Gladwyn d’Souza

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/1/3/harvard_president_claudine_gay_resigns

#GenocideJoeKnows: The first #AfricanAmerican and second #woman to lead Harvard University resigned Tuesday after allegations of plagiarism.
One of the authors Rufo accused Gay of plagiarizing was her thesis adviser, Gary King, who has dismissed the allegations, telling The Daily Beast, quote, “There’s not a conceivable case that this is plagiarism. … Her dissertation and every draft I read of it met the highest academic standards,” he said.

Stefanik “disciplinary action be taken against students or applicants who say “from the river to the sea””is a major Trump ally who was removed from a Harvard advisory board in 2021 over her comments about voter fraud in the 2020 election that had, quote, “no basis in evidence.”
#GenocideTaxBuysApartheidFromTheRiverToTheSea #AsymetricBorderRuleCreatesAutocrats #Blowback

From Plagiarism to Gaza: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on How a <span class="caps">GOP</span> Campaign Ousted Harvard’s Claudine Gay

We look at the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay, the first African American and second woman to lead the Ivy League school, after conservative-led allegations of plagiarism and backlash over her testimony at a congressional hearing on antisemitism that is part of a broader effort to censor pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses. “This is a terrible moment for higher education,” says Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He says plagiarism became a “pretext” to oust Gay, and discusses the larger right-wing war on education aimed at undoing progress on race, gender and addressing inequality.

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Jan 4, 2024 at 5:17amWeb
Show threadGladwyn d’SouzaJan 4, 2024
#AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm: The cynical weaponization of antisemitism by powerful forces who seek to intimidate and ultimately silence legitimate criticism of Israel and of American policy on Israel.
“In most cases, it takes the form of bullying pro-Palestine organizers. In other [cases], these campaigns persecute anyone who simply doesn’t show due deference to the bullies. The recent effort to smear our new University President, Claudine Gay, is a case in point… amid the ludicrous charges that she somehow supports genocide against Jews, and I hope Harvard will continue to take a clear and strong stance against any further efforts by these powerful parties to meddle in university affairs, especially over personnel decisions.”- Bernie Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel from 1993 to 2010.
#CRTisHistory #GenocideJoeKnows
Show threadGladwyn d’SouzaJan 4, 2024
Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad- She described the hearing as a case of people like me teaching classes which she identified in her opening remarks as the real problem, as a prime example of #antiracism and #criticalracetheory creating institutional #antisemitism. That’s a lie. It’s a form of #fascist #propaganda. Jews have been used as a wedge for the right to take down all the entire edifice that has been put in place to deal with #structuralracism in the society.
one would have to understand the war against Indigenous people, the #genocide committed against them and forms of settler colonialism that birthed this country. This is an evocation of that history in Rufo, who is leading the charge against people like me, against Claudine Gay, against everyone who works in a university who believes in truth and justice and a future that is better than our past.
#Blowback #GenocideJoeKnows #AntiPalestinianMcCartyIsm #CRTisHistory