a slave owner and a hypocrite and this Prince-like, purple-clad dandy who returns from Paris and asks, ‘What did I miss? What did I miss?’ and prances across the stage. The other queer character in ‘Hamilton’ is King George III, who shows up every once in awhile to bring a little sass and strut his stuff, and then leaves.” 
Published - March 17, 2025

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

Corruption

Claudine Gay

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<a href="https://www.mabdou.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mohamed Abdou</a> (according to his <a href="https://www.mei.columbia.edu/scholars-and-fellows/mohamed-abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University profile</a>) is “a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist interdisciplinary activist-scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, abolition, and decolonization with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East-North Africa, Asia, and Turtle Island.”
In 2020, Abdou wrote an article for <a href="https://roarmag.org/essays/let-empire-collapse-why-we-need-a-decolonial-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ROAR</a> titled “Let Empire collapse: why we need a decolonial revolution.” He recommends that leftists support political alternatives to that of the current “liberal-progressive.” The thesis of the article reads:
“Repatriating Indigenous land and organizing anti-state Indigenous-Black-POC Power alternatives is better than pouring resources into the liberal-progressive vote.”
Abdou addressed his view of the origin of the U.S. and how that relates to the idea of “manifest destiny”:
“Need history remind us, the US was founded on the violent Euro-Christian crusading doctrine of Manifest Destiny and the Doctrine of Discovery. As Patrick Wolfe<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623520601056240" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> notes</a>, 1492 is ‘not an event.’ Rather, it established a structure with a religious character known as ‘conquistador settler-colonialism’ as Tiffany Lethabo-King <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-black-shoals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argues</a> and many other Indigenous scholar-activists like<a href="http://static1.squarespace.com/static/557744ffe4b013bae3b7af63/t/570d362c9f7266ca3ced2285/1460483648296/Before_Dispossession_Or_Surviving_It_by.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Eve Tuck</a> and<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43811591/Red_Pedagogy_Native_American_Social_and_Political_Thought_Sandy_Grande" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Sandy Grande</a> have noted.”
He then claims that white supremacy influences both the conservative and leftist political movements:
“While white supremacist ideologies and assumptions inform conservative right-wing parties and positions, the greater danger is how they disguise themselves within (neo)liberal progressive and even leftist positions. Some perceive Heineken and Johnnie Walker-sponsored pride parades and Women’s Marches as resistance, despite the fact that these movements are often premised on <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38647128/Ph_D_Thesis_Islam_and_Queer_Muslims_Identity_and_Sexuality_in_the_Contemporary_CH2?email_work_card=title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bleached</a> notions of non-violence, gay marriage, coming-out narratives, pride and shame.”
Towards the conclusion of the article, Abdou mentions what “decolonization” means to him”:
“Decolonization means recognizing that struggles from ‘Jerusalem to the Grand River are one.’ That there is no freeing Palestine without freeing Indigenous and Black peoples in the heart of US Empire because all our fires are interconnected.”
“As an antidote, decolonization necessitates building non-statist, anti-authoritarian, land-based spiritual alternatives and being able to defend them tactically, with arms if need be. Decolonization means abolishing the punitive prison-judicial and imperialist-military industrial complexes and replacing them with transformative and not just restorative justice. Only the former addresses the underlying state structure of settler-colonialism that frames abolition and Indigenous sovereignty while the latter does not.”
During a U.S. Congressional hearing on campus anti-semitism, Columbia University President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik was <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/columbia-president-shafik-antisemitism-israel-hamas-congress/5330062/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> about Abdou’s comments in response to the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Abdou had expressed support for Hamas at that time and has since faced repercussions for such support. According to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13349149/Im-Hamas-Hezbollah-professor-publicly-backed-Islamic-jihad-repeatedly-Oct-7-invasion-Israel-hired-teach-Columbia-House-speaker-Mike-Johnson-calls-President-Shafik-resign.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>, Abdou wrote the following on Facebook on October 11, 2024: 

“I&#8217;m with the muqawamah (the resistance) be it Hamas and Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad but up to a point &#8211; given ultimate differences over our ethical political commitments; that&#8217;s the difference between a strategy and tactic too.”
In January, Abdou <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Mohamed_Abdou" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> “I might be with Hamas and support the resistance, absolutely.”
Shafik told the U.S. House Hearing Committee that Abdou has been terminated and that he “is grading his students’ papers and will never teach at Columbia again.” 
Abdou has been involved in a pro-Palestinain protest at Columbia University, where protesters have established an <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/ayfkm-columbia-president-told-congress-prof-terminated-now-appears-holding-class-inside-columbias-gates-among-pro-hamas-camp/25277" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encampment</a> that has caused inconvenience to university members (see tweet below). Some have been unable to enter university buildings.
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Looks like Professor Mohamed Abdou hasn&#8217;t lost his campus privileges after all. Here he is with the pro-terror mob on Columbia&#8217;s campus today.
Days ago, Columbia president Dr. Shafik said that Abdou “will never work at Columbia again.”
After the Oct. 7 attack, Abdou announced:… <a href="https://t.co/5Avz9up0lQ">pic.twitter.com/5Avz9up0lQ</a>
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href="https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1781381759591977287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As of April 23, Abdou’s university profile has not been removed from the university’s site. According to his X posts, he remains active at the protest (see post below):
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Salam alikum &amp; peace be upon you-our siblings-from our zone to yours @ Zionist land grab Cornell
May Allah safeguard &amp; protect you all &amp; shine a light upon our paths
You’re with us in spirit
Keep us in yours
We are many &amp; one towards a free Turtle Island, Africa &amp; 🇵🇸 <a href="https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk">https://t.co/LksjXYBfHk</a> <a href="https://t.co/MLdzr7AjIf">pic.twitter.com/MLdzr7AjIf</a>
— Dr. مُحَمَّد‎ (@minuetinGmajor) <a href="https://twitter.com/minuetinGmajor/status/1783499837192708430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mohamed Abdou

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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches &#8220;Honors Thesis,&#8221; &#8220;Aesthetics and Society,&#8221; and &#8220;Special Topics&#8221; with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”
Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).
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Arizona State University Professor David Boyles—who <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>, “Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while”—appeared to physically assault a Turning Point USA Frontlines cameraman.  

TPUSA’s Frontlines team confronted Boyles after <a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">learning</a> that he founded the Arizona chapter of Drag Queen Story Hour. Boyles refused to respond to the Frontlines reporter who asked how long he’d had the obsession with sex education and why he felt children should be exposed to drag queens.

The video of Boyles assaulting the cameraman can be viewed below:
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🚨ASU Professor assaults TPUSA cameraman, caught on video 🚨
Our TPUSA Frontlines reporter tried to ask self-professed “sex education obsessed” queer ASU Professor David Boyles, a few simple questions. Refusing to answer, our cameras caught the exact moment Mr. Boyles assaulted,… <a href="https://t.co/YJWBEzSgRx">pic.twitter.com/YJWBEzSgRx</a>

— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA/status/1712691864850317436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Security camera footage shows Boyles initiating physical contact:

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Following the attack of the TPUSA staff member, Boyles posted the following statement on his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/david.boyles3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook page</a>: 

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According to<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/10/asu-professor-who-founded-drag-story-hour-assaults-reporter-claims-hes-victim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> AZ Free News</a>, “Boyles accused the TPUSA men of terrorism for filming him while asking him questions…Boyles also stated on Instagram that he was jumped from behind by the TPUSA reporter.”

AZ Free News also reported, “The <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftempe-breaking%2F2023%2F10%2F12%2Fasu-police-investigating-after-queer-faculty-member-assaulted-in-tempe%2F71160761007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona Republic</a> claimed in its headline that Boyles was targeted in a campus garage for his sexuality. The original headline read: ‘Targeted’: ASU Investigating After Queer Instructor Confronted by Turning Point USA ‘Crew.’”

12 News reports the incident from another angle as seen below:

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Turning Point USA said in a statement:
 Our team fully intends to share this footage with local law enforcement, and if our cameraman decides to press criminal charges against Professor Boyle, we will fully support that decision. @FrontlinesTPUSA
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Updated - October 19, 2023
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/280652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Boyles</a> is a Professor of English Writing at Arizona State University (ASU). His “areas of expertise” include but are not limited to “Rhetoric,” “Public Communication,” and “Gender Studies.”

<a href="https://azfreenews.com/2023/09/meet-the-asu-professor-behind-arizonas-drag-queen-story-hour/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AZ Free News</a> featured Boyles in an article titled “Meet the ASU Professor Behind Arizona’s Drag Queen Story Hour.” The source writes:

“Boyles established Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona in 2019, a chapter of the national Drag Queen Story Hour organization…Boyles has been featured in several ‘The Art of Drag’ events alongside one of his drag queen storytellers…The most recent event occurred on Wednesday [September 20, 2023].  During the <a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presentation</a>, Boyles said that the notion that drag shows are harmful to children was a ‘myth.’ He also said that drag queens have been long considered the leaders of LGBTQ+ communities.”

During “<a href="https://youtu.be/RN0Bou3wmxk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Drag</a>” talk, Boyles claimed Drag Queen Story Hour-Arizona has been “targeted by acts of violence” and “neo-Nazis showing up to disrupt events.” He also presented what he believed to be the beginning of drag culture in America using the newspaper clip featured below:

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On May 16, 2023, Boyles <a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queer-joy-summer-planting-3-promote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a blog</a> - “Queer Joy Summer Planting #3: Promote Radical Queer Sex Education” - in which he stated he was “trying to plant more queer joy in the world.” He also said:

“Sex education is a topic I’ve been obsessed with for a while…In 2021, I did a three-part ‘<a href="https://angelictroublemakers.substack.com/p/queering-sex-ed-part-i" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queering Sex Ed</a>’ series on the history of sex education in America and the ways in which it has traditionally erased queer people, as well as the ways in which queer people have resisted this erasure and cared for their communities by creating their own sex ed underground.”

In the “Queer Sex Ed” blog, Boyles also wrote that sex education has been traditionally racist since “black people and immigrants were typically viewed as being sexually promiscuous and aggressive and sex education was designed to keep good white kids from being ‘infected’ by them.”

In <a href="https://lookoutphx.substack.com/p/bomb-threat-made-against-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">another publication</a> promoting his Drag Queen Story Hour initiative, Boyles said:

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<a href="https://cronkite.asu.edu/about/faculty-and-leadership/faculty/gilgerbio">Kristin Gilger</a> is the Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism and the interim dean at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the author of the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Theres-No-Crying-Newsrooms-Learned/dp/1538121492">“There’s No Crying in Newsrooms”</a> and has served in various roles at ASU since 2002.

Gilger has been mired in controversy since assuming her role as dean this past summer. The previous candidate, Sonya Forte Duhe, was replaced by Gilger after <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/after-tweet-supporting-good-police-officers-arizona-state-revokes-journalism-dean-offer/">her offer was rescinded by the university</a>. After tweeting an image that was considered too positive towards police officers, Duhe was condemned by university faculty for showing “poor judgment.”

Gilger has come under fire after pressuring Rae’Lee Klein, a senior journalism major, and station manager for ASU’s Blaze radio, to resign from her position after <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/28/this-is-why-jacob-blake-had-a-warrant-out-for-his-arrest/?preview_id=16209831">tweeting and soon deleting a New York Post article</a> detailing the warrant issued for Jacob Blake’s arrest;

“Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get to the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted“ 

Blake—who was wanted for sexually assaulting his ex-girlfriend—was shot in the back by police after resisting arrest and allegedly reaching for a knife on the floor of his car.

Facing immediate backlash for her tweet, the Board of Directors at the station <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/arizona-student-journalist-cancelled-over-jacob-blake-tweet/">voted unanimously to remove her from her position</a>. Later releasing a statement, the board announced that “Blaze Radio firmly believes that Black Lives Matter.”

“The board gave Klein an opportunity to step down under her own will. As of the time of this statement, Klein has not made the decision to resign…In light of this, we do not recognize Rae'Lee Klein as the station manager of Blaze Radio.”  

Gilger has claimed that the University is not moving to remove Klein. In a statement to the New York Post, Gilger stated that Klein is not being targeted by the university for her views.

“Any actions that are unfolding are not punishment for a tweet. I have been clear with Rae’Lee that she would not be removed as station manager of Blaze Radio, a student internet radio station, because of the views she expressed,”  

However, in email exchanges between Klein and Gilger, she did in fact act to pressure Klein to resign, contrary to her statement.

In their exchange (pictured below) Gilger clearly states that Klein remaining in her position, “is not an option,” as she had lost the confidence of the board.

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Although suggesting new roles that Klein may assume, Gilger cites the "Media Guidelines for Student Journalists" to warn her to refrain in the future from posting information “that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist.” This seems to contradict Gilger’s claim that Klein was not being targeted by the university for her views.

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At this time, Klein has refused to step down from her role, and officially remains the station’s manager.

Update: In February of 2021, Klein announced that she <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-pays-settlement-conservative-student-ousted-manager-role/">has reached a settlement with Gilger</a> over a lawsuit she had filed against ASU several months prior.
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UPDATE: I am happy to announce we've reached a resolution with Arizona State University for events that took place in September. With the support of my attorney, Jack Wilenchik, and countless other individuals, I am proud to have stood up, fought back and eventually, won.
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According to a <a href="https://newsroom.asu.edu/press/statement-latest-update-asu-and-klein-story-0">statement released by ASU</a>, the University agreed to pay Klein a total of $7,040 for "reimbursement of her school fees."

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Updated - June 2021

<a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asao Inoue</a> is a professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Integrative Science and Arts at Arizona State University. According to his University biography, Inoue’s <a href="https://cisa.asu.edu/node/7955" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> focuses on “antiracist and social justice theory and practices in writing assessments.”

Prior to his role at Arizona State, Inoue served as the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Washington-Tacoma. As Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/20/college-writing-center-declares-american-grammar-a-racist-unjust-language-structure/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documents</a>, Inoue <a href="\&quot;https://stjenglish.com/standing-against-racism-in-the-field-of-writing-dr-asao-inoue-uw-tacoma/\&quot;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commissioned</a> an anti-racist poster in an effort to ensure that his staff did not “embrace racist practices.” Inoue maintains that racism is embedded in the English language as well as in society itself, writing that “racism is the normal condition of things.

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According to the text of the poster, recorded by The College Fix, Inoue writes that his goal is to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-writing-center-combats-racist-unjust-language-structures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">help students become more critical of “unjust language structures”</a> in order to succeed in what Inoue claims is a racist society.

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Inoue would later author a book on his beliefs titled, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom.” In an excerpt from the book, Inoue declares that he focuses on grading students for their efforts, and not the “quality” of their writing.

“This book focuses on one kind of grading contract, one that calculates final course grades purely by the labor students complete, not by any judgments of the quality of their writing.”

As Daily Wire reports, Inoue writes that his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arizona-state-dean-grading-writing-based-on-quality-is-racist-promotes-white-language-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beliefs and teaching practices are based on “critical-race theory,” or “labor-based theory.”</a>As Breitbart documents, c<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritical race theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism</a> that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy.

He writes further that grading students only perpetuates white supremacy.

“The traditional purposes and methods used for grading writing turn out to be de facto racist and White supremacist….Grading by a standard, thus, is how White language supremacy is perpetuated in schools”

Inoue also draws an analogy between issuing grades for English and the institution of slavery, stating that grading is a “slave-making mechanism.”

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Inoue believes that even the physical proximity of white people causes racism. In a YouTube video of Inoue speaking before the 2019 Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Inoue <a href="https://youtu.be/brPGTewcDYY?t=994" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states that even the presence of white people “perpetuates racism.</a>”

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Inoue delivered this speech while <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serving as the Conference Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication</a>, which bills itself as the <a href="https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/about/chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">largest professional organization for researching and teaching writing composition</a>. It is the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of English, which <a href="https://ncte.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts over 25,000 English and Language Arts teachers as members all over the country</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Inoue for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents May Contact Arizona State University at (855) 278-5080.
Updated - November 10, 2021

<a href="https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/597528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lorraine Moya Salas</a> is an Instructor in the <a href="https://socialwork.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">School of Social Work</a> at <a href="https://campus.asu.edu/dohttps://campus.asu.edu/downtown-phoenixwntown-phoenix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix</a>.

During a lecture in one of her courses—titled, “Foundations of Social Work”—Dr. Lorraine can be heard describing the United States as a “white supremacist system,” that was founded for the benefit of white people at the expense of Native Americans and people of color.

In the class—recorded and provided exclusively to the Professor Watchlist team by an anonymous source—Dr. Salas urges her students to confront the “implicit biases” present in themselves and American society. Claiming that stereotypes and prejudices construct implicit bias, she warns that unconscious actions can cause serious harm.

Attempting to provide an example to bolster her claim, Dr. Salas states that implicit bias causes doctors to act as if their black patients are slaves. She proceeds to cite a study that claims doctors give less pain medication to black patients as compared to white ones.

Dr. Salas alleges this is the product of the legacy of slavery; slave owners viewed blacks as subhuman and able to withstand a large amount of pain, so therefore doctors continue to believe that blacks can withstand a large amount of pain. Doctors will therefore prescribe black patients less pain medication.

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Dr. Salas additionally cites a study that claims teachers will call on boys more often than girls in their classrooms. She claims this as proof that teachers think boys answer questions correctly more often than girls.

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Throughout the lecture, Dr. Salas alleges that numerous racial, ethnic, and gender disparities in society are a result of implicit bias. She urges her students, as future social workers, to confront their own implicit biases and assigns an “implicit bias test” for them to complete before the next class.

Dr. Salas additionally claims that institutional racism produces inequality and disparities, attributing it to the legacy of slavery in the Americas. Although acknowledging that all cultures practiced slavery, she claims that no slave trade was enforced along racial lines until the Europeans did so in order to specifically oppress people of color.

Citing slavery, the genocide of Native Americans and discriminatory, Jim Crow laws, Dr. Salas claims that  America was constructed as a “white supremacist culture” for the sole benefit of white people who have maintained their “white power structures” ever since.

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In the accompanying slides, Dr. Salas cites Critical Race Theory to define white supremacy as a, “political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level”.

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As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> America’s real founding was in 1619 when the first slave stepped foot in North America, and not 1776 when the American colonies declared independence from England.

Dr. Salas had previously published a paper on critical theory, titled, “Critical Theory: Pathway from Dichotomous to Integrated Social Work Practice.” In it, she urges social <a href="https://socialwork.rutgers.edu/file/4791/download" target="_blank" rel="noopener">workers to embrace critical theory in order to accomplish social justice</a> “at all levels of practice.”

Dr. Salas further states that while people of color can hold prejudiced views, they cannot be racist as they have no institutional power in a system that values whiteness. She urges white students in the class to be “allies” in order to help minorities access the resources available to them by way of “white privilege.”

The full audio of the lecture is provided below.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Salas prior for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the School of Social Work at Arizona State University - Downtown Phoenix at (602) 496-0800 or at <a href="mailto:social.work@asu.edu">social.work@asu.edu</a>
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Updated - October 26, 2021
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<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/888543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katelyn Cooper</a> is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biology Education Research for Arizona State University’s  Center for Biology and Society Program . 

In 2019, Cooper founded the “<a href="https://katelyncooper1.wixsite.com/bioedlab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Biology Education Research Lab</a>” because she, as a gay woman, was “worried about biology research not being inclusive enough of “LGBTQ+ people,” according to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/inclusive-lab-for-lgbt-students-created-by-arizona-state-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College Fix. </a>

Cooper is “upset that heterosexual white [men] dominate the biological sciences.” She told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/nbc-out-proud/professor-making-biology-education-inclusive-lgbtq-undergrads-rcna28813" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> that “The goal isn’t just to make classrooms more inclusive, she explained, but to bring more diversity to a field that has traditionally been dominated by straight white men.” 

Cooper also told NBC News her hopes for collegiate science education: “Cooper said science educators can make their classrooms more inclusive by being openly supportive of LGBTQ students.” According to Cooper, “Educators can, for example, put an inclusivity statement on their syllabus or website, foster safe environments for students to reveal their LGBTQ identities and familiarize themselves with on-campus LGBTQ resources in case students come to them for support.”

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="http://www.breannefahs.com/">Breanne Fahs</a>, Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University, believes women have been, more or less, brainwashed by "the patriarchy" and "sexism" to ignore the "liberatory, political, and social implications of fatness." Fahs, who holds a PhD in clinical psychology and women's studies from the University of Michigan, came to this conclusion after she conducted an experiment in which all 20 of her subjects "expressed terror at the thought of suddenly gaining 100 pounds."

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2193787" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Loebenberg</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. Her faculty profile says she “teaches a range of classes and seminars on urban spaces and landscape, architecture, cities, and…play and game studies.”

Loebenberg is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was a protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone wp-image-2809 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

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Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3177657" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abby Wheatley</a> teaches Special Topics and Individualized Instruction at Arizona State University. Her areas of expertise are “Cultural Anthropology” and “Transnational Migration.”

Wheatley is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/2608679">Adam Rigoni</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. He teaches “Individualized Instruction” and “Special Topics.”

Rigoni is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3171591" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Young</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty member at Arizona State University. His areas of expertise include violence, “Colonial and Post-Colonial theory,” “American and Ethics Studies,” English, and “Critical Theory.”

Young is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2809" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-09-at-2.23.13-PM.png" alt="" width="801" height="771" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.
Published February 9, 2023

<a href="https://search.asu.edu/profile/3022603" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christiane Fontinha de Alcantara</a> is a Barrett Honors Faculty Fellow at Arizona State University. She teaches "Honors Thesis," "Aesthetics and Society," and "Special Topics" with expertise in “Diaspora Studies,” “Digital Humanities,” and “Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Politics.”

Fontinha de Alcantara is one of 34 professors who signed a written statement addressed to Tara Williams, the Dean of ASU’s Barrett Honors College. The 5-page letter (pictured below) was in protest of the “Health, Wealth &amp; Happiness” talk featuring Charlie Kirk (Founder and CEO of Turning Point USA), Dennis Prager (Founder of PragerU), and Robert Kiyosaki (author of the personal finance book “Rich Dad Poor Dad”).

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2830" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-13-at-3.10.03-PM.png" alt="" width="783" height="735" />

<a href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/74wT0lZTlli56Yzhr6jFyB/c306e8a19792214b4d697201ee203dc8/ASUProfessorsBoycottingDennis_PDF_ClickableLinks.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here</a> to view the letter with active hyperlinks.

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Published February 15, 2023