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12-10-23 01:39 AM - Post#360381
In response to slane
Again, Amy Wax has been offending students for the past five years based on racial and ethnic insults And these are students in her classes, mind you--a captive audience. So the "this would not be happening to any other group" statement is not, in fact, accurate.
And Penn did, in fact, recently ban a film that is very critical of Israel (which a student group defied and showed anyways). I thought it was outrageous that they banned it in the first place, but again to suggest that somehow Penn is "institutionally anti-Semitic" is hardly the case.
Penn is not “institutionally” antisemitic. Unfortunately, however, this administration has allowed an environmental moment that is hostile to Jews. Inviting a person to speak at Penn (on the eve of Yom Kippur) who has been known to parade around on stage dressed as a Nazi creates a hostile environment. More to the point, you should compare the statements made by Liz and by the President of Drexel in response to last Sunday’s March through University City.
Now think about what Penn’s administrative response would be to a speaker who at a rally in front of Van Pelt said that any African Americans who believe that George Floyd was killed by Derek Chauvin rather than dying of a fentanyl overdose should “go back to Africa.”
How would that be different than saying that any Jews who don’t believe that Israel must be eradicated should “go back to Berlin where they came from”?
I hope you would agree that the first example should not be tolerated. The second (which actually happened) was. There is a difference between civil discourse, and acts specifically intended to create a hostile environment.
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