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2025-02-23 Fifth Column
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Jew-hate in education: the Zeitgeist strikes back 2/16-2/22/2025
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| Just whatever I happened to see as I made my way around the internet, following the War on Terror and related concerns. President Trump is having an impact on public anti-Israel/anti-Jewish protests already, I believe. Those who work in academia are generally not stupid, whatever foolishness they might choose to posture about, and are sensitive to incentives. |
Massachusetts House of Representatives committee investigating state’s largest teachers’ union for offering antisemitic materials to members
[Townhall] Massachusetts State Rep. Simon Cataldo read from the book at a hearing on Monday where a Special Legislative Committee on Combatting Antisemitism questioned Massachusetts Teachers Association President Max Page about the materials.
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First Professor Fired for Antisemitism Gets New Role at the AAA
The first tenured professor to be fired for antisemitism, as I first reported here, has now secured a comfortable new role at one of anthropology’s most prestigious academic journals.
Maura Finkelstein — the subject of eight antisemitic incident reports at Muhlenberg University — was accused by students of pushing anti-Israel bias in class, mocking her school’s Hillel on Instagram, and even saying she was “heartbroken” over the Jewish organization’s presence on campus.
Hillel, founded in the late 1920s, was established to support Jewish students at a time when being Jewish was a liability on campus and Jews were seen as a threat to “white” students’ academic opportunities.
Since her firing in 2024, Finkelstein pledged to appeal her termination, and Finkelstein is still appealing, she told me in a Friday email. Meanwhile, she has taken her anti-Zionist and anti-Israel sentiment to the American Anthropologist.
That’s the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), where she now serves as an Associate Editor, overseeing and editing the publication of academic research.
In an email to me, she noted she does not get paid.
“I don’t work for AA - associate editors are volunteer positions that most academics pick up from time to time (part time) throughout their careers. This is not a paid position nor is it a job. I work with a collective of other anthropologists,” she said.
In an interview with Electronic Intifada, she said this about her role at the APA.
“I’m writing, I’m editing. I am working with students who are doing really important anti-Zionist work across the country, and it’s my honor to witness the work that they’re doing,” Finkelstein said.
Further, when asked about her calls for the “dismantling of the Zionist entity” Finkelstein said this by email Friday. “For clarity, I believe Palestine should be free, not an apartheid state. And since Israel is an apartheid state, peace is not possible in the region.”
The AAA is the largest single publisher of anthropological journal in the world through its partnership with Wiley Periodicals, according to their recent non-profit tax forms. Some AAA members’ academic research is funded by the U.S. government by way of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Pro-Palestinian protest at Case Western caused $400,000 in damages; now 11 are being indicted
[CollegeFix] Protesters allegedly dumped ‘gallons of red paint’ on campus buildings, statue.
Student protesters have accused CWRU president Eric Kaler of aggressively punishing campus activists for their political affiliations. When campus police issued arrest warrants in January, the Students for Justice in Palestine group characterized Kaler’s pursuit of student protesters as a “politically-motivated attempt to silence Palestine advocacy.”
Meanwhile, in Washington state, police are investigating another vandalism incident tied to pro-Palestinian protesters. As The College Fix reported, the home of the University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce was targeted Nov. 14, with the perpetrators causing $7,000 in damages. 
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