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<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.
Defunding the police needs to be a call for the de-weaponizing of white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn</a>
— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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&#8217;s isn&#8217;t Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term &#8220;critical race theory&#8221; can be &#8220;used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue&#8221;—exactly as I&#8217;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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Updated &#8211; September 21, 2021

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<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-m-zasloff/">Jonathan Zasloff</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zasloff was caught on social media in January of 2015 stating that Republicans were catering to their KKK core of old, angry, white Southern men with reactionary views on race.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Susan Pertel Jain is no longer listed as the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at UCLA.*

<a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/person/1366">Susan Pertel Jain</a> is a former Director of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Confucius Institute</a> is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, the Confucius Institute at UCLA has closed.*
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<a href="https://www.confucius.ucla.edu/about-us/team">Scott L. Waugh</a> is the former Chair of the Confucius Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. The Confucius Institute is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

China is the greatest existential threat that the United States currently faces. Through military, governmental, and financial fronts, the authoritarian Chinese government seeks to supplant the United States as the world’s sole superpower. None of their tactics may be more perfidious than the placement of Confucius Institutes on campuses across the country. Currently, Confucius Institutes operate at American universities, high schools, and even elementary schools, serving as focal points of China’s espionage against our country. China has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to indoctrinate students with state-sponsored, communist propaganda, matched by university funds that are enabled by your hard-earned tax dollars.

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<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.
Defunding the police needs to be a call for the de-weaponizing of white supremacy. <a href="https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/rg0bdzImQn</a>

— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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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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<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California - Los Angeles.

In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.

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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.

In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.

Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.

In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:

“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.

If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“

<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.

“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“

In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:

“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.

Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.

No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 

The BLM-inspired riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.

In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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Updated - April 6th, 2022

<a href="https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Appel</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California - Los Angeles.

According to her university profile, Appel is “an economic anthropologist interested in transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements.” 

Appel is the Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin <a href="https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute on Inequality and Democracy</a>. According to its website, the mission of the Institute is “concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle, the Institute seeks to abolish structures of inequality.”

According to the <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/23/protesters-occupy-then-vacate-dodd-hall-following-2nd-encampment-dispersal-at-ucla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Bruin</a>, Appel participated in a sit-in while police swept a campus encampment of protesters. 

Appel, who’s also a member of UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine group, stated that she anticipates an eventual “escalation” and a “deepening of the movement” as union members withhold grades and cancel discussion sections. She also explained her rationale for protesting and her efforts as a professor to support student protesters:
“When the university sees that folks are withholding grades, they get scared. They’re scared because we’re flexing our collective power, and optimally, that fear drives them to the bargaining table, and then we win.” 
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-professor-claims-not-allowing-food-water-into-pro-gaza-encampment-is-torture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, UCLA officials stated there was “reasonable cause to find that demonstrators’ activities – including erecting barricades, establishing fortifications and blocking access to parts of the campus and buildings – [were] disrupting campus operations.”

The College Fix also reports that Appel “accused the university of employing ‘torture’ tactics against the student activists” and expressed concern about the actions being deemed an unlawful assembly. Appel defended the actions of people providing water and food to the protesters despite the “unlawful protest” declaration by the university: 
“But here’s the thing: Even if this is unlawful which, of course, I don’t think it is […] you cannot deny people to send in water in an effort to get them to do something against their will.”
Published - May 30, 2024

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<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.

<a href="https://twitter.com/anthonyzenkus/status/953040573857976326"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1238 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-01-at-1.58.33-PM.png" alt="" width="612" height="344" /></a>

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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Updated - Spring, 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. 

&nbsp;

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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Published - March 30, 2023
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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Published - May 3, 2024
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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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Racial Ideology

Anti-Law Enforcement

Kimberlé Crenshaw

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Mr. <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002Ad6npQAB/josh-ruebner">Josh Ruebner</a> is an adjunct faculty member in the <a href="https://justiceandpeace.georgetown.edu/">Program on Justice and Peace</a> at Georgetown University. According to Georgetown&#8217;s website, the goal of the Justice and Peace Program is to produce “practically useful scholarships on how to create a more just and peaceful world.” In addition to his teaching roles, Ruebner is a Managing Director for the organization <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)</a>.
Mr. Ruebner has served in the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides policy analysis on behalf of committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As a member of the CRS, Mr. Ruebner co-authored <a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1535/m1/1/high_res_d/RL30713_2001Jan05.pdf">The Current Palestinian Uprising: Al-Aqsa Intifadah</a>, in which he accuses Israel of disproportionate use of force against Palestinians. Ruebner has also <a href="https://joshruebner.com/jewish-anti-occupation-group-lobbies-u-s/">sponsored</a> congressional staff members on a trip to the West Bank to advocate cutting off economic aid to Israel.
In 2018, Mr. Ruebner authored a book titled <a href="https://www.interlinkbooks.com/product/israel/">Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?</a> In an event for the book’s release hosted by <a href="https://thejerusalemfund.org/category/pc">The Palestine Center</a>—a Palestinian advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.—Mr. Ruebner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvfPNDwF70&amp;ab_channel=TheJerusalemFund%26PalestineCenter">accuses</a> Israel of enacting policies similar to apartheid-era South Africa.
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Mr. Ruebner previously slandered Israel as an apartheid state in his 2013 book titled <a href="https://joshruebner.com/books/shattered-hopes/order-the-book/">Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker an Israeli-Palestinian Peace</a>. In a promotional interview with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcp4FkHcV-YGI7F-MsY-YQ">Portland Media Center</a>, Mr. Ruebner further <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1fqAQBozo&amp;ab_channel=PortlandMediaCenter">accuses the United States of complicity in Israel&#8217;s human rights violations</a>.
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Mr. Ruebner alleges that terrorist attacks committed against America are directly linked to ties with Israel. In a December 2002 article titled <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/10/striking-with-impunity/">Striking with Impunity</a>, he states that America is guilty of war crimes for providing military aid to Israel—claiming Israel uses this equipment to commit human rights abuses. Mr. Ruebner asks the readers in the same article, how many more “towers need to fall?”—in reference to the horrific September 11th terrorist attacks—before America stops supporting Israel.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1418 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-1024x376.png" alt="" width="580" height="213" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-1024x376.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-300x110.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-768x282.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-1200x441.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />Many of Mr. Ruebner’s articles contain antisemitic tropes directed at Jews and pro-Israel Americans. <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/285991-israel-lobby-to-push-for-aid-despite-sequestration-cuts">In his March 2013 op-ed for The Hill, Mr. Ruebner accuses</a>  attendees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of being “Israel-first lobbyists.” In a CounterPunch.com article titled “<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/03/14/an-open-letter-to-paul-wolfowitz/">An Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz</a>,” Ruebner claims that a “cabal of extremist Jews” planned the Iraq War.
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<a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">As a Managing Director for AMP</a>, Mr. Ruebner oversees staff management, organizational planning, and development. <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/statement-of-principles">According to their website, AMP seeks</a> to “highlight Israel’s flagrant and continual violations of international law and human rights abuses.” According to the watchdog source <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former">The Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>, AMP can be linked to multiple terrorist organizations. Additionally, various speakers featured at AMP conferences have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.
Mr. <a href="https://joshruebner.com/uscpr/">Ruebner also served</a> as the Policy Director of the <a href="https://uscpr.org/">US Campaign for Palestinian Rights</a> (USCPR) from 2013 to 2019. <a href="https://uscpr.org/about-us/">According to their website</a>, USCPR seeks to end “U.S. complicity in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people” and to “stop U.S. support for Israel until it ends its denial of Palestinian rights.”
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<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014Re4cAAC/christine-fair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Fair</a> is an Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. 

Fair was the subject of a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7dAQe1s5ZVka3hXLURodG1WQkU/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">complaint</a> filed by a colleague for “harassment, abuse, hate, and cyberbullying.”  After <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4069936/Georgetown-prof-C-Christine-Fair-went-meltdown-Muslim-ex-colleague-Asra-Q-Nomani-admitted-voting-Donald-Trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asra Nomani</a>, who is Muslim, said she voted for Trump because of her problems with Obamacare, Fair went on a month-long rant against Nomani, including calling her various insulting names in her native Urdu, claiming Nomani had “pimped” herself out, as well as saying "F*** you."

Fair is also known for her vulgar and carnal tweets directed at conservatives. During the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the fall of 2018, Fair <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11369" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> into a racially tinged tirade on her <a href="https://twitter.com/CChristineFair?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account, accusing Republicans of enabling a rapist and calling for their castration in a series of tweets, 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Look at thus(sic) chorus of entitled white men justifying a serial rapist’s arrogant entitlement."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">”all of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps."</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;">“Bonus: we castrate their corpse and feed them to swine? Yes.”</li>
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In 2018, Fair was <a href="https://thehoya.com/news/georgetown-professor-accused-calling-german-officer-nazi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in The Hoya article </a>“Georgetown Professor Accused of Calling German Officer a ‘Nazi.’” 

The publication explained, “The alleged confrontation occurred after an airport security agent pulled Fair aside and summoned a German police officer, as required by law after an X-ray machine at a security checkpoint indicated her luggage might contain explosives.”

It turns out the substances found in Fair’s bags — cosmetics and roll-on deodorant — had exceeded the amount permitted by law enforcement. The Hoya said, “After the police suggested Fair store a roll-on deodorant in her carry-on bag, the police report states Fair reacted aggressively and called the police ‘f–king bastards’ and ‘f–king Nazi police.’”

The Hoya recorded Fair’s response:
“‘The whole thing was a straight-up shakedown. At the end of the day, this officer just did not want a customer service complaint. If I were a white guy, this wouldn’t be happening to me. For example, the cop called me a hippie. Why am I of all people derided as a hippie?’”
Despite corroborating witness statements cited in the police report — as well as accusations that Fair said another passenger had a “Hitler Youth haircut” — Fair denied all allegations. 

After being detained by German police, the report said Fair was fined $260 in legal fees.
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<a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/peller-gary.cfm">Gary Peller</a> is a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. After the death of Antonin Scalia, Peller drafted an email in opposition to mourning his death, accusing him of being a bully.

Professor <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/preston-mitchum/">Preston Mitchum</a> is a law professor at Georgetown University. Though he is widely known for his extremely controversial and extreme opinions, constantly referring to how much he hates cops. Though he may have taken it a step too far with of of his latest, stating, “Yes, ALL white people are racist. Yes, ALL men are sexist. Yes, ALL cis people are transphobic. We have to unpack that. That's the work!”

<a href="https://lannan.georgetown.edu/past-guests/michael-eric-dyson/">Michael Eric Dyson</a> is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University.

Dyson has<a href="https://www.wglt.org/post/dyson-isu-white-supremacy-sees-resurgence-under-trump-0#stream/0"> alleged</a> that there has been a “resurgence” of white supremacy under a conservative presidency. In an interview with<a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/5308799067001#sp=show-clips"> Tucker Carlson</a>, he has also asked for whites to pay reparations to black communities to offset America’s legacy of racism. During a<a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?445812-1/aurea-foundation-hosts-munk-debate-political-correctness"> debate</a> on political correctness in 2018 with Professor Jordan Peterson, Dyson repeatedly referred to Peterson as just a “mean, mad, old, white, man.” 

Just prior to Independence Day 2019, Dyson appeared on<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/michael-eric-dyson-on-betsy-ross-flag-symbolism-why-dont-we-wear-a-swastika-for-july-fourth/"> MSNBC </a>and compared the iconic Betsy Ross Flag to a Nazi Swastika,

“Well, it hails from the Revolutionary period, of course, of this nation’s founding, which was deeply embroiled in, you know, enslavement, of the owners of slaves…..Right-wing white supremacists have used it as a rallying cry for their own cause.” 

Dyson continued,

“Words matter, symbols matter too. Why don’t we wear a swastika for July Fourth? Because I don’t know, it makes a difference.”

Dyson is also associated with the notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. In 2010, Dyson<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ULAThBZKiM"> participated</a> in a roundtable discussion hosted by PBS with Farrakhan and<a href="http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Minister_Louis_Farrakhan_9/article_7248.shtml"> interviewed</a> him the same year about the economic condition of black communities.

<a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014U15mAAC/peter-strzok-ii">Peter Strzok</a> is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/peter-strzok-hired-to-teach-counterintelligence-at-georgetown-university/">Strzok was recently hired</a> by the Walsh School of Foreign Service and teaches <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/course-catalog/a1o1Q00000271IyQAI/ipol32301?id=00336000014U15mAAC">Counterintelligence and National Security.</a>

Strzok—a former counterintelligence agent with the FBI—was known for his lead role in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/declassified-trump-russia-launch-document-authored-by-strzok-and-investigated-by-durham">Strzok launched a counterintelligence operation</a> and obtained multiple warrants to spy on individuals connected to the Trump campaign to determine if the candidate was illegally cultivating ties with Russia. Code-named Operation Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI’s investigation heavily relied on information provided by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele.

Steele had compiled a series of lurid allegations against then-candidate Trump, alleging liabilities to the Kremlin would allow him to be blackmailed by Russia. Referred to as the Steele Dossier, it was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/clinton-campaign-dnc-paid-for-research-that-led-to-russia-dossier/2017/10/24/226fabf0-b8e4-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html?tid=ss_tw&amp;utm_term=.be21b9cb9402">initially paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign</a> before being <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-slams-bruce-ohr-for-consequential-errors-in-judgment">ferried by Bruce Ohr</a> of the Justice Department to the FBI. The Obama Administration was <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dni-releases-cia-documents-on-hillary-clintons-plan-to-tie-trump-campaign-to-russia-to-distract-from-email-scandal/">briefed by CIA director John Brennan</a> about Clinton's attempt to use the dossier as an effort to tie the Trump campaign to Russia. The FBI used Steele as an informant to obtain FISA warrants against campaign surrogates George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.

It was later revealed that Steele’s source for the dossier was a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-previously-investigated-steele-dossier-source-as-russian-agent">suspected Russian spy</a> and his <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/07/24/meet_steele_dossiers_primary_subsource_fabulist_russian_at_us_think_tank_whose_boozy_past_the_fbi_ignored_124601.html">allegations were unfounded</a>. Despite Steele being removed by the FBI for his misconduct, this information <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/what-to-expect-from-inspector-general-michael-horowitzs-report-on-alleged-fisa-abuses">was withheld from a FISA court when seeking warrants</a> to surveil Papadopoulos and Page. The FBI claimed that Steele was not the source contained in the application while continuing to rely on his allegations.

<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/15/newly-declassified-papadopoulos-transcript-exposes-crossfire-hurricane-corruption/">Papadopoulos</a> was ultimately never charged with colluding with Russia and the warrants issued for Page have been <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/carter-page-fisa-warrant-lacked-probable-cause-declassified-doj-order-finds">found to lack probable cause for surveillance</a>. A top lawyer working for Strzok has <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/22/washington-post-quietly-changes-story-on-altered-russia-probe-document/">pleaded guilty to falsifying information</a> in order to obtain a warrant for Page.

Peter Strzok was also instrumental in setting a perjury trap for General Flynn. Initially a target of Crossfire Hurricane, the Bureau soon closed the investigation over a lack of evidence. Strzok then <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/30/breaking-fbi-closed-flynn-case-dubbed-crossfire-razor-in-early-2017-until-strzok-ordered-it-to-stay-open/">intervened and immediately reopened</a> the case in early 2017. Hoping to catch <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/29/explosive-new-flynn-documents-show-fbi-goal-was-to-get-him-fired/">Flynn in a lie so that he would be fired</a>, Strzok interviewed Flynn over his recent conversation with the Russian Ambassador regarding sanctions. Despite Strzok or then <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/comey-told-obama-flynn-conversations-154702223.html">FBI director James Comey</a> believing that Fynn had not lied or mischaracterized the interaction, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/your-guide-to-the-obama-administrations-hit-on-michael-flynn/">the FBI charged Flynn with lying under oath</a>. The resultant trial nearly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/now-imperiled-case-against-flynn-cost-him-millions-of-dollars-his-house-his-job">bankrupted Flynn’s family</a> and is still ongoing.

Throughout 2016 and 2017, Strzok was texting with fellow agent Lisa Page (of whom he was having an affair with at the time) <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/peter-strzok-trump-smell-hillbillies-1020892">his disdain for Trump supporters</a> and his desire to remove Donald Trump for office, referring to a supposed “<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-was-about-carter-page-fisa-warrant">insurance policy</a>” should he win the election. Strzok, then working with Robert Mueller, coordinated with Lisa Page t<a href="https://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/commentary/newly-disclosed-strzok-page-texts-shed-new-light-media-leak-strategy">o selectively leak information</a> about investigations to potentially obtain further warrants.

Strzok was soon <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fc94343ce2ace8e855cf7ef7efe9c8bf">removed from Mueller's team</a> once his communications were discovered, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/doj-destroyed-missing-strzok-page-text-messages-before-ig-reviewed-them/">but wiped his phone</a> before it could be reviewed for any further potentially incriminating texts. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-agent-peter-strzok-who-sent-anti-trump-tweets-fired-n900161">He was later fired</a> by the FBI and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-ig-report-shows-fbi-misconduct-and-abuses-in-anti-trump-probe-of-russia-collusion-hoax">excoriated by an Inspector General’s report</a> over his partisan activities on a government-issued phone.

Throughout his career, Strzok has vindictively wielded the power of the state for his own purposes. To this day, he remains unrepentant and has <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/compromised-peter-strzok-on-investigating-the-trump-campaign/">repeatedly defended his actions</a>, even <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt/dp/0358237068">authoring a book</a> accusing the president of being compromised by Vladimir Putin.

Strzok’s texts to Lisa Page demonstrate a clear bias against conservatives, extending far beyond mere words. Strzok has repeatedly and flagrantly discriminated against conservatives.

Acting with impunity, Strzok and his team lied, falsified evidence, spied on, and attempted to bankrupt those serving on a presidential campaign that he opposed. As a professor, Strzok will hold the pivotal role of mentoring future leaders of the intelligence and law enforcement community— the same community whose principles he flagrantly violated. He will also hold the grades of his conservative students in a vice, subject to his personal prejudice. As someone that has demonstrated seemingly no prior hesitation in targeting conservatives, there is no reason to believe that Strzok will not place future students in his crosshairs.

Mr. <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002Ad6npQAB/josh-ruebner">Josh Ruebner</a> is an adjunct faculty member in the <a href="https://justiceandpeace.georgetown.edu/">Program on Justice and Peace</a> at Georgetown University. According to Georgetown's website, the goal of the Justice and Peace Program is to produce “practically useful scholarships on how to create a more just and peaceful world.” In addition to his teaching roles, Ruebner is a Managing Director for the organization <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)</a>.

Mr. Ruebner has served in the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides policy analysis on behalf of committees in both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. As a member of the CRS, Mr. Ruebner co-authored <a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs1535/m1/1/high_res_d/RL30713_2001Jan05.pdf">The Current Palestinian Uprising: Al-Aqsa Intifadah</a>, in which he accuses Israel of disproportionate use of force against Palestinians. Ruebner has also <a href="https://joshruebner.com/jewish-anti-occupation-group-lobbies-u-s/">sponsored</a> congressional staff members on a trip to the West Bank to advocate cutting off economic aid to Israel.

In 2018, Mr. Ruebner authored a book titled <a href="https://www.interlinkbooks.com/product/israel/">Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?</a> In an event for the book’s release hosted by <a href="https://thejerusalemfund.org/category/pc">The Palestine Center</a>—a Palestinian advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.—Mr. Ruebner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqvfPNDwF70&amp;ab_channel=TheJerusalemFund%26PalestineCenter">accuses</a> Israel of enacting policies similar to apartheid-era South Africa.

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Mr. Ruebner previously slandered Israel as an apartheid state in his 2013 book titled <a href="https://joshruebner.com/books/shattered-hopes/order-the-book/">Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker an Israeli-Palestinian Peace</a>. In a promotional interview with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVcp4FkHcV-YGI7F-MsY-YQ">Portland Media Center</a>, Mr. Ruebner further <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU1fqAQBozo&amp;ab_channel=PortlandMediaCenter">accuses the United States of complicity in Israel's human rights violations</a>.

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Mr. Ruebner alleges that terrorist attacks committed against America are directly linked to ties with Israel. In a December 2002 article titled <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2002/12/10/striking-with-impunity/">Striking with Impunity</a>, he states that America is guilty of war crimes for providing military aid to Israel—claiming Israel uses this equipment to commit human rights abuses. Mr. Ruebner asks the readers in the same article, how many more “towers need to fall?”—in reference to the horrific September 11th terrorist attacks—before America stops supporting Israel.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1418 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-06-01T161707.390-e1622589488707-1024x376.png" alt="" width="580" height="213" />Many of Mr. Ruebner’s articles contain antisemitic tropes directed at Jews and pro-Israel Americans. <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/285991-israel-lobby-to-push-for-aid-despite-sequestration-cuts">In his March 2013 op-ed for The Hill, Mr. Ruebner accuses</a>  attendees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of being “Israel-first lobbyists.” In a CounterPunch.com article titled “<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/03/14/an-open-letter-to-paul-wolfowitz/">An Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz</a>,” Ruebner claims that a “cabal of extremist Jews” planned the Iraq War.

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<a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/staff">As a Managing Director for AMP</a>, Mr. Ruebner oversees staff management, organizational planning, and development. <a href="https://www.ampalestine.org/about-amp/statement-of-principles">According to their website, AMP seeks</a> to “highlight Israel’s flagrant and continual violations of international law and human rights abuses.” According to the watchdog source <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former">The Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>, AMP can be linked to multiple terrorist organizations. Additionally, various speakers featured at AMP conferences have repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel.

Mr. <a href="https://joshruebner.com/uscpr/">Ruebner also served</a> as the Policy Director of the <a href="https://uscpr.org/">US Campaign for Palestinian Rights</a> (USCPR) from 2013 to 2019. <a href="https://uscpr.org/about-us/">According to their website</a>, USCPR seeks to end “U.S. complicity in Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people” and to “stop U.S. support for Israel until it ends its denial of Palestinian rights.”

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Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/">Georgetown University</a> at (202) 687-0100
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<a href="https://pediatrics.georgetown.edu/reitman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. David Reitman</a> is a doctor and Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgetown University</a>. In a leaked lecture, Dr. Reitman advocates for administering puberty-blocking drugs to transition gender-dysphoric minors.

Slides from the lecture delivered to incoming medical students by Dr. Reitman—<a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which were obtained by The Spectator</a>—warn that gender dysphoria is a life-threatening condition that often results in suicide. He maintains the only way to treat the depression of transgender minors is through surgery or hormone replacement to “fix” their bodies.

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Further, Dr. Reitman claims that even infants can understand their true gender identity. He instructs students to determine if their patients may be transgender by asking the child if he/she wants to grow their hair a certain length or play dress-up. 

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Dr. Reitman notes that it's optimal to identify gender dysphoria before puberty to begin cross-sex hormone treatment. He states this will prevent “unwanted secondary sex characteristics” and the minor will not have to undergo gender-transition surgeries later in life. 

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Dr. Reitman then claims the effects of the drugs are fully reversible and puberty can be resumed at any time. While acknowledging these treatments have serious side effects such as loss of bone density, liver damage, and infertility, he still states there is a net benefit.  

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A common drug used in gender transitions is Lupron, which was <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designed to castrate sex offenders</a>. Even if the dosage is <a href="https://www.commonsense.news/p/top-trans-doctors-blow-the-whistle?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">halted mid-transition, children are still unable to undergo puberty.</a> 

The Spectator further reports that <a href="https://spectatorworld.com/topic/georgetown-catholic-medical-school-hormone-therapy-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Reitman then displayed explicit images of “top” and “bottom” surgeries.</a> This refers to either a double mastectomy (top surgery) or the surgical removal/altering of genitalia (bottom surgery) as part of the transition process.  

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<a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/dorothy-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dorothy A. Brown</a> is a Professor at Georgetown University. <a href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Brown_CV_June_2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to her CV</a>, Brown teaches courses on federal income tax, critical race theory, corporate tax

As the author of “<a href="https://www.harvard.com/book/whiteness_of_wealth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Whiteness of Wealth</a>,” Brown alleges the American tax code was created to prevent black Americans from achieving financial success. As a result, Brown claims that wealth creation was sequestered for white families. 

In 2021, Brown was <a href="https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Professor%20Dorothy%20Brown%20Testimony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invited by the Senate Finance Committee</a> to deliver testimony regarding her research. She stated that America still suffers from systemic racism and the tax law only perpetuates racial inequity. She further alleged that Americans bring their racial identities into their tax codes, as the tax law was written alongside Jim Crow laws to benefit whites. 

“What my research has revealed is that because systemic racism is very real, all American taxpayers bring our racial identities onto our tax returns.”

During an interview with the Rockafeller Foundation, Brown further claimed that only “white wealth” can be built in America. 
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“Our American system of building wealth is designed to build white wealth.” <a href="https://twitter.com/DorothyABrown?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DorothyABrown</a>, author of "The Whiteness of Wealth," sat down w/ RF’s <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielleSGoonan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanielleSGoonan</a> to discuss the inequities in the US tax system for Black Americans.
Full conversation:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EquityIsOpportunity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EquityIsOpportunity</a>

— The Rockefeller Foundation (@RockefellerFdn) <a href="https://twitter.com/RockefellerFdn/status/1475485371643219972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQgVPl9-xg&amp;ab_channel=PoliticsandProse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a separate interview</a> with Elie Mystal—who once <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/nation-correspondent-elie-mystal-us-constitution-actually-trash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called the U.S. Constitution “trash”</a>—Brown again affirmed that building wealth is inherently connected to race. Citing college drop-out rates and unemployment amongst blacks, she claimed these and other disparities are proof the tax code exists to benefit white people. 

To alleviate racial inequity, Dr. Brown suggests the following: 

- Levy a “reparations” tax to repay black Americans for past and present discrimination. 

- Mandate companies' self-audit each year in order to ensure they are hiring a proportionate number of employees from each race. 

- Deny white Americans mortgage exemptions if they do not live in a neighborhood where at least 10% of their neighbors are black. 

During the Q&amp;A section of the interview, Brown laments that she cannot adopt an explicitly “pro-black” tax policy, as the Supreme Court would not uphold it. Rather, she admits that her initial proposals will have to target income levels rather than cater to specific races. 
Published - December 8, 2022

Professor Jeff Bernstein, Georgetown University, was a Master of Foreign Service advisory board member. Bernstein made the list after he responded to a Tweet sent out by Allie Stuckey that stated: "The #metoo movement is a symptom of a broken world." Bernstein chose to respond to this Tweet with his own, saying, "Wishing you a #metoo moment. Maybe then you won't be so insensitive." Bernstein has since apologized for the Tweet and has resigned from his position with Georgetown University.

Antisemitism

Terror Supporter

Josh Ruebner

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<a href="https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/belinda-dantley.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belinda Dantley</a> is a full-time faculty member and the Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the School of Law at Saint Louis University. According to her university biography, Dantley teaches Child Advocacy and is “dedicated to creating and fostering spaces for inclusive learning and diverse viewpoints.”
In February 2022, Dantley signed a “<a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2.25.22%20-%20200+%20Black%20Women%20Law%20Professors%20Support%20for%20Jackson.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strong Letter of Support from Black Women Law Professors for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> to Serve as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” The letter says “Throughout the history of the United States, laws have been created, enacted, interpreted, and enforced predominantly by white men.” The signers claim that “fairness, justice, and the Court’s legitimacy … are weakened when its justices neither look like the rest of the United States nor reflect the values of a segment of society.”
The letter also states:
“As more than 200 Black women law professors, we write to express our unequivocal support for the nomination and appointment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … We urge you to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States without delay.” 
Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of being lenient on child pornography cases. During her Supreme Court hearing, <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/when-pressed-sen-hawley-her-lenient-record-judge-jackson-cant-respond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senator Josh Hawley questioned Jackson</a> on a case (<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5057626/united-states-v-hawkins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States v. Hawkins</a>) where she sentenced the defendant to three months in prison even though the probation officer recommended eighteen months. Hawley asked Jackson if she had anything to add about her decision, to which she responded “No, Senator.”
In November 2021, Dantley signed another letter titled <a href="https://unewsonline.com/2021/11/faculty-statement-of-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Faculty and Staff Statement of Solidarity”</a> in response to a campus event featuring Matt Walsh. The event was titled “Why The Pro-Life Movement is Center Stage in the Culture War.” According to the letter, Walsh publicly expressed that he would change the title of the talk to “What Is A Woman? How The Trans Agenda Erases Women And Denies Reality?”
The letter says Walsh is known “for making degrading statements about LGBTQ+ identities” and claims “child-birth should not determine a person’s gender identity nor should it delegitimize their womanhood.” The statement concludes:
“We want to be clear &#8211; Matt Walsh’s viewpoints, rhetoric, and tactics do not represent the perspective of the undersigned SLU faculty and staff … We want to use the power of our position to affirm transgender and nonbinary students, in particular &#8211; we see you, you matter to us, we care for you and we hear your concerns.” 
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/st-louis-university-student-faces-suspension-or-expulsion-for-advertising-matt-walsh-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, the Matt Walsh event did take place but was held off campus after university officials refused to provide a venue.
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<a href="https://www.slu.edu/arts-and-sciences/bioethics/faculty/braswell-harold.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harold Braswell, Ph.D.</a> is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University. According to his university profile, his research interests include bioethics, medical anthropology, history of medicine, disability studies, and medical humanities.

In November 2021, Braswell signed a <a href="https://unewsonline.com/2021/11/faculty-statement-of-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Faculty and Staff Statement of Solidarity”</a> in response to a campus event featuring Matt Walsh. The event was titled “Why The Pro-Life Movement is Center Stage in the Culture War.” According to the letter, Walsh publicly expressed that he would change the title of the talk to, “What Is A Woman? How The Trans Agenda Erases Women And Denies Reality?”

The letter says Walsh is known “for making degrading statements about LGBTQ+ identities” and claims “child-birth should not determine a person’s gender identity nor should it delegitimize their womanhood.” The statement concludes:
“We want to be clear - Matt Walsh’s viewpoints, rhetoric, and tactics do not represent the perspective of the undersigned SLU faculty and staff … We want to use the power of our position to affirm transgender and nonbinary students, in particular - we see you, you matter to us, we care for you and we hear your concerns.” 
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/st-louis-university-student-faces-suspension-or-expulsion-for-advertising-matt-walsh-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, the Matt Walsh event did take place but was held off campus after university officials refused to provide a venue.

In September 2020, Braswell also participated in a movement known as #ScholarStrike. The event—originally planned as a walk-out on SLU’s campus—turned into a teach-in where students and faculty gathered near the SLU clock tower <a href="https://unewsonline.com/2020/09/scholar-strike-on-slus-campus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to raise awareness and educate on the topics of racism and inequality.</a>

According to The University News, Professor Braswell spoke at the event, discussing “his experiences, acknowledging the ways he has benefited from racism, and how racism can affect geriatric care in ways you may not expect.”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://www.slu.edu/law/faculty/belinda-dantley.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Belinda Dantley</a> is a full-time faculty member and the Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the School of Law at Saint Louis University. According to her university biography, Dantley teaches Child Advocacy and is “dedicated to creating and fostering spaces for inclusive learning and diverse viewpoints.”

In February 2022, Dantley signed a “<a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2.25.22%20-%20200+%20Black%20Women%20Law%20Professors%20Support%20for%20Jackson.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strong Letter of Support from Black Women Law Professors for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> to Serve as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.” The letter says “Throughout the history of the United States, laws have been created, enacted, interpreted, and enforced predominantly by white men.” The signers claim that “fairness, justice, and the Court’s legitimacy … are weakened when its justices neither look like the rest of the United States nor reflect the values of a segment of society.”

The letter also states:
“As more than 200 Black women law professors, we write to express our unequivocal support for the nomination and appointment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson … We urge you to confirm her appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States without delay.” 
Ketanji Brown Jackson has a record of being lenient on child pornography cases. During her Supreme Court hearing, <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/when-pressed-sen-hawley-her-lenient-record-judge-jackson-cant-respond" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senator Josh Hawley questioned Jackson</a> on a case (<a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5057626/united-states-v-hawkins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United States v. Hawkins</a>) where she sentenced the defendant to three months in prison even though the probation officer recommended eighteen months. Hawley asked Jackson if she had anything to add about her decision, to which she responded “No, Senator.”

In November 2021, Dantley signed another letter titled <a href="https://unewsonline.com/2021/11/faculty-statement-of-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Faculty and Staff Statement of Solidarity”</a> in response to a campus event featuring Matt Walsh. The event was titled “Why The Pro-Life Movement is Center Stage in the Culture War.” According to the letter, Walsh publicly expressed that he would change the title of the talk to “What Is A Woman? How The Trans Agenda Erases Women And Denies Reality?”

The letter says Walsh is known “for making degrading statements about LGBTQ+ identities” and claims “child-birth should not determine a person’s gender identity nor should it delegitimize their womanhood.” The statement concludes:
“We want to be clear - Matt Walsh’s viewpoints, rhetoric, and tactics do not represent the perspective of the undersigned SLU faculty and staff … We want to use the power of our position to affirm transgender and nonbinary students, in particular - we see you, you matter to us, we care for you and we hear your concerns.” 
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/st-louis-university-student-faces-suspension-or-expulsion-for-advertising-matt-walsh-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, the Matt Walsh event did take place but was held off campus after university officials refused to provide a venue.
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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://www.slu.edu/research/research-institute/big-ideas/institute-for-healing-justice-and-equity/amber-johnson.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amber Johnson, Ph.D.</a> is a Professor of Communication and Social Justice at Saint Louis University. According to her university biography, her research focuses on “narratives of identity, protest, and social justice in digital media, popular media, and everyday lived experiences.” Johnson, who uses they/them pronouns, is the co-founder of the <a href="https://www.slu.edu/research/research-institute/big-ideas/institute-for-healing-justice-and-equity/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute for Healing Justice and Equity</a>.

In November 2021, Johnson signed a <a href="https://unewsonline.com/2021/11/faculty-statement-of-solidarity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Faculty and Staff Statement of Solidarity”</a> in response to an event being held on campus featuring Matt Walsh. The event was titled “Why The Pro-Life Movement is Center Stage in the Culture War.” According to the letter, Walsh publicly expressed that he would change the title of the talk to “What Is A Woman? How The Trans Agenda Erases Women And Denies Reality?”

The letter says Walsh is known “for making degrading statements about LGBTQ+ identities” and claims “child-birth should not determine a person’s gender identity nor should it delegitimize their womanhood.” The statement concludes:
“We want to be clear - Matt Walsh’s viewpoints, rhetoric, and tactics do not represent the perspective of the undersigned SLU faculty and staff … We want to use the power of our position to affirm transgender and nonbinary students, in particular - we see you, you matter to us, we care for you and we hear your concerns.” 
According to the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/st-louis-university-student-faces-suspension-or-expulsion-for-advertising-matt-walsh-lecture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Examiner</a>, the Matt Walsh event did take place but was held off campus after university officials refused to provide a venue.

Johnson is also the creator of <a href="https://www.thejusticefleet.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Justice Fleet TM</a>, “a mobile social justice museum that fosters healing through art, dialogue and play.” One of the exhibits in the museum, titled Transfuturism, is described as “an art activism exhibit that projects Black trans and gender nonconforming people as super heroes in an effort to render visible the embodied heroic work of dismantling the gender binary.”

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Published - December 2, 2022

<a href="https://www.slu.edu/medicine/family-medicine/mft/faculty.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katie Heiden-Rootes</a> is an Associate Professor in the Medical Family Therapy Program at Saint Louis University. She is also the Assistant Vice President for the Division of Diversity and Innovative Community Engagement (DICE).

According to its website, <a href="https://www.slu.edu/diversity/index.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DICE’s mission</a> is to “establish a culture of inclusive excellence, equity, and human flourishing for all members of Saint Louis University and our connected communities through education, elimination, and transformation.”

DICE hosts a Diversity and Inclusion Webinar Series that examines “whiteness, anti-blackness, and anti-racism in society.” The website states:
“This is Saint Louis University’s commitment to achieving the commitment of the values rooted in Ignatian spirituality in achieving social justice and racial equality through the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” 
Heiden-Rootes is also a part of the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/katie-m-heiden-rootes-phd-lmft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rainbow Research Lab</a> and the director of the <a href="https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/katie-m-heiden-rootes-phd-lmft/medical-family-therapy-program---faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rainbow Research Practicum Group</a> through the Medical Family Therapy Program. The Rainbow Research Lab’s mission is to “identify interpersonal processes in family and health care systems that promote health for marginalized and vulnerable sexual, gender, and racial minority persons.”

In March 2023, Heiden-Rootes—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.”
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Published - April 17, 2023

Protests

Sexualization

Belinda Dantley

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<a href="https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy/faculty/Stephen-Kershnar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Stephen Kershnar</a> is a professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Dr. Kershnar’s university profile claims that he has written one hundred articles on topics such as abortion, hell, pornography, sexual fantasies, slavery, and adult-child sex.
Dr. Kershnar is known for his academic attempts to justify controversial stances and illegal acts. Several of his articles include:
&#8211; <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERFTA-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When torture may be permissible</a>.
&#8211; <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERGTV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Americans should not be grateful to veterans.</a>
&#8211; <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERTCT-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How morality and responsibility are fictitious concepts</a>.
&#8211; <a href="http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE06/Kershnar06.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why killing civilians in war is justified.</a>
&#8211; <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERALA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why slavery, in of itself, may not be a human rights violation</a>.
In one paper—titled, <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERPAA-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis</a>,”— Dr. Kershnar describes moral opposition to pedophilia as “aesthetic.” While acknowledging that many regard “adult-child” relationships as sickening, he states that there exists no clear reason as to whether these judgments are justified or wrong.
In a separate interview, Dr. Kershnar argues that there is nothing immoral about an adult male having a relationship with a “willing” 12-year-old girl.
“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held view is that there’s something deeply wrong about this. It’s wrong independent of it being criminalized. It’s not obvious to me that it’s in fact wrong.”
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SUNY Fredonia Professor questions the widely held sociteal belief that it’s deeply wrong for an adult man to want to have sex year with a 12 year old girl. <a href="https://t.co/qUAbSexFxp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/qUAbSexFxp</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488673725176479744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Continuing, Dr. Kershnar then decries the age of consent. He states that it’s “not quite obvious” that restrictions should apply to adult relationships with children as young as one-year-old. He then states that he does not consider there to be a “blanket wrong” for any age.
“One is even if you are looking for a threshold. Let’s say there’s a threshold. I’m making this number up, but let’s say it’s at age 8. Still, that tells you that some adult-child sex is permissible. Second, the notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me…So no, I don’t think there’s a blanket period beyond which this is permissible…but yeah, I don’t think there’s a blanket wrong in any age.” 
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Why is Professor Stephen Kershnar still on <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FredoniaU</a> payroll? <a href="https://t.co/XjYbd35VGW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/XjYbd35VGW</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488677738596732931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In the same interview, Dr. Kershnar even claims there may be “evolutionary advantages” to “adult-child sex.”
“I would claim that in evolutionary terms, as best as we can determine, it’s more likely than not there’s a strong evolutionary case for adult-child sex.” 
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SUNY <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FredoniaU</a> Professor Stephen Kershnar states there are “evolutionary advantages to child/adult sex”.
FIRE AND JAIL. <a href="https://t.co/w6dmOtSbEE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/w6dmOtSbEE</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488701649858273285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The comments—which were captured by the Twitter account, “<a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MKE</a>,”—were made by Dr. Kershnar during an appearance on the <a href="https://anchor.fm/braininavat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brain in a Vat</a> podcast. The full interview can be viewed below. 
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Once the remarks began receiving attention from various media outlets, SUNY-Fredonia President, Stephen Kolison, released a statement calling the remarks “reprehensible” and “do not represent the values of SUNY Fredonia.”
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A message from SUNY Fredonia President Stephen H. Kolison <a href="https://t.co/EDZCHCE7ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/EDZCHCE7ch</a>
— SUNY Fredonia (@FredoniaU) <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU/status/1488726120338006017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Kershnar for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.
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UPDATE &#8211; 02/03/21
 President Kolison has announced that Dr. Kershnar will remain off-campus and will have no contact with students while the university conducts its investigation,
&#8220;Effective immediately and until further notice, the professor is being assigned to duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students while the investigation is ongoing.&#8221;
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Philosophy</a> at SUNY-Fredonia at (716) 673-3495 or at Philosophy.Department@fredonia.edu 
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<a href="https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy/faculty/Stephen-Kershnar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Stephen Kershnar</a> is a professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia. Dr. Kershnar’s university profile claims that he has written one hundred articles on topics such as abortion, hell, pornography, sexual fantasies, slavery, and adult-child sex.

Dr. Kershnar is known for his academic attempts to justify controversial stances and illegal acts. Several of his articles include:
- <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERFTA-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When torture may be permissible</a>.
- <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERGTV" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Americans should not be grateful to veterans.</a>
- <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERTCT-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How morality and responsibility are fictitious concepts</a>.
- <a href="http://isme.tamu.edu/JSCOPE06/Kershnar06.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why killing civilians in war is justified.</a>
- <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERALA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why slavery, in of itself, may not be a human rights violation</a>.
In one paper—titled, <a href="https://philpapers.org/rec/KERPAA-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Pedophilia and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Analysis</a>,”— Dr. Kershnar describes moral opposition to pedophilia as “aesthetic.” While acknowledging that many regard “adult-child” relationships as sickening, he states that there exists no clear reason as to whether these judgments are justified or wrong.

In a separate interview, Dr. Kershnar argues that there is nothing immoral about an adult male having a relationship with a “willing” 12-year-old girl.

“Imagine that an adult male wants to have sex with a 12-year-old girl. Imagine that she’s a willing participant. A very standard, very widely held view is that there’s something deeply wrong about this. It’s wrong independent of it being criminalized. It’s not obvious to me that it’s in fact wrong.”
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SUNY Fredonia Professor questions the widely held sociteal belief that it’s deeply wrong for an adult man to want to have sex year with a 12 year old girl. <a href="https://t.co/qUAbSexFxp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/qUAbSexFxp</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488673725176479744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Continuing, Dr. Kershnar then decries the age of consent. He states that it’s “not quite obvious” that restrictions should apply to adult relationships with children as young as one-year-old. He then states that he does not consider there to be a “blanket wrong” for any age.

“One is even if you are looking for a threshold. Let’s say there’s a threshold. I’m making this number up, but let’s say it’s at age 8. Still, that tells you that some adult-child sex is permissible. Second, the notion that it’s wrong even with a one-year-old is not quite obvious to me…So no, I don’t think there’s a blanket period beyond which this is permissible…but yeah, I don’t think there’s a blanket wrong in any age.” 
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Why is Professor Stephen Kershnar still on <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FredoniaU</a> payroll? <a href="https://t.co/XjYbd35VGW" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/XjYbd35VGW</a>
— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488677738596732931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In the same interview, Dr. Kershnar even claims there may be “evolutionary advantages” to “adult-child sex.”

“I would claim that in evolutionary terms, as best as we can determine, it’s more likely than not there’s a strong evolutionary case for adult-child sex.” 
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SUNY <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FredoniaU</a> Professor Stephen Kershnar states there are “evolutionary advantages to child/adult sex”.
FIRE AND JAIL. <a href="https://t.co/w6dmOtSbEE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/w6dmOtSbEE</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1488701649858273285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The comments—which were captured by the Twitter account, “<a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MKE</a>,”—were made by Dr. Kershnar during an appearance on the <a href="https://anchor.fm/braininavat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brain in a Vat</a> podcast. The full interview can be viewed below.
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Once the remarks began receiving attention from various media outlets, SUNY-Fredonia President, Stephen Kolison, released a statement calling the remarks “reprehensible” and “do not represent the values of SUNY Fredonia.”
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A message from SUNY Fredonia President Stephen H. Kolison <a href="https://t.co/EDZCHCE7ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/EDZCHCE7ch</a>
— SUNY Fredonia (@FredoniaU) <a href="https://twitter.com/FredoniaU/status/1488726120338006017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 2, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Dr. Kershnar for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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UPDATE - 02/03/21
 President Kolison has announced that Dr. Kershnar will remain off-campus and will have no contact with students while the university conducts its investigation,

"Effective immediately and until further notice, the professor is being assigned to duties that do not include his physical presence on campus and will not have contact with students while the investigation is ongoing."

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.fredonia.edu/academics/colleges-schools/college-liberal-arts-sciences/philosophy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Philosophy</a> at SUNY-Fredonia at (716) 673-3495 or at Philosophy.Department@fredonia.edu 
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Updated - February 3rd, 2022

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William Thatcher

<a href="http://fresnostate.edu/chhs/public-health/faculty-staff/faculty/thatcher.html">Dr. William Thatcher </a>is a Professor of Public Health at Fresno State University. Recently, a pro-life group caught him on camera erasing pro-life messages written in chalk around campus. Thatcher also ordered his students to erase the messages, even though the group had permission to write the messages on the sidewalks.

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Fresno State University

<a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">Lars Maischak</a> is a lecturer in the Department of History at <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/">California State University, Fresno</a>. According to his university <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">biography</a>, Maischak teaches the courses, Colonial Americas, American History to 1877, England and Empire, United States 1789-1865, and Topics in History - Marx and Hegel for Historians. Maischak uses his personal Twitter account to call for the execution of the 45th President, Donald Trump, and refers to conservatives as fascists.

Maischak claims that fascism is the eventual result of capitalism in a paper titled, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6fiDilfQWGpUrKEh2zzCrBo_iOUHA8C/view">There can be no Democracy without Socialism</a>, shared on Google Drive. Describing fascism as the “creature of capitalism,” Maischak claims that capitalism facilitates the exploitation of workers, or what he describes as the establishment of a “dictatorship of capital over labor."

Maischak further <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6fiDilfQWGpUrKEh2zzCrBo_iOUHA8C/view">cites</a> the territorial expansion, slave labor, and the outlawing of unions in Nazi Germany as examples of capitalism’s logical end. He later describes the liberties inherent in capitalism as the freedom to commit mass murder and barbarism.

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Maischak called for the assassination of then-President Donald Trump via hanging in now-deleted tweets on his personal Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak">account</a> in February of 2017.

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According to a <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/07/professor-trump-must-hang-republicans-should-be-executed-for-each-immigrant-deported/">Daily Caller </a>report, Maischak additionally calls for an “ethnic cleansing” of Republicans.

“#TheResistance #ethniccleansing Justice = The execution of two Republicans for each deported immigrant.” - Lars Maischak

Once Maischak’s tweets were published by outlets like the <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/04/07/professor-trump-must-hang-republicans-should-be-executed-for-each-immigrant-deported/">Daily Caller</a> and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/local/2017/04/13/fresno-state-fbi-secret-service-probing-history-instructor-over-trump-must-hang-tweet/">Breitbart</a>, Maischak offered an initial apology for his remarks. In a written statement to the <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">Fresno Bee</a>, Maischak asks for forgiveness and states, “It was never my intent to harm anyone, nor to encourage others to harm anyone.”

According to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/07/after-anti-trump-tweets-fresno-state-removes-adjunct-professor-teaching-position">Inside Higher Ed</a>, Maischak’s classes were canceled by the university before he was later removed from his position following his remarks about President Trump. However, as of March 2021, Fresno State University still <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/socialsciences/historydept/faculty/faculty-lmaischak.html">lists</a> Maischak as a Lecturer in the History department. In addition, his personal Twitter account still <a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak">contains</a> tweets calling for former president Donald Trump to be hanged, and tweets referring to conservatives as “fascists” that must face “repression” that have not been removed or recanted.

<a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak/status/1346926703105359872"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1314" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.06.25-PM.png" alt="" width="450" height="248" /></a>

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Following initial coverage of Maischak’s remarks in 2017, the Fresno Bee <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">reports</a> that University President, Joseph Castro, stated in a conference call with reporters that he was cooperating with an investigation of Maischak by the Secret Service, Homeland Security, and the FBI. Following this statement, Fresno Bee also <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article144293174.html">reported</a> that Maischak then accused President Castro of allowing himself to be used by a “right-wing smear machine” for cooperating with the investigation.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Maischak for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact California State University-Fresno at (559) 278-4240
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Updated - April 2021

<a href="http://fresnostate.edu/chhs/public-health/faculty-staff/faculty/thatcher.html">Dr. William Thatcher </a>is a Professor of Public Health at Fresno State University. Recently, a pro-life group caught him on camera erasing pro-life messages written in chalk around campus. Thatcher also ordered his students to erase the messages, even though the group had permission to write the messages on the sidewalks.

<a href="http://directory.csufresno.edu/detailsFacultyStaff.asp?ID=3249">Dr. Randa Jarrar</a> is an Associate Professor in the English Department at <a href="https://www.fresnostate.edu/">Fresno State University.</a>

On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Jarrar castigates white people, praises terrorists, and even calls for the destruction of Israel.

One tweet calls to free Palestine from Israel by stating, “From the river to the sea,”
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literally lies. palestine should be free from the river to the sea= free of OPPRESSION, not jews. the fuck?? Free as in it should grant rights to ALL its citizens. the only people being thrown into the sea currently are Palestinians in GAZA. stop lying <a href="https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/TqfkCBPshX</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1394741026594643968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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The phrase, “from the river to the sea”, was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO) and alludes to the destruction of Israel—and thus the genocide of the nation’s Jews—between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1948/08/02/archives/aim-to-oust-jews-pledged-by-sheikh-head-of-moslem-brotherhood-says.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was quoted by The New York Times stating, "If the Jewish state becomes a fact, and this is realized by the Arab peoples, they will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea."

Dr. Jarrar—<a href="https://randajarrar.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">who grew up in Egypt and Kuwait</a>—would later reveal that she attended PLO “after-school programs” to learn “resistance songs.”
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As a Palestinian child in the '80s I attended PLO-sponsored after school programs, learned about my history, and sang resistance songs.
As a Palestinian femme in 2021, I karaoke "Toxic" and flog asses and put the BDS in BDSM.

Free Palestine, bitch.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#pride</a>

— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1403477958405230593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another tweet praises the terrorist, <a href="https://camera-uk.org/2018/03/05/evening-standard-omits-fact-that-acclaimed-palestinian-writer-was-also-a-pflp-terrorist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ghassan Kanafani, </a>of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization known for the murder of 26 people during the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/1550/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-lod-airport-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lod Airport Massacre</a>.
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Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian novelist and badass. He was assasinated by Israel three years after this. In this video he talks about Palestinian dignity and human rights and the ways that Israel’s colonialism is in opposition to life. <a href="https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/z6MENFc2Ql</a>
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1143916995319980032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Her account berates white people as “privileged” and police as members of a “white militia”:
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No lie: I am LIVID to see white authors including women get huge advances and 2nd and 3rd chances with presses when their books don’t change lives the way mine have. IDGAF if that’s conceited. As Remy Ma says, “I’m conceited; I got a reason.”
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1269409702321901568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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******REMINDER*******
*The police are the largest white militia in this country.
We must abolish the police.
*This is not the worst president we have ever had-- some presidents were enslavers and some killed 1.5 million iraqis.

*Stay focused: ACAB

— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1313588149486940161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In other tweets, Dr. Jarrar states that she no longer reads from authors or answers questions from people who are white, or even hosts events for majority white audiences.
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i dont wanna talk about or read about these white dudes anymore. gonna focus on my loves and their work, celebrate their genius, and make our art.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1490830321016709122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I no longer do events that are majority white. I will never agree to do an event if I am the only person of color on the panel. I will slap anyone who microagresses. I do not accept questions from the audience if they're not from BIPOC.
— 🇵🇸Ra🇵🇸 (@randajarrar) <a href="https://twitter.com/randajarrar/status/1469509947045990401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 11, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Further statements range from <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/03/18/i_still_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accusing white belly dancers of cultural appropriation</a> to demanding that all <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11161" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white editors step down from their positions</a>.

<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/professor-randa-jarrar-under-fire-for-calling-barbara-bush-a-racist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In 2018, Jarrar came under fire</a> after tweeting about former first lady, Barbara Bush, after her death. In one tweet about the former First Lady, she called Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” who “raised a war criminal.” In another tweet, she claimed to be “happy the witch is dead.”

After experiencing blowback for her remarks, Dr. Jarrar taunted her followers by claiming that she is a tenured professor who makes $100,000 a year and will never be fired.

When the university was asked to comment, <a href="http://www.fresnostatenews.com/2018/04/24/president-joseph-i-castro-letter-on-conclusion-of-review-regarding-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Castro stated</a>, “We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by Professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State. Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative of Fresno State.”

Dr. Jarrar faced no repercussions and returned to her teaching duties soon-there-after.

In the midst of the controversy, Dr. Jarrar wrote, “If you really wanna reach me, here’s my number ok?”, before <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2018/04/19/fresno-state-professor-randa-jarrar-prank-floods-asu-hotline-barbara-bush/532486002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting the landline of the ASU crisis line, causing the center to become inundated with calls</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jarrar 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://cah.fresnostate.edu/english/about/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of English</a> of Fresno State University at (559) 278-2553
Updated - March 15th, 2022

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<a href="https://marymount.edu/staff-members/marnel-niles-goins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Marnel Niles Goins</a> is Associate Dean in the School of Design, Arts, and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Communication at Marymount University. 
Dr. Niles Goins is a proponent of black feminism and gender ideology. She explored relationships between black women in an article called “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10510974.2011.584934?needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Playing With Dialectics: Black Female Friendship Groups as a Homeplace.</a>” The abstract states:
“Female friendships are significant to many [b]lack females because they represent a homeplace or a safe space. This study uses Baxter and Montgomery’s relational dialectics theory and Collins’ [b]lack feminist thought to understand the interplay of contradictions in the stories that [b]lack females tell in their friendship groups.”
In the notes section of the abstract, it says, “The author purposely chose a [b]lack female assistant so the women in the friendship groups would continue to feel safe (during the research project) in their spaces as [b]lack women.”
In 2020, Dr. Niles Goins edited a book titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Communication-Handbooks-Sexuality-ebook/dp/B08N5FPB2C/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NK5XW55APGPA&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1nzKQrhkQnZS8YwLB4GkHOA7KdeUJJDEiwiLpZhLgOIVvJKQgoOnqpElw7s0jIa9WQkT7glauYLkQfOl2M62BOuM2c0P5IXaRwAz0PDfuM74javbWNkaMJ59-6_mEZGMJltdh5WtwFnCFgy6NT9XnlNVJEDruarvE_xjrzb7PXN3q9YXYlIavo4Sh6tCwALN-kEKlByENd6Utm0-I0aqOg9cc-fNN5Lxj9WKhwSVmpM.S6pAaF5C45zTIGy0e0qcsbGxwOjWXnLbDze2Y7t-y_o&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+routledge+handbook+of+gender+and+communication&amp;qid=1710184922&amp;sprefix=the+routledge+handbook+of+gender+and+communication%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication</a>,” in which the publisher said the authors “provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles.” The introduction says:
“When conjoined, ‘gender and communication’ create a powerful alchemy that encompasses interpersonal relationality, systems of judgment, modes of becoming, performative contexts, means of identity, degrees of mobility in place and space, types of power over one’s body, and sources of self-determination. Hence, invoking new insights and strategies related to ‘gender and communication’ has the potential to break the cycle of culturation and enculturation into which we have all been inducted.”
Dr. Niles Goins <a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/new-book-from-clas-professor-explores-being-black-in-the-ivory-tower/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> author and University of Connecticut <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shardedavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Shardé Davis</a> to promote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Being-Black-Ivory-Truth-Telling-Education/dp/1469678268#:~:text=Being%20Black%20in%20the%20Ivory,9781469678269%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Davis’ book</a> “Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism in Higher Education.” According to <a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/new-book-from-clas-professor-explores-being-black-in-the-ivory-tower/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCONN Today</a>, the novel explores Davis’ “built-up rage” over the death of George Floyd. Niles advertised the event on her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marnel-niles-goins_join-us-tomorrow-at-5pm-activity-7169345427283124227-4CH7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn profile</a>.
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During her time as the Graduate Coordinator at California State University, Fresno (CSU), Dr. Niles Goins sat for an interview with <a href="https://www.mastersincommunications.com/school-interviews/dr-marnel-niles-goins-california-state-university-fresno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Masters in Communication</a>. When asked, “What makes [CSU]’s Master of Arts in Communication program unique, and a particularly strong graduate degree option for students?,” Dr. Niles Goins said:
“Our faculty are what make our program stand out … their diversity in terms of race, gender, ability, interests, industry experience, and research expertise means that we are able to serve a broad range of students in a very individualized and productive way.”
When asked how she helped graduate students complete their final project, Dr. Niles Goins stated:
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Please send tips and information on Dr. Marnel Niles Goins to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://marymount.edu/staff-members/marnel-niles-goins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Marnel Niles Goins</a> is Associate Dean in the School of Design, Arts, and Humanities and Professor in the Department of Communication at Marymount University. 

Dr. Niles Goins is a proponent of black feminism and gender ideology. She explored relationships between black women in an article called “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10510974.2011.584934?needAccess=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Playing With Dialectics: Black Female Friendship Groups as a Homeplace.</a>” The abstract states:
“Female friendships are significant to many [b]lack females because they represent a homeplace or a safe space. This study uses Baxter and Montgomery’s relational dialectics theory and Collins’ [b]lack feminist thought to understand the interplay of contradictions in the stories that [b]lack females tell in their friendship groups.”
In the notes section of the abstract, it says, “The author purposely chose a [b]lack female assistant so the women in the friendship groups would continue to feel safe (during the research project) in their spaces as [b]lack women.”

In 2020, Dr. Niles Goins edited a book titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Communication-Handbooks-Sexuality-ebook/dp/B08N5FPB2C/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NK5XW55APGPA&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1nzKQrhkQnZS8YwLB4GkHOA7KdeUJJDEiwiLpZhLgOIVvJKQgoOnqpElw7s0jIa9WQkT7glauYLkQfOl2M62BOuM2c0P5IXaRwAz0PDfuM74javbWNkaMJ59-6_mEZGMJltdh5WtwFnCFgy6NT9XnlNVJEDruarvE_xjrzb7PXN3q9YXYlIavo4Sh6tCwALN-kEKlByENd6Utm0-I0aqOg9cc-fNN5Lxj9WKhwSVmpM.S6pAaF5C45zTIGy0e0qcsbGxwOjWXnLbDze2Y7t-y_o&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+routledge+handbook+of+gender+and+communication&amp;qid=1710184922&amp;sprefix=the+routledge+handbook+of+gender+and+communication%2Caps%2C119&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication</a>,” in which the publisher said the authors “provide insight into recent concerns regarding changing gender roles.” The introduction says:
“When conjoined, ‘gender and communication’ create a powerful alchemy that encompasses interpersonal relationality, systems of judgment, modes of becoming, performative contexts, means of identity, degrees of mobility in place and space, types of power over one’s body, and sources of self-determination. Hence, invoking new insights and strategies related to ‘gender and communication’ has the potential to break the cycle of culturation and enculturation into which we have all been inducted.”
Dr. Niles Goins <a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/new-book-from-clas-professor-explores-being-black-in-the-ivory-tower/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> author and University of Connecticut <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shardedavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Shardé Davis</a> to promote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Being-Black-Ivory-Truth-Telling-Education/dp/1469678268#:~:text=Being%20Black%20in%20the%20Ivory,9781469678269%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Davis’ book</a> “Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling About Racism in Higher Education.” According to <a href="https://today.uconn.edu/2024/03/new-book-from-clas-professor-explores-being-black-in-the-ivory-tower/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UCONN Today</a>, the novel explores Davis’ “built-up rage” over the death of George Floyd. Niles advertised the event on her <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marnel-niles-goins_join-us-tomorrow-at-5pm-activity-7169345427283124227-4CH7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn profile</a>.

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During her time as the Graduate Coordinator at California State University, Fresno (CSU), Dr. Niles Goins sat for an interview with <a href="https://www.mastersincommunications.com/school-interviews/dr-marnel-niles-goins-california-state-university-fresno" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Masters in Communication</a>. When asked, “What makes [CSU]’s Master of Arts in Communication program unique, and a particularly strong graduate degree option for students?,” Dr. Niles Goins said:
“Our faculty are what make our program stand out … their diversity in terms of race, gender, ability, interests, industry experience, and research expertise means that we are able to serve a broad range of students in a very individualized and productive way.”
When asked how she helped graduate students complete their final project, Dr. Niles Goins stated:

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Please send tips and information on Dr. Marnel Niles Goins to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - March 12, 2024

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<a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/jap45/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James “Jim” Piazza</a> is a Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. His research interests include terrorism, counterterrorism, political violence, intrastate conflict, and the politics of the Middle East and Islamic world.
Professor Piazza has been outspoken against former President Donald Trump for many years. In 2020, he wrote an article titled <a href="https://theconversation.com/when-politicians-use-hate-speech-political-violence-increases-146640" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“When Politicians Use Hate Speech, Political Violence Increases,”</a> where he argues that Donald Trump is “accused of publicly denigrating people based on their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.” He also claims that domestic terrorism more than doubled in the United States since the beginning of Trump’s presidency.
Another article, titled <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/white-demographic-anxiety-fuels-support-torture-terrorism-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Demographic Anxiety Fuels Support for Turtore of Terrorism Suspects,”</a> discusses the U.S. Census Bureau’s prediction that the U.S. will be a “majority-minority” country by 2044.
He cites his own research to claim that when white people hear this information, they become more likely to express negative attitudes towards racial minorities. He also claims that this “prompts whites to support political organizations like the Tea Party and right-wing politicians like Donald Trump that truck in anti-minority and anti-foreigner appeals.”
Another recent study of Piazza’s, <a href="https://dea7fa46-473c-46b9-a155-9bc760b1ad78.filesusr.com/ugd/93efc7_ddafabb1f5244e7e981c9009b945ec91.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia, and Support for Political Violence,”</a> alleges that Trump supporters are more likely to be supportive of political violence due to their “racist and xenophobic attitudes.” His conclusion states:
“We also find that Trump approvers are motivated by racial animus and mistruct and hatred towards immigrants and foreigners, and that these attitudes, in part, may make them more accepting of political violence.” 
Piazza’s most recent article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-sore-loser-effect-rejecting-election-results-can-destabilize-democracy-and-drive-terrorism-171571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> focuses on his study <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10659129211054451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Sore Losers: Does Terrorism and Approval of Terrorism Increase in Democracies When Election Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results?”</a> This article discusses the “baseless allegation that Joe Biden stole the 2020 U.S. presidential election” and the “Big Lie” that Trump really won.
Piazza claims that when politicians refuse to accept defeat and become “sore losers,” this “produces a situation where political violence is no longer seen as taboo.” He states:
“These results show that when politicians refuse to accept a free and fair democratic election’s outcome, and instead choose to promote a popular narrative of a stolen or dirty election, they place their people in physical danger. Popular tolerance for terrorism grows, and so does terorrist activity itself.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by phone at: 814-863-8346.
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Published &#8211; October 21, 2022

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<a href="https://www.sia.psu.edu/faculty/hatemi">Dr. Peter Hatemi</a>, a Professor of Political Science at Penn State, stated that conservatives express more issues of psychoticism, which he defined as " uncooperative, hostile, troublesome, and socially withdrawn, but lack feelings of inferiority and have an absence of anxiety. At the extremes, those scoring high on P are manipulative, tough-minded, and practical." He also claims that the counterparts of these conservatives [the left] is more likely to be altruistic, well socialized, empathic, and conventional. However upon review he accidentally switched data points around and should have labeled liberals with the adjectives he labeled conservatives with. Presented with this information, he claimed that it did not change his conclusion.

Warning: Profile Contains Explicit Language
<a href="https://sociology.la.psu.edu/people/smr8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sam Richards</a> is a Teaching Professor of Sociology at <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a>. He is known for his racially laden diatribes delivered to students during his lectures.

Dr. Richards is most prominently known for teaching SOC119, or “Race and Ethnic Relations”. The class is <a href="https://www.soc119.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly the “largest race and cultural relations course in the United States,</a>” according to the official site. Dr. Richards also streams his lectures live, with over 57,000 subscribers on Youtube as of August 2021.

The course addresses relevant racial, political, and cross-cultural issues amongst young adults. Classes consist of Dr. Richards facilitating discussions for students to confront and examine viewpoints contrary to their own.

However, lectures typically devolve into racial and politically biased tirades. Dr. Richards frequently accuses white students of harboring racial animus, alleges that white supremacy is embedded in American culture, and accuses American Christians of seeking to overthrow the government.

In one lecture, titled “White Discomfort,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKTUG02kTTg&amp;ab_channel=SOC119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Richards selects a black and white student and asks them to stand in front of the class</a>. Claiming that racial equality does not exist, he proceeds to position both students abreast of one another before yelling, “They are not f****** equal!”

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In another class, titled “Christian Sharia,” Dr. Richards spends over an hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmzDnulSV_g&amp;ab_channel=SOC119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lecturing on the threat he perceives Christians pose to the country.</a> At one point, when displaying a picture of a Muslim man holding a sign that reads, “Behead Those That Insult Islam,” he proceeds to claim, “You can’t find that anywhere in the Koran….I know that you can find it in the Bible.”

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Later in the same lecture, he accuses Vice President Mike Pence of being a religious extremist on par with that of the Taliban.

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In a lecture delivered in <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March of 2021 and captured by Campus Reform</a>, Dr. Richards selects a white student, Brian, from the audience for a class exercise. He proceeds to ask Brian who he oppressed that day. After the student replied that he hadn’t oppressed anybody, Dr. Richards retorts that since Brian has “left his house” and “is breathing”, that, as a white person, he must have oppressed somebody that day. The full interaction may be viewed below.
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As of August 2021, Dr. Richards has disabled comments or unlisted many of his videos following publicity of his lectures.

The main site for SOC119 mandates that regardless of vaccination status, students will have to wear masks while attending class.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Richards for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Parents and Students may contact <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a> at 814-865-4700.
Updated - August 26, 2021

<a href="https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-edward-j-fuller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Edward J. Fuller</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at <a href="https://www.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pennsylvania State University</a>. On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Fuller called for drunk drivers to run over unvaccinated parents.

The Tweet was a response to school-choice activist <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Corey A. DeAngelis's</a> opposition to mandatory masking in schools. In his reply, Dr. Fuller asked why parents have the right to endanger children by refusing to enforce mandatory masking. He then appeared to suggest that people with masks should drive while under the influence and run over “pro-covid” parents who oppose mask restrictions, as it is their freedom to do so.
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Penn State professor just deleted this tweet: <a href="https://t.co/as5ipv2nBy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/as5ipv2nBy</a>
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1482850745221324800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Although the Tweet was soon deleted, other users expressed shock and disgust at Dr. Fuller’s remarks.
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The absolute state of the academy, in one tweet
— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.substack.com (@JordanSchachtel) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1482869868131233799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/MADDOnline?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@MADDOnline</a>, do you have any comment on <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a> encouraging drunk driving through neighborhoods with children? <a href="https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/iSFuRKHAju</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482892275386621953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Following the outcry, Human Events Senior Editor and TPUSA Contributor <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/bio/jackposobiec?__cf_chl_f_tk=NbKLQKHG5CNCbj59.eOuSTmRWJzA0IUNA91HEN31UY4-1642546748-0-gaNycGzNCdE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jack Posobiec</a> obtained an internal email from the university administration regarding Dr. Fuller. The letter condemned any calls to violence and stated that his remarks did not represent the university in any way.
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UPDATE: <a href="https://twitter.com/HumanEvents?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HumanEvents</a> has obtained an email from the Dean of the Penn State University College of Education condemning Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EdFuller_PSU</a>'s call for violence against the children of unvaccinated people <a href="https://t.co/Cnc0Bhayjy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Cnc0Bhayjy</a>
— Jacek Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1483236102471401478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Since deleting the Tweet, Dr. Fuller <a href="https://twitter.com/EdFuller_PSU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has made his previously public Twitter profile private</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Fuller for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the Pennsylvania State University at (814) 865-4700
Updated - January 18th, 2021

<a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/jap45/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James “Jim” Piazza</a> is a Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. His research interests include terrorism, counterterrorism, political violence, intrastate conflict, and the politics of the Middle East and Islamic world.

Professor Piazza has been outspoken against former President Donald Trump for many years. In 2020, he wrote an article titled <a href="https://theconversation.com/when-politicians-use-hate-speech-political-violence-increases-146640" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“When Politicians Use Hate Speech, Political Violence Increases,”</a> where he argues that Donald Trump is “accused of publicly denigrating people based on their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.” He also claims that domestic terrorism more than doubled in the United States since the beginning of Trump’s presidency.

Another article, titled <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/white-demographic-anxiety-fuels-support-torture-terrorism-suspects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“White Demographic Anxiety Fuels Support for Turtore of Terrorism Suspects,”</a> discusses the U.S. Census Bureau’s prediction that the U.S. will be a “majority-minority” country by 2044.

He cites his own research to claim that when white people hear this information, they become more likely to express negative attitudes towards racial minorities. He also claims that this “prompts whites to support political organizations like the Tea Party and right-wing politicians like Donald Trump that truck in anti-minority and anti-foreigner appeals.”

Another recent study of Piazza’s, <a href="https://dea7fa46-473c-46b9-a155-9bc760b1ad78.filesusr.com/ugd/93efc7_ddafabb1f5244e7e981c9009b945ec91.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Approval of Donald Trump, Racism, Xenophobia, and Support for Political Violence,”</a> alleges that Trump supporters are more likely to be supportive of political violence due to their “racist and xenophobic attitudes.” His conclusion states:
“We also find that Trump approvers are motivated by racial animus and mistruct and hatred towards immigrants and foreigners, and that these attitudes, in part, may make them more accepting of political violence.” 
Piazza’s most recent article for <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-sore-loser-effect-rejecting-election-results-can-destabilize-democracy-and-drive-terrorism-171571" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Conversation</a> focuses on his study <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10659129211054451" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Sore Losers: Does Terrorism and Approval of Terrorism Increase in Democracies When Election Losers Refuse to Accept Election Results?”</a> This article discusses the “baseless allegation that Joe Biden stole the 2020 U.S. presidential election” and the “Big Lie” that Trump really won.

Piazza claims that when politicians refuse to accept defeat and become “sore losers,” this “produces a situation where political violence is no longer seen as taboo.” He states:
“These results show that when politicians refuse to accept a free and fair democratic election’s outcome, and instead choose to promote a popular narrative of a stolen or dirty election, they place their people in physical danger. Popular tolerance for terrorism grows, and so does terorrist activity itself.” 
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You can contact the Department of Political Science by phone at: 814-863-8346.
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Published - October 21, 2022

<a href="https://ed.psu.edu/directory/dr-francesca-lopez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Francesca Lopez</a> is a Professor of Education and the Waterbury Chair in Equity Pedagogy at Penn State University.

Lopez co-authored a report that describes “effective responses” school leaders can use when <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/professors-publish-playbook-teachers-address-parents-concerned-crt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">questioned about critical race theory (CRT) curricula.</a>

The report, titled <a href="https://kappanonline.org/community-concerns-crthodge-lope-rosenberg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“How to Respond to Community Concerns About Critical Race Theory,”</a> says CRT can help students “unpack and rethink the social construct of race that divides so much of U.S. society.” The authors write that “school and district leaders must support teachers in including discussions about race in education in ways that are aligned with CRT principles.”

The report provides a three-step approach to addressing concerns about critical race theory, including: opening by describing a shared value, “use active voice to name an antagonist (e.g., the people who are trying to divide us) and call out divide-and-conquer tactics,” and ending with a “call to action that affirms common values” instead of being race-neutral or colorblind.

The authors argue that rather than being race-neutral, districts should directly address specific populations. They say this will affirm students and acknowledge the “history and present realities of racism and segregation.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.edweek.org/leadership/how-to-respond-to-parents-crt-complaints/2022/11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Education Week</a>, Lopez stated:
“The goal of effective messaging is essentially to step away from the fueling of fear because people can very easily go down a rabbit hole of engaging in debates that become echo chambers.”
She added:
“Effective messaging moves beyond just engaging in a debate. It keeps people focused with a clear message on what, for example, equity-focused approaches in education are really meant to do.”
Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://hhd.psu.edu/contact/gary-king" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gary King</a> is a Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State University. King has co-authored two reports about Penn State.

According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220713002336/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/06/16/penn-state-black-faculty-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, the first discusses the “stagnation of efforts to increase the number of Black professors” and the second “revealed through a survey the slights, indignities, microaggressions, systemic obstacles and overt racism that many Black professors say they have endured in State College.”

During the fall 2022 semester, more than 400 professors and lecturers, including King, <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/pennstate/2022/11/under-fire-penn-state-president-defends-her-commitment-to-diversity-and-equity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter questioning Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi’s commitment to racial justice.</a> The letter comes after Bendapudi announced the Center for Racial Justice, outlined in the university’s strategic plan under former President Eric Barron, was canceled.

The <a href="https://onwardstate.com/2022/11/02/concerned-penn-state-faculty-pen-letter-to-university-leadership-over-racial-justice-worries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty writes:</a>
“This is symptomatic of a decades-long history at Penn State, where the university has failed to invest in work that addresses structural inequality and the realities of structural racism on our campuses, in our community, and in the state.” 
They also state:
“At a time of rising racial inequality and intensifying racial injustice, Penn State leadership has decided to turn its back on research to address and potentially positively impact the realities of racial injustice.” 
Penn State ended the most recent fiscal year in a budget deficit and President Bendapudi has <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-faculty-blindsided-by-budget-changes-affecting-racial-justice-initiatives-on-campus/article_2d26a134-5033-11ed-94bb-8f57ebaa5b8c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implemented budget cuts to make up for it.</a> King, who was not satisfied with this explanation, said:
“The center was a symbol. It was a very important symbol that everyone in the university could identify with and a means by which Penn State could indicate how they are moving forward into the 21st century and dealing with matters of racism.” 
He <a href="https://www.sungazette.com/news/education/2022/11/why-black-faculty-are-questioning-penn-states-commitment-to-diversity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added:</a>
“Penn State is now showing that it’s a Big Ten university with regards to matters of diversity and anti-racism.” 
King also <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a letter circulated by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU)</a> in 2021 calling for a campus-wide vaccine mandate. The letter’s other demands included required masking, social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

In August 2021, King, along with 270 other faculty members, chose to teach his in-person classes via Zoom to <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/tone-deaf-faculty-argues-against-penn-state-s-disciplinary-action-warning-for-zoom-in-protesters/article_e7835142-0554-11ec-9ceb-a70e2b4e2db8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest Penn State’s lack of a COVID vaccine mandate.</a> King once again compared Penn State to the other Big Ten universities, saying:
“It appears as though [Penn State] will do everything [it] can to win a football game against Big Ten rivals but not compete with them in promoting the interests of public health with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.bellisario.psu.edu/people/individual/michelle-rodino-colocino" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michelle Rodino-Colocino</a>, who uses the pronouns she/they, is an Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. She teaches courses such as Feminist Media Studies and Introduction to Critical and Cultural Studies of Media.

According to her university biography, since earning tenure, she has learned to integrate critical race and ethnic studies, labor history, and trans and queer studies into her “research, teaching, service, activism, and creative works.”

On November 3, 2022, the Committee of Concerned Penn State Faculty <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-community-rallies-to-amplify-their-voices-after-cancellation-of-center-for-racial-justice/article_458d5928-5bbb-11ed-af6f-33af95641c7a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted a rally to protest the cancellation of the planned Center for Racial Justice.</a> Rodino-Colocino spoke at the rally, saying, “It’s time we amplify our voices. We want to be an anti-racist and anti-sexist university.” Over 100 Penn State students and faculty participated and demanded that the decision be reversed.

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-students-faculty-protest-cancellation-of-planned-race-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> reports that Penn State ended last fiscal year with a $127 million budget deficit, but that officials had still promised “financial investment in existing [diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging] initiatives.”

Rodino-Colocino has participated in other campus activism as well. Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, Rodino-Colocino <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU).

The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a campus-wide vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

In August 2021, The Daily Collegian reports that approximately 270 faculty members chose to teach their in-person classes via Zoom <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/tone-deaf-faculty-argues-against-penn-state-s-disciplinary-action-warning-for-zoom-in-protesters/article_e7835142-0554-11ec-9ceb-a70e2b4e2db8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to protest the university’s decision not to mandate vaccines.</a> Rodino-Colocino, who serves as Interim Treasurer on the Executive Committee of the Penn State chapter of the AAUP (American Association of University Professors,) stated:
“[The AAUP is] organizing in support of the vaccine mandate and in support of the demands of the open letter and [to] protect faculty who have the right to exercise their academic freedom to protest COVID policies. Faculty should not just be informed of a plan but consulted in the process.”
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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/wxb5140/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Baker</a> is an Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University. His areas of research include “critical ethnic studies, critiques of racial capitalism and settler colonialism, and histories of African, Native, Chicanx, and working-class liberation movements.”

In August 2021, Baker was <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18903" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participating in a pro-vaccine mandate rally</a> on campus when he got involved in a physical altercation with a student who was counterprotesting. The student came out of the altercation with a bloody nose. Baker was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and simple assault.

A video of the incident can be seen below:
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A rally led by Penn State faculty and students asking for a COVID 19 vaccine mandate turned physical this afternoon at Old Main. A counter protester was present. Words and shoves were exchanged between the two sides.
(Warning: Explicit language) <a href="https://t.co/Wz2pwW7l1R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Wz2pwW7l1R</a>

— Centre County Report (@CentreCountyRep) <a href="https://twitter.com/CentreCountyRep/status/1431337106039836679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In November 2021, Baker was <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/penn-state-assistant-professor-will-not-be-terminated-after-physical-altercation-in-august-rally/article_a89ac694-e664-11ec-b36a-0f93d8f50697.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared of all charges in court</a>. Two of the charges were withdrawn and he was found not guilty on the third charge, harassment.

In January 2022, Penn State initiated the <a href="https://policy.psu.edu/policies/ac70" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AC70</a> process—the dismissal procedure for tenure and tenure-eligible faculty members—against Baker. In an email to <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/18/penn-state-seeks-fire-professor-over-vaccine-rally-tussle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Inside Higher Ed</a>, Baker wrote:
“I can confirm that the university has activated the AC70 process. Regrettably, the university intends to hold a hearing under the AC7- process if I choose not to resign. I am fighting this vigorously. I feel constrained to say anything more at this time.” 
In June 2022, Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi released a three-page memo that <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/penn-state-professor-who-clashed-with-a-student-at-a-vaccine-rally-will-keep-his-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced Baker would not be fired</a>. Bendapudi said his actions were determined to be “clearly misconduct” but she did not believe “merited termination.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://polisci.la.psu.edu/people/eah13/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Errol Henderson</a> is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University.

In May 2021, Henderson <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/black-penn-state-professor-sues-university-for-discrimination-hostile-work-environment-based-on-race/article_64c6774c-b40b-11eb-bb3a-43e569fc6993.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a lawsuit against the university for alleged discrimination</a>. According to the lawsuit, he filed several formal complaints against Penn State over the past 10 years due to a “racially hostile work environment.” The suit argues his race was a “motivating and/or determinative factor” in the “discriminatory” way he was treated.

In 2019, Henderson wrote an op-ed for The Daily Collegian titled, “<a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/letters_to_editor/being-black-at-penn-state-letter-to-the-editor/article_56c889e0-19d6-11e9-918c-4b0acfadb892.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Being Black at Penn State</a>.” In this article, he accused Penn State of having a “toxic racist climate.” He concluded his article by writing:
“The racists who are hidden in plain sight use the cover of concealment to shroud their racist practices; and they use the silence of others to conceal their white racist actions; and those who remain silent are complicit in that white racism. These are unfortunate facts of being black at Penn State.” 
Henderson’s lawsuit states:
“Within weeks of publication, Dr. Henderson learned that several of his white colleagues had raised complaints that he had created a racially hostile work environment for them, and that he was being investigated by Penn State for alleged racial harassment.” 
The lawsuit continues by saying Henderson was issued a formal letter of discipline, which charged him with “discrimination and harassment and related inappropriate conduct” under University Policy AD91. He was barred from teaching until June 2021 and was required to take remedial courses in teaching.

Henderson’s suit alleges that his race was a “motivaing and/or determinative factor” in the “discriminatory” way he was treated.

In March 2022, a <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/03/black-professor-given-chance-to-amend-federal-civil-rights-suit-against-penn-state.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">judge dismissed part of Henderson’s lawsuit</a> but gave him the opportunity to file an amended complaint. The judge wrote “the deficiencies that caused the dismissal of the hostile work claims may be easily rectified by providing more concrete factual details to support his contention of bias and racism.” As of publication, the lawsuit is still ongoing.

On November 3, 2022, Henderson participated in a rally hosted by the Committee of Concerned Penn State Faculty to <a href="https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/penn-state-community-rallies-to-amplify-their-voices-after-cancellation-of-center-for-racial-justice/article_458d5928-5bbb-11ed-af6f-33af95641c7a.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest the cancellation of the planned Center for Racial Justice.</a> He spoke during the rally, denouncing several members of the Penn State Administration and saying,
“I’ve been here 20 years fighting the fight against white supremacism.” 
Henderson has also supported a campus-wide coronavirus vaccine mandate. Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, he <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU).

The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a COVID vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

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Published - December 9, 2022

<a href="https://english.la.psu.edu/directory/mfb12/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Bérubé</a> is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Penn State University.

Bérubé has been outspoken about his support for abortion. In 2018, the Pennsylvania House was <a href="https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2017&amp;sind=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;bn=2050" target="_blank" rel="noopener">considering a bill</a> that would ban abortion for babies diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero. Bérubé wrote an <a href="https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/04/this_pa_abortion_bill_has_noth.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed for PennLive</a> where he shared that he and his wife, Janet, have a son with Down syndrome who has been a huge blessing to them. He writes: “In our family, Down syndrome isn’t a big deal.”

However, he adds:
“As much as we love him, we would never want to force anyone else to have a child with Down syndrome.” 
He argues that some parents “might be terribly disability-phobic” and “where is the moral benefit in compelling them to have a child they may very well resent and mistreat.” He ends by writing:
“Janet and I believe strongly that prospective parents should be able to terminate pregnancies for any reason.” 
Bérubé co-authored an article for The New Republic titled, “<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/165649/professors-speech-disqualifying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">When Professors’ Speech Is Disqualifying</a>.” The article begins by asking the question, “Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas?” Bérubé et al. claim that the answer in the past has always been yes, before adding:
“This is a disturbing realization for anyone who thinks of academic freedom as one of the cornerstones of a free and open society - and who understands how profoundly it is threatened by Republican state legislatures trying to criminalize the teaching of critical race theory (CRT).”
Before the beginning of the 2021 fall semester, Bérubé <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1s2iANajV0C69hQmEi63I5iGBtDSrA4NJoZmhWaTQZ90/viewform?ts=6106e185&amp;edit_requested=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> put together by the Coalition for a Just University (CJU). The letter had a list of six demands for the administration including a campus-wide vaccine mandate, required masking and social distancing, and a more flexible and reasonable teaching policy.

Bérubé also spoke out in defense of colleague Oliver Baker. Baker got into a physical altercation with a student who was counter-protesting at a pro-vaccine mandate rally on Penn State’s campus. He was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct, and simple assault.

The incident can be viewed below.
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A rally led by Penn State faculty and students asking for a COVID 19 vaccine mandate turned physical this afternoon at Old Main. A counter protester was present. Words and shoves were exchanged between the two sides.
(Warning: Explicit language) <a href="https://t.co/Wz2pwW7l1R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Wz2pwW7l1R</a>

— Centre County Report (@CentreCountyRep) <a href="https://twitter.com/CentreCountyRep/status/1431337106039836679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 27, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Although the charges were dropped, Penn State initiated dismissal proceedings for the professor. Bérubé <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220429224628/https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/education/penn-state/article260773532.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attended a rally</a> of more than 75 students, faculty, and community members who disagreed with the university’s decision. He said that Baker was “trying to protect witnesses who … <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/01/18/penn-state-seeks-fire-professor-over-vaccine-rally-tussle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">felt threatened by the counterprotester</a>” and added:
“Even if Penn State still wants to signal disapproval of Baker’s actions after all that, ‘initiating termination proceedings is like calling a nuclear strike on a jaywalker.’” 
Penn State ultimately decided not to fire Baker, but not before Bérubé added:
“Every faculty member at Penn State at every campus should be alarmed, should be profoundly disturbed, by this case because it is every bit as outrageous as it looks.” 
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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://anth.la.psu.edu/people/dwb5537/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Douglas Bird</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. According to his university profile, he has “broad interests in how social and ecological factors interact to influence patterns of resource use and their archaeological expressions.”

According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230429094159/https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania-state-university-indigenous-students-faculty-20230425.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a>, Penn State originally got 776,514 acres from the federal government under the Morrill Act of 1862. The university paid $38,089 for the land, but the faculty argue this is a “gross underpayment” given that the land is now valued at over $4.5 billion.

The Penn State University Faculty Senate recently voted 118-1 to approve a report on how the university can reconcile its Native American “land grab.”

Douglas Bird, Chair of the Faculty Senate Committee on Education Equity and the Campus Environment, stated:
“Penn State in all its history has had only one Indigenous program, an American Indian Leadership Program, that ran from 1970 to 2010. That’s the only contribution that Penn State has ever made to Indigenous communities, despite the fact that every single cert [of its original endowment] came from expropriated Indigenous land.” 
The report calls for a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-faculty-school-needs-truth-and-reconciliation-process-for-its-native-land-grab/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">special joint task force</a> “to implement a truth and reconciliation process regarding Penn State’s original federal endowment.” The Inquirer reports, it “also recommends the creation of a program of Indigenous studies, the holding of an Indigenous Peoples Day event, and setting aside space on campus to ‘engage in justice,’ celebrate peace, and honor ‘the continued vitality of the First Nations and historic tribes’ whose land Penn State currently sits on.”

Professor Bird, who reportedly teared up on the senate floor while presenting the report, says the resolution “is simply to get some action and some level of support for Indigenous studies here at Penn State.” He also stated:
“Why doesn’t Penn State invest in a place, a space that is a nexus of peace? It would be a place where Penn State can acknowledge the traumatic history.”
Published - May 8, 2023

Themis Matsoukas was a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University from 1991-2023.

In June 2023, Matsoukas was <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/penn-state-professor-charged-with-animal-cruelty-engaging-in-sexual-intercourse-with-dog-in-public-forest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> after being accused of performing sexual acts with his dog in a public forest. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) <a href="https://www.fox43.com/article/news/crime/themis-matsoukas-arrest-lewd-acts-rothrock-state-forest/521-c69de662-b274-4589-aece-e46f2dde4861" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began investigating</a> in April 2023 after a trail camera showed an unknown man “engaging in lewd acts” around the parking lot and restroom.

After a camera identified similar images in May, the investigators were able to identify Matsoukas by his Subaru Outback.

The <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/15/penn-states-themis-matsoukas-begged-rangers-to-kill-him/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> reports, “The shocking footage reportedly showed the professor wearing nothing but a ski mask, boots with socks, and a wristwatch, and carrying a North Face backpack. Matsoukas reportedly could be seen masturbating near a women’s public restroom, before ‘engaging in a sexual act with the dog,’ according to the affidavit.”

DCNR later recovered images from a trail camera at a privately owned camp that show Matsoukas’s actions date back to 2014.

DCNR investigators obtained a search warrant for Matsoukas’s home and vehicle, seeking to obtain items that were seen in the trail camera footage. When investigators arrived at his home, the professor allegedly became panicked and said repeatedly, “I’m done, I’m dead.”

He told investigators he did it “to blow off steam” and reportedly “begged” the DCNR officials to kill him saying, “What do I have to do to get you to shoot me? I need to die.”

Matsoukas was arraigned on charges of “open lewdness, indecent exposure, sexual intercourse with an animal and animal cruelty.”

The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230615213746/https://www.centredaily.com/news/local/crime/article276408146.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Centre Daily Times</a> reported the university put out a statement that read, “Themis Matsoukas has been relieved of his responsibilities and is on leave.”

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Published - June 23, 2023

<a href="https://www.psu.edu/news/education/story/faculty-profile-kamaria-b-porter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamaria B. Porter</a> is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State. Her profile says she’s involved with “a wide array of research experience in the field of racial and gender equities in higher education, particularly in graduate education and campus sexual assault.”

In December 2023, Porter <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/47A3521AE1FB9B1D2FC93518D55435F3/S002392162300004Xa.pdf/sexual_consent_and_relational_rights_a_call_for_relational_repair.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored a paper</a> entitled “Sexual consent and relational rights: a call for relational repair,” where she discusses women’s rights in light of sexual violence. Porter said:
“The history of sexual consent as law is deeply intertwined with the denial of rights to all women, with Indigenous women and [b]lack women at the most extreme position of sexual and social subordination. Definitions of rape and consent corresponded to the gendered racist hierarchal social structure of the early colonies, denying enslaved African women the right to withhold consent, alongside all wives, all poor women and sex workers across race.”
In 2022, Porter participated in a <a href="https://youtu.be/zyW2nml0juU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> moderated by <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/charleshfdavisiii" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Charles H.F. Davis III</a> in which they discussed alternatives to police presence on college campuses. When asked about police being the first response to sexual violence on campus, Porter stated that traumatic experiences like “state violence against black communities” and the “murder of black trans women” (biological males) keep them from reporting the crimes.

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In another publication co-authored with Davis, entitled <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ab9fa0e4b06a38e604420a/t/6578c9261d9df2675a7329d4/1702414630458/Davis+%26+Porter+%282023%29+%E2%80%93%C2%A0A+Case+for+Abolishing+Campus+Police.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Case for Abolishing Campus Police</a>, Porter wrote:

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Please send tips and updates on Kamaria B. Porter to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/yazzi014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Yazzie</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, she writes and teaches about numerous topics including “Indigenous feminisms,” “queer Indigenous studies,” and “Marxism.”
Yazzie participated in a December 2023 <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/professor-calls-dismantling-us-greatest-predator-empire-1855115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> with fellow University of Minnesota professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nickestes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Estes</a> titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” During the event, Yazzie <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for people to “dismantle” and “decolonize” the United States</a>:
“And what we really want you to take away tonight … We’re all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States government. And of course, the U.S. bank rules the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one in the same, really.” 
“And so, it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place. Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want [the] U.S. out of everywhere … and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.” 
Yazzie also argued that giving <a href="https://alphanews.org/u-of-m-professor-i-hope-you-seek-to-dismantle-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land back to Native Americans</a> is “non-negotiable” and “is going to happen.”
“The United States, also built on stolen land like the settler nation of Israel, does not have the authority to speak in this place and on this land. It is the Indigenous people, who belong to Indigenous nations that predate the advent of the United States and that will be here after the United States is gone, that have the authority.” 
The panel discussion was hosted by <a href="https://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a>, which, according to its website, is “dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism.” Estes is a co-founder of the organization and Yazzie hosts a podcast through The Red Nation called the Red Power Hour. The group’s Principles of Unity declare:
“We are anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. We are Indigenous feminists who believe in radical relationality. We do not seek a milder form of capitalism or colonialism &#8211; we demand an entirely new system premised on peace, cooperation, and justice. For our Earth and relatives to live, capitalism and colonialism must die.” 
When Yazzie was a PhD student at the University of New Mexico, she was outspoken against the school seal, which features a conquistador and a frontiersman. At a <a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/activists-speak-out-against-racist-seal-university-president-stands-with-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest over the school seal</a> in 2016, Yazzie stated: “[Then-University of New Mexico President] Bob Frank you have blood on your hands! We are going to keep holding this university accountable until it concedes to our demands!”
The full video of the December 2023 panel discussion can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbZXRMpWTk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.
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Published &#8211; January 4, 2024

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Wayne Bendickson, also known as <a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/sisoka">Sisoka Duta</a>, is a Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Bendickson requires all of his students to pick a topic from a list, which includes ‘why Native American mascots should be banned from sports,’ and explain in the assignment why it is important. A counter-argument was not allowed.

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/ais/people/faculty">Dr. Nick Estes</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the founder of <a href="https://therednation.org/blog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a> blog and hosts a podcast with the same name. 

Dr. Estes has called for the dissolution of the United States, praised communism, and castigates white people. 

Referring to the United States as a settler colonial nation, Dr. Estes states that America is committed to the destruction of native Americans. In an article for The Guardian, Dr. Estes describes the country <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/27/only-racist-ignorance-lets-rick-santorum-think-america-was-birthed-from-nothing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as a “white supremacist empire,” and a “savage nation built on untold violence” against indigenous people</a>. 

“The erasure of Native histories and peoples – which existed long before and despite a white supremacist empire – is a founding principle of the United States. In fact, it’s still codified in US law.” 

Dr. Estes’s world views are encapsulated in The Red Nation’s <a href="https://therednation.org/10-point-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“10 Point Program,”</a> which calls for the following: 

- Return of all the nation’s land to the “original caretakers” or tribes, which would dissolve the United States. 

- Abolish all police, which Estes describes as “Indian killers” and the “foot soldiers of US occupation, racism, and misogyny.” 

- Abolish the “racist system” of capitalism.   

Dr. Estes elsewhere advocates for the total erasure of national borders. Among the demands listed on the “<a href="https://therednation.org/caucuses/beyond-borders-caucus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beyond Border Caucus</a>”—which is hosted on The Red Nation’s website—Estes calls for abolishing all borders but specifically cites America and Israel for elimination. 

In a blog post titled, <a href="https://therednation.org/the-liberation-of-palestine-represents-an-alternative-path-for-native-nations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations,”</a> Dr. Estes urges his readers to support Arab “resistance in any and all forms” against Israel. This includes the adoption of the BDS movement, which embraces the following tenets: 

- 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.

His post further demands the “Right of Return,” which calls for the forcible relocation of over 7 million self-identifying Palestinian “refugees” into Israel’s current borders. This would demographically swamp Israel and transform it into a majority-Arab state.  

Dr. Estes further cites <a href="https://therednation.org/revolutionary-socialism-is-the-primary-political-ideology-of-the-red-nation-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“revolutionary socialism</a>” as the “primary political ideology of the Red Nation.” He declares Communism the “greatest expression of love,” and promises that socialism will replace capitalism once the latter is destroyed. 

Throughout the site, the Hammer and Sickle is <a href="http://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">displayed prominently</a>. The symbol was the insignia of the Soviet Union, which was responsible for as many as <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">61 million deaths</a>. 

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Dr. Estes uses his personal Twitter account to denigrate white people as “pilgrims,”
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Destroy the Pilgrim Mythology. <a href="https://t.co/s4ksOqoLKJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/s4ksOqoLKJ</a>
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1200102585929068544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ok, pilgrim. 🤡 <a href="https://t.co/j6cyUvMAyw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/j6cyUvMAyw</a>
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1382557629327630336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On several occasions, he even instructs followers to “kill the pilgrim.” 
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Kill the Pilgrim in your head.
— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1198786308342079493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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It’s also the first all Lakota show!
Kill the Pilgrim, Save the man.

— Nick Estes (@nickwestes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1198786230684545026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 16, 2022

J.B. Mayo is an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. <a href="https://www.cehd.umn.edu/people/mayo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Mayo’s university profile</a>, his interests include “LGBT and Queer Studies, teacher education, critical pedagogies, multicultural education, social justice, [the] intersectionality of race, gender, and sexual orientation.”

Mayo has taught a variety of courses. A few are listed below:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Multicultural Gender-Fair Curriculum</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Developing Civic Discourse in the Social Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Teaching Theory and Research</li>
</ul>
Mayo’s research also focuses on “how to bring LGBTQ histories into public school curriculums.” He has a variety of publications, including:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14681811.2015.1094944?journalCode=csed20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Adults’ complicity in limiting students’ understanding of sex, gender and sexuality at school</a>. The commentary states that “Sexuality enters the classroom during school-sanctioned celebrations like Halloween, but is understood in distinct ways, gendered, and judged differently based upon enduring stereotypes of Latino women that are ever present in popular media (Boas, 91-104).”</li>
 	<li aria-level="1"><a href="https://pcssonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/SSJSpring2019-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Engaging two-spirit knowledge as a means to deconstruct the gender binary</a> (6-19). In this section, Mayo presents his research on gender and social studies. The design of this project is based on “two-spirit people” in the present tense, which Mayo and another colleague outlined in a 10-day social studies unit on gender. Back in 2017, this curriculum was taught throughout several classroom discussions. Additionally, the passage encourages educators to introduce and incorporate strategies, lessons and talks about gender issues, sexuality, and more. “We decided to include information about the various lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities as well, given our assumption that students would already bring this topic into the overall conversation with their questions.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/2yE4fgIww6IMs/full" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Pedagogy Enacted in the Gay Straight Alliance: New Possibilities for a Third Space in Teacher Development</a>. Mayo argues “that the GSA advisor at Freedom High School utilized pedagogy that is critical at its core and led to effective, transformative learning outcomes for student GSA members. This pedagogy is characterized by students’ (a) access to information and issues that are important to queer youth, (b) participation in schoolwide and community-focused activities, and (c) reflections upon significant incidents in their lives when they encountered and responded to homophobia.”</li>
</ul>
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Published — December 1, 2022

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/kfajardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kale B. Fajardo</a> is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Some of his interests include “gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, queer of color critique, masculinity studies, transgender studies” and more.

Fajardo teaches a variety of courses, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Critical Perspectives on American Dreams </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the US: Focus on Hawaii, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Freshman Seminar: Reading the Mississippi River: Place, Race, Gender, and Empire</li>
</ul>
A few of his publications include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/9780816667574/Filipino-Crosscurrents-Oceanographies-Seafaring-Masculinities-0816667578/plp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization</a>. In this text, “Fajardo invites readers to reconsider the meanings of masculinity and manhood.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">He is also co-editor of the Q&amp;A: <a href="https://tupress.temple.edu/books/q-a-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Voices from Queer Asian North America</a> (with Martin F. Manalansan IV and Alice Y. Hom; Temple University Press, 2021). This passage “address[es] activism, radicalism, and social justice; transformations in the meaning of Asian-ness and queerness in various mass media issues of queerness in relation to settler colonialism and diaspora; and issues of bodies, health, disability, gender transitions, death, healing, and resilience.”</li>
</ul>
Fajardo is a fellow at the “<a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/fajardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies</a>” (CATS), an organization that features professors, Ph.D. candidates, and faculty from universities nationwide. CATS is an “independent nonprofit research organization run by transgender people for transgender people.”

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Published — December 5, 2022

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/yazzi014" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melanie Yazzie</a> is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, she writes and teaches about numerous topics including “Indigenous feminisms,” “queer Indigenous studies,” and “Marxism.”

Yazzie participated in a December 2023 <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/professor-calls-dismantling-us-greatest-predator-empire-1855115" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> with fellow University of Minnesota professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nickestes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nick Estes</a> titled “From Minnesota to Palestine.” During the event, Yazzie <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professors-u-s-a-genocidal-settler-colonial-state-that-needs-to-be-dismantled/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for people to “dismantle” and “decolonize” the United States</a>:
“And what we really want you to take away tonight … We’re all indigenous people who come from nations that are under occupation by the United States government. And of course, the U.S. bank rules the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one in the same, really.” 
“And so, it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place. Because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed. So we want [the] U.S. out of everywhere … and the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States.” 
Yazzie also argued that giving <a href="https://alphanews.org/u-of-m-professor-i-hope-you-seek-to-dismantle-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">land back to Native Americans</a> is “non-negotiable” and “is going to happen.”
“The United States, also built on stolen land like the settler nation of Israel, does not have the authority to speak in this place and on this land. It is the Indigenous people, who belong to Indigenous nations that predate the advent of the United States and that will be here after the United States is gone, that have the authority.” 
The panel discussion was hosted by <a href="https://therednation.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Red Nation</a>, which, according to its website, is “dedicated to the liberation of Native peoples from capitalism and colonialism.” Estes is a co-founder of the organization and Yazzie hosts a podcast through The Red Nation called the Red Power Hour. The group’s Principles of Unity declare:
“We are anti-capitalist and anti-colonial. We are Indigenous feminists who believe in radical relationality. We do not seek a milder form of capitalism or colonialism - we demand an entirely new system premised on peace, cooperation, and justice. For our Earth and relatives to live, capitalism and colonialism must die.” 
When Yazzie was a PhD student at the University of New Mexico, she was outspoken against the school seal, which features a conquistador and a frontiersman. At a <a href="https://www.liberationnews.org/activists-speak-out-against-racist-seal-university-president-stands-with-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protest over the school seal</a> in 2016, Yazzie stated: “[Then-University of New Mexico President] Bob Frank you have blood on your hands! We are going to keep holding this university accountable until it concedes to our demands!”

The full video of the December 2023 panel discussion can be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVbZXRMpWTk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed here</a>.

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Published - January 4, 2024

<a href="https://directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/rachel-hardeman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Hardeman</a> is the Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota. Hardeman’s university profile describes her as a “reproductive health equity researcher” who “leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and reproductive justice to inform her equity-centered work.” Hardeman is also the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity and serves on the Board of Directors for Planned Parenthood of the North Central States.

In October 2022, Hardeman and two other researchers penned an article titled “<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2209737" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abortion Access as a Racial Justice Issue</a>.” The authors argue that abortion is “essential for protecting the full humanity of anyone with the capacity for pregnancy.” The paper claims that, within the United States, “the full humanity of Black and Indigenous people has long been denied.” Hardeman et al. conclude:
“We believe that clinicians have a professional obligation to champion policies that improve the lives of their patients and potential patients, including doing whatever is in their power to expand and protect abortion access. Abortion access is a racial justice issue, and it is today’s civil rights battle worthy of tenacious engagement by professionals in medicine, policy, and public health.” 
Hardeman co-developed a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/black-birthing-people-course-offered-by-u-of-minn-planned-parenthood-board-member/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continuing education course</a> for health professionals titled “Dignity in Pregnancy &amp; Childbirth: Preventing Racial Bias in Perinatal Care.” The <a href="https://www.diversityscience.org/proven-elearning-2/minnesota-perinatal-care/#MN-Individual" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course website</a> says the goal is to give medical care providers the knowledge they need to ensure that “Black and Indigenous women and birthing people receive fully equitable patient-centered, respectful, high-quality care free of bias and discrimination.” Through the course:
“[H]ealthcare professionals have the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the impact of structural racism on the health and healthcare of Black and Indigenous birthing people. They will learn strategies to interrupt institutional racism and racial bias and protect the health and well-being of Black and Indigenous mothers, birthing people, and infants.” 
One <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/684704097/Critical-Race-Practice-Clinicians-Guide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handout</a> for the course discusses how clinical care providers can apply a “critical race lens to relationship-centered care in pregnancy and childbirth.”

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Hardeman <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/minnesota-professor-receives-800k-to-study-racialized-police-violence-and-pregnancy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">received $800,000 in grant funding</a> to study “racialized police violence” and its association with “adverse reproductive health outcomes.” The project—titled “Community Events and Pathways to Inequities in Birth Outcomes”—has a timeline from April 2021 to March 2025 and promises to “[center] racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities.” Hardeman stated:
“The findings will offer a more complete picture of the ways that community trauma, structural racism, individual-level physical and mental health consequences, and population-level disparities affect reproductive health outcomes.” 
In December 2021, Hardeman authored a paper that <a href="https://pop.umn.edu/about/announcements/over-policing-linked-higher-odds-preterm-birth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">linked preterm births to “racist policing.”</a> The study’s results “suggest that racialized police patterns borne from a history of structural racism in the United States may contribute to racial disparity in [preterm births].” However, Hardeman et al. admit, “We did not (and would not have been able to) ascertain whether the pregnant people in our study had personal contact with the police before or during pregnancy.”

In an announcement about the study published by the university’s Minnesota Population Center, Hardeman stated:
“Racism is a fundamental cause of health inequity, which means we have to apply antiracism to institutions that affect the fundamentals of our lives and communities. Our research focused on residents of Minneapolis and found that U.S.-born Black birthing people and their babies were hit the hardest by over-policing, which is a form of structural racism.”
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Published - January 4, 2023

<a href="https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/sshakhsa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sima Shakhsari</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women &amp; Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Shakhsari’s university profile says she uses the pronouns “they/he/she” and teaches several courses including “Queering Theory” and “Queer and Feminist White Savior Complex.”

Shakhsari was nominated for an associate dean position at the College of Liberal Arts’ Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. As part of the interview process, she gave a one-hour testimony to the university review panel where she <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/prof-who-denies-hamas-raped-israelis-not-selected-for-top-dei-role/24553" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied that Hamas committed rape against Israeli women</a> during the October 7 attacks. She claimed she hadn’t seen evidence of sexual violence, stating:
“Of course, any person who has been raped, I am a rape crisis counselor, I believe the survivors. I am yet to see Israeli rape survivors of Hamas come and speak.” 
Shakhsari went on to claim it’s racist to say that Hamas committed rape.
“Part of our work and part of my experience… was how men of color in the U.S. have been demonized and have been falsely accused of rape. Exactly because of racism. We know the history of lynching, of black men, lynching, of indigenous man lynching Latinos in this country… because of accusations and they’re kind of violating the innocence of white women, right?” 
“And I think this is also the force that is repeated in the context of Israel and Palestine, because Arab men have been demonized and have been marked as monstrous people who are rapists and for violence.” 
Shakhsari did not end up getting the associate dean position, which was instead given to Amelious Whyte.

<a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2023/12/sima-shakhsari-university-of-minnesota-professor-hamas-oct-7-atrocities-denial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jewish Insider</a> reached out to Shakhsari for comment and received an automatic email reply signed, “I stand with the people of Palestine in their struggle for freedom and justice, and condemn the Israeli state’s settler colonial violence and genocide in Gaza.”

In October 2023, University of Minnesota Interim President Jeff Ettinger <a href="https://www.startribune.com/tensions-on-minnesota-campuses-rise-as-colleges-and-universities-grapple-with-the-israel-hamas-war/600317258/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued a statement condemning the Hamas attacks</a> and lamenting “the countless innocent civilians who have lost their lives, been injured, or are being held captive.” Shakhsari was one of several faculty members who penned an <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewuCmiruS5i9Fo3Av1OdOlVi5vE9KZLGB0ww4mLUjnZikqVQ/viewform?vc=0&amp;c=0&amp;w=1&amp;flr=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> to Ettinger calling his statement “biased” and demanding an apology.

The letter, which was signed by over 750 university faculty and staff, stated:
“Our university’s Interim President Jeff Ettinger has issued biased statements condemning Hamas, but not holding the Israeli state responsible for its violent crimes against Palestinians … Ettinger’s statements, while intended to address the recent situation, have presented a one-sided perspective showing solidarity and concern only for Israel with no acknowledgment of the ongoing and historical suffering and death of Palestinians.” 
The letter demands an apology from President Ettinger and if one is not received, the signatories call for his statement to “be treated as an incident that merits bias reporting and investigation.”

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Published - January 9, 2024

<a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christina Ewig</a> is a Professor of Public Affairs and Faculty Director of the Center on Women, Gender and Public Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. According to her university profile, Ewig teaches courses on Gender and Public Policy. She is also a curator for the <a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Policy Report</a> at the University of Minnesota.

Among Ewig’s academic interests are “gender, race and Latin American social policy including the historical formation of Latin American social policy; the politics and effects of market-oriented social policy reforms following economic adjustment in the 1990s and 2000s; and the more recent shift toward more generous and equitable social policies.”

Ewig’s <a href="https://www.hhh.umn.edu/directory/christina-ewig" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X profile</a> biography states, “I tweet about Gender and Politics, US and Latin America.” She goes by the pronouns of “She/her/hers.”

In an interview with <a href="https://www.genderjustice.us/its-time-to-invest-in-resilience-a-conversation-with-erin-maye-quade-and-dr-christina-ewig/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Justice</a>, Ewig discussed masculinity and its relation to the actions of men amid national health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, stating:
“[For instance], hand washing – [they] do not do that, wash their hands. And part of this is like the idea – Well, I’m resilient, and I’m strong so I don’t need to do these things.”
She claims that this resistance to taking health measures such as washing hands “has been inculcated in our society among men and boys.”

Ewig discusses gender on an institutional level and how it allegedly affects the socioeconomic status of the United States: 
“So I think really gender also, the third level I would talk about is really the institutional level, the way in which gender over the long-term through a variety of different practices – structures our society, structures our economy, and that’s really where state and national policy makers can step in and try to generate policies that can address these disparities that we’re seeing, whether it is of disparities care work or whether it is also other disparities that we’re also seeing in the economy in particular, as a result of this crisis.”
Toward the end of the interview, Ewig claims that various health crises in America have shown certain “structural inequalities” within the nation:
“I think that if there’s one thing that this crisis is showing us, it is showing the degree to which we have deep, deep inequalities within this country whether gender or race or class, and it’s showing the damage that those inequalities are doing to our resilience long-term, so shoring up our resilience as a nation in terms of facing another crisis of this sort will require investment, instead of austerity.”
Please send information on Christina Ewig to Watchlists@tpusa.com.
Published - June 17, 2024

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Hugo Schwyzer was a Professor of Gender Studies at Pasadena City College before he resigned from his tenured position.
Schwyzer taught a class called Navigating Pornography in which<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-class-pasadena-city-college-navigating-pornography_n_3085208" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> students discussed pornography and watched pornographic films for homework.</a> The controversy began when Professor Schwyzer invited a porn star to talk to the class. The public portion of the appearance was canceled after backlash. According to Schwyzer, his course focused on “giving students tools to understand pornography as a historical and contemporary phenomenon.”
According to CBS Los Angeles,<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pasadena-professor-who-taught-porn-class-resigns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer resigned</a> after he “admitted on his website that he had sex with several students in recent years.” He has also admitted to “sexting” with a 27-year-old sex worker activist. He originally became known for an article discussing how men should be attracted to women their age instead of much younger women.<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-professor-hugo-schwyzer-comes-clean-about-his-twitter-meltdown-and-life-as-a-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer has since stated</a>, “it is morally fraudulent in that I am living a life that is deliberately in direct contradiction to what I am recommending.” He continues, “but the fact that I am guilty of hypocrisy doesn’t invalidate the truth of what I was saying. I was just too weak to live up to what it was I was writing.”
When speaking about his inappropriate relationships with students, Schwyzer states, “before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing.” He continues, “I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it.”
Schwyzer has shown interest in teaching again. “I think I would like to go back to teaching. But everything is fluid and up in the air at the moment.”
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Hugo Schwyzer was a Professor of Gender Studies at Pasadena City College before he resigned from his tenured position.

Schwyzer taught a class called Navigating Pornography in which<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/porn-class-pasadena-city-college-navigating-pornography_n_3085208" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> students discussed pornography and watched pornographic films for homework.</a> The controversy began when Professor Schwyzer invited a porn star to talk to the class. The public portion of the appearance was canceled after backlash. According to Schwyzer, his course focused on “giving students tools to understand pornography as a historical and contemporary phenomenon.”

According to CBS Los Angeles,<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/pasadena-professor-who-taught-porn-class-resigns/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer resigned</a> after he “admitted on his website that he had sex with several students in recent years.” He has also admitted to “sexting” with a 27-year-old sex worker activist. He originally became known for an article discussing how men should be attracted to women their age instead of much younger women.<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/porn-professor-hugo-schwyzer-comes-clean-about-his-twitter-meltdown-and-life-as-a-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Schwyzer has since stated</a>, “it is morally fraudulent in that I am living a life that is deliberately in direct contradiction to what I am recommending.” He continues, “but the fact that I am guilty of hypocrisy doesn’t invalidate the truth of what I was saying. I was just too weak to live up to what it was I was writing.”

When speaking about his inappropriate relationships with students, Schwyzer states, “before 1998 I slept with two dozen female students, somewhere in there, it’s a ballpark thing.” He continues, “I was just so toxically addicted to affirmation I would do anything to get it.”

Schwyzer has shown interest in teaching again. “I think I would like to go back to teaching. But everything is fluid and up in the air at the moment.”

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Published - October 20, 2022

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Dr. Rebecca Fowler is a professor at Washington State University. In her “Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” class, Fowler takes one grade point away when a student uses the phrase “illegal alien” or “illegals.” The goal is that students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

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<a href="https://slcr.wsu.edu/faculty/john-streamas/">John Streamas</a> is the Director of American Studies and Culture Ph.D. Program and an Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at Washington State University. According to his university profile, Streamas’ teaching interests include “the literatures and cultures of people of color, cultural theory, immigration, and writing.”

In 2015, Streamas made national news after he included the <a href="https://iexaminer.org/wsu-ethnic-studies-professor-deals-with-controversial-fallout-over-syllabus/">following statement</a> in the syllabus for his “Introduction to Multicultural Literature” class:
“Reflect your grasp of history and social relations by respecting shy and quiet classmates, and by deferring to the experiences of people of color.” 
In response to the ensuing media attention, university administrators asked Streamas and two other professors with similar statements to change their syllabi. After arguing with administrators, Streamas changed the document to say “deferring to each other’s experiences.”

Streamas says the way he was treated is an act of racial harassment because he — a person of color — was being censored: “These three white administrators, who know nothing about the politics of race and gender, which happens to be the very field in which we specialize, were committing the very injustices about which we teach.”

This was not Streamas’ first run-in with university administrators. In 2006, Streamas was the subject of a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/professors-threaten-bad-grades-saying-illegal-alien-male-female/6770">formal complaint</a> after he referred to a student as a “white shitbag.”

The student who filed the complaint was the President of the Washington State University College Republicans. The student club was holding a political demonstration featuring a 24-foot, chain-link, cyclone fence intended to represent the border fence that the U.S. Congress had approved.

The club said the purpose of the demonstration was to “call attention to important public policy issues and ‘get out the vote’ a week before a national election.” During the course of the demonstration, Streamas approached the student and said “you are just a white shitbag.” After the student told the professor he had no right to call him that, the professor apologized saying, “OK, I’m sorry I did that.”

According to the university’s <a href="https://volokh.com/files/ryder.pdf">final investigation report</a>, Streamas stated that he “intended it as a derogatory term” and that he strongly believed the demonstration to be “racist against people of color.” The university’s report includes the following voicemail message Streamas left in response to a request to meet about the comments:
“The fence was a racist attack upon us. And … I think that we need to talk about that. … Whatever I said to one person is not equal to whatever that fence did to hundreds of people, attacking us personally and communally. And that’s the issue — the fence, what people said is not nearly as important as how racist an attack that fence is. … know some Republicans who themselves think that the fence was a racist insult and are ashamed of the College Republicans…”
“This is a racist university. Many of our students say that WSU stands for White Supremacist University. … Many, many people have been hurt. I don’t care about the hurt feelings of one white person; I care about the hurt feelings of many, many people of color and immigrants who were offended by that fence … That is what I care about. The feelings of one little hurt white boy whose got all his white skinned privilege are nothing compared to the hundreds of people he offended with his racist fence.” 
The university’s investigation concluded that Streamas “engaged in immature, intellectually unsophisticated and thoughtless conduct unbecoming any WSU employee and a member of the WSU faculty, in particular.” However, they found his conduct did not subject the student to “discrimination or discriminatory harassment in violation of WSU’s Discrimination and Sexual Harassment Policy.”

The investigation did not include any punishment for Streamas; as of publication, he is still employed by Washington State University.

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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, fowler is no longer listed as a professor at Washington State University."
Dr. Rebecca Fowler is a professor at Washington State University. In her “Introduction to Comparative Ethnic Studies” class, Fowler takes one grade point away when a student uses the phrase “illegal alien” or “illegals.” The goal is that students will “come to recognize how white privilege functions in everyday social structures and institutions.”

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Breikss no longer appears as a faculty member at Washington State University.*
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Dr. Selena Lester Breikss is an Associate Professor at Washington State University. In her “Women and Popular Culture” class, Breikss threatened to give students a failing grade for using verbiage she considers, “oppressive and hateful language.” The punishment includes, “but [is] not limited to removal from the class without attendance or participation points, failure of the assignment, and— in extreme cases— failure for the semester.”

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<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=45471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aron Janssen</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also the <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/doctors/janssen-aron-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice Chair</a> of Clinical Affairs for The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.
In March 2023, Dr. Janssen—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Janssen is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”
WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.” 
Dr. Janssen is outspoken about his political beliefs on Twitter, where he posted a letter he wrote to his daughters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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A letter to my daughters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RoeVsWade</a> <a href="https://t.co/KhLhWVQhrO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/KhLhWVQhrO</a>
— Dr. Aron Janssen (@LGBTDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTDoc/status/1540389243834466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Janssen also shared his beliefs on <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtdoc?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> after the tragic Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.
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Northwestern University

Northwestern University is the home of a faculty and student center called the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). According to the institute’s “History” <a href="https://isgmh.northwestern.edu/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">section</a>:
“[ISGMH] was founded in 2015 and is the first university-wide institute in the country focused exclusively on research to improve the health of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community…it was founded with the support of the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Feinberg School of Medicine.”
In June 2024, Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-student-govt-calls-segregated-pride-house-lgbt-identifying-students-/25690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Northwestern University’s student body government called for LGBT-identifying students to have segregated housing on campus. The article links to a “Pride House” <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Re-QKyAz6kU1by5rroW9pbla4_UpcuXLSTMOi8-lMNk/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that declares, among other things:
“Whereas, one of the goals of All Gender Housing is to address tensions often felt by queer and transgender students in finding a compatible roommate. All Gender Housing exists allows[sic] any two students to live together regardless of their gender identity—preventing the creation of an LGBTQ community in All-Gender Housing areas.”
Campus Reform said, that according to Northwestern University’s student government <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/gsrc/education/dashboard-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey data</a>, about 25% of students identify as LGBTQ+. The university also <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/02/new-home-for-gender-and-sexuality-resource-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> a “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” to support gender-confused students.
Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law is also in the process of defending students&#8217; so-called LGBTQI+ rights, including the right to legally change one’s name to match their gender identity. 
On October 15, The Daily Northwestern <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/10/15/lateststories/northwestern-lgbtqi-rights-clinic-prepares-to-represent-clients-in-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:
“Law students are working at the clinic this semester to help four clients through the process of changing their names…’ All of our clients identify as nonbinary or transgender, and thus are seeking to change their names so that their legal name reflects better who they are,’ said Pritzker Prof. Kara Ingelhart, the clinic’s director.”
The source also said a 711 license is required for students who want to represent a client this way and are only “allowed to practice under a licensed attorney.” Campus Reform also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-northwestern-law-students-working-changing-legal-names-transgender-identifying-people/26613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> this story, highlighting that the purpose of this project was “the universal right of gender-self-determination” and the “transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system.”
Related articles:
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/23/lateststories/lgbtq-affinity-housing-resolution-passes-in-asg-aims-to-foster-community-provide-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ+ affinity housing resolution passes in ASG, aims to foster community, provide support</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (May 23, 2024)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/28/lateststories/pritzker-school-of-law-opens-lgbtqi-rights-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pritzker School of Law Opens LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (Apr. 28, 2024)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/some-allies-dont-want-gay-neighbors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some ‘allies’ don’t want gay neighbors</a>” by Northwestern News Now (May 6, 2023)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2016/02/29/new-northwestern-institute-commits-to-improving-lgbt-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Northwestern Institute Commits to Improving LGBT Heath</a>” by Northwestern University Campus News (Feb. 29, 2016)</li>
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<a href="https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/research-faculty/directory/profiles/butz-arthur.html">Arthur Butz</a> is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. Butz is an open Holocaust denier and has authored a number of books and articles denying that millions of Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps.

In his book, The Hoax of the 20th-Century, Butz <a href="https://archive.org/details/HoaxOfTheTwentiethCentury/page/n231/mode/2up?q=23">claims</a> that there is no proof of any intent by the Nazis to exterminate Europe’s Jews. Butz <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Arthur_Butz">states</a>,

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In a 1996 paper, Butz openly <a href="https://codoh.com/library/document/jewish-testimonies-in-the-postwar-era/en/">attacked</a> Holocaust victims, accusing them of “malicious lying,” and greatly exaggerating atrocities suffered by their families:

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In an interview with an Iranian news station, Butz stated that <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-02-04-0602040129-story.html">he agreed</a> with Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a “myth.” He went on to state that the Holocaust was a “deliberately conceived falsehood” in order to create the state of Israel and congratulated the Prime Minister for denying its existence:

“I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on [the Holocaust] and regret only that it was not a Western head of state”

Despite his beliefs, Northwestern University <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2006/02/bienen.html">continues</a> to employ Butz. University President Henry S. Bienen stated that while his opinions are “reprehensible,” no action can be taken as Butz’s views are personal and expressed outside of the classroom.

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<a href="https://www.sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/laura-beth-nielsen.html">Dr. Laura Beth Nielsen</a> is a Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. She wrote in an op-ed that there are good arguments for restricting free speech rights. She said that racist hate speech has been linked to higher rates of smoking and obesity, for example. Supporting her argument for restricting speech, she pointed out that recently the Supreme Court ruled that a music group ("The Slants", a band made up of Asian-Americans) was allowed to use a derogatory name as their band name, although she did not point out the band was using the name to mock people who use the name in a derogatory fashion.

<a href="https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/directory/faculty/steven-thrasher.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Steven Thrasher</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and the Daniel H. Renberg Chair of Social Justice in Reporting at Northwestern University. His university biography details his role as having an “emphasis on issues relevant to the LGBTQ community.” 

Professor Thrasher is on record defending the riots and looting that occurred in response to George Floyd's death. In an interview with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/05/31/866306943/officials-have-condemned-violence-amid-george-floyd-protests-journalist-steven-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>, he described the rampant destruction and burning of police stations by rioters as a "proportionate response."

Thrasher was previously the subject of controversy after his <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/nyu-graduation-speaker-calls-trump-a-fascist-praises-anti-israel-bds-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commencement speech</a> at New York University, in which he referred to then-President Donald Trump as a “fascist” saying:

“Many of us have been together at Occupy Wall Street, and at Black Lives Matter protests, and against that fascist in the White House … I am so proud, so proud, of NYU’s chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voices for Peace for supporting the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against the apartheid state government in Israel.”

It was later discovered that he had made numerous <a href="https://www.israellycool.com/2019/05/24/exposed-bds-professor-stephen-thrashers-antisemitic-tweets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-Semitic remarks</a> on his <a href="https://x.com/thrasherxy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>. He also posts LGBTQ celebrations.
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This website <a href="https://twitter.com/Polymarket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Polymarket</a>, where you can place bets on when people will be murdered by Israel, is the most crudely genocidal forms of market capitalism I’ve seen since viaticals. Death as speculative finance. A sign of a truly diseased society. <a href="https://t.co/KXffrdbTxT">https://t.co/KXffrdbTxT</a> <a href="https://t.co/buQeBlisM0">pic.twitter.com/buQeBlisM0</a>
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1802103834799390837?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Well, it’s been a tough school yr &amp; summer begins NOW, but I’ll tell you one thing I learned: how I want to be in the world as a professor. I want to be outdoors, working as a team, teaching &amp; learning with the public—&amp; I want to help folx know how loved they are.
Happy Pride. <a href="https://t.co/dFJUrvKktt">pic.twitter.com/dFJUrvKktt</a>

— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1804619054797262977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Hello Chicago gays, lesbians, queers, bisexuals, trans folx and allies! We are down at the <a href="https://twitter.com/ISGMH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ISGMH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NorthwesternU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NorthwesternU</a> tent at Pride Fest on Halstead. We’re giving away Narcan, fentanyl test strips, first aid kits, sharing about our research &amp; recruiting for our studies. Come say hi! <a href="https://t.co/HVoHQSqXeu">pic.twitter.com/HVoHQSqXeu</a>
— 🍉Prof. Thrasher is on summer writing hiatus 🔻 (@thrasherxy) <a href="https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1804543809474248771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2024</a></blockquote>
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PROTESTS; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT

During anti-Israel protests on college campuses across the United States, Thrasher <a href="https://lithub.com/you-are-being-lied-to-about-gaza-solidarity-camps-by-university-presidents-mainstream-media-and-politicians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an opinion editorial</a> with Lit Hub in which he claimed the public was being lied to about the violence reported by mainstream media. 

Upon visiting several “Liberation Zones”, Thrasher wrote:
“Over the previous few days, I had gone to bed or woken up to dark, war-like scenes of unspeakable violence waged by police and state troopers who were often wielding machine guns, lobbing chemical weapons, and shooting rubber-coated bullets. Though some of the police raids happened in daylight, most have happened at night, with projectile-gun blasts and flash bangs lighting up sinister spectacles of utter chaos.”
He further declared:

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Dr. Sumanas Jordan is an <a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=41686#publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and the founding director of Northwestern Medicine’s Gender Pathways Program.</a> She has been performing gender-affirming surgeries at Northwestern Medicine since 2018.

The <a href="https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/gender-pathways-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Pathways Program</a> is “committed to providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender nonbinary patients.” A 2020 <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/06/gender-pathways-program-makes-trans-health-care-a-priority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a> article says the program “offers feminizing and masculinizing facial, top and bottom surgeries, as well as connections for hormone therapy, primary care, preventative health screenings and laser hair removal.”

Dr. Jordan was the lead author of a study released in September 2022, titled <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2796426?resultClick=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Top Surgery and Chest Dysphoria Among Transmasculine and Nonbinary Adolescents and Young Adults.”</a> The study sought to answer the question: “Does gender-affirming top surgery improve chest dysphoria, gender congruence, and body image in transmasculine and nonbinary adolescents and young adults?”

The participants in the study ranged in age from 13 to 24, with an average age of 18. In a <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-surgery-transgender-teens-northwestern-study-20220926-2yrapzgitzatla6cnzv2xqhzvm-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago Tribune</a> article about the study, Dr. Jordan states:
“Our findings are that top surgery (to remove the breasts) benefits these teenagers and young adults.”
She adds that she does not believe all teens should be required to delay these life-altering surgeries until age 18:
“If you had any other medical conditions where you said, ‘I’m not going to treat your diabetes or high blood pressure until you’re 18’ or ‘I’m going to hold off on treating you for years,’ it’s not ethical to withhold care for that long.” 
In a <a href="https://news.nm.org/study-top-surgery-significantly-improves-quality-of-life-in-transmasculine-and-nonbinary-teens-and-young-adults/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Medicine press release</a>, Dr. Jordan states:
“Patients who choose gender-affirming top surgery feel better about their bodies, and it enhances their quality of life. Our hope is that this study will now be used as a resource for teens, young adults and for families who want to learn more about surgical transition options.” 
Dr. Jordan’s <a href="https://northwesternplasticsurgery.com/chicago-plastic-surgery/sumanas-jordan-md/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography</a> states that she “welcomes all gender identities and offers top surgery, vaginoplasty, and phalloplasty for transgender and non-binary individuals.”

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Thomas Billard is an <a href="https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/thomas-billard.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor in the School of Communication</a> and, by courtesy, the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. Billard goes by ‘TJ’ and uses ‘they/them’ and ‘he/him’ pronouns. He is the founding executive director of the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies</a> in Chicago and editor of the Center’s flagship journal, the <a href="https://bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies.</a>

Professor Billard has been outspoken against legislation preventing children from receiving hormones and sex reassingment surgeries. After Arkansas became the first state to prohibit physicians from providing hormone treatments, puberty blockers, or surgeries to minors, Billard was quoted in a <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/04/whats-the-impact-on-transgender-youth-of-arkansas-ban-and-other-legislation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a> article:
“What is happening in Arkansas is merely the latest instance of conservatives weaponizing health misinformation against transgender communities to justify discrimination. Arkansas legislators called their bill the Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act, but the fact is gender-affirming care for transgender youth is safe and necessary.” 
He continues:
“And outlawing that care will cost trans lives. Doctors know this. Trans people know this. Arkansas legislators know this. But conservatives exploit public unawareness of the intricacies of transgender medical care, peddle misinformation and then use that misinformation to justify prejudicial legislation.” 
After Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court, Billard was asked his thoughts on the <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/virtual-press-conference-on-roe-v-wade-reversal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">implications of the ruling</a> for issues such as trans rights, same-sex marriage and contraception access. He stated:
“When we look across the landscape of the conservative movement’s legislative efforts in different states, it’s part of a general program of attacking bodily autonomy and private rights to necessary health care.”
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Published - October 14, 2022

Dr. Diana Bowen is an<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=42765" target="_blank" rel="noopener">  Assistant Professor of Pediatric, Adolescent, Transitional and Adult Urology at Northwestern.</a> She is also a founding member and surgeon in Northwestern Medicine’s Gender Pathways Program.

The<a href="https://www.nm.org/conditions-and-care-areas/gender-pathways-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Gender Pathways Program</a> is a multidisciplinary program “committed to providing gender-affirming care to transgender and nonbinary patients.” A 2020<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2020/06/gender-pathways-program-makes-trans-health-care-a-priority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Northwestern Now</a> article says the program “offers feminizing and masculinizing facial, top and bottom surgeries, as well as connections for hormone therapy, primary care, preventative health screenings and laser hair removal.”

In a<a href="https://breakthroughsforphysicians.nm.org/providing-gender-affirming-care-to-transgender-and-gender-diverse-patients.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> video for Northwestern Medicine,</a> Dr. Bowen says her role is to “provide urologic support for the transgender surgeries.” She states that the surgeries she performs include “transfeminine surgeries such as gender-affirming vaginoplasty and vulvoplasty as well as gender-affirming phalloplasty and prosthetic implant device.”

In 2022, Bowen participated in a discussion on how to invite “transgender” patients into medical communities. In a <a href="https://www.urologytimes.com/view/lugpa-speaker-on-welcoming-gender-diverse-patients-in-the-urology-practice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three-minute recap</a>, Bowen declared:
“My talk was really focused on tips and tricks for welcoming any gender-diverse patient into your practice, [and] how to make them have a great healthcare experience—both in the general clinic sense and also for any urologic complaint they come in with—and really outside of the bottom surgery aspect that we talk about so frequently.”
“Bottom surgery” refers to a biological male having his penis reconstructed into a “vagina.”

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Send tips, updates, and information on Diana Bowen to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - July 2024
Published - October 20, 2022

<a href="https://psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/sylvia-perry.html">Sylvia Perry</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University. 

She also serves as the Principle Investigator for the<a href="http://www.sciplab.com/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Social Cognition and Intergroup Processes</a> (SCIP) Laboratory, which studies the spread of inherent, racial bias in children, parents, and communities. 

Perry encourages parents to discuss race, police brutality, and white privilege with their children. During an interview with the campus's news site <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/02/experts-on-black-history-month/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern Now</a>, Perry decries parents who take a “passive approach” in talking about race. She alleges that children absorb society's racial stances and even toddlers can understand race: 

“If your child can have a conversation with you, they are old enough to start having conversations about race. As early as preschool, children start showing racial group favoritism.” 

In a study titled, “<a href="https://psyarxiv.com/3xdg8/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Initial Evidence that Parent-Child Conversations about Race Reduce Racial Biases Among White US Children</a>,” Perry accuses children of harboring innate “pro-white/anti-black” biases. Dr. Perry concludes that parents can help their children become “race-conscious” by eschewing “color-blind” stances and fostering uncomfortable discussions about racism.  

Another study—“<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b346ade4fcb5df8e55a622/t/5fd970632ef1c91c7feb6ac2/1608085603904/George+et+al.+Child+Development+LOI.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Raising an Anti-Racist Child: Black Americans Parents’ Perceptions of and Recommendations for White Parents</a>,”—alleges racial conversations are needed to foster “anti-racism” within children successfully. 

In his paper, “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9545064/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racial Socialization Messages in White Parents’ Discussions of Current Events Involving Racism</a>,” Perry praises the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement for raising white Americans' consciousness about white privilege, police brutality, and systemic racism. 

While acknowledging that BLM is useful in facilitating “color-conscious conversations,” Dr. Perry is still dismayed by the majority of white Americans whom she claims still resist the idea they benefit from their race. She concludes that researchers must determine how to better direct white people to discuss the aforementioned issues—namely whiteness—so parents are equipped to discuss their racial privilege.

 
Published - December 5, 2022

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28078" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry &amp; Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. She is also the founding psychologist of Lurie Children’s Gender &amp; Sex Development Program.

Campus Reform reports that Chen was in charge of a study that was criticized for having no control group. The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=21832" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reports that Chen is now part of another study, called “A Longitudinal Study of Gender Nonconformity in Prepubescent Children.” The study looks at the effects of the social transition of kids as young as six years old.

In March 2023, Chen—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.”
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Published - April 12, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=11319#publications" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Garofalo</a> is a Professor of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University and Chief of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. According to his university profile, his “primary clinical and research activities relate to the care of marginalized youth populations including HIV+ and LGBT young people.”

Garofalo was part of a study—led by coworker <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/dianechen" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diane Chen</a>—that was criticized for having no control group.  The study—”<a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2206297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones</a>”—analyzed 315 participants, between the ages of 12 and 20, over the course of two years.

Participants received “gender-affirming hormones,” which are hormones to make their male or female bodies resemble bodies of the opposite sex. Chen claims, “During the study period, appearance congruence, positive affect, and life satisfaction increased, and depression and anxiety symptoms decreased.”

However, <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Do No Harm</a>—an organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals—questioned the study’s lack of a control group. In a report provided to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/01/exclusive-medical-group-pokes-holes-fatally-flawed-study-claiming-prove-kids-benefit-transgender-hormones/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>, Do No Harm calls the study “fatally flawed and borderline unscientific.” Stanley Goldfarb, board chair at Do No Harm, said:
“The absence of any control group raises the possibility that ongoing psychological counseling and therapy may explain the slight improvement in some parameters of the study.” 
Do No Harm’s report also notes:
“The researchers and four clinics featured in this study have a well-publicized history of radical activism and advocacy for the medical transition of children … Given this obvious bias, there is a high likelihood that study participants were steered towards responses that align with the activism promoted by these clinics.” 
In March 2023, Garofalo—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.”
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Published - April 17, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=28856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Simons</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. According to her university profile, her “interests and expertise [are] in mental health care for adolescents, suicide prevention, LGBT health, and gender-affirming health care.”

In March 2023, Simons—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Simons is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/1768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.”
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Published - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://afam.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/barnor-hesse.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barnor Hesse</a> is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Studies, and Sociology at Northwestern University. According to his university profile, his research interests include, but are not limited to: black political thought, blackness and affect, and race and governmentality.

Hesse teaches several undergraduate courses, including “Unsettling Whiteness” and “Racism in Western Modernity.” The course description for “<a href="https://class-descriptions.northwestern.edu/4820/WCAS/AF_AM_ST/39740" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unsettling Whiteness</a>” says the course “will examine whiteness in four main ways: as the racialization of white populations; as the formation of white supremacy; as the cultural institution of the White Gaze; and as the regime of White Democracy.”

“<a href="https://afam.northwestern.edu/courses/2021-2022/class-schedules/spring-2022-class-schedule.html#courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racism in Western Modernity</a>” says the course “is not overly concerned with empirical case studies or attitudinal assessments; it promotes a conceptual approach rather than a descriptive one.” Instead:
“It will be concerned with explaining the apparent racial discrepancies and racial injustices of western modernity (e.g. democracies combined with racism, liberalism combined with imperialism) and how those racial discrepancies and racial injustices inform, shape and define western societies like the United States.” 
Hesse created a resource called “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-public-school-asks-parents-to-reflect-on-their-whiteness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The 8 White Identities</a>.” East Side Community School in Manhattan came under fire after they gave “The 8 White Identities” to every parent “as part of a series of materials meant for reflection” and as “food for thought.”

Hesse’s curriculum claims,
“There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities. People who identify with whiteness are one of these. It’s about time we build an ethnography of whiteness, since white people have been the ones writing about and governing Others.” 
Hesse’s “white identities” range from “White Supremacist” to “White Abolitionist:”

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The district also handed out the following color-coordinated meter:

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Hesse was <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/05/22/campus/black-studies-is-inclusivity-and-community-black-to-front-symposium-celebrates-department-renaming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in a May 2023 symposium</a> called “Black to Front.” The event was held to celebrate the Department of African American Studies being renamed to Black Studies. At the event, Hesse discussed his views on the relationships between black studies and the world, saying:
“Black Studies doesn’t just see democracy. It sees democracy and white supremacy. The only democracy we’ve ever known in Western society is a white democracy. Black studies doesn’t just see Western civilization. It sees as the conditions of Western civilization, Western barbarism. So you see, with that angle of vision, how the world seems to tilt almost on its axis.”
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Published - May 26, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=45471" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Aron Janssen</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also the <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/doctors/janssen-aron-c/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice Chair</a> of Clinical Affairs for The Pritzker Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health.

In March 2023, Dr. Janssen—along with dozens of other professors—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The statement focuses on two key points:
“First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care.” 
The signatories conclude their <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.” 
Dr. Janssen is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/431" target="_blank" rel="noopener">member</a> of the <a href="https://www.wpath.org/about/mission-and-vision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)</a>. The organization, which is funded primarily through its members, says its mission is “to promote evidence based care, education, research, public policy, and respect in transgender health.”

WPATH has a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement that reads, in part:
“WPATH affirms its commitment to diversity and inclusion as principles that enrich individuals, and society as a whole. We strive to learn from diverse perspectives, and through inclusivity, we pay homage to the fundamental principles of dignity, equality, equity, justice, and fairness.” 
In addition:
“WPATH encourages our members to champion these principles as well, and to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work, workplaces, and everyday lives.” 
Dr. Janssen is outspoken about his political beliefs on Twitter, where he posted a letter he wrote to his daughters after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
A letter to my daughters. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#RoeVsWade</a> <a href="https://t.co/KhLhWVQhrO" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/KhLhWVQhrO</a>
— Dr. Aron Janssen (@LGBTDoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTDoc/status/1540389243834466306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Dr. Janssen also shared his beliefs on <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtdoc?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gun control</a> after the tragic Uvalde school shooting in May 2022.

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Published - July 26, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=34110" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Claire Coyne</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is also a part of the Gender Development Program at Lurie Children’s Hospital. According to her university <a href="https://www.luriechildrens.org/en/for-healthcare-professionals/education/medical-education-training/internships-and-externships/clinical-psychology-internship/meet-our-psychologists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a>, her “primary research interests include psychosocial functioning and behavioral health interventions for transgender/gender-expansive youth.”

In March 2023, Coyne—along with <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=21908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of other professors</a>—signed a “<a href="https://www.gamcstatement.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement Regarding Laws Restricting Gender Affirming Medical Care</a>.” The full statement can be seen below:
We are clinicians and researchers who work with and study transgender and gender diverse youth. Many of us are involved in debates about how best to care for transgender and gender diverse youth – debates about to whom, when, and how gender affirming medical care might best be provided.  Discussion of some of these debates has moved into the public sphere. We hold varying perspectives on these issues and sometimes disagree.
However, often lost in the public version of these debates is our strong agreement about two central points that we wish to highlight here. First, there is consensus in the field, and amongst these signatories, that gender affirming medical care is important and beneficial for many transgender youth. Second, we do not support laws restricting access to gender affirmative care. As with all medical care, we believe an adolescent’s health care, including their access to gender affirming medical care, should be determined by the youth along with their families and health care teams. 
Recently, our internal debate and media reports of our debate concerning how best to care for transgender youth have been cited to support laws banning gender affirmative medical care for minors, punishing doctors who provide this care, or otherwise limiting this care. We write this letter to make our position on this crystal clear: The signatories below all believe, based on the current evidence, that gender affirmative medical care is an important part of many transgender adolescents’ overall care, and that states and health systems should not restrict access to that care.
We will continue to debate aspects of gender affirming care, just as clinicians and researchers in all areas of medicine debate aspects of care. We will continue to update our views as new data and more evidence are accrued. However, we request that politicians and others stop using our debates to justify bans of gender affirmative care. We wish to state for the public record, we do not support these efforts.
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Published - May 1, 2023

<a href="https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=16112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katie Watson</a> is an Associate Professor of Medical Education, Medical Social Science, and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University. According to Watson’s university profile, she is well known for her “scholarship in abortion ethics, practice, and law.”

Watson wrote a June 2023 opinion piece for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230624112626/https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/feminist-family-values-roe-wade-18168285.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Houston Chronicle</a> titled, “One year post-roe, it’s time for feminist ‘family values.’” She asserts, “The Supreme Court was stunningly wrong to reverse Roe v. Wade, and historians will judge it harshly.” However, she goes on to say that she does not wish for the return of Roe v. Wade, rather:
“I want something better: reproductive justice legislation and state constitutional amendments that protect the right to not have children, the right to have children, the right to parent the children we have and help doing all of the above when we need it.” 
Throughout the article, Watson calls for a “fresh set of family values.” She believes family values have long been the “code for a decrepit view that women were born to be slaves to biology, babies and men.” Instead, “Valuing women’s brains and hearts more than their uteruses means respecting when they don’t want to have a baby - now, again or ever - and also respecting when they do.”

Watson also believes the term “mothering” no longer solely applies to women, saying:
“...’Mothering’ can be understood as gender-neutral: Some women don’t give their children the nurturing they need, and many men and nonbinary people do. ‘Mothering’ is shorthand for the investment in children women have historically made, but now is open to anyone.” 
In July 2023, Watson co-authored an article for <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/28/doctors-providing-abortion-referral-information-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STAT News</a> titled, “Doctors in states that ban abortion can still refer patients elsewhere. Why are so few doing that?” Watson and her co-authors claim “all-options pregnancy counseling has been the governing standard of care for decades” and doctors have an “ethical imperative” to provide abortion information to their patients.
“Doctors’ silence violates their central ethical obligations to respect patients’ autonomy, advance justice, and promote beneficence.” 
The authors encourage doctors to break the law if necessary, quoting the American Medical Association’s Code of Ethics’ preamble that instructs, “In exceptional circumstances of unjust laws, ethical responsibilities should supersede legal duties.” They allege:
“When doctors prioritize their own interests in avoiding potential legal risks above the health of their patients, they negate their core ethical and professional obligations to their patients.” 
They conclude by calling on professional organizations within the healthcare field to “adopt guidelines requiring the sharing of abortion information. They should specify, at a minimum, that clinicians share the names of trusted websites where patients can find accurate information about abortion options, and counsel their patients on data privacy.”

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Published - September 11, 2023

<a href="https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/directory/profiles/al-hroub-khaled.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Khaled AL-Hroub</a> is a professor in residence at Northwestern University’s overseas campus in Qatar. According to his university profile, his focus is “Middle Eastern studies and politics with particular interest on Islam and politics, Arab-Israeli conflict and Arab media studies.”

On October 16, 2023, Hroub was a guest on the Boston NPR (WBUR) program “On Point.” During the interview, Hroub “expressed doubt that women and children had been killed by Hamas” during the terror group’s attack on Israel. WBUR <a href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2023/10/16/hamas-a-history-lesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled the program from national distribution</a> and released a statement that read, in part:
“This episode of On Point did not meet our editorial standards. It is paramount to acknowledge when our work falls short of our standards. … The program was live and as it progressed, Professor Hroub expressed doubt that women and children had been killed by Hamas in its October 7 attack on Israel.”
“On Point Host Meghna Chakrabarti countered with statements of fact to correct the record. But that does not negate the impact of hearing Professor Hroub’s statements. On Point strives to contribute thoughtfully to the public discourse, and in an environment where misinformation is both rampant and dangerous, we felt compelled to pull this hour of our programming from national distribution after its initial broadcast.” 
During the program, Hroub claimed he had not seen any “credible” reporting that Hamas terrorists had killed civilians in their beds. He also stated, “We have read of course, you know, the beheading of 40 babies and raping women and all of that, and of course, when you hear these things, I myself, I was shocked and then it turned out to be kind of fabricated and all of that.”

Hroub believes Israeli media feeds “misinformation” to the public and defended his comments to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-affiliate-pulls-show-after-guest-doubted-hamas-killed-women-children-during-terror-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>:
“I said that the source of all the stories about Hamas beheading 40 babies and raping women were mostly Israeli. These stories proved to be all lies, baseless and fabricated. By the same token, all the figures about the dead on the Israeli side come from Israeli sources, including the breakdown of numbers between soldiers and civilians. There is no third and/or neutral party to verify these news and figures, and names of the killed. I’m not defending Hamas here, I’m asking for verified information.” 
Northwestern University has tried to distance itself from Hroub’s comments and released the following <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/10/university-statement-on-professor-khaled-al-hroubs-interview-with-wbur/?fj=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>:
“While Northwestern firmly supports academic freedom and freedom of expression, we condemn any attempt to minimize or misrepresent the horrific killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas on Oct. 7. Khaled AL-Hroub’s opinions are his own. Individual faculty members do not represent the views or beliefs of the University.” 
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Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://communication.northwestern.edu/faculty/moya-bailey.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Moya Bailey</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. Bailey’s work “focuses on marginalized groups’ use of digital media to promote social justice, and she is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine.”

Bailey authored a book titled “<a href="https://www.transformisogynoir.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Misogynoir Transformed</a>,” which highlights “black women’s digital resistance to anti-black misogyny on YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, and other platforms.” The term “misogynoir” was coined by Bailey and added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2023. She defines the term as “the anti-black, racist misogyny that black women—and people perceived as black women—experience.”

As an <a href="https://magazine.northwestern.edu/voices/moya-bailey-misogynoir-racism-misogyny-merriam-webster-digital-apothecary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">example of “misogynoir,”</a> Bailey cites the maternal morbidity rates for black women. She attributes the higher negative health outcomes to “misogynoir,” saying, “There’s no other explanation except for the particular combination of anti-black racism and misogyny that’s impacting their birthing experiences.”

Bailey is the director and founder of the <a href="https://www.digitalapothecary.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Apothecary lab</a>, “a hybrid digital and physical lab dedicated to combining ancient and new technologies in an effort to produce processes and projects that aid those most marginalized in society.”

One of the <a href="https://www.digitalapothecary.org/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lab’s projects</a> “Ethical Internet?” is described by Bailey:
“While there can be no ethical engagement with the internet under capitalism, I do think there is a less harmful path for our web wandering to take, one that my students and I have begun to explore in a course of the same name.” 
Bailey wrote an article on “ethical internet” for <a href="https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/an-ethical-internet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Tech</a> in which she refers to the internet as a “<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/northwestern-lab-envisions-ethical-internet-without-capitalism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military-derived technology</a>.” She recounts her family getting the internet for the first time when she was in fifth grade.
“Little did I know that this access was afforded to me because of my Western, class, and educational privilege. I did not know about the child labor of girls who looked like me and who would also have been in the fifth grade, mining for minerals that made my internet connection possible in what we now recognize as the Democratic Republic of the Congo.” 
Bailey claims the internet “relies on oppression to exist” and says she seeks answers to the following questions:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can this military-derived, exploitatively built, capitalistically driven, entity of the internet be reconfigured from the ground up in a way that doesn’t exploit human or natural resources?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can the internet be just?”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Can we have an ethical internet?”</li>
</ul>
One of her potential solutions to these questions is “internet quiet hours, where the internet sleeps as we do, light pollution is eradicated, and electrical waves are reduced.” She concludes, “If we are willing to slow down and move with intention, then we may be able to develop sustainable and non-exploitative internet infrastructures that attend to the people and resources throughout the digital supply chain.”

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Published - November 17, 2023

Northwestern University is the home of a faculty and student center called the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH). According to the institute’s “History” <a href="https://isgmh.northwestern.edu/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">section</a>:

“[ISGMH] was founded in 2015 and is the first university-wide institute in the country focused exclusively on research to improve the health of the sexual and gender minority (SGM) community…it was founded with the support of the Office of the Provost, the Office of Research, and the Feinberg School of Medicine.”

In June 2024, Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-student-govt-calls-segregated-pride-house-lgbt-identifying-students-/25690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Northwestern University’s student body government called for LGBT-identifying students to have segregated housing on campus. The article links to a “Pride House” <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Re-QKyAz6kU1by5rroW9pbla4_UpcuXLSTMOi8-lMNk/edit?tab=t.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that declares, among other things:

“Whereas, one of the goals of All Gender Housing is to address tensions often felt by queer and transgender students in finding a compatible roommate. All Gender Housing exists allows[sic] any two students to live together regardless of their gender identity—preventing the creation of an LGBTQ community in All-Gender Housing areas.”

Campus Reform said, that according to Northwestern University’s student government <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/gsrc/education/dashboard-data.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey data</a>, about 25% of students identify as LGBTQ+. The university also <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/02/new-home-for-gender-and-sexuality-resource-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">features</a> a “Gender and Sexuality Resource Center” to support gender-confused students.

Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law is also in the process of defending students' so-called LGBTQI+ rights, including the right to legally change one’s name to match their gender identity. 

On October 15, The Daily Northwestern <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/10/15/lateststories/northwestern-lgbtqi-rights-clinic-prepares-to-represent-clients-in-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:

“Law students are working at the clinic this semester to help four clients through the process of changing their names…’ All of our clients identify as nonbinary or transgender, and thus are seeking to change their names so that their legal name reflects better who they are,’ said Pritzker Prof. Kara Ingelhart, the clinic’s director.”

The source also said a 711 license is required for students who want to represent a client this way and are only “allowed to practice under a licensed attorney.” Campus Reform also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/-northwestern-law-students-working-changing-legal-names-transgender-identifying-people/26613" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered</a> this story, highlighting that the purpose of this project was “the universal right of gender-self-determination” and the “transformative justice principles as necessary alternatives to the criminal punishment system.”

Related articles:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/05/23/lateststories/lgbtq-affinity-housing-resolution-passes-in-asg-aims-to-foster-community-provide-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ+ affinity housing resolution passes in ASG, aims to foster community, provide support</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (May 23, 2024)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/28/lateststories/pritzker-school-of-law-opens-lgbtqi-rights-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pritzker School of Law Opens LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic</a>” by The Daily Northwestern (Apr. 28, 2024)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/03/some-allies-dont-want-gay-neighbors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Some ‘allies’ don’t want gay neighbors</a>” by Northwestern News Now (May 6, 2023)</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“<a href="https://news.feinberg.northwestern.edu/2016/02/29/new-northwestern-institute-commits-to-improving-lgbt-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Northwestern Institute Commits to Improving LGBT Heath</a>” by Northwestern University Campus News (Feb. 29, 2016)</li>
</ul>
For more information, enter “Northwestern University” in your search engine. Send tips on Northwestern University to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

Anti-2nd Amendment

Aron Janssen

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<a href="http://gilian.tenbergen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Gilian Tenbergen</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) &#8211; Oswego. She further directs the Sexual Neuroendocrinology (SENEU) Lab and serves on the <a href="https://prostasia.org/our-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advisory Council of the Prostasia Foundation</a>. Through both organizations, Dr. Tenbergen provides support and resources to what she refers to as Minor Attracted Persons (MAP). 
The term, “MAP,” is considered to be less stigmatizing as Dr. Tenbergen believes that pedophiles face too much stigmatization, and seeks to differentiate between pedophiles who act on their impulses and those who do not. She believes this distinction can be used to prevent the sexual exploitation of children if a pedophile is not stigmatized. 
In an article for Protasia, she details her approach to <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/how-maps-can-obtain-help-not-to-offend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treating pedophiles so they may lead “law-abiding, offense-free, fulfilling lives.&#8221;</a> Dr. Tenbergen writes the common belief that “all pedophiles/MAPs will eventually offend” is not true, but ensures her readers that many “MAPs” are dedicated to preventing sexual abuse. She cites a number of organizations, including the Virtuous Pedophiles, the Prevention Project, and Troubled Desire, as evidence that not all pedophiles offend.  
In the same article, Dr. Tenbergen appears to blame the scrutiny of pedophilia for driving people to commit child sexual abuse (CSA) and consume child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). She writes that many are victims of society’s stigma, which prevents them from seeking help before they offend.  
“But for those in the middle, who may be just looking for information about pedophilia/minor attraction, or who may be actually considering engaging in CSA/CSEM use, we pretend they don’t exist. We actually go so far as a society as to prevent them from seeking help, from obtaining information, from living good lives. What should we do in this circumstance? How can we together improve CSA/CSEM prevention and protect children?”
Not only does Dr. Tenbergen write for Prostasia, the foundation actively funds her research/
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/DrGTenbergen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DrGTenbergen</a> introduces herself and her Prostasia-funded research on “why some people can engage in prolonged and detailed fantasies without acting out behaviorally, whereas some cannot… Wouldn’t it be so helpful to understand this so we could use it in prevention services?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Dzc3RwsD8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/Dzc3RwsD8B</a>
— Prostasia Foundation (@ProstasiaInc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/status/1501250396240728065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://prostasia.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The organization bills itself</a> as a “new kind of child protection organization” that focuses on preventing sexual abuse and exploitation. Like Dr. Tenbergen, the foundation aims to end the “harm” against pedophiles by what it describes as the “predominantly reactive child protection agenda.” 
Prostasia advocates introducing young children to graphic sexual education in school. In a post titled, “<a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/3-simple-steps-that-can-reduce-csa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3 Simple Steps That Can Reduce CSA</a>,” author Meagan Ingerman advocates for teaching pre-pubescent children “sex positivity.” This includes sexual pleasure, consent, kinks, and fetishes. She later writes this would include teaching children chronophilias, or the attraction to a person in a separate age range, as part of a “comprehensive, intersectional sex education.” 
The organization further hosts articles advocating <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/how-the-registry-harms-families/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against sex offender registry laws</a> and detailing how to avoid detection by law enforcement when engaging in “<a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/online-ageplay-safety-tips/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ageplay</a>.”
Prostasia has opposed Florida’s anti-grooming legislation, which <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-passes-anti-groomer-law-banning-gender-identity-indoctrination-in-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevents gender and sexual education from Kindergarten to the 3rd grade</a>. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Supporters of Florida&#8217;s &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill are misrepresenting comprehensive sex education as grooming. If we care about preventing child sexual abuse, these kinds of smears MUST STOP. <a href="https://t.co/aiFvKAJQqZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/aiFvKAJQqZ</a>
— Prostasia Foundation (@ProstasiaInc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/status/1500852020542070784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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She has further <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/11/18/academics-speak-out-for-old-dominion-u-prof-put-on-leave-after-defending-pedophiles/">defended and organized a petition in support of Alyn Walker</a>, an Old Dominion professor who was fired after stating in an interview with Prostasia there is nothing “immoral” about being attracted to a minor. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
🚨🚨🚨This non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons) <a href="https://t.co/riD6TdIt8k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/riD6TdIt8k</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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To learn more about Dr. Walker, please <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/allynwalker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visit his profile</a> on the Professor Watchlist.  
Dr. Tenbergen is on leave from the University and did reply when contacted for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.
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Published &#8211; November 7, 2022

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<a href="http://gilian.tenbergen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Gilian Tenbergen</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York (SUNY) - Oswego. She further directs the Sexual Neuroendocrinology (SENEU) Lab and serves on the <a href="https://prostasia.org/our-team/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Advisory Council of the Prostasia Foundation</a>. Through both organizations, Dr. Tenbergen provides support and resources to what she refers to as Minor Attracted Persons (MAP). 

The term, “MAP,” is considered to be less stigmatizing as Dr. Tenbergen believes that pedophiles face too much stigmatization, and seeks to differentiate between pedophiles who act on their impulses and those who do not. She believes this distinction can be used to prevent the sexual exploitation of children if a pedophile is not stigmatized. 

In an article for Protasia, she details her approach to <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/how-maps-can-obtain-help-not-to-offend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treating pedophiles so they may lead “law-abiding, offense-free, fulfilling lives."</a> Dr. Tenbergen writes the common belief that “all pedophiles/MAPs will eventually offend” is not true, but ensures her readers that many “MAPs” are dedicated to preventing sexual abuse. She cites a number of organizations, including the Virtuous Pedophiles, the Prevention Project, and Troubled Desire, as evidence that not all pedophiles offend.  

In the same article, Dr. Tenbergen appears to blame the scrutiny of pedophilia for driving people to commit child sexual abuse (CSA) and consume child sexual exploitation material (CSEM). She writes that many are victims of society’s stigma, which prevents them from seeking help before they offend.  
“But for those in the middle, who may be just looking for information about pedophilia/minor attraction, or who may be actually considering engaging in CSA/CSEM use, we pretend they don’t exist. We actually go so far as a society as to prevent them from seeking help, from obtaining information, from living good lives. What should we do in this circumstance? How can we together improve CSA/CSEM prevention and protect children?”
Not only does Dr. Tenbergen write for Prostasia, the foundation actively funds her research/
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
.<a href="https://twitter.com/DrGTenbergen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@DrGTenbergen</a> introduces herself and her Prostasia-funded research on “why some people can engage in prolonged and detailed fantasies without acting out behaviorally, whereas some cannot… Wouldn’t it be so helpful to understand this so we could use it in prevention services?" <a href="https://t.co/Dzc3RwsD8B" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/Dzc3RwsD8B</a>
— Prostasia Foundation (@ProstasiaInc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/status/1501250396240728065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 8, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://prostasia.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The organization bills itself</a> as a “new kind of child protection organization” that focuses on preventing sexual abuse and exploitation. Like Dr. Tenbergen, the foundation aims to end the “harm” against pedophiles by what it describes as the “predominantly reactive child protection agenda.” 

Prostasia advocates introducing young children to graphic sexual education in school. In a post titled, “<a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/3-simple-steps-that-can-reduce-csa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">3 Simple Steps That Can Reduce CSA</a>,” author Meagan Ingerman advocates for teaching pre-pubescent children “sex positivity.” This includes sexual pleasure, consent, kinks, and fetishes. She later writes this would include teaching children chronophilias, or the attraction to a person in a separate age range, as part of a “comprehensive, intersectional sex education.” 

The organization further hosts articles advocating <a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/how-the-registry-harms-families/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against sex offender registry laws</a> and detailing how to avoid detection by law enforcement when engaging in “<a href="https://prostasia.org/blog/online-ageplay-safety-tips/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ageplay</a>.”

Prostasia has opposed Florida’s anti-grooming legislation, which <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-passes-anti-groomer-law-banning-gender-identity-indoctrination-in-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevents gender and sexual education from Kindergarten to the 3rd grade</a>. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Supporters of Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill are misrepresenting comprehensive sex education as grooming. If we care about preventing child sexual abuse, these kinds of smears MUST STOP. <a href="https://t.co/aiFvKAJQqZ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/aiFvKAJQqZ</a>
— Prostasia Foundation (@ProstasiaInc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/status/1500852020542070784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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She has further <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/11/18/academics-speak-out-for-old-dominion-u-prof-put-on-leave-after-defending-pedophiles/">defended and organized a petition in support of Alyn Walker</a>, an Old Dominion professor who was fired after stating in an interview with Prostasia there is nothing “immoral” about being attracted to a minor. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
🚨🚨🚨This non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons) <a href="https://t.co/riD6TdIt8k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/riD6TdIt8k</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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To learn more about Dr. Walker, please <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/allynwalker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">visit his profile</a> on the Professor Watchlist.  

Dr. Tenbergen is on leave from the University and did reply when contacted for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.

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Published - November 7, 2022

Gilian Tenbergen

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<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/visual-arts/visual-arts-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Welling</a> is a Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in Visual Arts at Princeton University.
In April 2024, Welling signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.
The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
</ul>
The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published &#8211; April 29, 2024

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Princeton University

Princeton Bioethics Professor Peter Singer made headlines after sharing his views on sex acts with animals. On November 8, 2023, Singer shared what he called a “thought-provoking article” titled “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mOOHWhgfENSAz-Bl7kQb9fPHHzRqh9Dm/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible</a>.” Singer said that “[the article] challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual contact between humans and animals.”
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Another thought-provoking article is "Zoophilia Is Morally Permissible" by Fira Bensto (pseudonym), which is just out in the current issue of <a href="https://twitter.com/JConIdeas?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JConIdeas</a>.
This piece challenges one of society's strongest taboos and argues for the moral permissibility of some forms of sexual… <a href="https://t.co/32fIaJEJ1J">pic.twitter.com/32fIaJEJ1J</a>

— Peter Singer (@PeterSinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeterSinger/status/1722440246972018857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The article Singer referred to states that “[s]ex with animals is a powerful social taboo that exposes its practitioners to utmost indignation and stigma.” The piece also claims, “Many people who have sex with animals do not strictly speaking have a zoophilic orientation, but use animals as surrogates for human sex partners.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/11/11/lifestyle/princeton-professor-ignites-outrage-by-calling-journal-article-about-sex-with-animals-thought-provoking-someone-check-his-hard-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that Singer followed up his original post with an essay on Facebook where he clarified:
“I didn’t write the article on the permissibility of zoophilia [but] I am a co-editor for that journal. The fact that we judge an article worthy of publication does not indicate that I or my co-editors agree with the views contained in it…The Journal of Conversational Ideas is free and open access for everyone to read…
“Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in all the ways that most people love their companion animals, but in addition, this person sometimes has sexual contact with you, making sure that the contact does not hurt you, and leaving you free to move away if you don't like it…”
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One commenter said Singer was “adopting the language of predator abusers, the same words used to dismiss and denigrate [rape] survivors.”

In a <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/peter-singer-compares-abortion-to-turning-off-a-computer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review article</a> titled, “Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer,” the author writes, “To understand Singer’s perspective: He doesn’t believe that human life has moral value simply because he or she is human. Rather, value has to be earned, primarily be being self-aware or able to value life [sic]. He argues that self-aware entities are ‘persons’ —including some animals.”

National Review continued, “[Singer] also believes that non-self-aware beings—including human infants, unborn babies, and people who have serious dementia, persistent unconsciousness or minimal consciousness—are not persons. Non-persons, in his view, have lower moral value than persons and can be killed or used instrumentally for the benefit of persons…”

Please send information on Peter Singer to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Updated - January 11, 2024
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Peter Singer is a Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. As a philosopher and self-identified “<a href="https://longtermrisk.org/hedonistic-vs-preference-utilitarianism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hedonistic utilitarian</a>,” Dr. Singer holds a number of controversial views on human and animal ethics. These include stances on abortion, euthanasia, and infanticide.

More than an advocate for abortion, Dr. Singer claims there is nothing inherently immoral about killing a child.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB5IZXGmk08&amp;feature=emb_title" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During a debate at Harvard University</a>, Dr. Singer recognized that fetuses in the womb are living human beings. However, he added people—including those not yet born—have varying degrees of value based on whether or not they feel pain.

He further claimed that only people who are fully conscious or feel pain have a right to their own lives. Abortion, he argued, cannot be considered immoral. Dr. Singer acknowledges that his stance presents a “challenging” problem regarding recently-born children.
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Dr. Singer has also justified infanticide for babies who are disabled or have serious health conditions. In the 1979 edition of Practical Ethics, he wrote: “<a href="https://archive.org/details/practicalethics0000sing/page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all</a>.”

Many have accused <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Singer of being sympathetic to eugenics</a> due to his apparent empathy towards parents who <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/peter-singer-eugenicist-wesley-j-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">select particular genes in human fetuses for more desirable children</a>.

During a 2015 radio interview, Dr. Singer argued that it was “reasonable” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ethics-professor-kill-severely-disabled-infants-under-obamacare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to euthanize disabled infants to prevent higher premiums under Obamacare</a>. In a Q&amp;A hosted on his personal website, Dr. Singer <a href="https://petersinger.info/faq/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims that newborns are not persons as they have “no sense of the future</a>.”

“[Killing] a newborn baby is never equivalent to killing a person, that is, a being who wants to go on living.”

Dr. Singer added that although killing an infant is a “terrible thing to do,” parents should have the freedom to end the life of their newborn. He added that the presiding doctor would then take steps to “swiftly and humanely” end the child’s life.

According to his biography, Dr. Singer <a href="https://uchv.princeton.edu/people/peter-singer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has been teaching at Princeton since 1999</a>. He authored other books on utilitarianism, veganism, and animal liberation.

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Published - August 18, 2022

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor#:~:text=Keeanga-Yamahtta%20Taylor%20is%20an%20Assistant%20Professor%20in%20the,and%20a%202020%20finalist%20for%20the%20Pulitzer%20in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor</a> is a Professor in the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of African-American Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton University</a>. According to her University biography, Dr. Taylor is a scholar of racial inequity in public policymaking, and writes “extensively” about race, politics, and “radical activism.”

As a Professor and political commentator, Dr. Taylor offers her opinion across a wide variety of social media platforms and media outlets. She is known to condemn capitalism, the United States, and Israel while lauding socialism and the Soviet Union.

On her personal <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Dr. Taylor smears Israel as a racial, apartheid state that actively commits genocide against Arabs in the Middle East. In one tweet, she alleges that Israel is attempting to “annihilate” Palestine:
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The consequence of apartheid is not separation, it’s annihilation. End the occupation, free Palestine <a href="https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/2jUOpL3oBq</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392287946653503490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In another post, she flagrantly alleges that Israel is engaged in the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza, despite the <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/methodist-staffer-demonizes-israel-reveals-ignorance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resident Arab population quadrupling since 1948</a>,
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What we are witnessing is not the “eviction” of Palestinians from their homes. This is ethnic cleansing. This is the most basic expression of settler colonialism. This is the illegal and immoral expulsion of Palestinians with the expectation they are “accepted” elsewhere. <a href="https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/erLUdzIdP8</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1392286002950164480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor likewise alleges the United States is a brutally racist and oppressive society. In an article for the Marxist publication, Jacobin,<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/reparations-slavery-racism-united-states-foundation" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> she depicts racism as foundational to the United States</a>.

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A frequent critic of policing, which she views as systemic racism embedded in the United States, Dr. Taylor lauds the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement as a “liberation struggle.” With communist, vice-presidential candidate, and Black Panther Party member, <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis</a>, writing the forward, Dr. Taylor’s book—<a href="https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1646-from-blacklivesmatter-to-black-liberation-expanded-second-edition">From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation</a>—she praises the movement for having “awakened a new generation of activists” that will fight for “black liberation.”

BLM was <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/six-years-strong/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">founded following the death</a> of Treyvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder. After a jury acquitted Zimmerman in 2013, <a href="https://patrissecullors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrice Cullors</a> joined with <a href="https://aliciagarza.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alicia Garza</a> and <a href="https://www.opaltometi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Opal Tometi</a> to found an organization, <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as stated on its website</a>.

“....whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.” 

BLM came to further prominence following the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gunshots-looting-after-grand-jury-in-ferguson-case-does-not-indict-officer-in-michael-brown-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riots in Ferguson, Missouri</a> in reaction to the acquittal of police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of robbery suspect, Michael Brown. Although later determined that Brown had attacked the officer, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hands-up-dont-shoot-makes-wapos-list-of-outlandish-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BLM was instrumental in spreading the lie</a> that Brown was shot at point-blank range with his hands raised.

To learn more about <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/patrissecullors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Patrisse Cullors, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist.</a>

In an interview with the progressive news outlet, DemocracyNow, in June of 2020, Dr. Taylor praises the BLM movement’s fight against systemic racism, stating that our nation is witnessing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMOG-W_X9m8&amp;ab_channel=DemocracyNow%21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an “uprising” against “racial terrorism” being inflicted upon black Americans by police officers</a>.

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According to a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study conducted by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED)</a>, BLM can be linked to 95% of the riots around the country–notably in Summer 2020 following the death of George Floyd. In an analysis of the study, <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/study-up-to-95-percent-of-2020-u-s-riots-are-linked-to-black-lives-matter/">The Federalist</a> found, “of the 633 incidents coded as riots, 88 percent are recorded as involving Black Lives Matter Activists.” The resulting riots were the largest in American history, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/george-floyd-riots-caused-record-setting-2-billion-in-damage-new-report-says-here-s-why-the-true-cost-is-even-higher/#:~:text=Only%20now%20are%20we%20beginning,%241%20billion%20to%20%242%20billion." target="_blank" rel="noopener">causing an estimated $2 billion in damages and 47 deaths.</a>

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In separate Twitter posts, Dr. Taylor has condemned capitalism as being inherently exploitative while promoting the merits of socialism.
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There is no good US capitalism. The so called golden age of capitalism relied on shackling women to the home, bolting LGBT people in the closet, restricting immigration to Europeans, &amp; segregating Black people into resource starved enclaves. Capitalism has always been the problem
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1144415575348862977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sequins are not too good for the working class! Socialism is about sharing the abundance not accepting the false idea of scarcity. <a href="https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/Yd025LUrYd</a>
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@KeeangaYamahtta) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeangaYamahtta/status/1231334079968268289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Taylor’s positive view on socialism extends to the embrace of communist dictatorships. While attending the “This is Socialism!” conference in 2017, Dr. Taylor delivered a speech that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndSASqMLYMg&amp;ab_channel=WeAreManyMedia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised the Russian Revolution</a> for its inspiration towards American communists and "revolution" against capitalism.

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Despite her praise, the Bolshevik Revolution and the resulting formation of the Soviet Union cost millions of lives. Upon overthrowing the Russian government in October 1917, Vladimir Lenin immediately set up <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lenin%27s+red+terror&amp;atb=v263-1&amp;ia=web" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a series of concentration camps for political prisoners and led the Soviet secret police in a brutal crackdown</a> known as the “Red Terror.” As many as one million people perished before the carnage ended with the cessation of the Russian Civil War in 1921. Over the course of the USSR's existence, as <a href="https://fee.org/articles/the-staggering-toll-of-the-russian-revolution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">many as 60 million people perished under Soviet rule</a>.

In recognition of her work, Dr. Taylor was <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/news/2021-macarthur-fellow-keeanga-yamahtta-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Award</a> in 2021. The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/28/us/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-2021/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">foundation grants $625,000</a> for each recipient's <a href="https://www.macfound.org/programs/fellows/strategy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“exceptional creativity” and “track record of significant accomplishments.”</a>

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Updated - November 19, 2021

Wallace D. Best is a <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/wallace-d-best" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hughes-Rogers Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Religion</a> at Princeton University. He’s also the Director of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.

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Best was featured in a 2020 Princeton press release titled <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/wallace-best-leads-program-gender-and-sexuality-studies-dynamic-new-era" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wallace Best leads the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies into a dynamic new era</a>. In the article, Best responds to questions regarding his experience with feminine studies. When asked, “What is the value of studying gender and sexuality studies in the current era in America?,” Best said:
“It’s interdisciplinary in that it’s connected to more historically formal disciplines like sociology, political science and religion, but draws each in robust and engaging ways. I think about what’s happening with the Black Lives Matter movement, for example. Some of that activist work is born from the scholarship within the intellectual orbit — scholars who have centered issues of gender and sexuality in its inextricable connection to race, class, location and ethnicity.” 
He continued,
“So, when I see those protests, I feel quite proud that some of what the leaders say is born from the discourses of feminism, Black feminism, queer studies, and from gender and sexuality studies. So, I would say this is one of the most exciting times to be involved in this field.”
Best also holds a Ph.D. in Religion. His areas of research and teaching include African American religious history, religion and literature, Pentecostalism, and Womanist theology. One course Best teaches, <a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/courses/spring-2022/black-women-and-spiritual-narrative" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Black Women and Spiritual Narrative</a>,” focuses on “the hypothesis that religious metaphor and symbolism have figured prominently in Black women’s writing across literary genres.” He’s currently working on a book entitled “The Spiritual Capital of Black America: Twentieth Century Harlem’s World of Religion and Churches.”

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Published October 20, 2022

Catherine Clune-Taylor is an <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her interests are focused on the Philosophy of Sex, Gender and Sexuality, as well as Feminist Theory, Bioethics, and the work of Michel Foucault — a deceased philosopher and political activist.

Clune-Taylor was featured in a Princeton Alumni Weekly article titled “<a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/conversation-science-ethics-and-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Conversation: Science, Ethics, and Policy.</a>” Her research is described as taking “an interdisciplinary and intersectional feminist approach to the science, bioethics, and biopolitics of medically managing intersex conditions in children.” In the article, she discussed her values and views on medical discrimination against “patients of color” and those on the gender spectrum.

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Her Princeton <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/catherine-clune-taylor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> states she earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation was in defense of “ethics and politics of medical production” in cisgendered people. “[The] project considers the revised treatment model of intersex conditions introduced in 2006 — which is controversially reclassified them as Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs).” 

Clune-Taylor’s <a href="https://www.clune-taylor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says she’s an Assistant Professor of Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Department of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She further highlights her Ph.D. focus of “[exploring] the various bio-scientific, political, and bureaucratic efforts…to force individuals into ‘cisgendered futures.’” She also offers diversity, equity, and inclusion lectures across multiple academic disciplines.

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Published October 20, 2022

Gender and Sexuality Studies Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock">Anne McClintock</a> is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. McClintock joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other student groups, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work … we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond … A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
McClintock and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine.”

Please send information on Anne McClintock to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - February 22, 2024
Anne McClintock is Princeton University’s <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/people/anne-mcclintock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies</a>. She’s also an Affiliated Faculty for the Princeton Environmental Institute and Department of English and serves on the Executive Committee of the Program in American Studies.

McClintock’s faculty profile says her “interdisciplinary and transitional work — both scholarly and creative — explores the intersections between race, gender and sexualities; imperialism and globalization.” Her interests also include sexual and gender violence, climate chaos, and animal studies.

McClintock is the author of “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Imperial_Leather/wRwiAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest</a>.” The publisher notes that the book “chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling.” In one chapter called The White Family of Man, she says,
“King Solomon’s Mines was [sic] intimately concerned with events in South Africa following the discovery of diamonds and then gold: specifically, the reordering of women’s sexuality and work in the African homestead and the diversion of black male labor into the mines.”
She continues, 
“The Story illuminates not only relations between the imperial metropolis and the colonies but also the refashioning of gender relations in South Africa, as a nascent capitalism penetrated the region and disrupted already contested power relations with the homesteads.”
In 2019, McClintock was among several Princeton faculty members who participated in a campus strike. <a href="https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-students-faculty-join-community-climate-strike" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Alumni Weekly</a> listed her as an event speaker in a protest to “demand climate justice.” That same year, she was also featured in The Nation’s article titled “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/princeton-students-are-sitting-in-for-title-ix-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Students are Sitting in for Title IX Reform</a>.” This protest was organized after “believe all women” posters appeared in campus bathrooms and “Title IX protects rapists” was graffitied on a walking path.

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Published October 20, 2022

Brian Herrera is the <a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/brian-herrera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor of Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University</a> and the Director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program. 

Herrera also serves as a core faculty member in the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. His research “examines the history of gender, sexuality and race within and through U.S. popular performance.” His interests include Latinx theatre, LGBTQ+ performance history, and equity and access in the Performing Arts.

In July 2022, Herrera received the Betty Jean Jones Award and was featured in an article for Princeton’s <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/07/theater-professor-brian-herrera-wins-betty-jean-jones-award-for-excellence-in-teaching/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lewis Center of Arts News</a>. The article says, “The annual award [established in 1997] honors individuals who have achieved excellence as college/university teachers and mentors in the field of American theater.” The award committee further notes, “Herrera’s personal impact on students is especially resonant for students of color, first generation, and LGBTQ+ students who are buoyed by the ‘representation in action’ that is generated by [his] highly participatory presence.”

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Herrera has written several books and articles on gender ideology and hosts a <a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> that provides instructions on essay writing. In January 2021, he published a blog titled “<a href="https://www.brianherrera.org/2021/01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Write an Essay on Gender and Sexuality?</a>” He acknowledged that “students all over the world get writing assignments on this topic” and offered practical tips for arranging a successful paper. In 2009, he was published in <a href="https://glreview.org/article/article-570/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gay &amp; Lesbian Review</a> where he reflected on his admiration for the gay activist and politician named Harvey Milk.

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Published October 20, 2022

Ruha Benjamin serves as the <a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/ruha-benjamin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of Graduate Affairs and a Professor for the Department of African American Studies</a> at Princeton University. Her university profile says she “specializes in the interdisciplinary study of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and social equity.” 

Professor Benjamin is the author of several publications including a book titled “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Race_After_Technology/G6-hDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code</a>.” The book explores how “emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.”

The introduction contains a section called Race as Technology where she states that technology is “designed to separate, stratify, and sanctify the many forms of injustice experienced by members of racialized groups, but one that people routinely reimagine and redeploy to other ends.”
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In a <a href="https://youtu.be/rY8RkET3KC0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video discussing her reasons for writing</a> “Race After Technology,” Benjamin gave an example of how technology is racist. She said, “Two friends [were] using an automated soap dispenser and the soap wouldn’t come out [for] the individual with darker skin because darker skin absorbs light. So if it’s infrared technology, it’s not going to work as effectively.”

Professor Benjamin <a href="https://youtu.be/_8RrX4hjCr0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also gave a Ted Talk</a> where she used laboratory and park benches to discuss how “the idea of discriminatory design is a global phenomenon.” She also says, “I think at the heart of discriminatory design is this idea that we can create technological fixes for social crises…we create short-term responses that often get the issues out of sight, out of mind.”

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Published - October 13, 2022

Princeton English Professor <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gayle Salamon</a> was featured in a 2019 <a href="https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2019/12/princeton-professor-shares-research-on-gender-identity-u-s-judiciary-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Princeton professor shares research on gender identity, U.S. judiciary system.” The report states that Salamon <a href="https://gss.princeton.edu/research/faculty-bookshelf/life-and-death-latisha-king-critical-phenomenology-transphobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">followed the case</a> of Larry “Latisha” King, a male who “transitioned” to female and was later killed by a classmate. Salamon was quoted stating that she aimed to “carefully study the misrecognition at the heart of the case and how gender identity was misread as sexual identity.”

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Salamon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Salamon joined a list of signatories featured in an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/11/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine-demand-free-speech-protection-divestment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a>. On November 29, 2023, the Princetonian posted the faculty statement, which included the following quote:
“In solidarity with the <a href="https://usacbi.org/faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/">[US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel]</a> call for faculty action in defense of students who are currently under attack from university administrators, other students, and outside actors for their Palestine solidarity work…we hereby declare the founding of the Princeton Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP).”
“We rise in coalition with the students, scholars, and people of conscience resisting the forces currently deployed to silence, mischaracterize, and criminalize dissent on college campuses and beyond…A culture of intimidation, silencing, and punishment is now moving across the United States and around the world.”
Salamon and the FJP further declared “support for those in Palestine who have called for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...” The letter ends with a call for an “end to Israeli occupation and apartheid and for a free Palestine…”

Please send information on Gayle Salamon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Updated - February 14, 2024
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Gayle Salamon is a <a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/gayle-salamon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies</a> at Princeton University. Salamon’s faculty profile says her research interests include phenomenology, feminist philosophy, queer and transgender theory, contemporary Continental philosophy, and disability studies.

In Salamon’s Introductory to Gender and Sexual Studies course, she tackles questions such as: “What does it mean to be a woman or a man? Or neither?” “How do gender and sexuality, those seemingly most personal and private of attributes, emerge from networks of power and social relations?”

Her published works include two manuscripts, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Assuming_a_Body/s-idAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=assuming+a+body&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality,”</a>  and<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_and_Death_of_Latisha_King/bb84DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=the+life+and+death+of+latisha+king&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> “The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia."</a> She also published a peer-reviewed article titled <a href="https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Meontology-of-Masculinity%3A-Notes-on-Castration-Salamon/3784451626c47802e5acd00654de96bf5a7f8222#paper-header" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Meontology of Masculinity: Notes on Castration Elation</a>. (Meontology is the philosophical study of non-being.)

In the Meontology of Masculinity abstract, Salamon cites LGBT “scholars” and says, “Gender is a matter of behavior, but also a result of ‘the more subtle channels of posture, carriage, gaze, and manner of leaning into some (more masculine) things away from other (more feminine) things.’ [Gender scholars] call for a phenomenology of lived gender experiences, to do justice to the variety of ways in which gender can be experienced and also perceived.”

In a <a href="https://thecriticallede.com/066-interview-with-gayle-salamon-author-of-assuming-a-body/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2012 podcast interview with The Critical Lede,</a> Salamon discussed her book “Assuming a Body.” In thinking about the idea of “a man trapped in a woman’s body, and a woman trapped in a man’s body,” she said, “I keep looking for a book that was going to engage both of those things at the same time…My hope was to try to bring together some of the ideas about how we come to inhabit our bodies [and] what is the relationship between the body that everybody else in the world sees and the body that I feel myself to have.”

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<a href="https://politics.princeton.edu/people/richard-falk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richard Falk</a> is a Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and a Research Associate at the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California - Santa Barbara. 

Dr. Falk has labeled Israel a racist, apartheid state that’s committing an ongoing genocide. 

The term “apartheid” refers to the legal system of <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid/Opposition-to-apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racial discrimination and separation in South Africa</a> from the 1950s to 1994. He has further alleged the true identity of the 9/11 hijackers has been covered up and blamed Israel for terrorist attacks in America. 

In an article titled, “<a href="http://www.oldsite.transnational.org/Area_MiddleEast/2007/Falk_PalestineGenocide.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust</a>,” Falk compares Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. He claims that Israel’s actions are “morally far worse” than the genocides committed in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

Further in the article, Falk defends the terrorist organization Hamas as the duly elected representative of the Palestinian people. He claims the group has renounced violence and is willing to make peace with Israel. 

During a separate interview with DemocracyNow!, Falk praised the group for its “spirit of resistance” and again claimed that Hamas seeks “peaceful, co-existence with Israel.”
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An Islamist terrorist group, Hamas’s charter calls for the <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destruction of Israel and the death of all Jews:</a>
“Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.” - Hamas Charter
The organization is known to <a href="https://palwatch.org/page/18217" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deploy suicide bombers</a> and <a href="https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/05/prelude-to-war-palestinian-terrorists-fire-hundreds-of-rockets-at-israel-from-and-to-civilian-areas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fire rockets</a> that target civilian areas; Hamas is responsible for the deaths of <a href="https://www.fdd.org/in_the_news/2021/05/26/faq-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of Israelis and at least 25 Americans</a>. 

Despite his views, Dr. Falk was chosen by the United Nations to serve as the Special Rapporteur on Palestinian Human Rights. From this position, he accused Israel of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in a report titled,”<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170316054753/https://www.unescwa.org/sites/www.unescwa.org/files/publications/files/israeli-practices-palestinian-people-apartheid-occupation-english.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Israeli Practices toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid.</a>” 

The report maligns Israel as a “racial state” that pursues “racial domination” and forcible displacement of the Palestinians. Falk recommends that Israel be investigated by the International Criminal Court and that international governments hold unilateral trials for Israeli officials. 

He urges businesses to boycott the state as part of the BDS campaign. BDS—short for Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—embraces 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. 

Following the publication of the document, Dr. Falk doubled down on his stance in an interview with The Forward, further calling for the <a href="https://forward.com/news/breaking-news/164986/richard-falk-calls-for-corporate-israel-boycott/#ixzz2APbfkSvl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boycott of any company</a> that does business in Israel:
“My main recommendation is that the businesses highlighted in the report – as well as the many other businesses that are profiting from the Israeli settlement enterprise – should be boycotted until they bring their operations into line with international human rights and humanitarian law and standards.” 
Elsewhere, Dr. Falk has <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/un-anti-israel-bias-richard-falk-pro-iran-9-11-truther-investigates-jewish-state/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disputed that Al-Qaeda is solely responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks</a>. In an interview on the site, Truth Jihad, he endorsed the idea the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/special-rapporteur-for-911-truth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highjackings might have been a false-flag operation</a>. He further authored a blog post, “<a href="https://richardfalk.org/2013/04/19/a-commentary-on-the-marathon-murders/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Commentary on the Marathon Murders</a>,” that blamed the Boston Bombings on the foreign policy of DC and Tel Aviv. 

Due to his views, Dr. Falk was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/dec/19/israel-palestinian-territories-united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned from Israel in 2008</a>. Although officially retired from teaching, he still holds the position of professor emeritus at Princeton. 

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Published - October 31, 2022

Christopher Nunez is a formerly undocumented, visually impaired choreographer, educator, and accessibility consultant who was named Princeton University Arts Fellow for 2022-2024. Nunez’s university <a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/news/2022/03/princeton-arts-fellows-for-2022-2024-announced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellowship announcement says</a>, “His performances have been presented at The Brooklyn Museum for The Immigrant Artist Biennale…” and “his work has been featured in publications such as The New York Times…” 

His personal biography webpage states,

“Since his arrival in NYC, Nunez has supported and worked for different social causes, groups, and organizations for the rights of undocumented, disabled, indigenous, and LGBT+ people. He has been the Manager of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility for Dance/NYC…[and was] a core member of the Artists of Color Council at Movement Research.”

“Nunez [is the] Founder of the Accessibility Advisory Team (AAT), a group of disabled artists who advise Movement Research on accessibility and inclusion practices through its various departments and platform.”

Nunez teaches a course called “<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/courses/introduction-to-radical-access-disability-justice-in-the-arts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Introduction to Radical Access: Disability Justice in the Arts.</a>”  The class introduction says, “Disability is front and center in a global social justice revolution…This course invites all artists, from choreographers to theater makers, filmmakers, visual artists, writers, and composers to immerse in a highly collaborative, improvisational, experimental and inclusive community to explore Disability Justice…”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/princeton-agender-and-neurodivergent-performer-flaunts-disability-and-anti-technique/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix reports</a>, “The ‘Intro to Radical Access’ Princeton Dance program and Program for Community Engaged Scholarship hosted [a] ‘anti-technique’ performance.” However, Catholic students were moved to pray against evil spirits after attending the controversial dance performance that featured Nunez and two other "disabled" artists.

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The performance showcased the artistic abilities of the disabled, mentally ill, and trans-identifying students. According to the College Fix, Nunez said, “‘This is the first time that we get to experience in a more pragmatic, practical way what access, accessibility, and access artistry means.’”

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Published - November 3, 2022

Gabrie’l Atchison is the instructor for AAS 220/GSS 229: Body Politics: Black Queer Visibility and Representation at Princeton University. The <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?term=1234&amp;courseid=016604" target="_blank" rel="noopener">class description</a> states that the curriculum will “examine Black LGBTQ+ representation across various media including documentaries, television, social media, and literature.”

Atchison’s profile — which can only be found on the class description page — also shows her research “includes gender-based environmental violence, environmental racism/justice, ecofeminism, feminist/queer theology…Black church history…and African American women’s literary criticism.” 

Atchison contributes to a blog called <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Devotional</a>. On <a href="https://www.antiracistdevotional.org/dr-gabriel-atchison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atchison’s About page</a> she describes herself as a “Black Feminist theologian” and the Congregational Development Director at Trinity Episcopal Church who researches “the role of the church in the racial identity development of Black Episcopalians.”

In her book titled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B6GQR4FJ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0?asin=B0B6GQR4FJ&amp;revisionId=ca68030b&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Are You the Unchurched?: How to Develop an Authentic Relationship with God inside or outside the Church</a>,” Atchison remarked on survey results from a Christian research institute. She said,

“Overwhelmingly, young adults who were studied named hostility toward [LGBTQ+] people as the reason they do not attend church…Based on my understanding of the research, the unchurched are Christians who are:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">College-educated</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Progressive</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Forward-thinking</li>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Independently minded…”</li>
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In the opening paragraph of Atchison’s 2020 blog entry “<a href="https://gabrieljatchison.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/the-folly-of-hope/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Folly of Hope</a>,” she declared,


“Trump exposed all our fault lines due to systemic racism, class exploitation and greed. His initial election and very close re-election should act as a clarion call for us to enact sweeping and lasting social change…”

“Trump has no agenda, but his Puppet Masters do…This election exposed in a raw and unrelenting way, how many people in positions of power feel like people of color simply do not have the right to vote.”

Atchison goes on to identify herself as a “progressive [who finds] Joe Biden significantly inadequate for the task at hand.” She disagrees with any approach Biden may have to unite the nation and she believes the Democratic Party passed up “so many better qualified presidential candidates, with creative ideas…to elect a man whose platform is centrist and apolog[ist].”

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Published - December 1, 2022

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/academics/visual-arts/visual-arts-people/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Welling</a> is a Lecturer with the Rank of Professor in Visual Arts at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Welling signed a “<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2024/04/princeton-opinion-opguest-faculty-staff-solidarity-palestine-protestors-columbia-barnard-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement of solidarity with Columbia University students from Princeton faculty and staff</a>.” The statement came after student protestors established a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the lawns of Columbia University, disrupting campus operations, sparking safety concerns, and causing classes to be <a href="https://www.tpusa.com/live/columbia-university-moves-classes-online-as-pro-palestine-protests-spark-safety-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held remotely</a> for the remainder of the semester.

The statement begins:
“We, Princeton University faculty and staff, affirm our solidarity with and support for the Columbia University and Barnard College students who are continuing to demand that the university divest from Israel’s genocide in Gaza and ongoing occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and other Palestinian land.” 
The signatories have committed to boycotting Columbia University and Barnard College until several demands are met, including:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to reinstate those students who were wrongfully suspended for exercising their constitutionally recognized right to speech and peaceful assembly.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We demand that all charges be dismissed and expunged from their student records, and that all rights and privileges be restored to them immediately.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“We call upon the Columbia University administration to remove the New York City Police Department from campus. All criminal charges that have been brought against student protestors who were arrested by the NYPD at the behest of the university administration should be dropped immediately.”</li>
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The faculty and staff have also called for the university to reverse the suspension of two student groups, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine and Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace. They concluded their statement with the following:
“We vow to withhold our academic labor from Columbia and Barnard, not to participate in conferences and other campus events, and not to collaborate with university institutions until such time as the administration has met these demands and demonstrated its commitments to upholding the well-established norms of unrestricted scholarly inquiry and academic freedom.” 
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Published - April 29, 2024