An unethical smear campaign is launched against any faculty member who is pro-Israel. It is frightening to see the persecution that follows.
Professor Denise Nussbaum is a strong believer in objective truth and a lover of Zion. She is also the Chair of the Sociology Department, an author, and an expert in “bias, diversity, race, ethnicity, and discrimination” at her campus: Mount San Jacinto College (MSJC) which occupies four campuses in California: San Jacinto, Menifee, Beaumont/Banning, and Temecula. Professor Nussbaum has received grants and awards on this very campus for her work in “diversity training.”
How ironic, how tragic, that such an academic should have to face accusations that she herself is allegedly “biased” and wants to censor academic, free speech.
How frightening that she is now being shunned by her colleagues of sixteen years—and that, earlier this month, she had to file a Notice of Claim against her college District based on a variety of charges including “discrimination, assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment, retaliation, and tortious interferences with law enforcement investigation.”
What exactly happened?
We should all be very worried about this story.
Dr. Nussbaum challenged an invitation to an outside speaker, Miko Peled, an Israeli Jew. According to J.J. Surbeck, the head of T.E.A.M (Training and Education About the Middle East), Peled was a long-time martial arts instructor in California who was not known as an academic. He is the author of The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, published by Just Words Books in 2012. Introduced by Alice Walker, the frequent-Turkish flotilla goer, it seems to be a briskly selling title.
According to Nussbaum, Peled writes that “Iran is not the threat, Israel is.” He engages in non-stop falsehoodsagainst the Jewish State. Peled has "seriously mischaracterized Israeli actions as 'a mission to destroy the Palestinian people,' accused Israeli Defense Forces of 'ethnic cleansing,' and falsely stated that the ongoing peace process is "a process of apartheid and colonization.'"
Nussbaum objected to Peled’s invitation on the grounds that he does not deliver academic speeches about "Israel-Palestine” but only inflammatory, irrational, anti-Zionist speeches. Her view prevailed among a majority of the faculty in charge of such lectures. And that’s when she became a marked woman.
Another faculty member, Shahla Razavi, an Iranian professor of Mathematics and an Amnesty International advisor, began a smear campaign against her. In a Letter to the Diversity Committee (which I have obtained), Razavi actually compared Peled to “Nelson Mandela,” and “Martin Luther King;” she wrote that “Miko Peled stands as one of them.” Razavi insisted that the American doctrine of “academic freedom” is meant to protect incitement to genocide and other non-academic ravings. She also referred to various United Nations International Court of Justice rulings against Israel.
I will not repeat these allegations here since, in my view, the United Nations has been effective in only one area: That of legalizing Jew hatred. It has prevented no genocides, rescued no sex slaves, challenged no Muslim country on its religious and gender apartheid, no barbarians on their destruction of humanity's heritage (beginning with the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the earth beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem), but has, rather, scapegoated Israel for all such Muslim crimes
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17816#.VjkdjtWrTC0
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