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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/proof-that-georgetowns-cancel-mob-doesnt-believe-its-own-rhetoric/

Yesterday, I reported that Georgetown Law is hosting Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian poet and writer with a long history of antisemitic comments, on campus this Tuesday. El-Kurd has claimed that Israelis “harvest organs of the martyred” and “feed their warriors our own”; attacked Jews — including non-Israeli Jews — for “ethnically cleansing,” “colonizing,” “lynching,” and “Kristallnachting us in real time”; repeatedly denied that Jews are indigenous to the region; glorified the Second Intifada and called it “psychotic” to call for Palestinians to be peaceful; and written of Israeli forces: “I hope every one of them dies in the most torturous & slow ways. I hope that they see their mothers suffering (not that these conscienceless pigs would care). I hope these terrorists get what they deserve tenfold.” In audio clips from a speech at Arizona State University earlier this month, El-Kurd appeared to joke that Jews “control the media” and can be heard saying: “I suspect some apartheid lovers are here . . . if you heckle me you will get shot.”

El-Kurd’s scheduled appearance at Georgetown Law, however, is particularly ironic for a number of reasons. To the backdrop of the school’s apparent commitment to academic freedom for left-wing antisemites, professor Ilya Shapiro was famously suspended for a tweet criticizing the Biden administration’s use of racial preferences in Supreme Court nominations. He’s been on administrative leave since late January. The suspension came on the heels of an anti-Shapiro campaign on Twitter and by campus activists, in which the school’s Black Law Students Association (BLSA) circulated a petition and held a sit-in calling for Shapiro’s ouster over his “apparent prejudice.” The Georgetown Law dean, Bill Treanor, promptly capitulated and subsequently showed up to address the activist sit-in personally. At the sit-in, Treanor informed BLSA leaders that he was “appalled” by the “painful” nature of Shapiro’s tweets and promised to “listen,” “learn” and ultimately “do better,” adding that — while “the university does have a free speech and expression policy” — he wanted to “draw a line between conservatism and things that are racist.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/florida_takes_another_brilliant_step_towards_righting_wrongs_in_education.html

Florida has been on a roll, doing one thing after another to clean up its education system.  In the past year, it passed a bill blocking universities from censoring (conservative) political views; banned communist-controlled Confucius Institutes from campuses; mandated that high school students learn financial literacy; banned Critical Race Theory in public schools; and, of course, passed the Parental Rights in Education bill, preventing teachers from instructing their five- to eight-year-old students about sexuality.  What also happened last week was that Florida got a new law limiting tenure at Florida’s public universities.

Tenure — permanent job security for college and university professors who have managed to maintain their jobs for a certain period — is a relatively new concept.  It began in 1940, when the American Association of University Professors created a Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure holding that academic integrity requires that professors must be free from the fear of firing.

Perhaps tenure made sense when Nazis (who were socialists) were using political brute force to purge German campuses of anybody who stood against their socialist totalitarianism.  However, tenure makes less sense in America when college and university professors, who are almost entirely socialist, use academic brute force to indoctrinate students and stop people who are not hard left from getting hired.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/top-ten-jew-hating-colleges-and-universities-sara-dogan/

On college campuses across America, hatred and bigotry directed against Jews is at an all-time high. It is now almost commonplace for swastikas to appear in university halls and restrooms or scrawled on Jewish fraternity houses. Hundreds of chapters of the Hamas-funded terrorist support group, Students for Justice in Palestine, hold events promoting anti-Semitic speakers who spread terrorist propaganda, describing Israel – created the same way Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq were created—as a “settler-colonial state” that engages in “ethnic cleansing.” Under the influence of these terrorist-supporting hate groups, university departments have lined up to endorse statements incorporating the same genocidal lies.

Under pressure from Students for Justice in Palestine and other campus groups including the Muslim Brotherhood-created Muslim Students Association, student governments across the nation are promoting the Hamas-created Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel and its sister movement, the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, efforts reminiscent of the Nazi boycotts of the past. The goal of these boycotts is to isolate and economically strangle the world’s only Jewish state and the Middle East’s only democracy.

In the rare instances when pro-Israel speakers are invited to campus, they are met by mobs shouting slogans such as “Intifada!”—a call for a new violent uprising against Israel—or “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free”—a call to destroy the entirety of the Jewish homeland. America’s universities have become a new fount of Jew hatred which then leeches into the broader culture.