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Deepa Kumar

<a href="https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/kumar-deepa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deepa Kumar</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, Kumar is “internationally recognized as a leading scholar of race and anti-Muslim racism.” As the president of Rutgers <a href="https://rutgersaaup.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAUP-AFT academic union</a>, she also “led the transition to an intersectional approach of <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unionism</a>, centering on race and gender equity.”
PROTESTS
In April 2023, Kumar participated in an interview with <a href="https://tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tempest Magazine</a>, in which she discussed the history of faculty strikes led by the AAUP-AFT academic union. Kumar believes adjunct professors are entitled to the same benefits as full-time and tenured faculty. 
The article states: “The Rutgers AAUP-AFT had worked over a period of years to build a ‘wall-to-wall,’ industrial-style, intersectional union … the union also made race and gender justice central to its organizing and negotiations as a way to bridge divides and to support a diverse student body.”
When asked, “Can you speak to the wall-to-wall organizing strategy and its lessons, methods, and challenges”, Kumar responded:
“The university is a very hierarchical space where status and stature are given to certain people and denied to others. The most senior professors are at the top of this hierarchy of academic workers, whereas adjunct faculty are largely invisible … Beyond this are of course the workers who clean our campuses, feed our students, do administrative work, deliver packages and do various other tasks.”
She further discussed how the state governor pressured the union to suspend the strike and the union’s vote to take a $70 framework to avoid an injunction, which would force adjunct faculty back to return to work.
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I will be speaking on the return of the strike at the University of Vermont Thursday on the eve of the Chicago Teacher&#8217;s strike! <a href="https://t.co/HU7o9wRVAc">pic.twitter.com/HU7o9wRVAc</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1183758900006477825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kumar also participated in a protest following the death of George Floyd.
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Hundreds protest at the Capitol in Madison, WI. <a href="https://t.co/36SOAl0Cgo">pic.twitter.com/36SOAl0Cgo</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1266789917687984128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She’s also an advocate for climate change legislation. 
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So many people that even tho the march has started we are not moving! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatemarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatemarch</a> <a href="http://t.co/DzUqfBNY9Q">pic.twitter.com/DzUqfBNY9Q</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/513753945706356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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RACIAL IDEOLOGY; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT; TERROR SUPPORTER
Kumar is the author of “<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/955-islamophobia-and-the-politics-of-empire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire</a>,” in which she discussed the supposed rise of anti-Muslim racism following the 9/11 <a href="https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Trade Center</a> terrorist attacks. Her perspective of the US government’s response suggests that using surveillance and other methods of securing American civilians were acts of racial prejudice against Arabs and Muslims.
In the book introduction, Kumar wrote:
“Even before I began my study of the history of Islam, of Muslim-majority countries, and of the relationship between East and West, I knew instinctively that the Islamophobic rhetoric that passed as common sense in the United States was dead wrong … I am grateful to the dozens of Middle East studies scholars and others before me who have studied the ‘Muslim world’ for advancing my knowledge of this subject and helping me to expose the underlying racism inherent in the logic of Islamophobia.”
By the end of the novel, Kumar claimed, “We also saw that  the image of the menacing ‘Muslim threat’ [had] been mobilized largely by ruling elites to serve a political agenda, whether the domination of Europe by the papacy in the eleventh century or US expansionism today.”
Kumar once posted on Twitter that she believed the US government was more brutal than the ISIS terrorist regime. 
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Solidarity with <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProfessorKumar</a>. Fox News is attacking her for this completely accurate tweet. <a href="https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP">https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP</a>
— Critical Reading (@CriticalReading) <a href="https://twitter.com/CriticalReading/status/625789261615382528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Kumar appeared on Democracy Now to refute media reports that terrorists violently raped Israeli women and children during the invasion.  She was <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/nyt_investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of 60+ signatories</a> who wrote to The New York Times demanding an investigation into sexual assault claims.
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Please send tips, updates and information on Deepa Kumar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated &#8211; July 2024

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Rutgers University

<a href="https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/kumar-deepa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deepa Kumar</a> is a Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, Kumar is “internationally recognized as a leading scholar of race and anti-Muslim racism.” As the president of Rutgers <a href="https://rutgersaaup.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAUP-AFT academic union</a>, she also “led the transition to an intersectional approach of <a href="https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unionism</a>, centering on race and gender equity.”

PROTESTS

In April 2023, Kumar participated in an interview with <a href="https://tempestmag.org/2023/04/intersectional-organizing-wall-to-wall-at-rutgers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tempest Magazine</a>, in which she discussed the history of faculty strikes led by the AAUP-AFT academic union. Kumar believes adjunct professors are entitled to the same benefits as full-time and tenured faculty. 

The article states: “The Rutgers AAUP-AFT had worked over a period of years to build a ‘wall-to-wall,’ industrial-style, intersectional union … the union also made race and gender justice central to its organizing and negotiations as a way to bridge divides and to support a diverse student body.”

When asked, “Can you speak to the wall-to-wall organizing strategy and its lessons, methods, and challenges”, Kumar responded:
“The university is a very hierarchical space where status and stature are given to certain people and denied to others. The most senior professors are at the top of this hierarchy of academic workers, whereas adjunct faculty are largely invisible … Beyond this are of course the workers who clean our campuses, feed our students, do administrative work, deliver packages and do various other tasks.”
She further discussed how the state governor pressured the union to suspend the strike and the union’s vote to take a $70 framework to avoid an injunction, which would force adjunct faculty back to return to work.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
I will be speaking on the return of the strike at the University of Vermont Thursday on the eve of the Chicago Teacher's strike! <a href="https://t.co/HU7o9wRVAc">pic.twitter.com/HU7o9wRVAc</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1183758900006477825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kumar also participated in a protest following the death of George Floyd.
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Hundreds protest at the Capitol in Madison, WI. <a href="https://t.co/36SOAl0Cgo">pic.twitter.com/36SOAl0Cgo</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/1266789917687984128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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She’s also an advocate for climate change legislation. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
So many people that even tho the march has started we are not moving! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatemarch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#climatemarch</a> <a href="http://t.co/DzUqfBNY9Q">pic.twitter.com/DzUqfBNY9Q</a>
— Deepa Kumar (@ProfessorKumar) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar/status/513753945706356736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2014</a></blockquote>
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RACIAL IDEOLOGY; ANTI-LAW ENFORCEMENT; TERROR SUPPORTER

Kumar is the author of “<a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/955-islamophobia-and-the-politics-of-empire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire</a>,” in which she discussed the supposed rise of anti-Muslim racism following the 9/11 <a href="https://www.911memorial.org/911-faqs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Trade Center</a> terrorist attacks. Her perspective of the US government’s response suggests that using surveillance and other methods of securing American civilians were acts of racial prejudice against Arabs and Muslims.

In the book introduction, Kumar wrote:
“Even before I began my study of the history of Islam, of Muslim-majority countries, and of the relationship between East and West, I knew instinctively that the Islamophobic rhetoric that passed as common sense in the United States was dead wrong … I am grateful to the dozens of Middle East studies scholars and others before me who have studied the ‘Muslim world’ for advancing my knowledge of this subject and helping me to expose the underlying racism inherent in the logic of Islamophobia.”
By the end of the novel, Kumar claimed, “We also saw that  the image of the menacing ‘Muslim threat’ [had] been mobilized largely by ruling elites to serve a political agenda, whether the domination of Europe by the papacy in the eleventh century or US expansionism today.”

Kumar once posted on Twitter that she believed the US government was more brutal than the ISIS terrorist regime. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Solidarity with <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorKumar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProfessorKumar</a>. Fox News is attacking her for this completely accurate tweet. <a href="https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP">https://t.co/SpUPusq5IP</a>
— Critical Reading (@CriticalReading) <a href="https://twitter.com/CriticalReading/status/625789261615382528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack against Israel, Kumar appeared on Democracy Now to refute media reports that terrorists violently raped Israeli women and children during the invasion.  She was <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/8/nyt_investigation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one of 60+ signatories</a> who wrote to The New York Times demanding an investigation into sexual assault claims.

<iframe title="60+ Journalism Profs Demand Investigation into Controversial NYT Article Alleging Oct. 7 Mass Rape" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y6G9PQXXUr0" width="910" height="512" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

Please send tips, updates and information on Deepa Kumar to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - July 2024

<a href="https://jasbirkpuar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is the Professor and Graduate Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

Puar is an editor and author of several publications including a book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>.” According to the publisher, the text  is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

Rutgers congratulated Puar on the book, despite its racist and anti-semitic themes. In a <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/news-events/news/1216-congratulations-professor-jasbir-puar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the university awarded Puar with the National Women’s Studies Association 2018 Alison Piepmeier Book Prize for “The Right to Maim.” The publication says:

“Weaving disability studies together with queer theory, transgender studies, biopolitics and assemblage theory, Puar moves from the racialized constitution of transgender through the Israeli occupation of Palestine, focusing on what it means to manipulate bodies on the population level..”

Puar’s anti-semitic writing drew national attention after <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton Professor Satyel Larson</a> featured “The Right to Maim” on a course reading list.

In response to Puar’s book, the<a href="https://www.jns.org/column/antisemitism/23/8/22/312418/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Jewish News Syndicate</a> said, “There are no statistics gathered by UNICEF, the World Health Organization, or even the virulently antisemitic Palestinian Authority to substantiate [Puar’s] claims, nor is there any medical evidence.”

The Syndicate also said, “Lamentably, Puar’s anti-semitic diatribe is just one of many examples of college-level faculty and administration espousing hate against Jewish students and the Jewish state.”

In her <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/terrorist-assemblages-tenth-anniversary-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> “Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times,” Puar “argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism and nationalism.” 

Puar <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-7150-2_601.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in the introduction</a>: 

“In Terrorist Assemblages, my primary interest is in the process of the management of queer life at the expense of sexually and racially perverse death in relation to the contemporary politics of securitization, Orientalism, terrorism, torture and the articulation of Muslim, Arab, Sigh and South Asian sexualities.”
Updated: September 5, 2023
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<a href="http://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/143-jasbir-puar">Dr. Jasbir Puar</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, was invited to speak at Vassar. Her lecture was titled “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters.” In her lecture, she accuses Israel of “stunting” growth of Palestinian bodies through scientific experiment as well as harvesting their organs.

<a href="http://www.kevin-allred.com/">Kevin Allred</a> was an adjunct instructor at Rutgers University. He underwent a psych evaluation after a series of questionable and possibly threatening tweets relating to Trump and the Second Amendment. He also went to Twitter after the election to complain that Rutgers had not publicly ensured the safety of students after Trump won. He also teaches a class called "Politicizing Beyonce". He was <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/11/21/rutgers-places-adjunct-leave-tweets-he-says-were-based-rhetoric-president-elect">placed</a> on administrative leave from Rutgers 2016, and <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4750992/Former-Rutgers-professor-fired-tweeting-kill-Trump.html">fired from Montclair State</a> University after threatening to kill Trump.

<a href="https://rcws10.rutgers.edu/faculty/Chikindas/">Professor Michael Chikindas</a>, Rutgers University, posted frequent anti-Semitic comments, at one point referring to Jewish people as “international fat Jewish pockets.” “These jewish [sic] motherf*****s do not control me. They can go f**k each other in their fat a***s - you see, I really do not have anything to loose [sic], hence nothing to be controlled,” he wrote in response to an article titled “The Globalists: Who Control Us!”.

<a href="http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/174-markowitz-norman">Dr. Norman Markowitz</a> is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. Dr. Markowitz is also an active member of the Communist Party USA since 1978.  He writes and teaches about communism using his “Marxist Perspective.” As a supporter of Obama, Markowitz said that it would be good if Obama’s policies were labeled socialist because it would bring socialism to the forefront and looked at more seriously as a viable option for Americans. He has been a longtime defender of the Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and has said he has “enormous respect” for Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian.

<a href="http://www.polisci.rutgers.edu/cb-profile/userprofile/whfield">Dr. William Field</a>, a professor at Rutgers University, sent out an email to all political science majors and minors to protest against Condoleeza Rice serving as their commencement speaker. He was also said to have congratulated one of the lead organizers of the protest who had damaged university property.

<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/mbk69" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Margo Kaplan</a> is a Professor of Law at <a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University Law School</a> in Camden, New Jersey. According to her university biography, she teaches courses on “Criminal Law, Health Law and Policy, and Sex Crimes” and explores the “legal limitations on intimate decisions.”

Dr. Kaplan has spent her academic career attempting to normalize pedophilia. In a paper for the <a href="https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/wlulr/vol72/iss1/4/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington and Lee Law Review</a>, she advocates for the reclassification of pedophilia as a mental disorder so that pedophiles may be awarded more civil rights:

“...we should not categorically deny pedophilia the civil rights protections afforded to other mental disorders without a convincing normative justification supported by cogent scientific evidence. Strengthening civil rights protections for those with pedophilia also increases access to treatment and support that helps prevent child abuse.”

In a similar piece for the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/pedophilia-a-disorder-not-a-crime.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Times</a>—titled, "Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime,"—Dr. Kaplan attempts a sickening effort to lure readers into sympathizing with pedophiles by characterizing pedophiles as adolescents with harmless, childhood crushes.

“THINK back to your first childhood crush. Maybe it was a classmate or a friend next door. Most likely, through school and into adulthood, your affections continued to focus on others in your approximate age group. But imagine if they did not. By some estimates, 1 percent of the male population continues, long after puberty, to find themselves attracted to prepubescent children. These people are living with pedophilia, a sexual attraction to prepubescents that often constitutes a mental illness. Unfortunately, our laws are failing them and, consequently, ignoring opportunities to prevent child abuse.”

Her intellectual sleight of hand is prevalent in both pieces. Kaplan blames the abuse of children partially on what she views as the severity in which society treats pedophilia, resulting in pedophiles abstaining from seeking treatment.

When later interviewed by <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/10/06/pedophilia-not-a-crime-rutgers-margo-kaplan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Philadelphia Magazine</a>, Dr. Kapland claimed to be “shocked” at the amount of support she had received, accusing critics she did have of not even reading her article.

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Students and Parents may contact Rutgers Law School - Camden at (856) 225-6375
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Updated - December 7th, 2021

<a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/details/1143-bray-mark">Mark Bray</a> is a part-time lecturer in the Department of History at Rutgers University.

Bray first gained notoriety in 2017 when he <a href="https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/antifa/">authored</a> "The Anti-Fascist Handbook," and offered to <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=14972">donate</a> half of the proceeds to ANTIFA.

Bray fully endorses ANTIFA’s embrace of violence as a tactic, and often describes it as “self-defense”. He has <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9616">stated</a> that in order to “preemptively” shut down far-right events and gatherings,  “physical violence against white supremacists is both ethically justifiable and strategically effective.”

Soon after publication, he appeared on NBC to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/antifa-violence-ethical-author-explains-why-n796106">defend</a> the use of force against opposing protestors. He claimed that as an illiberal organization, ANTIFA has and will continue to shut down the free speech of the far right.

Bray recently penned an op-ed in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/01/trump-antifa-terrorist-organization/">Washington Post</a> in the midst of mass-rioting following the death of George Floyd. After expressing sympathy with the looters, Bray claims that police officers are, in fact, deadlier than ANTIFA.  He wrote, “...and in the United States, ANTIFA have never killed anyone, unlike their enemies in Klan hoods and squad cars.” 

After his views were <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/red-alert-politics/dartmouth-president-disavows-professor-justified-antifa-violence-self-defense">condemned</a> by Dartmouth University - his employer at the time - Bray soon began lecturing at Rutgers, where his university biography describes him as a “historian of human rights, terrorism, and politics in Modern Europe.”

<a href="https://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/menu-i/69-richard-vanness-simmons">Richard VanNess Simmons</a> is a professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies and serves as the <a href="https://www.ciru.rutgers.edu/about-us/people-2">Director of the Confucius Institute</a> at Rutgers University. 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.
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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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As <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nouraerakat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">documented</a> in a previous Professor Watchlist profile, Rutgers University’s Africana Studies Professor <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/61-faculty/30-faculty/620-erakat-noura" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Noura Erakat</a> is a radical, antisemitic activist who frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state equivalent to the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/apartheid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apartheid-era</a> South African government. She’s also an avid supporter of Boycott, Divestment,  and Sanctions (BDS), <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an anti-Jewish movement</a> that claims to “[work] to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.” 

On November 29, 2023, Erakat posted on X/Twitter that Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, and Reverend John Hagee are “all explicit antisemites who love Israel.” 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Reverend John Hagee - all explicit antisemites who love Israel. Safety is in justice &amp; solidarity, not ethnic cleansing, colonization, &amp; apartheid. Fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestinians?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestinians</a> means fighting for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/freedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#freedom</a>, including for Jewish liberation. <a href="https://twitter.com/thereidout?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@thereidout</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://t.co/3Mnr6ddaFl">pic.twitter.com/3Mnr6ddaFl</a>
— Noura Erakat (@4noura) <a href="https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1729899924257419330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On November 4, Erakat addressed a crowd of more than 300,000 people during a pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, DC. Regarding Israel’s response to the October 7 Hamas massacre of 1,200 Jewish people, Erakat declared:
“We’re all here to charge this administration with genocide…Together [Israel and the United States] are rendering international law worthless and irrelevant. Every single tribunal—from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia, every prosecution from the [International Criminal Court]—was meant to atone for our moral failures…”
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Please send information on Noura Erakat to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - December 4, 2023
Ms. <a href="https://crimjust.rutgers.edu/people/faculty-directory/details/30-faculty/faculty/620-erakat-noura">Noura Erakat</a> is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. According to her university profile, Professor Erakat specializes in fields that include international law, humanitarian law, human rights law, national security law, refugee law, and critical race theory. A harsh critic of the state of Israel, the professor has repeatedly demonized and called for the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world.

Professor Erakat’s work frequently characterizes Israel as a racist state that is equivalent to the apartheid-era South African government. In a November 2019 interview with DemocracyNow, she stated, ”<a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/19/noura_erakat_israeli_settlements_trump_announcement">we are witnessing the entrenchment of an apartheid regime</a>, and the U.S. [is] at the helm of that process.”

Professor Erakat repeats this false claim to justify her support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In a November 2020 video panel discussion with the Middle East Institute, Professor Erakat calls on the world <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7ZkKMFUuU&amp;t=3956s">to resist and alienate Israel via adherence to a BDS platform</a>.

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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">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">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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Professor Erakat likewise calls for Israel to be destroyed and replaced by an Arab-majority Palestinian state. As reported by The Spectator in July 2019, Ms. Erakat spoke at an event in Washington, DC, where she <a href="https://spectator.org/noura-erakat-recounts-her-anxiety-over-israels-existence/">advocated for Arabs to “help indigenize” Jews in Israel </a>in order to achieve a sole Palestinian state or a “one-state solution.”

Professor Erakat is far more brazen in calling for the outright destruction of Israel when speaking at anti-Israel protests around the country. During one march in May 2021—captured by News2Share—she called for the <a href="https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1393739882825195521/">liberation of Palestine, “from the river to the sea.</a>”

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According to the Israeli newspaper Arutz Sheva, the chant, “from the river to the sea,” was <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/291203">popularized by terrorist groups such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization</a> (PLO). The phrase 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">The chant is thought to originate from the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hassan el-Banna</a>, who was qouted 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."

Even though Professor Erakat can be heard calling for the “denuclearization of Israel” in the same speech, she had in 2013 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I20HOx5zfv0&amp;ab_channel=JFhsfohhMN">condemned efforts to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program as “racist</a>.”

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She further <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMzhsZtBfgg/?igshid=5p918cganhq1">defended this position</a> in a video uploaded to her Instagram in March of 2021, arguing there is no contradiction in opposing sanctions for Iran while supporting sanctions on Israel.

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During a separate march in May of 2021,  Ms. Erakat can be heard chanting “By spirit and by blood, we redeem you, Palestine!” in front of the Israeli Embassy.

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In April of 2020, Noura Erakat’s cousin, Mr. Ahmed Erakat, was killed after <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/06/29/palestinian-rams-a-checkpoint-death-lies-and-videotape/">ramming his car into an Israeli checkpoint during a failed terrorist attack</a>. Despite the publication of footage verifying the incident and a pipe bomb later being found in the van by investigators, Ms. Erakat continues to claim that he was murdered by Israeli forces.
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Updated - June 2021

Dr. James Livingston is <a href="https://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/172-livingston-james" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a tenured Professor of History</a> at Rutgers University. His specialty is listed as Modern US: Intellectual and Economic History. He considers himself an “economic historian” and professionally writes many publications about politics, economics, and working in the United States.

In his personal time, Dr. Livingston often takes to Facebook to discuss similar topics, but in a less professional manner. <a href="https://pen.org/press-clip/white-professor-accused-of-antiwhite-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Facebook post from May 31, 2018</a>, Dr. Livingston denounces the white race and belligerently asserts he “hates white people.” Later in the post, he calls white Americans “little caucasian assholes who know their parents will approve of anything they do” and “little shitheads.”

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When Facebook flagged the post and took it down, rather than apologize for his racist rant, he posted the following:

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Shortly after his anti-white tirade, Rutgers launched an investigation into his posts. The university stated that they received several anonymous complaints about the posts, calling them to take action against the Professor. Dr. Livingston claimed he was making a statement about gentrification and told university officials that white supremacists were sending him threatening messages.

The investigation was headed by Carolyn Dellatore, the associate director of the Office of Employment Equity. <a href="https://www.thefire.org/rutgers-investigation-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Her investigation found that</a> “given Professor Livingston’s insistence on making disparaging racial comments, a reasonable student may have concerns that he or she would be stigmatized in his classes because of his or her race. As such, Professor Livingston’s comments have violated university policy.” He argued, however, that his posts were not racist because white people cannot be discriminated against. He also argued that the first amendment gave him the right to freedom of speech.

The university initially decided to sanction Dr. Livingston, but they <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/2018/11/15/no-punishment-rutgers-university-professor-over-white-people-comments-facebook/2016377002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ultimately reversed their decision</a> in November 2018, clearing him of all charges. Dr. Livingston is still teaching at Rutgers University today.

<a href="https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/chenjerai-kumanyika/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chenjerai Kumanyika</a> is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at New York University. According to his faculty profile, “Kumanyika specializes in using narrative non-fiction audio journalism to critique the ideology of American historical myths about issues such as race, the Civil War, and policing.”

RACE IDEOLOGY

During his time as a professor at Rutgers University, Kumanyika was featured in a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-journalism-prof-claims-language-matters-compares-death-cult-gop-fecal-matter/16410" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> article titled “Rutgers journalism prof claims ‘language matters,’ then compares ‘death cult’ GOP to ‘fecal matter.’” The source said, “In February [2020], [Kumanyika] appeared at an event with Boston University for Anti-Racist Research Director Ibram Kendi in which he declared that ‘language matters.’”

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Kumanyika called conservatives “fecal matter” on social media and told his “liberal friends” to “call out” and “organize against” the Biden-Harris administration if they tried to work with opposition leaders. 
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You don't have to wait and "work with them" for two years as Republicans work to shit out something even more putrid in 2022. <a href="https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx">https://t.co/5ROCfjAeDx</a>
— Chenjerai Kumanyika (@catchatweetdown) <a href="https://twitter.com/catchatweetdown/status/1331002330284765186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In a 2020 Resilience article called “Seeing White: Chenjerai’s Challenge,” Kumanyika provides a transcript of a podcast where he asked the host <a href="https://kenan.ethics.duke.edu/john-biewen-joins-kenan-institute-for-ethics-as-director-of-storytelling-and-public-engagement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Biewen</a>, “How attached are you to the idea of being white?” Kumanyika also posed questions such as, “[W]hen was whiteness good? It’s kind of like, when was America great?” Later in the episode, he told Biewen:

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Send tips, updates, and information on Chenjerai Kumanyika to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Updated - July 2024

<a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/concentrations/urban-global-public-health/faculty-member.php?id=92133" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Perry Halkitis</a> is the Dean and Hunterdon Professor of Public Health and Health Equity in the School of Public Health at Rutgers University. He is designated as a Distinguished Professor with research interests in infectious diseases such as HIV, HPV, and COVID-19.

Halkitis is the founder and director of the Center for Health, Identity, Behavior and Prevention Studies (CHIBPS). CHIBPS is not a medical clinic but is “an interdisciplinary research center within the Rutgers School of Public Health. <a href="https://sph.rutgers.edu/centers/chibps/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The center’s website</a> says the organization is “nationally recognized for the study of LGBTQ health with a focus on the disparities of infectious diseases including HIV, substance use, and mental health burden.”  

In March 2022, CHIBPS offered a survey and raffle for anyone willing to participate in their research into LGBTQ communities’ vaccination experiences.
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NY/NJ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBTQ</a> friends: We have expanded our study about LGBTQ communities' vaccination experiences to include NY in addition to NJ!
The survey is brief and you can enter a raffle. For more info or to participate, click the link here: <a href="https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo">https://t.co/GwCgtsFdXo</a>
Please share widely! <a href="https://t.co/Q0QGnZtqY4">pic.twitter.com/Q0QGnZtqY4</a>
— CHIBPS (@chibps) <a href="https://twitter.com/chibps/status/1498746480944771073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Halkitis put #EthicalDisruptor in his Twitter profile and uses his page to bring awareness to LGBTQ community issues. In a video pinned by Halkitis, a host of New Jersey Power and Politics interviewed him regarding the Colorado Springs <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/grotesque-politicization-colorado-springs-gay-bar-shooting-opinion-1761129" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gay night club shooting</a>.  

Halkitis was asked how he thought rhetoric from political figures enabled people like the shooter to commit hate crimes. Halkitis, who believes microaggressions are a public health issue, stated:

“We’ve been seeing over the course of the last four to five years a steady increase in hate crimes…[We need to] think about how our work in public health has to be responsible enough to call out that rhetoric — whether it be macro aggressions…or the microaggressions that marginalize people on a daily basis.”

Halkitis also said the fact that the club shooter identifies as “nonbinary” is not a factor because “LGBTQ people are raised in a society that also embeds us with trans-homophobia…and many of us internalize it.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeanPNHalkitis</a> discusses hate and its affect on public health <a href="https://t.co/X6pX90xkry">https://t.co/X6pX90xkry</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersSPH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersSPH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersBHS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RutgersBHS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TIPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TIPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ASPPHtweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASPPHtweets</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoSpringsmassacre?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoSpringsmassacre</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ColoradoGay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ColoradoGay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/chibps?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@chibps</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LGBTQPubPopHlth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LGBTQPubPopHlth</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NJGVRC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NJGVRC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RUDiversity?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RUDiversity</a>
— Perry N Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH ♓️🏳️‍🌈🇬🇷🇺🇸⚛️ (@DeanPNHalkitis) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeanPNHalkitis/status/1597264812488429569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In response to the passing of the Respect for Marriage Act, Halkitis said,

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<a href="https://ifh.rutgers.edu/faculty_staff/naa-oyo-a-kwate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naa Oyo Kwate</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Ecology and in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says she has “wide-ranging interests in racial equity and African American health.” Her research interests include “ways in which urban built environments reflect racial inequities…and how racism, directly and indirectly, affects African American health.”

The University of Pennsylvania invited Kwate to give a talk on February 15, 2023. The <a href="https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/calendar/view/event/event_id/4222/view/event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> says Kwate “examines the ways in which fast food…has shifted from its position of jealously guarded whiteness and wholesome leisure to gauche, homogenized, anachronistic—and black.”

The abstract further states, “Fast food has undergone a complete inversion from its historical origins of serving urban white workers and middle-class white suburban families to become synonymous with urban black space.”

In her book, “<a href="https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/burgers-in-blackface" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Burgers in Blackface</a>,” Kwate discussed restaurant culture from the perspective of slavery and the ridicule of black people. She introduced the book by stating, “This book examines the ways in which American restaurants have traded on denigrating images of black people in names, branding, and architecture. The United States has a long history of black stereotypes being used to sell products, particularly packaged food…”

She concludes the book, “Because racism is the way American society does business, the establishments reviewed here may at first blush suggest simply another–if unique–example of how business is done…It is also possible that racist restaurants mobilize the culture, geography, and institutions of the South.”

Kwate announced on Twitter that her new book “White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation” will drop in May 2023.” 
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Y’all! My book is now available to preorder! White Burgers, Black Cash is dropping this May. <a href="https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l">https://t.co/NHXk3neV0l</a>
I’d love your support for this project long time in coming. With thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/bryantterry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bryantterry</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Dr_CMGreer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dr_CMGreer</a> for such lovely blurbs!
— Naa Oyo A. Kwate (@professahKwate) <a href="https://twitter.com/professahKwate/status/1585660507293421568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/white-burgers-black-cash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">table of contents </a>for “White Burgers, Black Cash” includes the chapter titles: A Fortress of Whiteness: First-Generation Fast Good in the Early Twentieth Century and Government Burgers: Federal Financing of Fast Food in the Ghetto.

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Updated February 24, 2023

<a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/faculty/core-faculty/572-cooper-brittney">Brittney Cooper</a> is an associate professor of Africana and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. 

Much of her research and writing centers around the intersections of race, feminism, and gender. Cooper’s work has led to her to develop a number of bizarre opinions:

- While Cooper claims that most American Christians worship a God of “white supremacy and patriarchy,” she chooses to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/01/the_rights_made_up_god_how_bigots_invented_a_white_supremacist_jesus/">worship a Jesus that was “queer”</a> and “married to a prostitute.” 

- White families <a href="https://www.salon.com/2014/01/07/white_supremacy_wins_again_melissa_harris_perry_and_the_racial_false_equivalence/">can’t properly raise black children</a>.

- Linear time is a product of a Euro-centric world, or in short, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-professor-even-the-concept-of-time-is-racist/">our concept of time is racist.</a>

- A founding principle of our nation is that black people are inhuman, therefore <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/04/29/black_americas_baltimore_schism_why_the_freddie_gray_tragedy_demands_serious_soul_searching/">riots are really just resistance </a>against an unjust system.   

- BREXIT was the result of <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7760">white nationalism.</a>

- Obesity in the black community is <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13866">caused by racism</a>.

Cooper has publicly attacked conservatives on multiple occasions, most recently during a live stream commentary on the DNC. Before launching into a tirade accusing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for “demolishing the civil rights movement,” Cooper explained <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15668">why American exceptionalism is a myth</a>; 
“I’m not here for the American Patriotism, American Exceptionalism Bulls***. All that stuff is propaganda, but as political theater it is amazing.” 
Cooper has attributed most of the deaths from the pandemic to racism and conservatives, stating that, “I feel like most Black people are clear that this utterly absurd push to re-open the country is all about a gross necropolitical calculation that it is Black people who are dying disproportionately from COVID,” and <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/rutgers-university-prof-reopening-the-country-is-about-killing-black-people/">blaming Trump supporters for the hundreds of thousands of deaths</a> due to the coronavirus.

Cooper has previously stated that a conservative’s beliefs are “rooted in racism.” In an appearance on MSNBC, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/duncan-schroeder/2020/08/30/deranged-msnbc-pundit-goes-hateful-rant-against-trump-voters">Cooper stated that conservatives have a desire for power</a> at the expense of black and brown Americans. 

“...part of the challenge we have as a nation is that a significant swath of Americans still support Donald Trump. They support his vision of America. And that is rooted in racism. It is rooted in a desire for power at the expense of everyone who is black and brown…”

Cooper has denigrated conservatives and white people throughout her career. <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?444245-2/eloquent-rage&amp;playEvent">During a speech in Baltimore</a>, she stated that as white men lose their power, they will continue to “terrorize” black men and women. On a previous thread, she stated that the black community is being eaten alive by “capitalism, patriarchy, and racism,” and white people won’t feel any negative consequences of these systems so long as they can continue to displace white people through systems like gentrification. 

During an interview with The Root, Copper claimed that white people are committed to being “villians” and claimed, “We gotta take these MF’ers out.” 
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Rutgers professor: "White people are committed to being villains," "We gotta take these MF'ers out."
This professor spewed hatred on a YouTube video with <a href="https://twitter.com/TheRoot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheRoot</a>. <a href="https://t.co/QrGsv77CCC">pic.twitter.com/QrGsv77CCC</a>

— MRCTV (@mrctv) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrctv/status/1453141895291588610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2021</a></blockquote>
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For more information, check out Charlie Kirk’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvLFFfKIE8c&amp;ab_channel=CharlieKirk">segment</a> on Brittney Cooper on The Charlie Kirk Show below.
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Updated - May 4, 2023

<a href="https://polisci.rutgers.edu/people/department-directory/details/1701-nikolalexander-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikol Alexander-Floyd</a> is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. According to her faculty page, “she teaches a range of courses on black feminism theory, black women’s political activism, and race, gender, media and the law.”

<a href="https://dailytargum.com/article/2022/12/rutgers-experts-discuss-record-number-of-women-elected-to-u-s-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Targum</a> featured Alexander-Floyd’s comments on the number of women—and the lack of “women of color”—in Congress. Despite female politicians winning 149 seats in 2022, Alexander-Floyd declared that “progress is inequitable.” 

She also noted that “While women of color have more presence in the House of Representatives, there is not a single black woman senator." However, she failed to provide evidence or offer an explanation of whether black women traditionally seek such roles in politics. 

In a 2020 <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/29/step-away-fascism-and-toward-brighter-more-just-future-100-black-writers-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled, “A Step Away from Fascism and ‘Toward a Brighter More Just Future’: 100+ Black Writers and Scholars Endorse Bernie Sanders,” Alexander-Floyd was a signatory on the joint letter that said:

“After much research and reflection, we have concluded that while imperfect, as we all are, Bernie Sanders, the politics he advocates, the consistent track record he demonstrates, and the powerful policy changes he has outlined, if elected, would make the most far-reaching and positive impact in the lives and conditions of black people, and all people in the United States…While we are not all democratic socialists, we will not be red-baited to reject and vilify [his] views.”

Alexander-Floyd authored several books including “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Contemporary-Politics-Comparative-Feminist/dp/1403979669/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20VMCP0TY2PHX&amp;keywords=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+politics&amp;qid=1691519244&amp;sprefix=gender%2C+race%2C+and+nationalism+in+contemporary+black+poli%2Caps%2C284&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics</a>.” In the introduction, she wrote: 

“Of the works that are critical of black nationalism and show the weddedness of black nationalism to white mainstream politics, there is still a relative ambivalence about its relationship to gender politics. Tunde Adelieke, for instance, shows that although [19th] century black nationalists opposed white supremacy, they nevertheless not only adopted civilizationist ideas but also actively facilitated African colonization…”

Alexander-Floyd further discussed this book in a video published by the university. She defined the book as a “black culture pathology paradigm” and a “backlash against the social movements of the 1960s and 70s and how…discussions have taken place around black family break down.”

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In her <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Re-Imagining-Black-Women-Post-Feminist-Post-Racial-ebook/dp/B08L9HTNWV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3P8CCMBENBO3V&amp;keywords=reimagining+black+women%3A+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+melodrama&amp;qid=1691520097&amp;sprefix=reimagining+black+women+a+critique+of+post-feminists+and+post-racial+mel%2Caps%2C270&amp;sr=8-1">book</a> “Re-Imagining Black Women: A Critique of Post-Feminist and Post-Racial Melodrama in Culture and Politics,” Alexander-Floyd declared: 

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Published August 15, 2023

<a href="https://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/faculty-member/974-roane-j-t" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.T. Roane</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University. Roane’s faculty profile shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year. His research interests include “black geographies,” “black ecologies,” “black gender and sexuality studies” and “African American and African Diaspora History.” Roane is also listed as a <a href="https://warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/people/jt-roane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Faculty Fellow</a> at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center.

In June 2023, <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interviewed Roane about <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Agoras-Insurgent-Social-Politics/dp/1479847674/ref=sr_1_1?crid=21MANUVSI36NU&amp;keywords=dark+agoras&amp;qid=1699479018&amp;sprefix=dark+agoras%2Caps%2C154&amp;sr=8-1&amp;asin=B09X2GLKKH&amp;revisionId=fb4c3c45&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his book</a> “Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place” in which he “investigates the ways they transposed rural imaginaries about and practices of place as part of their spatial resistances and efforts to contour industrial neighborhoods.”

Roane introduced the book by stating:
“Dark <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=agoras+meaning&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS1021US1022&amp;oq=agoras+meaning&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIJCAYQABgKGIAEMg0IBxAuGMcBGNEDGIAEMgcICBAAGIAEMgkICRAAGAoYgATSAQkxNTU1MGowajeoAgCwAgA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agoras</a> emerged under slavery through the active reinvention of African socialities and consciousnesses about place, identity, kinship, and belonging as the negation of the spatial and temporal features associated with domination and slave mastery…”
He goes on to state:
“Connections within the sites constituting dark agoras, as well as encounters across them and movement between them, underwrote a distinctive black working-class phenomenology of the city, the basis of what I term black queer urbanism…Black queer urbanism refers to a critical approach that views nonnormative forms of black social-geographic life…”
During the <a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-black-geography-of-the-city/">Boston Review</a> interview, Roane responded to the question: “In your book, you argue that the stoop stands as one of the places that constitute the underground. How does this domestic exterior transform into a vital place for sociality?” Roane said:
“The stoop has a whole genealogy. The black uses of the stoop emerge out of the uses of the quarters in the context of the plantation…that was integrally related to their geographic position to the side of the major formation of the plantation—the big house—and to the spaces of labor, the field...
“When black communities get displaced during the Jim Crow enclosures…they don’t just relinquish those values.”
Roane was also featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/watch-profs-discuss-spirituality-of-non-binary-vaginas-femme-penises-and-black-queer-religions/21679" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after participating in the <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> “Black Queer Religions Afro-Indigenous &amp; New Religions.” Among the topics covered, panelists discussed “the reality of non-binary vaginas and biologically femme penises.”

Roane is an outspoken supporter of Palestine. After the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, he <a href="https://www.answercoalition.org/open_letter_harvard_palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter</a> defending pro-Hamas rallies at Harvard University. The letter states, 
“The case of Harvard University is only one of many examples of the attacks that those who express solidarity with the Palestinians struggle face; attacks that are rapidly escalating at this time. Likewise, violent hate crimes against Palestinians are taking place around the country.”
Roane posted on X, formerly known as Twitter—
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The ongoing bombardment of Gaza is genocidal and ecocidal. The relentless ethnic clearing is going along with stuff like bombing fisheries. This will not strictly be contained to one place/ one people. The logics will spread as will their effects. Ceasefire Now!
— J.T. Roane (@JTRoane) <a href="https://twitter.com/JTRoane/status/1721858110485155992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - November 9, 2023

<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/shawkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stacy Hawkins</a> is a Professor of Law at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Hawkins “served on the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession Diversity Task Force.” 

On March 26, 2024, Hawkins was featured in a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/rutgers-university-professor-without-dei-offices-there-no-ability-make-meaningful-progress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News article</a> titled “Rutgers University professor says without DEI offices, there is ‘no ability to make meaningful progress.’” The source said Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gh2ynXTe3I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion panel hosted by Harvard University</a> to evaluate the role of DEI on campus. Fox noted that Hawkins was the only panelist to “defend DEI imperatives.”

During the panel discussion, Hawkins justified DEI on campus by stating:
“I’m a scholar and I do believe in the scholarly methods with analytical and empirical rigor. But I am also an unabashed proponent of diversity. And whether you call it diversity, which I do, as a shorthand for diversity, equity, and inclusion — sometimes also including ‘belonging’ — I do think that it is a rather unassailable, aspirational principle for us in this country.”
Hawkins continued:
“The reason why I think that is, is because it is really consonant with some very foundational values that we have in our country and as part of our democracy — and those are pluralism and equality. Those are really the underlying motivations for why we aspire to and we seek to achieve diversity.”
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In October 2022, Hawkins participated in a <a href="https://newsone.com/4436920/rutgers-law-professor-stacy-hawkins-explains-supreme-court-affirmative-action-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Q&amp;A hosted by Newsone</a> to comment on the racial discrimination cases against Harvard that would eventually lead to SCOTUS overturning federal affirmative action laws in <a href="https://www.sidley.com/en/insights/newsupdates/2023/08/us-supreme-court-ends-affirmative-action-in-higher-education--an-overview-and-practical-next-steps#:~:text=On%20June%2029%2C%202023%2C%20the,Carolina%20(UNC)%2C%20Nos." target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 2023</a>.  
According to the transcript, Hawkins was asked, “What is the implication for higher education?” She responded:
“It depends on whether the Court does what many expect it to do, which overrules longstanding precedent and says that colleges and universities may not consider race or ethnicity in admission — even if it is necessary to achieve diversity … Valuing and promoting diversity has become such an integral part of how many colleges and universities pursue their educational missions that it would require a fundamental change in how those [institutions] operate.”
Later in the interview, Hawkins pointed to the overturning of Roe v. Wade and stated that the “current conservative majority on the Court has demonstrated a willingness to unsettle even the most deeply settled legal precedents.” She also claimed that Justices Roberts, Thomas, and Alito had “already expressed hostility to the use of race and ethnicity in college and university admissions.”

In February 2024, Hawkins joined a virtual <a href="https://fedsoc.org/events/race-at-work-can-businesses-treat-people-differently-on-the-basis-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion held by The Federalist Society</a> called “Race At Work.” Hawkins said:
“Affirmative action is not just remedial, but it involves explicit, expressed, and admitted considerations of race or gender in decision-making … That’s not how diversity works. Not only is it not remedial, it also need not and most often does not involve any explicit considerations of race or gender in decision-making — which is the reason why it is highly defensible …
“An employee who is challenging a diversity program has to prove that the employer is lying about the fact that while they might care about diversity, they did not explicitly make a decision on the basis solely of race. That’s not how diversity works.”
Please send tips and information on Stacy Hawkins to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpsua.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - March 28, 2024
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<a href="https://rcha.rutgers.edu/maya-mikdashi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maya Mikdashi</a> is a Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. According to her profile, Mikdashi’s research “focuses on law, citizenship, secularity, religious conversion, sexual difference, and the war on terror.”

On March 30, 2024, Maya Mikdashi was <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13256133/Maya-Mikdashi-Rutgers-University-Israel-Hamas-violent-LGBT-treatment-Gaza.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured in an article</a> titled “Bizarre moment Rutgers gender study professor tells seminar that it’s ‘homophobic and violent’ to flag how badly LGBT people are treated in Gaza.” The Daily Mail said, “[Mikdashi] … told students earlier this month that she has been approached by people at pro-Palestine protests who tell her that she would be treated horribly by Hamas.”

Mikdashi reportedly stated, “So, I’ve been at protests where I’m then told ‘don’t you know what Hamas would do to you, if you were in Palestine[?]’ … We have to start naming this as homophobic. You cannot rehearse violence to queer people. It’s violent.”

<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/rutgers-professor-lgbtq-palestine-homophobic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blaze Media wrote</a>, “Mikdashi has absolutely no issue with bashing the United States for transphobia and a slew of other issues … However, Mikdashi will devotedly defend Hamas against anyone who points out the fact that Palestine is fanatically against LGBTQ rights.”

The Hamas terrorist organization <a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-790635" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is known</a> to publicly humiliate, torture, and murder those who identify as LGBTQ. 

Press coverage came after Mikdashi joined a <a href="https://youtu.be/P62E9was7G4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers panel discussion</a> called “Palestine is a Feminist and Queer Anti-Imperialist Abolition Struggle.” She opened the talk by stating:
“It’s been 166 days of absolute warfare, siege [inaudible] genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza … We’re here for about two hours … and in that time, about four to five Palestinians will be killed by the hour. So, about six will be dead by the end of today … We are witnessing a manmade famine that will only accelerate … with the scale of violence, and reckoning with the complicity of the United States, which is where we are today — and the reality that this is an American war, an American genocide … I feel helpless and I feel hollow almost everyday.”
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Following the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Orlando-shooting-of-2016" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Orlando nightclub shooting</a> in June 2016 — when an Islamic terrorist murdered 49 people in an LGBTQ bar — Mikdashi wrote the following in her paper “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/28643019/Fear_and_Loathing_in_Orlando" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fear and Loathing in Orlando</a>”:

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Please send tips and information on Maya Mikdashi to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://law.rutgers.edu/directory/view/8277">Sahar Aziz</a> is a Distinguished Professor of Law and a Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers University. Her faculty profile says, “[Aziz]’s scholarship examines the intersection of national security, race, religion, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, religious, and ethnic minorities.”

<a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382299/the-racial-muslim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In her book</a> “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom,” Aziz allegedly “demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim [by] [c]omparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century.” The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racial-Muslim-Quashes-Religious-Freedom/dp/0520382293?asin=0520382293&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">introduction</a> says:
“[Aziz] … masterfully demonstrates that while 9/11 is a critical historical juncture in the racialization of Muslims, a comprehensive understanding of the extent to which anti-Muslim racism is rooted in American society requires an awareness of the often-overlooked deep historical roots of Anglo-Saxon Protestant nativism and [w]hite supremacy.”
On her <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, Aziz advertised an article from the Rutgers Center for Security, Race and Rights (<a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RCSRR)</a>, for which she serves as the director:
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Groundbreaking report “Presumptively <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antisemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antisemitic</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Islamophobic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Islamophobic</a> Tropes in the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a> - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Israel</a> Discourse” released by The Center for Security, Race and Rights <a href="https://twitter.com/RUCSRR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rucsrr</a> co-authored with <a href="https://twitter.com/MJPlitnick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MJPlitnick</a> Read and share! <a href="https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD">https://t.co/awDD3rxJLD</a>
— Sahar Aziz (@saharazizlaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/saharazizlaw/status/1722368803768762762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://csrr.rutgers.edu/issues/presumptively-antisemitic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full article</a> — written in response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack against Israel — includes claims of Islamophobia and human rights violations against Muslims and Arabs by Israel, the United States, and other faith groups. The article says:
“While people of all faiths and ethnicities understand and empathize with the historic plight of the Palestinians, nowhere is pro-Israel bias more obvious than when directed against Muslim and Arab defenders of Palestinian human rights … Even U.S. domestic laws are flouted in order to craft human rights exceptions for the apartheid Israeli regime.”
On April 10, 2024, <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-member-sahar-aziz-facing-new-ethics-complaint" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TAPinto Westfield revealed</a> that Aziz — who serves on the <a href="https://www.schoolboardwatchlist.org/districts/westfieldpublicschools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Westfield Public Schools</a> Board of Education — received an ethics complaint from a fellow board member. The source said, “In [Board Member Brendan] Galligan’s complaint, he claims Aziz violated the state School Ethics Act by directing insurance-appointed attorney Matthew Giacobbe to send public records requests for fellow board members’ and administrators’ emails in connection with a separate ethics complaint, filed by [a] town resident.”

The resident’s <a href="https://www.tapinto.net/towns/westfield/sections/education/articles/westfield-school-board-vp-refutes-ethics-complaint-alleging-antisemitism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">initial complaint</a> accused Aziz of antisemitism due to her “criticism of Israel and support of Palestine.” According to TAPinto Westfield, the plaintiff’s complaint also “claims Aziz used her ‘bully pulpit while a New Jersey education official to attack Jewish people.’” The complaint was ultimately <a href="https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/education/2023/12/22/antisemitism-westfield-school-board-sahar-aziz-rutgers-dismissed/72000125007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismissed</a> and Aziz’s request to sanction the plaintiff was denied.

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Published - April 12, 2024

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-budd-46a8bb4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to LinkedIn</a>, Tracy Budd is a full-time, non-tenure Writing Program Faculty member at Rutgers University. She is also listed as an <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/people/ma-alumni-listing?view=article&amp;id=1109:budd-tracy&amp;catid=255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alumnus</a> of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Rutgers.

Following the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Budd took to social media to express her regrets that the shooter missed his target. Budd’s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tbudd17">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://x.com/thereal_tbudd?lang=en">Twitter</a> accounts have since both been deleted.

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-prof-trump-assassination-attempt-lets-hope-todays-events-inspire-others-exclusive/25959" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Budd’s posts in an article titled “Rutgers professor under internal review for comments after Trump assassination attempt: ‘Let’s hope today’s events inspire others.’”

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Campus Reform recorded the university’s response:
“Rutgers University-New Brunswick condemns calls for violence in the strongest possible terms and remains committed to upholding the principles of civil discourse … The university is reviewing this matter and assures that any appropriate actions will be taken based on our policies.”
Budd’s website, <a href="http://tracybudd.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TracyBudd.com</a>, also appears to be offline. Internet archives <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090106211025/http://www.tracybudd.com/wordpress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">captured a 2008 post</a> entitled “Obama bin Biden his time,” in which Budd commented on the presidential election. She labeled former President Barack Obama a “centrist” and said:
“I am a socialist and a far-leftist. Obama does not sit well with me. This is exactly how our party has drifted to the right … [Y]et you may wonder how I could support Hillary [Clinton] whose voting record and strategies are nearly identical to Barack’s. Please refer to the posts entitled ‘Primary Instinct: V for Vagina, Victory and Vote’ or ‘Woman is the N*gger of the World.’”
The Watchlist could not recover the content mentioned in her quote.

Despite calls for Budd’s <a href="https://nj1015.com/json-ed-durr-calls-for-rutgers-firing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termination</a>, as of publication, she remains employed by Rutgers University. 

Please send tips, updates, and information on Tracy Budd to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - August 1, 2024

<a href="https://gse.rutgers.edu/faculty/melinda-m-mangin-phd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melinda Mangin</a> is a Professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration at Rutgers University. According to her faculty profile, “Mangin’s scholarly interests fall into two primary categories: teacher leadership and inclusive schools for transgender people.”

During a 2023 interview with <a href="https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast/23/03/creating-trans-inclusive-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard EdCast</a>, Mangin discussed her view that gender is not binary and how schools fail to affirm this for students. According to Mangin, gender is a journey that kids should be able to explore:

“We want all our kids to be able to go to school and just be themselves, and enjoy school, and have a good day. When you talk to parents, they just want their kids to be happy. And we know that gender's not a binary. So when schools are places where we don't recognize the diversity of genders that our kids bring, they become places where our kids aren't affirmed. And so we want kids to be able to explore who they are, explore learning. Gender's a journey. It's a learning journey to figure out who you are. And so we want schools to be inclusive of that journey for all of our kids.” 

In 2022, Mangin and Mario I. Suarez co-wrote a book titled  “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Trans_Studies_in_K_12_Education/IDehEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;pg=PT7&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trans Studies in K-12 Education</a>.” The publisher describes the books as a “vital inquiry into trans issues in education”:  

“[T]his compelling work argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities… The collection offers a comprehensive examination of how gender is manifested in the educational context.”

The authors claim that gender manifests itself among students through the traditional divisions placed between boys and girls within the school setting. This reinforces cisnormative ideals (which the authors find harmful to “non-binary” students):

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They further claim that K-12 schools are “cisnormative” spaces. This allegedly began with the “colonization of the Americas” and the treatment of Indigenous people by the U.S. and Canada: 
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Please send information on Melissa Mangin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

Published - November 21, 2024

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Sara Goldrick-Rab

<a href="https://www.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/sara-goldrick-rab-tug64840">Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab</a>, a Professor of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies at Temple University, took to Twitter to compare Republican governor Scott Walker to Hitler. Her tweet said “My grandfather, a psychologist, just walked me through the similarities between Walker and Hitler. There are so many- it’s terrifying”. According to Campus Reform, the tweets followed a contentious battle over budgets and policy changes for the University of Wisconsin system.

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Temple University

<a href="https://sites.temple.edu/josephschwartz/">Dr. Joseph Schwartz</a>, a Professor of Political Science at Temple University, took over a College Republican discussion with a representative from Pennsylvania Right to Work Defense and Education Foundation. He and some of his students insulted the speaker and accused him of racism. Schwartz then exclaimed, “Oh come on, f*****g a--. I believe in the religion of foul language.”

<a href="https://www.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/sara-goldrick-rab-tug64840">Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab</a>, a Professor of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies at Temple University, took to Twitter to compare Republican governor Scott Walker to Hitler. Her tweet said “My grandfather, a psychologist, just walked me through the similarities between Walker and Hitler. There are so many- it’s terrifying”. According to Campus Reform, the tweets followed a contentious battle over budgets and policy changes for the University of Wisconsin system.

On the day after the death of O.J. Simpson, Hill posted a YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgKqiBCGIL0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stream</a> titled, “O.J. Simpson is DEAD!!! Do NOT Make Him A Hero or a Martyr.” In the stream, Hill repeatedly asserts that Simpson is a “monster” and not a figure worth celebrating for the black community. He <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/opinion/left-is-still-defending-oj-because-race-is-more-important-to-them-than-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maintains Simpson was guilty</a> of the crimes he committed even though his "acquittal was the 'correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system.'"

This stream came after Hill posted his initial reaction to Simpson’s death, according to <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/cuny-professor-marc-lamont-hill-says-cold-blooded-killer-oj-simpsons-acquittal-was-correct-and-necessary-to-fight-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a>:
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O.J. Simpson was an abusive liar who abandoned his community long before he killed two people in cold blood. His acquittal for murder was the correct and necessary result of a racist criminal legal system. But he’s still a monster, not a martyr.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) <a href="https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/1778461905268412472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Before addressing those crimes, Hill condemned Simpson for his lifestyle choices, which, he claims, were very much a dismissal and abandonment of the black community and culture: 
“O.J. Simpson is not a person who is our kind. O.J. Simpson became famous, moved to L.A. …  and created a social network that was filled with white people. He created a white reality.”
Hill stated that the white Ford Bronco that Al Cowlings (Simpson’s friend) and Simpson attempted to escape the police with was not the first time Simpson used a white vehicle to “escape a black reality.” Hill stated that Simpson “wanted no parts of the black community.”

Hill alleges that L.A. Detective Mark Fuhrman—who investigated the crime scene at Simpson’s house in the aftermath of the murders of Nicole Brown, Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman—is solely to blame for the acquittal of Simpson. 
“O.J. Simpson should not have been found guilty because there was a police officer [Fuhrman], a racist police officer … who at the end of the day lied about using the n-word. He had a history of racist acts. Mark Fuhrman is the reason why O.J. Simpson spent the next few decades as a free man living in a white world. I’m not saying that O.J. Simpson should’ve gone to prison. I’m saying that O.J. Simpson was guilty of the crime.” 
Hill claims the Simpson case in 1994 and its outcome was a referendum on the allegedly racist U.S. justice system. He says Simpson was found innocent due to “reasonable doubt because of a racist cop.” However, he defends Johnnie Cochrane, Simpson’s attorney during that trial, and claims he and Simpson are two different species. Cochrane was a civil rights leader who fought the “racist” system by using O.J.’s case, according to Hill. 

Towards the end of the stream, Hill asserts the following.
“O.J. is a reminder that the world is racist, that the system is racist, that the cops are racist …  O.J. forced y’all to deal with white supremacy [and] structural racism.”
Of the response to Simpson’s death, Hill claims it will be celebratory for white people in the fashion of certain responses to the deaths of dictators or terrorists:
 “White people will act like it’s the fall of Sadaam Hussein.”
Published - April 16, 2024
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<a href="https://education.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/marc-lamont-hill-marchill">Marc Lamont Hill</a> is a Professor of Media Studies and Production and of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies at Temple University.

In 2018, Marc Lamont Hill was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/29/media/marc-lamont-hill-cnn/index.html">fired</a> by CNN for his anti-Israel remarks. Speaking before the UN, Hill called for a "free Palestine from the river to the sea, " which are sentiments widely understood as a call for the elimination of the state of Israel and replacement with an Arab state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Hill was previously under fire for his relationship with the open anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan. He has repeatedly <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/18/marc-lamont-hill-stands-brother-farrakhan-we-shoul/">refused</a> to condemn Farrakhan, stating, 

“Minister <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/louis-farrakhan/">Farrakhan</a> is my brother. The idea that we have to renounce him, denounce him, throw him away … in the black tradition, I ain’t got the luxury of throwing people who love us away. I ain’t got the luxury of taking people who come out of traditions that have saved us and cleaned us and throw them away. We can’t do that. We shouldn’t do that.”

<a href="https://law.temple.edu/contact/rachel-rebouche/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rachel Rebouché</a> is the Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law, the James E. Beasley Professor of Law, and a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research. According to her university biography, Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law and family law.

Rebouché co-authored an opinion piece for The New York Times titled, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/opinion/abortion-pills-online-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Abortion Pills Will Change a Post-Roe World.”</a> The article praises abortion pills, claiming that “people who live in anti-abortion states and can’t travel will still be able to obtain safe abortions, often without the direct involvement of a medical provider and within the privacy of their homes.”

However, according to a report put together by Live Action and the Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the <a href="https://www.liveaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ExecSummary.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion pill poses a four-times higher risk of complication</a> than surgical abortion in the first trimester. Since the FDA approved the pills, there have been 24 reported maternal deaths and over 4,000 reports of adverse events including hemorrhage, excruciating abdominal pain, and severe life-threatening infections.

Rebouché and her co-authors ignore these statistics and claim, with the fall of Roe v. Wade, the “anti-abortion movement is likely to continue to deploy another longstanding tactic: deceiving people.” They say crisis pregnancy centers “often imply that they provide abortions when their mission is actually to block people from getting abortions.”
“Expect anti-abortion activists to set up websites pretending to sell abortion pills or even selling fake abortion pills.” 
Lastly, Rebouché et al. advocate for social media companies and search companies like Google to treat abortion pill misinformation like Covid-19 misinformation. They write:
“These companies created policies that have tried to de-emphasize, remove or add disclaimers to Covid-19 misinformation. Given the immense complexity of the post-Roe legal and abortion access landscape, companies could enact similar policies governing abortion misinformation and websites that aim to deceive and entrap pregnant people.”
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Published - December 2, 2022

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/timothy-welbeck" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Timothy Welbeck</a> is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Africology and African American Studies and Director of the Center for Anti-Racism, both at Temple University. According to his university profile, Welbeck’s research includes “contemporary issues of racial identity in America [and] the intersection of racial classifications and the law in the American context.”

At the <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-11-30/temple-university-s-center-anti-racism-holds-grand-opening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center’s grand opening ceremony</a> in November 2022, Welbeck said the goal is to be a “hub of collaboration across the university as we seek to create scholarship that will shape the course of the discourse and help us better understand what racism is, how it reveals itself and how we can better fight against it.”

Welbeck further discussed his vision for the center in an interview with <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2021-10-05/unravelling-systemic-oppression-through-scholarship-advocacy-and-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a>. He said the Center “will examine the ways racism finds its way into systems and structures, like housing, the criminal justice system, healthcare, environmental concerns, city planning, etc.” He continues, “We’ll begin targeting our efforts and focus on various issues within the U.S. and specifically the North Philadelphia community.”

Welbeck has been outspoken about his <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2022-06-15/temple-experts-remain-committed-anti-racism-work-ahead-juneteenth-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for critical race theory</a>, accusing those who are against it of trying to “keep productive conversations about race out of American classrooms.” He stated:
“It’s a very coordinated, deliberate campaign that’s funded and organized around trying to disarm any type of assessment of racial inequity in the United States, which is why if you look at some of the legislation from the 26 states that said to have banned critical race theory, they’re not actually banning critical race theory, but they’re banning terms like diversity, equity and inclusion.” 
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned affirmative action in June 2023, Welbeck participated in a panel discussion about the impact of the Court’s decision. Welbeck told <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/06/30/affirmative-action-supreme-court-meaning-philadlephia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios</a> that students of color are not on an equal playing field with their white counterparts and “Schools cannot consider trying to undo centuries of harm and racialized segregation.” Welbeck is quoted in a <a href="https://news.temple.edu/2023-07-19/temple-experts-weigh-supreme-court-s-affirmative-action-decision" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a> article, saying:
“Historically, Black people were denied entry into every form of society like housing, medicine and education. They have racial impacts and disparities linked to this broader history that should be considered.” 
“We need the ability to target the centuries of exclusion of Black people in America and to not be afraid to talk about the actual problem itself. There was unique harm targeted at specific racial groups, so we need specific remedies to address it and to give them time to work.”
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Published - November 8, 2023

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/fogg-davis-heath" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Heath Fogg Davis</a> is a Professor of Political Science at Temple University. 

According to Davis’ <a href="https://heathfoggdavis.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, the professor studies “discrimination and identity formation with the goal of puzzling out their complicated workings, while also highlighting the many organizations and individuals fighting for a better, more equitable world.”

Aside from teaching, Davis works “with companies and organizations to help them imagine, design, and achieve their diversity and inclusion goals.”

In a 2017 <a href="https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/do-we-need-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> for Powell’s City of Books titled “Do We Need Gender,” Davis writes about the subject of gender and its relevance to contemporary society.

In the article, Davis criticizes the “belief” that sex is determined by genitalia:  
“Many people still believe that sex is determined by genitalia. Girls have vaginas, and boys have penises … Most people who are born with penises and identified as male at birth go on to identify as boys and then men. And most people who are born with vaginas and identified as female at birth go on to identify as girls and then as women.”
He claims this belief can lead to transgender discrimination:
“This variation has repercussions for how we detect and fight transgender discrimination. Some people who identify as ‘trans’ experience transgender discrimination because others perceive them to have altered, or be in the process of changing their birth sex designation, or because they have disclosed such as transition. Some people who identify as trans do not experience transgender discrimination because they appear to others to be gender conforming. To further complicate matters, some people who do not identify as trans experience transgender discrimination because others perceive them as trans and/or gender non-conforming.” 
In another 2017 <a href="https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/why-testosterone-ranges-should-replace-sex-segregation-in-title-ix-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled “Why Testosterone Ranges Should Replace Sex-Segregation in Title IX Sports,” Davis argues in favor of athletes performing in sports based on their amount of testosterone rather than their biological gender. 
“[W]e can say that certain sex-related physiological features, such as muscle mass, lung capacity, and aggression, are relevant to ‘fair play.’ These mutable characteristics are affected by the amount of functional testosterone in an athlete’s body, not by the presence or absence of genitalia.”
He admits this change would not be easy and would result in certain social consequences:
“If we were to replace sex-segregation with testosterone levels in Title IX sports, we would, of course, not be making a trivial change. Part of the sense of ‘losing tradition’ is tied up with losing the social aspect of gender-based affinity that is considered formative to young athletes: girls and boys and women and men working together toward common goals and competing to achieve them”
Yet, Davis concludes the article by subtly expressing his favor for this form of collegiate athletics in light of other moves the NCAA has made:
“Replacing male and female competitive sports with hormone levels seems, on its face, radical, but the NCAA and other elite sports organizations have already begun rewriting the rules in favor of fair play.”
Please send information on Heath Fogg Davis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
Published - June 10, 2024

<a href="https://liberalarts.temple.edu/about/faculty-staff/jennifer-pollitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jennifer Pollitt</a> is an Assistant Professor and the Assistant Director of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Temple University. Her expertise includes “Sexuality and Gender Studies,” “Sexuality Education,” and “LGBTQIA Civil Rights.” She also organizes #MeToo conferences for academic and professional attendees. 

In May 2023, Pollitt was featured in a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/temple-university-has-a-porn-studies-class-2023-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Business Insider article</a> titled “Temple University now offers porn-studies course. In the class, students talk about things they ‘don’t even discuss with their closest friends.’” Pollitt told the Insider that her course “kept having a longer wait list” of students who were interested in the topic. She ultimately concluded that people “really want to talk about [sex].” 

The Insider wrote:

“[Pollitt] said her goal in creating the course was to use digital pornography as a jumping-off point to talk about race, ability, and the patriarchy. Pollitt added that she wanted to teach students how to get away with binary thinking: viewing porn as simply right versus wrong, good versus bad.”

Pollitt also said the discussion in her course venture into “racialized porn,” “disability porn,” and “trans porn.” However, in the past, she told <a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/07/porn-studies-temple-university-professor-jennifer-pollitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19th News</a> that her course would not include watching pornographic movies and “[u]npacking the stigma about porn and sexuality is one of her goals as an educator.” 

The screenshot below shows a list of hypersexualized classes primarily taught by Pollitt.

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The university publication <a href="https://news.temple.edu/news/2023-09-14/what-you-need-know-watching-marvels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Temple Now</a> included Pollitt’s comments on a film called The Marvel, which features an all-female main cast. Pollitt was asked to share her thoughts on Nia DaCosta (a black woman) who directed the movie. Pollitt was quoted saying:

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In the article, Pollitt also took offense to the phrase “going all-female,” declaring that the film “challenges” views on women as superheroes and “reinforces that women are just as strong, brave, capable and resilient as men.” Apparently, Pollitt is unfamiliar with historic female heroines and lead characters such as Catwoman (1940), Wonder Woman (1941), Batwoman (1956), The Bionic Woman (1976), and Elasti-Girl/Woman (DC Comics, 1963; Disney, 2004).

When asked by <a href="https://19thnews.org/2023/07/porn-studies-temple-university-professor-jennifer-pollitt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19th News</a> about the purpose of her salacious class, Pollitt admitted that “porn studies” hasn’t been taken seriously in the past because the topic “was considered smut and a waste of time.” Considering the innumerable marriages and <a href="https://extension.usu.edu/relationships/research/effects-of-pornography-on-relationships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">relationships destroyed by pornography</a>—as well as <a href="https://www.theasservoproject.org/pornography-and-human-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the industry’s proven ties</a> to adult and child sex trafficking—Pollitt is doing a disservice to the education community at Temple University, if not the entire realm of academics.

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<a href="https://www.unca.edu/person/blu-buchanan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blu Buchanan</a> is a University Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He further serves as a fellow for the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/buchanan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>. According to his biography, Buchanan studies whiteness, masculinity, feminist theory, and how “Black, trans folks develop to resist and decenter violence.” 
A progressive activist, Buchanan advocates for curtailing free speech rights and states that white people pose a direct, physical threat to him. He describes the First Amendment as a concept constructed and enforced for the sole benefit of white people in an article titled “<a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/free-but-not-to-kill-me-33b6c64a050b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free, But Not To Kill Me</a>.” He writes the subjugation of “black bodies” was needed to bolster the free speech of white men:
“Black bodies and communities were enslaved to support the speech and interests of white capitalists.”
Buchanan declares free speech is not a “universal, constant idea,” and he cannot support a person’s free speech to “silence the oppressed.” In a nation composed of cis-white men, he continues, this will inevitably mean that freedom of expression will always benefit society’s most powerful groups and interests.
Buchanan further states “white supremacy, anti-blackness, and transphobia” are normalized in a culture that embraces freedom of expression. He claims this puts “trans folks” like himself at risk for physical assault and even death, and justifies denying “white supremacists and fascists” access to public platforms.  
In a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NxPKUy9cXggZOX8yR72DecS2aV1bIB_TxJPeQR4q1n8/edit#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender “toolkit”</a> that Buchanan co-authored, he again claims that speech from white men threatens trans people. The forward for the document condemns academics who cite the First Amendment in refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns, writing that it falls beyond the scope of “reasoned debate.”
In his essay titled, “A Burning White Ga(y)ze on “Free Speech” and White Gay Men, Buchanan again characterizes free speech as a manifestation of white supremacy and masculinity. He alleges white men cite the First Amendment as a “dog whistle,” and it comes at expense of the health and safety of marginalized communities. 
In a separate article for <a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/black-and-bitter-in-the-time-of-trump-b8867bcb5191" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medium.com</a>, Buchanan vows to hold white people accountable for their actions. He promised not to “hold back on y’all white folks” and warns that white people will “catch these proverbial hands.” 
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The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Buchanan for comment prior to publication. This article will be updated accordingly. 
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Published &#8211; December 28, 2022
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<a href="https://titleix.unca.edu/">Jill Moffitt</a>, an Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Title IX Administrator at the University of North Carolina - Asheville, stopped a sexual predator from explicitly admitting that he enjoys going into the women’s restroom and taking photos so she wouldn’t have to report it or take responsibility. She told him to treat it as simply a fetish.

<a href="https://www.unca.edu/person/blu-buchanan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Blu Buchanan</a> is a University Fellow at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He further serves as a fellow for the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows/buchanan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>. According to his biography, Buchanan studies whiteness, masculinity, feminist theory, and how “Black, trans folks develop to resist and decenter violence.” 

A progressive activist, Buchanan advocates for curtailing free speech rights and states that white people pose a direct, physical threat to him. He describes the First Amendment as a concept constructed and enforced for the sole benefit of white people in an article titled “<a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/free-but-not-to-kill-me-33b6c64a050b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free, But Not To Kill Me</a>.” He writes the subjugation of “black bodies” was needed to bolster the free speech of white men:

“Black bodies and communities were enslaved to support the speech and interests of white capitalists.”

Buchanan declares free speech is not a “universal, constant idea,” and he cannot support a person’s free speech to “silence the oppressed.” In a nation composed of cis-white men, he continues, this will inevitably mean that freedom of expression will always benefit society’s most powerful groups and interests.

Buchanan further states “white supremacy, anti-blackness, and transphobia” are normalized in a culture that embraces freedom of expression. He claims this puts “trans folks” like himself at risk for physical assault and even death, and justifies denying “white supremacists and fascists” access to public platforms.  

In a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NxPKUy9cXggZOX8yR72DecS2aV1bIB_TxJPeQR4q1n8/edit#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender “toolkit”</a> that Buchanan co-authored, he again claims that speech from white men threatens trans people. The forward for the document condemns academics who cite the First Amendment in refusing to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns, writing that it falls beyond the scope of “reasoned debate.”

In his essay titled, “A Burning White Ga(y)ze on “Free Speech” and White Gay Men, Buchanan again characterizes free speech as a manifestation of white supremacy and masculinity. He alleges white men cite the First Amendment as a “dog whistle,” and it comes at expense of the health and safety of marginalized communities. 

In a separate article for <a href="https://medium.com/@BlaQSociologist/black-and-bitter-in-the-time-of-trump-b8867bcb5191" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Medium.com</a>, Buchanan vows to hold white people accountable for their actions. He promised not to “hold back on y’all white folks” and warns that white people will “catch these proverbial hands.” 

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The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Buchanan for comment prior to publication. This article will be updated accordingly. 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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<a href="https://www.valdosta.edu/biology/faculty-staff/leslie-jones.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leslie Sandra Jones</a> is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Valdosta State University.
Jones described herself as a “white-cisgender female” to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221114142344/https://www.ajc.com/education/valdosta-profs-woke-lesson-draws-parent-fire-free-speech-support/PAFZGGRNYFBB7NEJLKNKM4NYHM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atlanta-Journal Constitution</a> (AJC). She further characterized her lectures as “anti-racist” and reflective of her “commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion on behalf of those who face discrimination and racism:” 
“I am not administering a left-wing agenda in my class. I teach them about important social values that affect all of us in Georgia.” 
According to the AJC, Jones is now under review by the university for teaching gender as a social construct that’s not rooted in biology. 
Throughout her “Cultural Construction of Gender,” in her Evolution and the Diversity of Life course. Jones touched on “gender roles, distinctions, socialization, and gender identity.” 
The AJC reports that Jones defined terms like cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary, agender, gender neutral, and genderqueer in her class. She also taught about sexualities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual. 
In an interview with <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-under-fire-for-teaching-gender-is-a-spectrum/">The College Fix</a>, Jones claimed that sex is not a dichotomy. 
“&#8230;I teach them very clearly in one lecture that sex is biological. Sex is not dichotomous. When I teach them sex and gender, I teach them really carefully that sex is not a dichotomy.”  
She continued:
“Everybody thinks there’s only male and female, but that’s not true,” Jones added. “Sex is very much bimodal and emotionally they’re males and females, but there are a lot of things that can happen in sexual development that can lead to intersex conditions. There are even human hermaphrodites.” 
Jones is represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), who allege the University is unconstitutionally forcing Jones to alter her course.
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<a href="https://www.valdosta.edu/biology/faculty-staff/leslie-jones.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Leslie Sandra Jones</a> is a Professor in the Department of Biology at Valdosta State University.

Jones described herself as a “white-cisgender female” to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221114142344/https://www.ajc.com/education/valdosta-profs-woke-lesson-draws-parent-fire-free-speech-support/PAFZGGRNYFBB7NEJLKNKM4NYHM/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Atlanta-Journal Constitution</a> (AJC). She further characterized her lectures as “anti-racist” and reflective of her “commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion on behalf of those who face discrimination and racism:” 
“I am not administering a left-wing agenda in my class. I teach them about important social values that affect all of us in Georgia.” 
According to the AJC, Jones is now under review by the university for teaching gender as a social construct that’s not rooted in biology. 

Throughout her “Cultural Construction of Gender,” in her Evolution and the Diversity of Life course. Jones touched on “gender roles, distinctions, socialization, and gender identity.” 

The AJC reports that Jones defined terms like cisgender, transgender, gender fluid, non-binary, agender, gender neutral, and genderqueer in her class. She also taught about sexualities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual. 

In an interview with <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-under-fire-for-teaching-gender-is-a-spectrum/">The College Fix</a>, Jones claimed that sex is not a dichotomy. 
“...I teach them very clearly in one lecture that sex is biological. Sex is not dichotomous. When I teach them sex and gender, I teach them really carefully that sex is not a dichotomy.”  
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“Everybody thinks there’s only male and female, but that’s not true,” Jones added. “Sex is very much bimodal and emotionally they’re males and females, but there are a lot of things that can happen in sexual development that can lead to intersex conditions. There are even human hermaphrodites.” 

Jones is represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), who allege the University is unconstitutionally forcing Jones to alter her course.

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Published - December 9, 2022

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

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<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/mientenjulia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eileen Chanza Torres</a> is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Gender Studies program at Westminister College.
Torres <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/utah-professor-defends-college-class-on-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaches a class</a> called FILM-3000 Porn. According to the college, the course is designed to “develop critical thinking skills about porn’s impact on society, culture, and inequality.”
When questioned, Torres stated, “[it is] a fascinating study of people and gender performance.” The <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19402&amp;utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-campusreform&amp;utm_content=later-26237102&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkin.bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goal of the class</a> is reportedly not to “watch porn, giggle, and go home.” Instead, it is meant to be an academically critical examination of pornography utilizing “rigorous methodological frameworks.”
The <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/utah-professor-defends-college-class-on-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> states, “hardcore pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football.” The class further states that porn is “an art form that requires serious contemplation.” Students will “watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender as an experimental, radical art form.”
Westminister College chief marketing officer Sheila Yorkin said “we have no intention to back away from offering this class.” She touted the college’s support of academic freedom and commitment to “tough subjects.”
Torres has also discussed the cultural <a href="https://westminstercollege.edu/about/alumni/the-review/2018-spring-review/unintentional-advocate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environment at Westminister</a>. She stated, “the demographic is very different.” She continued, “There are maybe one or two students who are not white in your class. My very presence in the classroom makes folks uncomfortable.” She also discussed her identity on the predominately white campus, “being a person of color on this campus is overwhelming and taxing.” Torres also says, “But then there are these moments where you make these really wonderful connections with students.”
Torres was also responsible for Westminister College’s first sex-positive week. During the event, she brought in guest speakers including sex workers and trans advocates.
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<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/mientenjulia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eileen Chanza Torres</a> is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Gender Studies program at Westminister College.

Torres <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/utah-professor-defends-college-class-on-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaches a class</a> called FILM-3000 Porn. According to the college, the course is designed to “develop critical thinking skills about porn’s impact on society, culture, and inequality.”

When questioned, Torres stated, “[it is] a fascinating study of people and gender performance.” The <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=19402&amp;utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-campusreform&amp;utm_content=later-26237102&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkin.bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">goal of the class</a> is reportedly not to “watch porn, giggle, and go home.” Instead, it is meant to be an academically critical examination of pornography utilizing “rigorous methodological frameworks.”

The <a href="https://www.wane.com/news/utah-professor-defends-college-class-on-porn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course description</a> states, “hardcore pornography is as American as apple pie and more popular than Sunday night football.” The class further states that porn is “an art form that requires serious contemplation.” Students will “watch pornographic films together and discuss the sexualization of race, class, and gender as an experimental, radical art form.”

Westminister College chief marketing officer Sheila Yorkin said “we have no intention to back away from offering this class.” She touted the college’s support of academic freedom and commitment to “tough subjects.”

Torres has also discussed the cultural <a href="https://westminstercollege.edu/about/alumni/the-review/2018-spring-review/unintentional-advocate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environment at Westminister</a>. She stated, “the demographic is very different.” She continued, “There are maybe one or two students who are not white in your class. My very presence in the classroom makes folks uncomfortable.” She also discussed her identity on the predominately white campus, “being a person of color on this campus is overwhelming and taxing.” Torres also says, “But then there are these moments where you make these really wonderful connections with students.”

Torres was also responsible for Westminister College’s first sex-positive week. During the event, she brought in guest speakers including sex workers and trans advocates.

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Published - October 19, 2022

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<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”
After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza &#8211; using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”
Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”
Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“&#8230;Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education &#8211; particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”
He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”
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<a href="http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/faculty/professor/joshua-dressler/">Joshua Dressler</a> is a Distinguished University Professor and the Frank R. Strong Chair in Law at The Ohio State University.  Dressler told his students that Ted Cruz’s comments to Donald Trump were anti-Semitic. Dressler claimed that Cruz’s infamous “New York values” statement was directed toward Jewish people in a negative way.

<a href="https://history.osu.edu/people/jeffries.57" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries</a> is an associate professor of history at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University</a>. According to his university profile, his areas of expertise include the following:

- African-American History

- US History since 1877

- Human Conflict, Peace, and Diplomacy,

- Power, Culture, and the State,

- Race, Ethnicity, and Nation

Dr. Hasan Kwame is an adherent to critical race theory and frequently defends the field in his lectures and speeches. In addition, he advises local high schools and school districts on how to teach critical theory to students.

On his personal Twitter account, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">frequently characterizes conservatives as white nationalists, supremacists and other epithets</a>. In one tweet, he lashes out at South Carolina Senator Tim Scott—currently the sole black Republican in the United States Senate—as the “blackface” of white supremacy.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#GOP</a> is the party of white supremacy and Sen. Tim Scott is its Blackface. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EndofDiscussion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#EndofDiscussion</a>
“Fact-checking GOP response to Biden's joint address”<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimScott?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#TimScott</a><a href="https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/bBCqSEWSz2</a>

— Hasan Kwame Jeffries (@ProfJeffries) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfJeffries/status/1387776742245421057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In other lectures, Dr. Jeffries portrays America as a systemically racist nation. He thus defends critical race theory as necessary to understand oppression and the history of racism in the United States.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes</a> for Breitbart News, critical race theory—also referred to as “critical theory”—is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> 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.

In a speech for <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The City Club of Cleveland</a>, Dr. Jeffries <a href="https://www.cityclub.org/forums/2021/08/20/misunderstanding-critical-race-theory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauds critical race theory as necessary to understand that racism is “systemic, deeply embedded, and produces racial inequality in our society</a>.” At one point while addressing the accusation that critical race theory brands all white people as racist, Dr. Jeffries retorts that while all white people are not born racist, all white people born in America are, in fact, racist.

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He further characterizes any opposition to critical race theory as a “racial reckoning” used to whip up conservative voters as “racism is the greatest organizing force” in American history. While denying that critical race theory is taught in American schools, he nonetheless advocates for students to learn it.

In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Jeffries conducts training for local school districts in Ohio. In one lesson plan for <a href="https://www.olentangy.k12.oh.us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Olentangy Local School District </a>obtained by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Jeffries advises teachers on how to teach critical theory and social justice movements to their students.

In Section One—titled, “Confronting Hard History: Teaching and Talking About Race and Racism in K-12 Classrooms,”—Dr. Jeffries addresses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and instructs teachers to incorporate the movement’s tenets into their lesson plans.

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/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">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>

Despite the destruction, Dr. Jeffries lauds the protests for seeking justice for systemic racism. He urges educators to incorporate this into their lesson plans when teaching about BLM. He further endorses explicitly discussing race and racial issues in the classroom as not doing so— or what Dr. Jeffries defines it as the “color-blind trap”— seeks to “erase” the experiences of people of color.

In part two of the training, Dr. Jeffries instructs teachers that America was founded in the year 1619 rather than 1776. He states that it is vital to understand the nation was founded on the double-helix of racism and capitalism.

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Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones likewise <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://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

To read more on Dr. Nikole Hannah Jones, users can <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones">view her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

Dr. Jones further states that it is vital to teach children how racism is encoded into the Constitution and our founding documents, as well as to regard founding fathers like James Madison as virulent racists.

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Throughout each lecture, Dr. Jeffries stresses the importance of teaching about the lingering effects of racism to students today.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Jeffries for comment but has not received a response by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667.
 
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<a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/people/lindsey.268" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Treva Lindsey</a> is an Associate Professor in the <a href="https://wgss.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies</a> at <a href="https://www.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ohio State University.</a> According to her university bio, Dr. Lindsay specializes in areas such as African American Women’s History, black feminism, critical race, and gender theory, among other sexual politics.

Dr. Lindsay frequently writes and is invited to lecture about sexual assault prevention on college campuses. In a video of a lecture at Portland State University, Dr. Lindsay can be heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZugy4C-Udg&amp;ab_channel=PortlandStateUniversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting rehabilitating those who’ve committed sexual assault by teaching them to unlearn their “toxic masculinity” and innate homophobia</a>.

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Dr. Treva Lindsay frequently writes for a number of prominent publications—such as <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2015/9/5/race-in-the-us-herstory" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Jazeera</a>, <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/author/14721/treva-lindsey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cosmopolitan</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/27/opinions/r-kelly-conviction-black-women-and-girls-lindsey/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>— accusing the United States of being systematically racist and calling for the abolishment of policing. She additionally praises the BLM movement for its alleged efforts to combat systemic racism.

Black Lives Matter (BLM,) as an organization, 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 the organization. BLM’s mission is to “eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on black communities by the state and vigilantes.”

In an article for Complex, Dr. Lindsay praises BLM and its umbrella organization, the Movement for Black Lives, for their <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2017/02/black-history-month-five-years-after-trayvon-martin-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">role in awakening Americans to the reality of “anti-black racism</a>.” In the same article, she alleges that “millions” of black Americans have been victims of systemic racism for hundreds of years, and still are today.

In a separate article for NBC News, Dr. Lindsay decries the  passage of Juneteenth, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/juneteenth-honors-black-emancipation-hope-equality-federal-holiday-doesn-t-ncna1271356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describing it as trivial and merely a “symbolic gesture.</a>” A bill to make Juneteenth—a holiday <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abolition-of-slavery-announced-in-texas-juneteenth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrating the announcement that slavery had ended in Texas</a>— a national holiday was passed with the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-signs-bill-making-juneteenth-a-federal-holiday/ar-AAL92UE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan support of both houses</a> before it was signed into law in June of 2020.

Nonetheless, Dr. Lindsay writes that she can’t help but feel “contempt” towards white people for their support, critiquing the holiday as inadequate to combat “sanctioned white supremacy.”

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She mirrors her characterization in an article for Bustle, describing the history of the United States as <a href="https://www.bustle.com/p/the-lack-of-mobilized-outrage-for-police-killing-black-women-is-injurious-erasure-22953764" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encompassing the murder of black people from slavery to the present day</a>.

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Dr. Lindsay builds on her allegation in another article for Complex, <a href="https://www.complex.com/life/2016/09/blue-lives-matter-bill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">specifically citing “racist policing” and “police brutality'' as the 2 “most visible” forms of state violence</a> against black people. As such, Dr. Lindsay has openly called for the defunding of police on her <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>.
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Since Chauvin’s guilty verdict, there have been at least SIX more people killed by police.
A guilty verdict from a criminal punishment system hellbent on preserving itself- it will continue striking back and out until we dismantle. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/a2noWozUCz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/a2noWozUCz</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1386004406500569090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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We out here just trying to survive policing and calling for defunding and abolishing the police.
Just erasing the history of Pride as originating in rebelling against policing. 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/m8v371ftrm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/m8v371ftrm</a> <a href="https://t.co/zYHmwhGH1I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/zYHmwhGH1I</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1395174584639438855?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">May 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In one tweet, she calls for the abolishment of police officers following the death of Ma’Khia Bryant.
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It’s not a police-involved shooting. GTFOH with that passive, non-specific description.
Columbus police KILLED a 15 y/o Black girl named Ma’Khia. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MakhiaBryant?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MakhiaBryant</a> should be here and these cruel and violent systems should not. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SayHerName?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SayHerName</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AbolishThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AbolishThePolice</a> <a href="https://t.co/52PraZ2WaL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/52PraZ2WaL</a>

— Treva B (@divafeminist) <a href="https://twitter.com/divafeminist/status/1384686732193509388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">April 21, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Referencing an August 2020 incident, a <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/04/20/graphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbus, Ohio police officer was called over a domestic dispute involving Bryant</a>. When the officer arrived, Bryant was at the center of a fight with several other girls. Bryant then drew a knife and the responding officer ordered her to drop the weapon. Bryant then lunged at another girl with the knife, causing the officer to shoot and fatally wound her.

Despite <a href="https://twitter.com/shanermurph/status/1384703749046915074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1384703749046915074%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Flaw-and-order%2F2021%2F04%2F20%2Fgraphic-video-columbus-police-release-bodycam-video-of-shooting%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">evidence from the body-cam exonerating his actions</a>, Dr. Lindsay still alleges the incident is further proof of systemic racism and brutality directed specifically at black Americans. In an article for the site Truthout, she describes the officer’s actions—along with anyone who would defend them—<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/we-are-fighting-for-a-world-where-makhia-bryant-would-have-lived/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as the normalization of police violence and “erasing the long and inglorious history” of police violence against black people</a>. Dr. Lindsay further states that Bryant should still be alive while calling for the defunding and eventual abolishment of police.

“Police do not make us safer. Police do not make Black children safer. Not at school. Not on university campuses. Not at home. As the body camera footage shows, police escalate. The killing of Ma’Khia is yet another painful reminder of why a growing number of people are focusing their energies on building alternatives to policing and demanding that we defund the police. It’s a reminder why so many people are agitating to remove the police from our homes, communities, and schools — and eventually abolish policing altogether.”

Despite her defense of Byrant, Dr. Lindsay holds a paradoxical stance on the police shooting of Ashli Babbitt. In a separate article for Bitch Media, Dr. Lindsay <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/not-applying-say-her-name-to-white-supremacists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends the actions of the Capitol Officer who shot Babbitt</a>. Describing her as a white supremacist—and providing no evidence—who took part in an insurrection alongside a “lynch mob.”

Dr. Lindsay is referring to the January 6th Capitol Hill Riots, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in which a number of protestors breached the Capitol’s Doors during certification of the 2020 Presidential Election</a>. Despite claims to the contrary, even the FBI has determined that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/fbi-confirms-there-was-no-insurrection-on-january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">no evidence exists that any rioters coordinated to commit an “insurrection.</a>” Ashli Babbitt was shot by Officer Michael Byrd as she attempted to climb through the broken window of a closed door. A review by the DC Metropolitan Police<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/documents-ashli-babbitt-death-foia-capitol-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> confirmed that Babbitt was unarmed when shot</a>.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">College of Arts and Sciences</a> of The Ohio State University at (614) 292-1667. 
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<a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/find-a-doctor/profiles/scott-f-leibowitz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Scott Leibowitz</a> is an <a href="https://medicine.osu.edu/departments/psychiatry-and-behavioral-health/our-people/our-faculty-h-n" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associate Professor</a> in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Leibowitz is also the Medical Director for Behavioral Health at the THRIVE Gender and Sex Development Program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

According to the THRIVE <a href="https://www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/thrive-program/gender-development" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, “Our behavioral health providers serve patients and families who are seeking gender affirming medical treatment or when gender identity development plays a significant role in their emotional and social wellbeing.”

In June 2021, Dr. Leibowitz and Co-Medical Director of the THRIVE Gender Development Program Dr. Gayathri Chelvakumar, wrote an op-ed for <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2021/06/23/gayathri-chelvakumar-and-scott-leibowitz-bills-increase-stigma-isolation-many-transgender-youth-fee/5297432001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a> in response to the “national wave of anti-transgender legislation.”

They write, “As healers, we follow ethical guidelines to deliver evidence-informed treatment options that are acknowledged and well-recognized by the academic and professional societies we belong to.” They argue “the last thing that transgender youth need are lawmakers restricting their athletic participation or eliminating important beneficial medical options for them.”

Dr. Leibowitz and Dr. Chelvakumar conclude the article by saying, “We urge our lawmakers to listen to the voices of the transgender youth and families, and those who provide care to them every day and abandon this harmful attempt to further alienate LGBTQ youth.”

Dr. Leibowitz also shared his thoughts about the legislation on Twitter:
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Even the mere introduction of these discriminatory legislative efforts- regardless of their ultimate success- sends a message to trans and gender diverse young people that they are “other”- and that is unacceptable. Support <a href="https://twitter.com/EqualityOhio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@EqualityOhio</a> and protect trans youth. <a href="https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/XYsUanjh6R</a>
— Scott Leibowitz, MD (@ScottLeibowitz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottLeibowitz/status/1410047097420779522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">June 30, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In March 2023, Dr. Leibowitz—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. Leibowitz is also a <a href="https://www.wpath.org/member/514" 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 - July 26, 2023

<a href="https://english.osu.edu/people/jani.4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pranav Jani</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. According to his university profile, Jani is a “longtime social justice activist” who specializes in “South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, Marxist theories of nationalism and colonialism, and the intertwined legacies of colonialism, settler colonialism and slavery.”

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Jani wrote an article titled “<a href="https://pranavjani.medium.com/finding-the-courage-to-speak-93c4dbf94fb9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Finding the Courage to Speak</a>,” where he said:
“Today, political and social forces bear down on us and tell us not to speak against the genocidal war in Gaza - using the terrible death of Israeli civilians as a way to keep our mouths shut about Palestinian civilian deaths, expulsion, and starvation, today and for 75 years.” 
He then encouraged his readers to “stand up against injustice” and “speak out to the best of our ability.”

Jani acts as the faculty advisor for Ohio State’s chapter of <a href="https://activities.osu.edu/involvement/student_organizations/find_a_student_org?i=1422&amp;l=C&amp;page=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Students for Justice in Palestine</a>. According to the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/its-not-just-students-meet-the-professors-leading-the-academic-embrace-of-hamas/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a>, the group held a “day of resistance” rally where organizers defended Hamas terrorism and condemned Israel’s “apartheid system.” The group also issued a statement defending Hamas’s “right to resist” and denounced “Israel’s continued settler colonial violent murder of Palestinians.”

Jani has been a vocal supporter of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. In 2016, he penned an article titled, “<a href="https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/09/22/pranav-janis-statement-in-support-of-a-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Statement in Support of a Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions</a>,” where he wrote:
“When you join the boycott of Israel you are responding to a call from Palestinian civil society and saying that no, we, as part of a global community that is committed to human rights, will not be silent while atrocities under a military colonial occupation go on month after month, year after year … If you refuse to see this line, you are also taking a stand: for the status quo. You are free to do so, of course. But then please don’t speak to me about your anti-racism.” 
Jani is also an <a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-backlash-against-racial-justice-education-recent-talks-interviews-and-writing-faa2bac2f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocate for critical race theory</a>. In an article titled “The Backlash Against Racial Justice Education: Recent Talks, Interviews, and Writing,” he alleges that CRT has become a “catch-all term for challenging racial justice and social justice education.” He writes:
“Under the cover of fighting ‘left-wing indoctrination,’ the White Right goes after all of the gains that educators have made in challenging curricula based on erasing racism, sexism, and oppression in U.S. history and society…”
“...Right-wing media and politicians have created a false narrative about Critical Race Theory, a field in legal studies, as their latest attempt to suppress honest dialogue and policy about diversity, equity, and inclusion in education - particularly as it relates to the topics of racism, slavery, and colonialism.” 
Jani has also called on people to “<a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/organize-and-mobilize-fight-ohio-sb-83-524eac3048d0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organize and mobilize</a>” against Ohio Senate Bill 83. According to <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/03/16/why-should-ohio-senate-bill-83-be-stopped-what-efforts-underway-ohio-state-university-free-speach/70014225007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Columbus Dispatch</a>, Senate Bill 83 would include, among other things, “an end to diversity training mandates, a ban on partnerships with Chinese universities, and mandatory American history courses.”

He believes the bill is an “attempt to roll back the changes in K-12 and higher education, and in society at large, that have taken place since the 1960s.” He attributes this to the “Donald Trump/Ron DeSantis era” which he claims is a “deep backlash against Black rebellion against police violence, trans visibility, growing unionization efforts, DEI programs, and other signs that many sections of U.S. society want to take on both structural oppression and its daily manifestations.”

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Published - October 31, 2023

Pranav Jani

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Kelli Alvarez is an <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/fyc/people/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Teaching Professor</a> at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity in literature and film as well as indigenous and other ethnic literature. Alvarez teaches freshman-level courses, including English Composition, where she requires all students to read a publication by Professor Watchlist identified <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> titled, “When Free Speech Becomes Unfree Speech.”
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When Alvarez isn’t teaching first-year composition courses, she is <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/classroom-censorship-comes-to-the-university-of-oklahoma/">leading workshops</a> for fellow teachers and professors on “anti-racist rhetoric &amp; pedagogies.” Over the summer of 2021, Alvarez led a classroom censorship workshop discussing how to “set an anti-racist tone” in the classroom and ultimately silence certain students. During the workshop, she discussed how particular students are emboldened to be overly racist in the classroom, both in-person and through their writing. She said that while some teachers may be afraid to tell students they can’t say something in class, teachers absolutely have the right to tell students to be quiet and stop talking.
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Alvarez goes on to claim that the Supreme Court ruled that hate speech is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. She states, “the Supreme Court has actually upheld that hate speech, derogatory speech, any of the -isms do not apply in the classroom because they do not foster a productive learning environment.”
According to <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-rights-to-freedom-of-expression-do-students-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Freedom Forum Institute</a>, The Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
Later in the lecture, Alvarez discusses a concept called “white institutional defensiveness,” which she describes as conditions that force non-white students to conform and assimilate to whiteness or else risk consequences. Alvarez asserts that not allowing non-white students to write in ABE style (Adult Basic Education) is racist and perpetuating white supremacy.
According to the Division of Adult and Career Education, ABE style is meant for native English-speakers with limited literacy, below a 9th grade level. The video of the entire workshop can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxl61VDYp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

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Kelli Alvarez is an <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/fyc/people/faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Assistant Teaching Professor</a> at the University of Oklahoma. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity in literature and film as well as indigenous and other ethnic literature. Alvarez teaches freshman-level courses, including English Composition, where she requires all students to read a publication by Professor Watchlist identified <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ibram X. Kendi</a> titled, “When Free Speech Becomes Unfree Speech.”

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When Alvarez isn’t teaching first-year composition courses, she is <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/classroom-censorship-comes-to-the-university-of-oklahoma/">leading workshops</a> for fellow teachers and professors on “anti-racist rhetoric &amp; pedagogies.” Over the summer of 2021, Alvarez led a classroom censorship workshop discussing how to “set an anti-racist tone” in the classroom and ultimately silence certain students. During the workshop, she discussed how particular students are emboldened to be overly racist in the classroom, both in-person and through their writing. She said that while some teachers may be afraid to tell students they can’t say something in class, teachers absolutely have the right to tell students to be quiet and stop talking.

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Alvarez goes on to claim that the Supreme Court ruled that hate speech is not protected by the U.S. Constitution. She states, “the Supreme Court has actually upheld that hate speech, derogatory speech, any of the -isms do not apply in the classroom because they do not foster a productive learning environment.”

According to <a href="https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/about/faq/what-rights-to-freedom-of-expression-do-students-have/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Freedom Forum Institute</a>, The Supreme Court ruled in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) that students “do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Later in the lecture, Alvarez discusses a concept called “white institutional defensiveness,” which she describes as conditions that force non-white students to conform and assimilate to whiteness or else risk consequences. Alvarez asserts that not allowing non-white students to write in ABE style (Adult Basic Education) is racist and perpetuating white supremacy.

According to the Division of Adult and Career Education, ABE style is meant for native English-speakers with limited literacy, below a 9th grade level. The video of the entire workshop can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxl61VDYp8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

<a href="https://www.law.ou.edu/directory/steven-j-cleveland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Steven J Cleveland</a> is the Alfred P. Murrah Professor of Law and Thomas P. Hester Presidential Professor at the<a href="https://law.ou.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> College of Law at the University of Oklahoma (OU</a>).

During the 2022 Spring Semester, the University of Oklahoma implemented strict mandates on students and faculty to limit the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Cleveland is currently enforcing these policies in his classroom to such an extreme extent that students are threatened with being removed from class and reported to the Dean of the school for not wearing a mask.

Upon returning for the Spring 2022 semester, students were informed by <a href="https://www.normantranscript.com/news/ou-requiring-masks-for-first-two-weeks-of-classes/article_704a7026-723a-11ec-aa7b-139ccc6f40da.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the university’s administration they will be forced to wear face masks</a> in classroom settings until February 1 when masks will then become<a href="https://www.ou.edu/together/campus-protocols/spring-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strongly recommended.</a>

This mandate is in direct contradiction with Oklahoma state law. In May of 2021, Governor Kevin Stitt <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/29/oklahoma-gov-kevin-stitt-bars-agencies-mask-vaccination-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned any state agency or building–including public universities–from requiring either a mask or vaccination status for entry</a>.

Nevertheless, professors at OU are still enforcing mask mandates and threatening to penalize students who do not comply with the restrictions. In communications reviewed by the Professor Watchlist team, professors are removing maskless students from class and threatening their grades due to the forced absences. Others refuse to even meet with students who are unvaccinated and will report unmasked students to their respective Dean.

One student, Alyssa Amundsen, vowed to defy the university mandates. She emailed each of her professors in the law school explaining that she would not wear a mask in class under any circumstance. While some professors were accommodating, many were not, and refused to allow her to attend in person.

Dr Cleveland was the most resistant to grant any exemptions. Amundsen was barred from attending class despite obtaining a medical exemption from wearing a mask last year from her doctor.

Amundsen emailed Dr. Cleveland to ask if she could attend class without a mask. Dr. Cleveland immediately refused her request and threatened to report her to the Dean of the Law School if she made a maskless appearance.

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Amundsen then offered to take the class remotely via ZOOM since the course is already recorded for students who are absent due to COVID. Despite this, Dr. Cleveland again refused, stating that “taking a stand for her beliefs has consequences.”

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n a follow-up conversation with two Deans of the law school—Dr. Steven Gensler and Dr. Kathleene Guzman—Amundsen was still adamant to reach a compromise. Both told her there is no recourse she and can only attend in-person classes while wearing a mask per university rules. She was eventually forced to drop the class or risk having her grade reduced due to her absences.

While an injunction has been placed on Governor Stitt’s executive order, the Judge <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/oklahoma-school-mask-mandate-ban-blocked-exemptions-79769836" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled that schools must include an “opt-out.” So far, OU has provided no such opt-out</a> for students and staff.

The Professor Watchlist team has reached out to Dr. Cleveland but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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UPDATE
Following publication, the Professor Watchlist team has received the following statement from Mackenzie Scheer, Director of Media Relations at the University of Oklahoma, in regards to our inquiry.

"Since the onset of the pandemic, OU has sought to implement protocols that will protect our community, while also allowing for our in-person experience to continue. Given the transmission rate of Omicron and supply chain issues around testing, OU instituted a temporary addendum to its existing masking policy, requiring masking in all classrooms through Jan. 31. Beginning Feb. 1, the university reverted to its Fall 2021 masking guidance that expects masking in the classroom and requires masking for a two-week quarantine period when a confirmed positive COVID-19 case in the class is identified. While the university does not grant exemptions, it does evaluate requests for accommodations in certain cases. Students in need of accommodations due to health or religious reasons were instructed by law school administrators to contact the <a href="mailto:OU%20Accessibility%20and%20Disability%20Resource%20Center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OU Accessibility and Disability Resource Center</a> at <a href="mailto:adrc@ou.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adrc@ou.edu</a> or (405) 325-3852. All accommodation decisions are made on a case-by-case basis after considering each individual’s circumstance and in accordance with all applicable laws. Once a request has been approved, instructors are responsible for providing a student’s reasonable accommodation."

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Students and Parents may contact the College of Law at the University of Oklahoma at (405) 325-4699. 
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Updated - Febuary 2, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/about/faculty/r-keresztesi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rita Keresztesi</a> is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests consist of African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black African literary and cultural studies; such as the Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts/Black Power, Afro-Caribbean literature, and postcolonial African cinema.

She has also authored many publications, such as: 
<ul>
 	<li><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Literary-Black-Power-in-the-Caribbean-Fiction-Music-and-Film/Keresztesi/p/book/9780367482015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Literary Black Power in the Caribbean</a>. This book “focuses on the Black Power movement in the anglophone Caribbean…” </li>
 	<li><a href="https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9780803227675/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars.</a> The book description states “She argues that literary modernism grew out of a prejudiced, racially biased, and often xenophobic historical context that necessitated a politically conservative and narrow definition of modernism in America.”</li>
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Keresztesi’s <a href="https://fulbrightscholars.org/sites/default/files/documents/A6-Keresztesi-Rita-CV.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">curriculum vitae</a> shows that ENGL 4333 Black Arts/Black Power is one of the many courses she has taught in the English Department. According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-oklahoma-english-course-to-focus-on-black-power/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, The University of Oklahoma offered an English course (Spring, 2022) led by Keresztesi that focused on “Black Power.” An <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/academics/courses/catalogue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">online description</a> says that the course focused on the “cultural and political agendas of the “Black Arts” and “Black Power” movement from the 1960s to today with an emphasis on progressive agendas such as “the rise of the Prison-Industrial Complex and the #BlackLivesMatter movement…”

As stated in The College Fix, “Tamera Nealy, a student at the University of Oklahoma, said she believes the course sounds like it may be taught in a divisive manner and add to racial unrest on campus.”

If you would like to <a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/english/contact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact</a> the English Department, you can email <a href="mailto:mountford@ou.edu">mountford@ou.edu</a>.

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Published — October 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/traci-brynne-voyles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Traci Brynne Voyles</a> is a Professor and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma. Her university profile states that she is a “historian of colonialism, race, and environment...” Voyles's research includes the study of North America from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries.

Voyles’s new book, <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Settler_Sea/nCtEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Settler Sea: California’s Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism</a> covers a variety of topics on white settlers, oppression, environmental injustice, and more. The text states: “Rather than erasing white settlers’ relationships to (and oppression of) other non-Native people of color, those relationships of enslavement, racialized labor, and criminalization on an ‘inherited background field’ of Native dispossession…. (44) In its most fundamental formulation, environmental injustice occurs when people who are marginalized by racism, classism, settler colonialism, or heteropatriarchy are disproportionately targeted to bear the burdens of environmental harm. (45)” 

Another one of her publications, <a href="https://borderlandshistory.org/2016/06/14/cfp-not-just-green-not-just-white-race-justice-and-environmental-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History</a> (with Mary E. Mendoza) reads: “Race is a critical component to the study of environmental injustice, but environmental history, until very recently, has tended to leave out questions of race.”

A third publication is titled <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479894567/sustainability/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Man Destroys Nature? Gender, History, and the Feminist Praxis of Situating Sustainabilities.” In Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power</a> (edited by Julie Sze, 196–215. New York: New York University Press, 2018. 19 pages.) This text is a “critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines[.]”

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In a Q&amp;A conducted by <a href="https://edgeeffects.net/traci-brynne-voyles-anti-vaccination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edge Effects</a>, Voyles talks about environmentalism, white supremacy, racism, and more. She states:
“But my research showed that it is also deeply racist.  In fact, the notion of pure and unpolluted white bodies is a key part of how environmental racism proceeds. The protection of purity from any kind of contamination has been a mechanism by which toxins are diverted into nonwhite spaces and how this distributional injustice is rationalized as common sense…”
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Published — November 17, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/psc/faculty/shortle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allyson Shortle</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Oklahoma. According to Shortle’s <a href="http://www.allysonshortle.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a>, her research “examines group identity dynamics in the context of American political behavior.” 

Her recent projects consist of “the nexus of race, nationalism, and political behavior.” On her website, she states, “I also often examine the race-gendered dynamics of criminal justice attitudes using experimental methods.” 

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Shortle has a variety of publications, such as:
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 	<li><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/everyday-crusade/34A0EF92928EB4E3AC25B014B6DF0FFC#fndtn-information" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics</a> (2022 – w. Eric L. McDaniel and Irfan Nooruddin). This text “examines the relationship between American religious exceptionalism and prejudicial and antidemocratic attitudes.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X10371300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Divine Boundaries: How Religion Shapes Citizens’ Attitudes Toward Immigrants</a> American Politics Research (January 2011. McDaniel, Eric L., Irfan Nooruddin, and Allyson Shortle). The article “argue[s] that religion affects immigration attitudes via a distinct religiously informed interpretation of America’s national identity, which we call Christian nationalism. Christian nationalists believe that America has a divinely inspired mission and link its success to God’s favor. Using social identity complexity theory, we argue that citizens who ascribe to this worldview should be least tolerant of those they perceive as symbolic threats to American national identity.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2022.2065320" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethnocultural or generalized? Nationalism and support for punitive immigration policy</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, and Allyson Shortle). The description reads: “We argue that ethnocultural forms of nationalism—beliefs about religious, ethnic, and gendered criteria for “true Americanness”—help explain support for family separations.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-018-9446-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Is Sexism for White People? Gender Stereotypes, Race, and the 2016 Presidential Election</a> (Ana Bracic, Mackenzie Israel-Trummel &amp; Allyson F. Shortle). The description states: “This paper offers the first observational test of how sexism affects presidential vote choice in the general election, adding to the rich literature on gender and candidate success for lower-level offices. We argue that the 2016 election implicated gender through Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and Donald Trump’s sexist rhetoric, and activated gender attitudes such that sexism is associated with vote choice.”</li>
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<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/christian-nationalism-threatens-democracy-experts/story?id=91866475" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a> asks Shortle: What does Christian nationalism mean for American democracy?
"I think democracy is on the line here as a result of the threats from Christian nationalism ... yes, it's a minority ideology, but we don't see a lot of opposition to it," she states.
Additionally, in an interview with <a href="https://www.kgou.org/show/capitol-insider/2022-08-26/rise-of-christian-nationalism-influences-political-discourse-and-elections-in-2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KGOU News</a>, Shortle states: 
“Well, in my own research, I've definitely found higher rates of white Christian Nationalism in Oklahoma than other parts of the country. So, using some Oklahoma nonprofit survey collectors through places like Sooner Poll, for instance, I found higher rates than when I run a national poll asking the same metrics of white Christian Nationalism. And not just how you define American identity, but also these particular myths of American religious exceptionalism that people adhere to - that America is God's chosen nation, for instance, America was picked by God to lead all other countries. These are American exceptionalist ideals, but they're also ideals that Christian Nationalists use to maybe speak to other Christian Nationalists without others knowing. Right?”
Professor Shortle offers a variety of courses, such as Public Opinion, Immigration Politics, Identity Politics, and more.

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Published — November 16, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/carrie-schroeder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carrie Schroeder</a> is a Women’s and Gender Studies professor at The University of Oklahoma. Schroeder’s interests include sexuality, gender, religion, history, homoeroticism, and more.

In Spring 2023, Dr. Schroeder will be teaching a new course, “Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities” (WGS 3463). According to The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, the course will introduce students “to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities.”
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Sex, Gender, and Early Christianities (WGS 3463) is a new course that is now available for Spring 2023 enrollment! The course introduces students to the diverse understanding of sexuality and gender that developed in early Christianities. Join Dr. Schroeder in Spring 2023! <a href="https://t.co/EwkQD2MuW7">pic.twitter.com/EwkQD2MuW7</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1585661317767045121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Schroeder’s <a href="http://www.carrieschroeder.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> includes a variety of her publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wysoDQAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania: Early Christianity through the Life of One Family</a> (Edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder. Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.) “And yet, the genderqueering of Melania also made possible a much more robust memory of her in a society in which the memory of male figures was always uppermost.” (10).</li>
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Additionally, she tweets about terminating a “nonviable bunch of cells…” See the tweet below:

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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/anthropology/faculty-staff/elyse-singer1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elyse Singer</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at The University of Oklahoma. According to her university profile, her research interests include: “Reproduction, Abortion, End of life care, Bioethics, Reproductive governance, Mexico, Health, Citizenship, Gender, and the body.”

Singer’s <a href="https://ou.academia.edu/ElyseSinger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> features many of her publications, such as:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5601/7407" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a Bind: Navigating Ethical Demands in Feminist Abortion Research</a>: Singer highlights her position “as a pro-choice feminist researcher.…” The text “illuminates the difficulties inherent in feminist abortion research in a context of recent legalization and sustained anti-abortion sentiment.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.academia.edu/34146935/The_End_of_Feminist_Abortion_Counseling_Examining_Threats_to_Womens_Health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The End of Feminist Abortion Counseling? Examining Threats to Women's Health</a>: The description states that “Drawing from ethnographic research in abortion clinics and their own experience as abortion counselors, the authors examine current threats to comprehensive abortion counseling in independent clinics and the implications of these changes for quality abortion care.”</li>
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Singer was recently featured at an event covering “abortion as social labor” which was hosted by the <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Oklahoma</a>:
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Join us TODAY at 4-5:30pm in Ellison Hall Room 132! <a href="https://t.co/fZ9HE5S5t9">pic.twitter.com/fZ9HE5S5t9</a>
— OU WGS (@ouWGS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ouWGS/status/1588254895941255168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Megan Sibbett</a> is an Assistant Professor of The Women’s and Gender Studies Department at The University of Oklahoma. “Her scholarly fields include queer and trans feminist theory, LGBTQ studies, and queer activism and movements.” Currently, Sibbett is a teacher and researcher with a focus on queer imagination of childhood and childhood cultures. 

Sibbett has several publications, such as
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/feminist-and-queer-theory-9780190841799?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Breaking into Bad: The New Privileged Monsters, or Straight, Middle-Class, White Guys," Feminist and Queer Theories: An Intersectional and Transnational Reader</a>, Oxford University Press. This text “addresses both feminist and queer theory through intersectional and transnational lenses.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"ACT UP! LIV MOORE!: Blood, Brains, and Bodies and the Queer Activism of the Monstrous in iZombie."</a> [forthcoming].</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/wgs/people/faculty/megan-sibbett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Violence with Queer Storytelling.”</a> [forthcoming 2023].</li>
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Published — November 18, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/education/people/faculty/mirelsie-velazquez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mirelsie Velázquez</a> is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests include gender, sexuality, race, and more. Velázquez teaches a variety of courses, such as “History of American Education, Puerto Rican Studies, Critical Race Theory, Latina Feminism, Latina/o Education, Oral History, and Historiography of Education.” 

A few of her thoughts on the United States, Christian fascism, abortion, and more are below:

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Published — November 23, 2022

<a href="https://www.ou.edu/cas/philosophy/people/faculty/steve-ellis">Stephen Ellis</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Graduate Liaison at The University of Oklahoma. His research areas are “Decision Theory,” “Philosophy of Economics,” “Philosophy of Mind” and “Ethics.” A list of courses taught by Ellis include “Philosophy of Social Science,” “Contemporary Philosophy: Social Norms,” and “Contemporary Philosophy: The White Racial Frame.” 

The Professor Watchlist received an anonymous tip about a racially charged comment Ellis posted online. The concerned citizen said community members were discussing the legalities of Oklahoma’s homeless population when Ellis made the following statement:

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Ellis’ Facebook cover photo shows the following graphic:

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Rather than provide alternative solutions to the issue of homelessness, Ellis appears to have an affinity for poverty and has spoken out against police officers who attempt to maintain public safety and law and order.

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Please send tips and information on Stephen Ellis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://philosophy.unt.edu/people/jessica-luther-rummel">Jessica Luther-Rummel</a> is a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. 
According to her university profile, Rummel is a “Community Coordination Chair” for the local NAACP. She is also the founder of Direct Action for Change, which aims to “inspire civil disobedience against racism, genderism, sexism, and capitalism.” She teaches courses on the “histories of racism, race, race theory, and religion” each summer as part of the <a href="https://olli.unt.edu/">Osher Lifelong Learning Institute</a>. 
Rummel’s undergraduate thesis—titled, “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/54701234/LEGACIES_OF_POWER_THE_CULTURAL_HERITAGE_OF_THEOLOGICAL_WHITE_SUPREMACY">Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930</a>”—depicts Christians as white supremacists and accuses the United States of systemic racism. She alleges that a “thriving white supremacist activism” embedded racism deep into the nation’s civic identity: 
“Klu Klux Konfederatism remains the modern vehicle of theological white supremacy in Denton, Texas, and the United States of America.”  
Rummel accuses the Founding Fathers of harboring a “white utopian vision,” which was conveyed through the myth of “western progress.” She alleges this created a nation of settlers that cited divine purpose when committing mass genocide. 
These early settlers, she writes, were inspired by their Christian faith—specifically Protestantism—to pursue a white, utopian nation. Rummel attributes this to the belief in a “collective Messiah” which causes Christians to pursue “universal whiteness” as their savior.  
“&#8230;one of the most powerful traditional symbols messianism, which is the Messiah itself, Klanish theology presented the order as consecrated army destined to bring about and protect a ‘Collective Messiah’—a literal living Christ manifest as universal whiteness.”
Rummell concludes that Christian, conservative, ideology results in the subjugation of people of color. She further writes that every person alive in the United States today is a product of this distinct brand of white supremacy. 
“&#8230;It is an unavoidable truth that every person now living in the U.S. is a product of a distinct brand of theological white supremacy.”  
Rummel is a supporter of universal abortion on demand. <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX">Among other tweets</a>, Rummel writes that she “has an abortion for breakfast” every morning. Another announces that she will perform an abortion on herself to collect insurance money on the child.  
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I literally have an abortion for breakfast every morning. <a href="https://t.co/kN80nEjJGn">https://t.co/kN80nEjJGn</a>
— JRLR (@Kali_Ma_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX/status/1390017544547979267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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And then having a self induced abortion and collecting the policy payout 💅 ❌ 👶 <a href="https://t.co/kqiTIYLc7x">https://t.co/kqiTIYLc7x</a>
— JRLR (@Kali_Ma_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX/status/1545929587766530048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGq6hyd652s&amp;ab_channel=NTXDirectActionforaChange">In a separate video</a>, Rummel states that pregnancy centers trick expecting mothers into not pursuing abortions in order to pressure them into having “babies they don’t want.” This, she alleges, is part of a plot to birth more children that can be enslaved on behalf of capitalism. 
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Rummel then claims that abortion is a human right for women AND trans-men.
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Rummel posts her polemics on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/NTXDirectActionAgainstFascism">North Texas Direct Action’s</a> Youtube page. In one video, she records herself interrogating the staff of a cancer clinic for allegedly not forcing patients to wear masks. 
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<a href="https://philosophy.unt.edu/people/jessica-luther-rummel">Jessica Luther-Rummel</a> is a Teaching Fellow in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. 

According to her university profile, Rummel is a “Community Coordination Chair” for the local NAACP. She is also the founder of Direct Action for Change, which aims to “inspire civil disobedience against racism, genderism, sexism, and capitalism.” She teaches courses on the “histories of racism, race, race theory, and religion” each summer as part of the <a href="https://olli.unt.edu/">Osher Lifelong Learning Institute</a>. 

Rummel’s undergraduate thesis—titled, “<a href="https://www.academia.edu/54701234/LEGACIES_OF_POWER_THE_CULTURAL_HERITAGE_OF_THEOLOGICAL_WHITE_SUPREMACY">Legacies of Power: The Cultural Heritage of Theological White Supremacy, A Case Study of Ku Klux Konfederatism in Denton County Texas, 1850-1930</a>”—depicts Christians as white supremacists and accuses the United States of systemic racism. She alleges that a “thriving white supremacist activism” embedded racism deep into the nation’s civic identity: 
“Klu Klux Konfederatism remains the modern vehicle of theological white supremacy in Denton, Texas, and the United States of America.”  
Rummel accuses the Founding Fathers of harboring a “white utopian vision,” which was conveyed through the myth of “western progress.” She alleges this created a nation of settlers that cited divine purpose when committing mass genocide. 

These early settlers, she writes, were inspired by their Christian faith—specifically Protestantism—to pursue a white, utopian nation. Rummel attributes this to the belief in a “collective Messiah” which causes Christians to pursue “universal whiteness” as their savior.  

“...one of the most powerful traditional symbols messianism, which is the Messiah itself, Klanish theology presented the order as consecrated army destined to bring about and protect a ‘Collective Messiah’—a literal living Christ manifest as universal whiteness.”

Rummell concludes that Christian, conservative, ideology results in the subjugation of people of color. She further writes that every person alive in the United States today is a product of this distinct brand of white supremacy. 
“...It is an unavoidable truth that every person now living in the U.S. is a product of a distinct brand of theological white supremacy.”  
Rummel is a supporter of universal abortion on demand. <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX">Among other tweets</a>, Rummel writes that she “has an abortion for breakfast” every morning. Another announces that she will perform an abortion on herself to collect insurance money on the child.  
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I literally have an abortion for breakfast every morning. <a href="https://t.co/kN80nEjJGn">https://t.co/kN80nEjJGn</a>
— JRLR (@Kali_Ma_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX/status/1390017544547979267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2021</a></blockquote>
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And then having a self induced abortion and collecting the policy payout 💅 ❌ 👶 <a href="https://t.co/kqiTIYLc7x">https://t.co/kqiTIYLc7x</a>
— JRLR (@Kali_Ma_TX) <a href="https://twitter.com/Kali_Ma_TX/status/1545929587766530048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGq6hyd652s&amp;ab_channel=NTXDirectActionforaChange">In a separate video</a>, Rummel states that pregnancy centers trick expecting mothers into not pursuing abortions in order to pressure them into having “babies they don’t want.” This, she alleges, is part of a plot to birth more children that can be enslaved on behalf of capitalism. 

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Rummel then claims that abortion is a human right for women AND trans-men.

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Rummel posts her polemics on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/NTXDirectActionAgainstFascism">North Texas Direct Action’s</a> Youtube page. In one video, she records herself interrogating the staff of a cancer clinic for allegedly not forcing patients to wear masks. 

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Published - November 18, 2022

<a href="https://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/erika-knapp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erika Knapp</a> is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of North Texas. According to her faculty profile, “Dr. Knapp’s scholarly and research interests include music education for students with ability differences, teacher professional development, antiracist music education [and] equity in music education…” 

In December 2023, Knapp was featured in <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/music-education-remains-inherently-racist-scholars-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix article</a> “Music education ‘remains inherently racist’, scholars say.” Knapp and her colleague <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/whitneymayo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whitney Mayo</a> were highlighted after <a href="http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/KnappMayo22_3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">co-authoring a paper</a> that discusses anti-racism in music education.

The College Fix said, “[We] contacted Knapp and Mayo to inquire about the intersection between critical race theory and music education, solutions to fix the admissions process, and if there were any plans to get their ideas implemented. They declined…and say they are ‘choosing to let our paper speak for itself…’”

In the <a href="http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/KnappMayo22_3.pdf">paper</a>—entitled “Disrupting Racism in Music Education: Conceptualizing Admissions Processes Through the State and the War Machine”—Knapp and Mayo state:
“The music education field is and has remained predominantly white for the last 30 years. Silence about the dominance of whiteness remains pervasive in music education programs, despite a growing body of scholarship surrounding this topic. 
“In this article, we argue that the entire admissions process for United States music education programs, regardless of reform attempts and a sizeable body of academic scholarship, remains inherently racist.”
The College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/music-education-remains-inherently-racist-scholars-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed</a> out how Knapp and Mayo believe music education faculty “need to act as a war machine by ‘engaging in anti-racism’ and ‘understanding that disruption needs to occur on both the individual and systemic level.’”

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Please send information on Erika Knapp to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - January 16, 2024

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Anti-Judeo-Christian Values

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<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/nancy-coffin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Coffin</a> is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Arabic Language Program at Princeton University. According to her faculty profile, her doctoral dissertation “examined Palestinian novels and resistance narratives [and] proposed fresh readings of a number of canonical Palestinian texts in light of influential postcolonial, feminist and Marxist theories.”
Coffin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Coffin 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.”
Coffin 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 Nancy Coffin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published &#8211; February 22, 2024

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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.”
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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>.
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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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 Students and Parents may contact the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University at (609) 258-4270 or aas21@princeton.edu
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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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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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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://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin Kruse</a> is a Professor of History and the Director of the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University. His faculty biography says Kruse “studies the political social, and urban/suburban history of 20th-century America.” He’s also “focused on conflicts over race, rights, and religion…[with] particular interests in segregation and the civil rights movement.”

Kruse has published several manuscripts including a 2005 book entitled “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Flight-Atlanta-Conservatism-Politics/dp/0691133867?asin=0691133867&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism.</a>” Kruse introduces the novel by stating,

“This book explores the causes and course of white flight, with Atlanta serving as its vantage point…While many have assumed that white flight was little more than a literal movement of the white population, this book argues that it represented a much more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved.”

He continued,

“Because of their confrontation with the civil rights movement, white southern conservatives were forced to abandon their traditional, populist, and often starkly racist demagoguery and instead craft a new conservatism predicated on a language of rights, freedom, and individualism.”

In June 2022, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/double-standards-princeton-turns-blind-eye-to-plagiarism-from-woke-professor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> featured Kruse in an article titled “Double Standards: Princeton Turns Blind Eye to Plagiarism From Woke Professor.” According to the Beacon, “On December 6, the economic historian Phillip Magness emailed Princeton’s dean of faculty, Gene Jarrett, with evidence that [Kruse] plagiarized several passages of his 2015 book ‘One Nation Under God.’”

Magness cited passages of Kruse’s book as allegedly originating from a New York Times Article that was published in the mid-1960s. The Beacon said, “The university never replied to Magness’s email…and has not announced an investigation of Kruse.”

<a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/08/kevin-kruse-plagiarism-allegations-academic-princeton-investigation-phillip-magness-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to the Daily Princetonian</a>, “Kruse expressed ‘surprise’ at the allegations and attributed the lack of citations in one instance to an inadvertent oversight.” Kruse also allegedly plagiarized a professor in his 2000 Cornell University doctoral thesis. The Princetonian quoted an email response from Kruse stating,

“‘While I indicated my intellectual debts to [author] Prof. Baylor else in the text, endnotes and bibliography of the dissertation, I was surprised to see that there was an instance in the introduction [where] I failed to do so properly.’”

<a href="https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/06/27/kevin-kruse-and-the-peak-political-plagiarism-scandal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Plagiarism Today said</a>, “Kruse is not your typical alleged plagiarist…Kruse has made a career for himself as an activist that corrects and criticizes right-wing talking points on history. He has over half a million followers on Twitter and a high-profile position at Princeton, both of which have given him clout.”

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Published - December 7, 2022

<a href="https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/frederick-wherry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Wherry</a> is the Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. In June 2022, he was named the inaugural vice dean for diversity and inclusion by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty.

Princeton’s Office of Communications <a href="https://www.princeton.edu/news/2022/06/30/wherry-appointed-vice-dean-diversity-and-inclusion-princetons-office-dean-faculty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published Wherry’s appointment</a> in an announcement wherein the university president said, “‘After spending time with Professor Wherry and learning more about the impact and interventions of his scholarship, [and] his profound commitment to educating our students…he struck me as the ideal colleague to augur our efforts in fulfilling the vision of the vice dean for diversity and inclusion.’”

In the same publication, Wherry said,

“‘Diversity and inclusion are critical to our core mission. When our faculty and academic professionals can participate fully in our shared endeavor, we are all able to see problems in new ways, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, making way for innovation.’”

As the Director of the <a href="https://www.dignityanddebt.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digntiy and Debt Network</a>, Wherry leads an organization of “experts” who research concepts of “dignity, respect, and fairness” in lending and debt collection. The organization studies debt along racial and socio-economic lines and states one of its goals is “to change the conversation about credit and debt among those measuring financial access and wellness…[b]y developing novel visualizations of dignity and debt…”

Wherry is in favor of canceling student loan debt. He believes borrowers are “victims” while lenders are “perpetrators.”
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We are in the Times today calling on Biden to fix the failures of the student loan program by bailing out the victims rather than the perpetrators of the mess w ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CharlieEatonPhD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CharlieEatonPhD</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Amber_D?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@amber_d</a>⁩_villa <a href="https://twitter.com/nytopinion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytopinion</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/Princeton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Princeton</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ASAnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ASAnews</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd">https://t.co/r0mgNNO7kd</a>
— frederick wherry ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 (@ProfessorWherry) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfessorWherry/status/1526509899001253889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Wherry participated in a panel discussion called “<a href="https://youtu.be/DP7SK_-fXA8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Native Son: Black Gay Leadership Forum</a>” to discuss ideas on wealth creation, social justice, and trauma within communities. When asked about the aspiration of building assets and stronger economic futures among black and gay people, Wherry stated,

“One of the things we have to keep in mind when building assets is that they look different for our community in part because we have a positive effect on our social networks and building assets. People help us out, sometimes we get that ‘white glove treatment’ by virtue of folks who can tell us how to most effectively take advantage of an opportunity when it arises.”

He continued,

“At the same time, we have to be realistic…our social networks also can deplete some of those traditional forms of asset building…When we are providing financial assistance to our kinfolk — when you compare us to our white counterparts, who don’t have the same kinds of requests coming in at the same level of occupation, at the same level of academic achievement — we just have less available for traditional asset-building.”

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/satyel-larson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Satyel Larson</a> is an Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Larson’s areas of instruction are “Anthropology,” “Law and society,” “The Maghreb” and “Women, gender and sexuality.” Her faculty profile says:
“Her research and teaching lie at the intersections of law, science, technology and society; women, gender and sexuality; reproduction, health and medicine; Islam and secularism; colonialism, postcolonialism and globality; historical anthropology and epistemology; political economy; and language, discourse and narrative.”
Larson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made headlines</a> for reportedly teaching a course “that claims black people can be considered disabled due to the purported systemic racism they face.” Princeton’s Undergraduate Courses-Fall 2023 <a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/courses">schedule</a> lists Larson as the instructor for “The Healing Humanities: Decolonizing Trauma Studies from the Global South.” The course description says the course:
“Introduces the transdisciplinary field of trauma studies by examining visions of humanity…Reorienting healing as a decolonizing process enables students to re-politicize personal trauma as it intersects with global legacies of violence, war, racism, slavery, patriarchy, colonialism, orientalism, homophobia, ableism, capitalism and extractivism.”
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/princeton-anti-capitalist-class-teaching-black-people-considered-handicapped-systemic-racism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> highlighted Larson’s racialized course along with a textbook on the <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=016853&amp;term=1242" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sample Reading List.</a> According to the publisher, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Right-Maim-Debility-Disability-Otherwise/dp/0822369184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CJIPSGV1XZ1X&amp;keywords=Jasbir+Puar%2C+The+Right+to+Maim%3A+Debility%2C+Capacity%2C+Disability&amp;qid=1693330890&amp;sprefix=%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability</a>” by Rutgers professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a> is “an interrogation of Israel’s policies toward Palestine, in which [Puar] outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.” 

The publisher also wrote, “Supplementing its right to kill with what Puar calls the right to maim, the Israeli state relies on liberal frameworks of disability to obscure and enable the mass debilitation of Palestinian bodies.”

On August 16, 2023, the Free Beacon featured Larson <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/satyel-larson-princeton-professor-anti-semitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in an article</a> titled “5 Things We Absolutely Love About Princeton Professor Satyel Larson.” The Beacon said, “Professor Larson, a white female redhead, brings a valuable diverse perspective to the university’s stable of anti-Semites.” The list with corresponding photos is below:

1. She has a beautiful mind
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2. She’s resourceful
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3. She doesn’t judge
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4. She respects the First Amendment
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5. She’s just as comfortable chilling on the back porch as she is teaching in the classroom
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According to the <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/israeli-minister-asks-princeton-to-remove-antisemitic-propaganda-from-course/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Review</a>, “The International Legal Forum, an Israel-based non-profit, criticized the decision to include [Puar’s] book in the course curriculum” and the “Israeli Minister and the International Legal Forum called for removing the book from the course.”

The Review also said, “Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, called for canceling the course and terminating [Larson].”
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Princeton University is not only sanctioning hate speech, but establishing fertile ground for a new generation of antisemitic thought leaders. I am calling on Princeton University to cancel the course in question immediately, fire its professor, Satyel Larson, and issue a public…
— Ronald S. Lauder (@lauder_ronald) <a href="https://twitter.com/lauder_ronald/status/1690872880014274560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://psych.princeton.edu/people/kristina-olson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kristina Olson</a> is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. Her faculty profile says:
“I study how children think about social groups, like those based on race and gender. Much of my most recent work has focused on sex and gender-diverse children with ongoing longitudinal projects exploring gender development and well-being in transgender, gender nonconforming and intersex children.”
In 2019, Olson<a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1909367116" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-authored a study</a> entitled “Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development.” In the study “Abstract,” Olson, et al. conclude, “Our findings suggest that early sex assignment and parental rearing based on that sex assignment do not always define how a child identifies or expresses gender later.”

The study goes on to state that “young transgender children are different from their cisgender peers in their unique gender socialization experience, having lived part of their childhoods treated as members of one gender (before transitioning) and part of their childhoods treated as members of another gender (after transitioning).”

Olson <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected">co-authored another study</a> on the effects of socially transitioning after five years. The study’s “methods” are based on data from the Trans Youth Project (TYP)—powered by Princeton University’s HUman[sic] Diversity Lab. The Lab reported data on 208 transgender girls and 109 transgender boys between ages 3 and 12 who had “made a ‘complete’ binary social transition.”

Notably, Olson is listed as the director of the HUman Diversity Lab <a href="https://hudl.princeton.edu/people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the “People” page</a>. 

In the study “Gender Identity 5 Years After Social Transition,” Olson, et al. wrote:
“As part of the larger longitudinal study, parents and youth were regularly asked about whether they had begun using puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones…they were not asked about whether puberty had begun, though our available data suggests that…most participants were followed by an endocrinologist well before puberty began.”
In a discussion of the study’s findings, Olson, et al. concluded that “Five years after an initial binary social transition, 7% of youth had retransitioned at least once…Among those who had begun puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones, only 1 had transitioned to live as cisgender…” 

However, Olson et al. admit in the study that they “did not assess whether participants met criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth edition, diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children” and further stated that “many parents did not believe such diagnoses were either ethical or useful…”

Olson told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/health/transgender-children-identity.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>:
“There’s this sort of idea that the kids are going to start [transitioning] and that they’re going to change their minds…And at least in our sample, we’re not finding that.”
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Published - September 18, 2023

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/molly-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Molly Greene</a> is a Professor of History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. 

In August 2023, Greene signed an <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/08/princeton-opinion-academic-freedom-zionism-israel-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter</a> defending antisemitic sentiments from <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/satyellarson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Satyel Larson</a>. While teaching a humanities course at Princeton, Larson assigned her students <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-right-to-maim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Right to Maim</a>, written by anti-Israel author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/jasbirpuar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jasbir Puar</a>. The Duke University Press website says Puar “outlines how Israel brings Palestinians into biopolitical being by designating them available for injury.”

Greene is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Greene also 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 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.”
Greene 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 Molly Greene to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - February 14, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/andrew-cole" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Cole</a> is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature in the Department of English at Princeton University. Cole’s faculty profile describes him as a “critical theorist,” and links to an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> about Woodrow Wilson’s racism. The 2015 article details how students protested to have Wilson’s name completely removed from the college. 

Cole’s profile also says, "Like Wilson, Andrew is from Georgia, but unlike Wilson, he works against these pernicious legacies of racism in his teaching, writing, and activism."

Cole is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Cole 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 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.”
Cole 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 Andrew Cole to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - February 14, 2024
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<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/eddie-s-glaude-jr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eddie Glaude Jr.</a> is a Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. In April 2023, Glaude <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/04/african-american-studies-department-princeton-university-glaude-eddie-stepping-down-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that he would step down from his position as chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton.

Glaude is the author of several race-focused publications, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Black-Still-Enslaves-American/dp/1522634940?asin=0804137439&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including a book</a> entitled, “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul.” In the introduction, Glaude wrote:
“This book details what I call the Great Black Depression, and shows how the current rhetoric of economic recovery does not include the majority of black communities in this country. It challenges the pervasive silence about the crisis in black communities and puts forward an idea of American democracy shorn of its racist baggage.”
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Religion-Nation-Nineteenth-Century-America/dp/0226298205/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AHS2LRZ49TN3&amp;keywords=Exodus%21+Religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+Early+19th+century+black+america&amp;qid=1707509859&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=exodus+religion%2C+race+and+nation+in+early+19th+century+black+america%2Cstripbooks%2C121&amp;sr=1-1&amp;asin=0226298205&amp;revisionId=&amp;format=4&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In his novel</a> titled “Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation In Early 19th Century Black America,” Glaude compares the plight of African Americans to biblical accounts of Jews gaining freedom from slavery in Egypt. Glaude said his rendition explores “the ways the story became a source for a particular use of nation language among African Americans as well as a metaphorical framework for understanding the middle passage, enslavement, and quests for emancipation.”

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<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/liberal-prof-slams-conservatives-nyt-op-ed-calling-it-insidious-and-venomous/23785" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> featured Glaude in an article highlighting his online altercation with journalist Christopher Rufo. The heated discussion, which took place over Twitter, included Glaude calling Rufo’s work “insidious” and labeling Rufo a racist.
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Princeton professor calls my support for colorblind equality “venomous” and “insidious.”
But the choice is simple: we can have equality, in which individuals are held to a single standard; or we can have equity, in which individuals are rewarded or punished based on their race. <a href="https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c">https://t.co/BJZ1ekGn7c</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1685320993781223424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Glaude also tweeted his thoughts after SCOTUS overturned affirmative action in June 2023.
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Imagine this: my mother and father couldn’t attend Princeton or Ole Miss (I group in Mississippi), because of long-standing discriminatory practices. The civil rights movement happens. Doors are opened. Colleges and universities are somewhat integrated 1/
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) <a href="https://twitter.com/esglaude/status/1685307607576084480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/max-weiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Weiss</a> is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Weiss] studies the cultural, intellectual, and literary history of the modern Middle East, and is Associated Faculty in Comparative Literature.”

Weiss is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Weiss’ name tops the 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.”
Weiss 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 Max Weiss to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/joshua-b-guild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joshua Guild</a> is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History and African American Studies at Princeton University. His profile says, “[Guild] specializes in 20th- and 21st-century African American social and cultural history, urban history, and the making of the modern African diaspora, with particular interests in migration, black internationalism, black popular music, and the black radical tradition.”

Guild is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Guild 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.”
Guild 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 Joshua Guild to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://bholmes.scholar.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brooke Holmes</a> is a Professor of Classics at Princeton University. Her research interests include “the history and philosophy of concepts,” “ancient philosophy,” “literary theory,” and “gender and sexuality studies.”

Holmes is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Holmes 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.”
Holmes 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 Brooke Holmes to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/meredith-martin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meredith Martin</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Martin’s profile says she “specializes in anglophone poetry, historical prosody, historical poetics, poetry and public culture, and disciplinary and pedagogical history.”

Martin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Martin 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.”
Martin 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 Meredith Martin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/zahid-r-chaudhary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zahid Chaudhary</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Chaudhary’s profile says he “specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory.”

Chaudhary is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Chaudhary 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.”
Chaudhary 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 Zahid Chaudhary to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/nancy-coffin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Coffin</a> is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Arabic Language Program at Princeton University. According to her faculty profile, her doctoral dissertation “examined Palestinian novels and resistance narratives [and] proposed fresh readings of a number of canonical Palestinian texts in light of influential postcolonial, feminist and Marxist theories.”

Coffin is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Coffin 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.”
Coffin 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 Nancy Coffin to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/susana-draper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susana Draper</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Her research interests include “Latin American Marxisms,” “popular feminisms,” and “memory and social movements.”

Draper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Draper 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.”
Draper 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 Susana Draper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/gyan-prakash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gyan Prakash</a> is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. 

Prakash is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Prakash 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.”
Prakash 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 Gyan Prakash to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://plas.princeton.edu/news/2023/yarimar-bonilla-scholar-american-studies-latinoax-studies-and-caribbean-studies-appointed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yarimar Bonilla</a> is a Professor in American Studies and Latino/a/x Studies at Princeton University. Bonilla’s <a href="https://yarimarbonilla.com/bio" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> says: 
“[Bonilla] teaches and writes about questions of race, history, and political culture across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites and practices including: anti-colonial activism, race and social media, [and] the politics of the Trump presidency.”
Bonilla is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Bonilla 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.”
Bonilla 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 Yarimar Bonilla to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/asper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colleen Asper</a> is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center of Arts at Princeton University. 

Asper is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Asper 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.”
Asper 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 Colleen Asper to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://english.princeton.edu/people/rob-nixon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob Nixon</a> is an Associate Professor of English at Princeton University. Nixon’s teaching and areas of interest include “Postcolonialism,” “Literature and Ethnicity,” and “Contemporary Literature and Culture.”

Nixon is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Nixon 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.”
Nixon 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 Rob Nixon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/lara-harb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lara Harb</a> is an Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Harb’s faculty profile says: 
“By looking at works of poetic criticism, philosophy, and theoretical treatments of the miraculousness of the Quran, Harb argues that the theorization of the aesthetic of wonder develops in the 11th century and represents a major paradigm shift from earlier criticism.” 
Harb is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Harb 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.”
Harb 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 Lara Harb to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://religion.princeton.edu/people/tehseen-thaver" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tehseen Thaver</a> is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. According to her profile, Thaver “teaches courses on the Qur’an and its interpretation, Sufism and Muslim Ethics, Muslim humanities, Shi’ism, and religion and culture of Iran.” 

Thaver is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Thaver 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.”
Thaver 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 Tehseen Thaver to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://classics.princeton.edu/people/faculty/core/dan-el-padilla-peralta" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan-el Padilla Peralta</a> is an Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. In his faculty profile, Padilla Peralta states: 
“I work on the religions and politics of the Roman Republic and Empire … The arc of Roman slavery in the period of Rome’s imperial expansion is central to my research and teaching, as are comparative histories of slavery, [and] Black feminist theory and historiography.”
Padilla Peralta is one of 19 professors to form Princeton’s first Faculty for Justice in Palestine group. Padilla Peralta 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.”
Padilla Peralta 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 Dan-El Padilla Peralta to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - February 22, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/daniel-sheffield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Sheffield</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Sheffield “specializes in the religious, intellectual, and social history of the medieval and early modern Persian-speaking world.”

In April 2024, Sheffield 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 - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/erin-besler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erin Besler</a>, who used the pronouns ”she/they,” is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her work is “characterized by a particular interest in construction technologies, social media, and other online platforms for producing and sharing content where digital interactions rely less on expertise and more on ubiquity.”

In April 2024, Besler 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 - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/wendy-belcher-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wendy Belcher</a> is a Professor of African Literature with a joint appointment in the Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies. 

Belcher’s university profile states: 
“Working at the intersection of diaspora, postcolonial, medieval, and early modern studies, she has a special interest in the literatures of Ethiopia and Ghana and is working to bring attention to early African literature (written between 1300 and 1900), particularly that in African languages, through her research and translation.”
In April 2024, Belcher 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.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/karen-emmerich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karen Emmerich</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, her research focuses on “Modern Greek literature, theories and practices of translation, experimental translation, experimental poetics, textual scholarship, [and] migration and regimes of citizenship and belonging.” 

In April 2024, Emmerich 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.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/julia-elyachar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julia Elyachar</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Elyachar is “broadly trained in economics, history of political and economic thought, political economy, social theory, Middle Eastern Studies, and Arabic language.”

In April 2024, Elyachar 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.” 
Elyachar also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
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Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://music.princeton.edu/people/gavin-steingo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gavin Steingo</a> is a Professor of Music at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Steingo’s research “examines sound and music as fundamental features in the construction of global modernity, with research specializations in African music, sound studies, acoustic ecology, and music and philosophy.”

In April 2024, Steingo 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.” 
Steingo also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://aas.princeton.edu/people/anna-arabindan-kesson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anna Arabindan-Kesson</a> is an Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic art with a joint appointment in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Arabindan-Kesson’s research and teaching “focus on Black Diaspora Art, with an emphasis on histories of race, empire, and medicine in the long 19th century.”

In April 2024, Arabindan-Kesson 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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://effroncenter.princeton.edu/people/allison-carruth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Allison Carruth</a> is a Professor in the Program in American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Carruth’s research interests include “environmental narrative and science communication; the role of artists and writers in contemporary American environmental and food justice movements; and evolving relationships in the United States between technology and ecology.”

In April 2024, Carruth 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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/rena-lederman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rena Lederman</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Lederman’s interests include, but are not limited to the following: “gendered/sexed experience, meanings, and ideologies,” “bureaucratic and regulatory policies and practices, administrative law and democracy,” and “relationality, agency, expertise, and ethics.”

In April 2024, Lederman 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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/spyros-papapetros" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spyros Papapetros</a> is an Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his work “focuses on the historiography of art and architecture, the intersections between architecture and the visual arts, as well as, the relationship between architecture, psychoanalysis and the history of psychological aesthetics.”

In April 2024, Papapetros 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.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://spo.princeton.edu/people/pedro-meira-monteiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pedro Meira Monteiro</a> is the Arthur W. Marks ‘19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Monteiro 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.”
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://fit.princeton.edu/people/f-nick-nesbitt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">F. Nick Nesbitt</a> is a Professor in the Department of French &amp; Italian at Princeton University. According to his university profile, his teaching and research interests include “Haitian, French-Caribbean and African Studies,” “Postcolonial and Critical Theory,” and “Capitalism and Slavery.”

In April 2024, Nesbitt 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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://german.princeton.edu/department/people/faculty/core/barbara-nagel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barbara Nagel</a> is an Associate Professor in the Princeton German Department and an Associate Faculty member of the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. According to her university profile, her research and teaching interests include “gender and sexuality, theology, psychoanalysis, law with a historical focus on the Baroque, literature around 1800, and realism.”

In April 2024, Nagel 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.” 
&nbsp;
Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://nes.princeton.edu/people/behrooz-ghamari-tabrizi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi</a> is a Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Chair of the Near Eastern Studies Department, and Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.

In April 2024, Ghamari-Tabrizi 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.” 
Ghamari-Tabrizi also signed an open letter published by <a href="https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2023/10/princeton-opinion-openletter-solidarity-israel-palestine-peace-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Princetonian</a> on November 29, 2023, titled “An open letter from Princeton faculty and students in solidarity with Gaza.” The letter included the following quote:
“The ongoing Israeli assault upon the Gaza Strip must be stopped … The international community must force Israel, Hamas, and all parties to the conflict to adhere strictly to the letter of international law, first and foremost by putting an immediate and complete halt to the unchecked collective punishment currently being deployed against Palestinians in Gaza.” 
The writers further claimed there is a “widespread dehumanization and erasure of Palestinian life in the United States” and that students who voice support for Palestinians are “continuously subjected to harassment, intimidation, imperiled job prospects, and threats to their personal safety.”

The letter concluded by acknowledging the university’s efforts to “reach out to Jewish community members as well as those with Israeli citizenship to check on their well-being.” They then state:
“We find it unacceptable, however, that Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim students were not and have not been accorded a similar show of respect and care. We call upon the University administration to do everything in its power to ensure that all Princetonians are recognized and feel safe and seen in this moment of accelerating grief, horror, and outright danger.” 
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Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://anthropology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/agustin-fuentes">Agustín Fuentes</a> is a Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Fuentes’ “research focuses on the biosocial, delving into the entanglement of biological systems with the social and cultural lives of humans, our ancestors, and a few of the other animals with whom humanity shares close relations.” 

His profile further states the nature of his research:
“From chasing monkeys in jungles and cities, to exploring the lives of our evolutionary ancestors, to examining human health, behavior, and diversity across the globe, Professor Fuentes is interested in both the big questions and the small details of what makes humans and our close relations tick.”
In April 2024, Fuentes 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.” 
In May 2023, Fuentes penned an opinion piece for Scientific American titled “<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/?amp;text=Here%27s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary</a>.” He began his article by stating: 
“There are those, politicians, pundits and even a few scientists, who maintain that whether our bodies make ova or sperm are all we need to know about sex. They assert that men and women are defined by their production of these gamete cells, making them a distinct biological binary pair, and that our legal rights and social possibilities should flow from this divide.” 
Fuentes argued that this is “bad science” and that people who believe legal and policy decisions should be made based on sex “are arguing for a specific political, and discriminatory, definition of what is ‘natural’ and ‘right’ for humans based on a false representation of biology.” He went on to claim: 
“Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias.” 
“Today dishonest ascriptions of what biology is are being deployed to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, target LGBTQIA+ individuals broadly and, most recently, attack the rights of transexual and transgender people.” 
Fuentes concluded his opinion piece: 
“Given what we know about biology across animals and in humans, efforts to represent human sex as binary based solely on what gametes one produces are not about biology but are about trying to restrict who counts as a full human in society.”
Published - May 1, 2024

<a href="https://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/selfintro.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Lurie</a> is President of the Barnard and Columbia chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and an Associate Professor of Japanese History and Literature at Columbia University.

Lurie participated in a Columbia University and Barnard College <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/over-100-faculty-members-protest-in-rally-to-support-our-students-and-reclaim-our-university/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty protest</a> titled “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University” after student protesters took over the lawns of Columbia University in April 2024. 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> reported, “Scores of professors and staff appeared on the school’s steps to support the right of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ to take over campus space and denounce the administration’s decision to have protesters arrested.” 

Lurie spoke at the walkout in opposition to the disciplinary actions brought against student protesters:
“We demand that all Barnard College and Columbia University suspensions and charges be dismissed immediately and expunged from students’ records.”
Lurie told the <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/23/aaup-drafts-resolution-of-censure-against-shafik-administration-following-nypd-sweep/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia Spectator</a> that the AAUP disapproved of Shafik’s response to the protesters and said:
“We want to be really clear that we are not calling for her resignation at this time. We want to work with her. We want her and her administration to turn back from the road that they’ve started down last week, and we’re really eager to partner with them in doing that.”
In a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wLVMV9z_HGanmpN-9b84Iket-d5VM9VT/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> issued by the AAUP, titled “Resolution of Censure,” the following criticism was stated of Shafik and her view of the pro-Palestine protests:
“President Shafik falsely claimed that the students who were arrested for protesting on April 18 posed a ‘clear and present danger to the substantial functioning of the University,’ when in fact they ‘were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner,’ according to the NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell. Her actions have endangered these students’ welfare, and her draconian and disproportionate punishments have endangered their futures.”
Lurie and the AAUP <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bnEhCa6mR7t_82QUf_qpGT7acudoOMIw/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">maintain</a> that Shafik’s termination is not what they desire in their latest press release:
“Unwarranted statements by members of Congress, including calls for President Shafik’s resignation, undermine the traditions of shared governance and academic freedom that have long ensured America’s educational greatness.”
Published - April 26, 2024

<a href="https://artandarchaeology.princeton.edu/people/hal-foster" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hal Foster</a> is a Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. According to his university profile, "Foster teaches and publishes in the areas of modernist and contemporary art, architecture, and theory."

In April 2024, Foster 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.” 
Published - April 29, 2024

<a href="https://biology.barnard.edu/profiles/hilary-callahan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hilary Callahan</a> is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Barnard College. According to her university profile, Callahan’s “research examines many different features of plants — from roots to flowers to seeds.”

Callahan participated in a Columbia University and Barnard College faculty protest titled “Rally to Support our Students and Reclaim our University” after student protesters took over the lawns of Columbia University. 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> reported, “Scores of professors and staff appeared on the school’s steps to support the right of the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ to take over campus space and denounce the administration’s decision to have protesters arrested.” 

Callahan spoke at the walkout and compared the student protests to the Scopes Trial in 1924. During the Scopes Trial, an elementary school teacher was tried for teaching evolution at a school in Dayton, Tennessee. According to <a href="https://bwog.com/2024/04/student-workers-and-faculty-hold-walkouts-to-demand-amnesty-for-students-and-faculty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BWOG</a>, “Callahan called the historical event an ‘emblem of how wrong it is to treat teachers as pawns and scapegoats,’” and connected it to the response of Columbia University to the protestation of its pro-Palestine faculty and students. 

Callahan then addressed the crowd with certain demands:
 “We insist on science and factual evidence… on delineating the boundaries between certainty and uncertainty…on honest, open, and difficult discourse,” discourse she claimed were “pathways to a more humane world.” 
Callahan described the university’s response to the protests and encampment as “intemperate and regrettable.” She said her and her associates would “work tirelessly to undo that error.”
Published - April 25, 2024

<a href="https://complit.princeton.edu/people/lital-levy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lital Levy</a> is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. According to her university profile, Levy’s work “strives to decolonize [her] main areas of study: comparative literature and Jewish studies.”

In April 2024, Levy 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.” 
Published - May 1, 2024

<a href="https://afs.princeton.edu/people/hamza-m-zafer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamza M. Zafer</a> is a Lecturer in the Program in African Studies at Princeton University. According to his university profile, Zafer “specializes in the languages and literatures of the Red Sea world from the 6th to the 16th century.”

In April 2024, Zafer 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 - May 6, 2024

<a href="https://soa.princeton.edu/content/s.e.-eisterer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S.E. Eisterer</a> is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Co-Director, Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University. 

According to her faculty profile, Eisterer’s “research focuses on spatial histories of dissidence, feminist, queer, and trans* theory in architecture, as well as the labor of social and ecological movements.”

For the current Princeton spring semester, Eisterer is teaching a <a href="https://registrar.princeton.edu/course-offerings/course-details?courseid=017728&amp;term=1254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course</a> titled “Queer Spaces in the World.” 

The course description asks a series of questions about architecture, and proposes gender theory as a way of interpreting architectural spaces: 

“How do sources determine the histories we can tell about architecture, urban space, and the agents that enliven it? How do we reconcile seeming absences and actual acts of erasure that stare back at us from the archive? How can feminist, gender, queer and trans* theory help us chart new avenues for writing critical architectural histories that are attentive to discourses of difference but also narratives of equity?" 

The course further seeks to discover groups and institutions of resistance towards dominant regimes and philosophies: 

“Which methods, beyond conventional modes of architectural inquiry, can we employ to uncover histories of groups and institutions that have actively resisted dominant regimes of power and their corresponding systems of knowledge?”

Eisterer contributes to an Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/queerspaceworkinggroup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page</a> titled “queerspaceworkinggroup.” The page is described as a “transnational group of queer scholars &amp; architects 🏳️‍🌈 themed &amp; informal conversations about queer space(s).”

The page displays a focus on “queerifying” [sic] architectural spaces. (See image below from Instagram).

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Eisterer’s most recent publication is <a href="http://we-aggregate.org/piece/spatial-practices-of-dissidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Spatial Practices of Dissidence,”</a> which was a special issue for a project titled <a href="http://we-aggregate.org/piece/spatial-practices-of-dissidence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Architectural Histories of Migration</a>. 
Published - February 26, 2025

Nancy Coffin

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Ms. <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nichole Gonzalez</a> serves as the Dean of Students and Executive Director for the College for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, as well as the Title IX Coordinator for <a href="https://www.etown.edu/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabethtown College</a> in Pennsylvania.
On September 23rd, 2021, Ms. Gonzalez and other Elizabethtown College administrators requested to meet with the college’s TPUSA chapter president—Alexander Russo—regarding an upcoming event on September 27th. The chapter was set to host TPUSA Ambassador, Mr. Joe Basrawi, who planned to speak about Critical Race Theory in academia.
As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> 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”.
In the meeting on the 23rd, Ms. Gonzalez informed Russo and other members present that the event would be canceled. Chapter members that have spoken with and provided corresponding emails to the Professor Watchlist Team have confirmed that Dr.Gonzalez canceled the event. She reportedly described Mr. Basrawi as “intentionally disruptive” and that his speech would be harmful to the campus due to the fact that he is not officially a “Critical Race Theorist.” Ms. Gonzalez stated that the college did not have time to put protections in place for marginalized groups and allowing the event to proceed would only further marginalize Elizabethtown’s minority students.
During the same meeting, Ms. Gonzalez allegedly pressured the chapter to disband and form a new group at the college. She stated that a conservative group aside from Turning Point USA would help facilitate a better community on campus.
As Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Basrawi has pointed out on Twitter</a>, Elizabethtown will be sponsoring a series of racially derogatory events during the fall semester, titled, the “Forum on White Supremacy and Global Colonization.” One training that will be <a href="https://etown.edu/centers/global/calendar.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted on October 12th, 21th, and November 2nd is titled, “Mediocre + Multimedia Content.*&#8221;</a>
Upon completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mediocre-Dangerous-Legacy-White-America/dp/1580059511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America”.</a> The book endorses a “new white male identity” to counteract “the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves.” The training is described as a “space for people who identify as people of color,” and bars white people from attending.
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UNBELIEVABLE!
Director for college diversity Nichole Gonzalez at ETown College, PA refuses to let me speak on campus but is completely fine with this event below
They’re having their own “Forum on White Supremacy” and this specific event below, BARS WHITE PEOPLE FROM ATTENDING! <a href="https://t.co/x0g5Ayfx36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/x0g5Ayfx36</a>
— Joe Basrawi (@JoeBasrawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After Mr. Basrawi highlighted the event, the college appears to have stealth edited the webpage and removed the reference to the event being designated for people who “identify as people of color.”
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When Russo highlighted the divisive nature of this and other events during the meeting, Ms. Gonzalez indicated her enthusiastic support for each one.
In a statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Mr. Baswari wrote, “It’s appalling to see that this is happening on American campuses these days. Gonzalez should be ashamed of herself being part of the problem of spreading tyranny on college campuses across the nation.”
In a separate statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Alexander Russo wrote, “I have been on this campus for almost 3 and a half years. Over the course of my education, the college has always supported freedom of thought and always strove to make sure everyone felt like they belong, no matter who they are. Now I am ashamed at the school I see before me that actively attempts to indoctrinate students and makes every attempt to divide us on race, COVID-19, and anything else they can. This is not the school I thought I had enrolled in.”
Despite the cancellation, the original event was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYDCmojnia/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully hosted at an off-campus location</a>.
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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Ms. Gonzalez for comment but have not received a comment by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of the President</a> of Elizabethtown College at (717) 361-1193.
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Updated &#8211; September 29th, 2021

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Ms. <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/diversity/staff.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nichole Gonzalez</a> serves as the Dean of Students and Executive Director for the College for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging, as well as the Title IX Coordinator for <a href="https://www.etown.edu/index.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabethtown College</a> in Pennsylvania.

On September 23rd, 2021, Ms. Gonzalez and other Elizabethtown College administrators requested to meet with the college’s TPUSA chapter president—Alexander Russo—regarding an upcoming event on September 27th. The chapter was set to host TPUSA Ambassador, Mr. Joe Basrawi, who planned to speak about Critical Race Theory in academia.

As <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro writes in Breitbart News</a>, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual branch of Marxism that views America and all of its institutions as being infected with white supremacy—to the point of some, including <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a>, even <a href="https://reason.com/2020/09/23/1619-project-nikole-hannah-jones-1776-founding-race-new-york-times/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claiming</a> 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”.

In the meeting on the 23rd, Ms. Gonzalez informed Russo and other members present that the event would be canceled. Chapter members that have spoken with and provided corresponding emails to the Professor Watchlist Team have confirmed that Dr.Gonzalez canceled the event. She reportedly described Mr. Basrawi as “intentionally disruptive” and that his speech would be harmful to the campus due to the fact that he is not officially a “Critical Race Theorist.” Ms. Gonzalez stated that the college did not have time to put protections in place for marginalized groups and allowing the event to proceed would only further marginalize Elizabethtown’s minority students.

During the same meeting, Ms. Gonzalez allegedly pressured the chapter to disband and form a new group at the college. She stated that a conservative group aside from Turning Point USA would help facilitate a better community on campus.

As Mr. <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Basrawi has pointed out on Twitter</a>, Elizabethtown will be sponsoring a series of racially derogatory events during the fall semester, titled, the “Forum on White Supremacy and Global Colonization.” One training that will be <a href="https://etown.edu/centers/global/calendar.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted on October 12th, 21th, and November 2nd is titled, “Mediocre + Multimedia Content.*"</a>

Upon completion of the training, participants will receive a copy of the book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mediocre-Dangerous-Legacy-White-America/dp/1580059511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America”.</a> The book endorses a “new white male identity” to counteract “the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves.” The training is described as a “space for people who identify as people of color,” and bars white people from attending.
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Director for college diversity Nichole Gonzalez at ETown College, PA refuses to let me speak on campus but is completely fine with this event below

They’re having their own “Forum on White Supremacy” and this specific event below, BARS WHITE PEOPLE FROM ATTENDING! <a href="https://t.co/x0g5Ayfx36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/x0g5Ayfx36</a>

— Joe Basrawi (@JoeBasrawi) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeBasrawi/status/1441401107809325063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After Mr. Basrawi highlighted the event, the college appears to have stealth edited the webpage and removed the reference to the event being designated for people who “identify as people of color.”

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When Russo highlighted the divisive nature of this and other events during the meeting, Ms. Gonzalez indicated her enthusiastic support for each one.

In a statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Mr. Baswari wrote, “It’s appalling to see that this is happening on American campuses these days. Gonzalez should be ashamed of herself being part of the problem of spreading tyranny on college campuses across the nation.”

In a separate statement provided to the Professor Watchlist team, Alexander Russo wrote, “I have been on this campus for almost 3 and a half years. Over the course of my education, the college has always supported freedom of thought and always strove to make sure everyone felt like they belong, no matter who they are. Now I am ashamed at the school I see before me that actively attempts to indoctrinate students and makes every attempt to divide us on race, COVID-19, and anything else they can. This is not the school I thought I had enrolled in.”

Despite the cancellation, the original event was <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CUYDCmojnia/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">successfully hosted at an off-campus location</a>.

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The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Ms. Gonzalez for comment but have not received a comment by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.etown.edu/offices/president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of the President</a> of Elizabethtown College at (717) 361-1193.
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Updated - September 29th, 2021

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Lars Maischak

<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 &#8211; 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.&#8221;
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.
<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1321 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-1024x456.png" alt="" width="580" height="258" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-1024x456.png 1024w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-300x133.png 300w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-768x342.png 768w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-1200x534.png 1200w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830.png 1299w" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" />
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.
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170409043955if_/https://twitter.com/LarsMaischak/status/833443673220145152"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1313" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.00.24-PM.png" alt="" width="400" height="175" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.00.24-PM.png 473w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.00.24-PM-300x131.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a>
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.” &#8211; 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 decoding="async" loading="lazy" 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" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.06.25-PM.png 614w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.06.25-PM-300x166.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak/status/1341342574208925697"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-1315" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.08.17-PM.png" alt="" width="450" height="229" srcset="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.08.17-PM.png 614w, https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.08.17-PM-300x153.png 300w" sizes="(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px" /></a>
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 &#8211; April 2021

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<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.

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-1321 size-large" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Copy-of-PWL-Quote-Template-2021-04-22T164305.081-e1619135018830-1024x456.png" alt="" width="580" height="258" />

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.

<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170409043955if_/https://twitter.com/LarsMaischak/status/833443673220145152"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1313" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.00.24-PM.png" alt="" width="400" height="175" /></a>

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>

<a href="https://twitter.com/LMaischak/status/1341342574208925697"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1315" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-3.08.17-PM.png" alt="" width="450" height="229" /></a>

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://www.uwec.edu/profiles/alvergjf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose Felipe Alvergue</a> is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
According to his faculty profile, Alvergue’s “work engages decoloniality and embodiment through the lenses of aesthetics and aesthetic theory, performance study, poetry and poetics, political histories of the Americas, and political theory.”
On April 2, Alvergue flipped a College Republicans table. This was done presumably in protest of the organization’s effort to promote two GOP campaigns near a polling station. The College Republicans table contained campaign literature and items for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and state superintendent candidate Brittany Kinser. The professor’s actions resulted in him being placed on administrative leave. 
According to the <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/01/uw-eau-claire-professor-placed-on-leave-after-flipping-gop-table/82766199007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</a>, College Republicans Chair Tatiana Bobrowicz revealed what took place at the table. The Journal-Sentinel reported what happened to Bobrowicz: 
“The man told her ‘the time for this is over,’ flipped the table over and walked away. She immediately called police and filed a report. She said UW-Eau Claire later notified her the man was José Felipe Alvergue, who chairs the English department.”
The University of Wisconsin System and the Office of General Counsel  is &#8220;conducting a comprehensive investigation&#8221; into the incident. 
According to Alvergue’s website, he has published three books of poetry. 
One of the books, published in 2020, is titled “<a href="https://www.jfalvergue.com/work/scenery-8fk98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scenery</a>.” The book description states the following of Alvergue and the book’s subject matter, which concerns racial supremacy and immigration:
“The author, a Salvadorean immigrant and parent, reflects on the status of personhood in America between racial supremacy and racial disavowal, thinking through his own structural role as a naturalized citizen, and naturalization’s historical condition in leveraging person amidst anti-Blackness.”
Published &#8211; April 7, 2025

<a href="https://www.uwec.edu/profiles/alvergjf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose Felipe Alvergue</a> is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

According to his faculty profile, Alvergue’s “work engages decoloniality and embodiment through the lenses of aesthetics and aesthetic theory, performance study, poetry and poetics, political histories of the Americas, and political theory.”

On April 2, Alvergue flipped a College Republicans table. This was done presumably in protest of the organization’s effort to promote two GOP campaigns near a polling station. The College Republicans table contained campaign literature and items for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel and state superintendent candidate Brittany Kinser. The professor’s actions resulted in him being placed on administrative leave. 

According to the <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/01/uw-eau-claire-professor-placed-on-leave-after-flipping-gop-table/82766199007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel</a>, College Republicans Chair Tatiana Bobrowicz revealed what took place at the table. The Journal-Sentinel reported what happened to Bobrowicz: 

“The man told her ‘the time for this is over,’ flipped the table over and walked away. She immediately called police and filed a report. She said UW-Eau Claire later notified her the man was José Felipe Alvergue, who chairs the English department.”

The University of Wisconsin System and the Office of General Counsel  is "conducting a comprehensive investigation" into the incident. 

According to Alvergue’s website, he has published three books of poetry. 

One of the books, published in 2020, is titled “<a href="https://www.jfalvergue.com/work/scenery-8fk98" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scenery</a>.” The book description states the following of Alvergue and the book’s subject matter, which concerns racial supremacy and immigration:

“The author, a Salvadorean immigrant and parent, reflects on the status of personhood in America between racial supremacy and racial disavowal, thinking through his own structural role as a naturalized citizen, and naturalization’s historical condition in leveraging person amidst anti-Blackness.”
Published - April 7, 2025