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Editor’s note: Since the barbaric Hamas attacks against Israel on October 7th, American universities have become an undeniable locus of Jew hatred within our nation. Much attention has deservedly been paid to the radical campus groups like Students for Justice in Palestine who call for the genocide of the Jews and cheer the terrorists of Hamas. What has received less attention—but should in fact rank as the universities’ worst offense—is the Jew hatred promoted by official departments and institutes of the universities themselves. In the case of our campuses, Jew hatred is “the call coming from inside the house.”
The Freedom Center’s is exposing these academic institutes and programs as “The Top Ten Jew-Hating Academic Departments” in a new report. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is #8 on our list.
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at the University of Maryland has repeatedly promoted Jew hatred and demonstrated its disdain for academic neutrality by using official university channels to demonize Israel, condone Hamas terrorism, and delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state.
On October 13, just six days after Hamas’s barbaric attack that killed over 1200 innocent Israeli civilians in the most brutal ways imaginable, WGSS posted a statement on the official department website concerning “violence in Gaza and Israel.” The statement was attributed to the National Women’s Studies Association and was reproduced in full on the Maryland WGSS departmental page as an obvious show of solidarity and agreement with its precepts.
Instead of condemning Hamas for its brutal and unprovoked attack on Israeli civilians or excoriating their use of rape as a weapon of war, the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department attempted to whitewash the terrorist group’s action, urging that “The current escalation must be viewed in the context of decades of illegal Israeli military occupation and systemic violent campaigns.”
Using anti-Semitic language which demonized and delegitimized Israel, the world’s only Jewish state, the statement went on to condemn “the ongoing and persistent U.S. government’s support for Israel’s apartheid regime” and to characterize the Palestinians and Hamas as exemplars of “liberation and resistance movements led by other indigenous, colonized, and oppressed peoples everywhere.”
Lending a note of irony, the statement claimed that “As feminists, we recognize that violence and war often inflict gendered and sexualized harms on women and queer, trans and non-binary people.” It is clear from the context of the statement, that its authors believe such “sexualized harms” to stem from the actions of Israel, a laughable claim given that Hamas forces literally raped and mutilated women and children on video during the October 7th massacre and punish homosexuality in Gaza with death.
The statement also vowed its support for the genocidal and Hamas-directed Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel: “Today, we reaffirm our unwavering support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resolution, which NWSA passed in 2015.”
Not content to let this tribute to Jew hatred stand on its own, approximately a week later, WGSS posted a second statement on the official department website “in solidarity with the people of Gaza.” The statement was attributed to the executive committee of the American Studies Association.
Making absolutely no mention of Hamas’s unprovoked atrocities on innocent Jews at a music festival and elsewhere in Israel, the statement instead alludes only to “the escalation of violence in Palestine and Israel” as if Hamas—which controls Gaza—was not the sole instigator of the recent barbarity. It goes on to explain that the organization “continues to stand with the Palestinian people and their ongoing struggle for liberation” and to offer “support [to] those who speak out against the intensifying onslaught on Gaza, whose destruction has killed nearly four thousand Gazan residents and displaced hundreds of thousands more.” Instead of condemning Hamas’s brutal terrorism and violence to civilians, the statement urges the “need to situate today’s events in a historical, political and regional understanding.”
Rather than demanding that Hamas immediately cease its genocidal war on Israel and the Jews—an objective stated plainly in the Hamas charter—the statement instead called for “an immediate ceasefire and release of humanitarian aid to Gaza” as well as for “the US to end support of Israeli apartheid and work toward negotiations.”
Such language demonizing Israel—the only liberal democracy in the Middle East which counts millions of Arabs as full citizens—constitutes blatant anti-Semitism. It has no place on the website of an official university department. Moreover, demanding an Israeli ceasefire while Hamas continued to hold over 100 innocent Israeli and other civilians as hostages, just weeks after the worst terrorist attack in Israeli history, is tantamount to asking Israel to surrender to Hamas, their genocidal enemies.
Just in case the promotion of terrorist violence was not clear enough in the rest of the statement, the last paragraph goes on to valorize Fatima Bernawi who is described as “the first female Palestinian imprisoned by the Israeli army” and an “Afro-Palestinian of Nigerian descent” who “served 10 years in Israeli prisons.” What this description leaves out is that Barnawi was arrested along with other terrorists after she attempted to bomb the Zion Cinema in downtown Jerusalem in October 1967, an attack that could easily have been fatal if the explosive was not discovered in time. “The Palestinian struggle is also the struggle for global Black solidarity in our collective liberation,” explains the statement, choosing to overlook Barnawi’s attempted homicide in favor of highlighting her role in the Marxist struggle against the Israeli oppressors.
For its blatantly anti-Semitic characterization of Israel and whitewashing of Hamas’s barbarism, the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland deserves its place among the worst Jew-hating academic departments.
Previous articles in series:
[1] ‘Jew-Hating’ Asian American Studies Program Exposed at Northwestern University.
[2] UIUC’s Department of Latino Studies Endorses ‘Jew Hatred’.
To add insult to injury that UM department uses Harriet Tubman as its mascot. She was a humanitarian and devout Christian would never have lent he name to terrorist hate mongers. Yes, anybody who cheer leads jihad terrorism is a terrorist.
Took the words right out of my keyboard. Might as well have a Pythagoras Department filled with flat earthers.
Or a school MENSA chapter headed by Slow Joe.
WHERE’S THE DEI CZAR? Aren’t Jews a part of their mission statement… I’ve never read, “Except Jews, Whites, MAGAs, Christians, Pro-Lifers!”
What if I wrote and protested: “NO BLACKS, LGBTQ-WXYZ, MUSLIMS, AND DEMOCRATS, FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA!”
A UNM professor ranted on his official FB page, “BREAKING NEWS! Corona Virus attracted to RED HATS!” That means he wanted MAGAs, Trumpers, and even the Trump’s to DIE! Also, his own STUDENTS that were in his Band program!
I immediately contacted the President of UNM, the DEI Czar, and the Dean of Students, none would meet with me directly. I then called the Dean of Fine Arts and the Chairman of the music department, no meetings.
The prof did take it down and put his page to Friend’s Only and I surely wasn’t going to Friend him since he had vile hatred posted everyday.
I then filed a Police report about death threats. IN THE END, NOTHING HAPPENED to him, but he did get a $10,000 raise the next year. The entire music department is far-left…. how… they interview them for their political opinion, which they already know but they need to pick the most radical ones.
EVERY UNIVERSITY has their own Code of Conduct Rules and I demand they enforce their own Rules, but again, they are supporters of the protests, death threats, the shutting down of guest speakers, the destruction of university property. NOW THE OPEN CHANTS TO KILL THE JEWISH PEOPLE AND STATE…. WHICH MEANS FELLOW STUDENTS! THEY DON’T CARE!
I would suggest you contact Facebook but we both know that would be a waste of time. It has a policy against threatening people but that only applies to conservatives.
“Breaking news! AIDS attracted to Dirtbagocrat butts!”
And people actually pay tuition for this. An economist would call this a misallocation of resources.
An uneducated person would call it f’kin stupid.
Do we need any more reasons to totally defund these leftists run campuses then this? Lets use the Money for more Important things like Border Walls and housing the Homeless in the UN Facility
I cannot imagine any person, especially a person of color, wanting to kill anyone for their religious belief or nation of origin.
So, for grins….insert the word ‘black’ in place of Jew or Zion.
Sharpton and his ilk would be screaming blue, bloody, murder.🤔
Gawd, I hate these people!! Leftists are the scum of humanity, blathering stupid shit about their vaginas, climate change, and oppression. They are truly worthless. toxic, insane people, who sshould never be allowed within a thousand yards of a child or classroom. Thank God even President Trump called for them to “rot in hell”. There’s no reasoning with evil, you simply destroy it. And ALL leftists are pure evil. Period.
Awesome comment !
On one level, this is the same anti-semitism that the Jews have been enduring for ages, making completely unjustified claims that Jews endanger the innocent. But on another level, the current antisemitism is rather different. There are well meaning people who sincerely believe that Jews stole the land from the “native” Palestinians, and they are horribly oppressing. Of course none of this is true. And in fact, Israel has done more to help the Palestinians than any of the Arab neighbors, who have closed their borders to all Palestinians. But the point is that at least of the current wave of anti-semitism is based on ignorance rather than simple prejudice against the Jews. Of course, in many cases, it’s willful ignorance, because the history of Israel is widely available to anyone who is interested. And the fact remains that the Palestinians have been offered their own independent state many times, but each time they refused, because they would accept nothing less that the complete elimination of all Jews from the Middle East. But for many people, all that matter is that “innocent” Palestinians are suffering, and since Israel appears to be the stronger party in this conflict, they must be at blame. Of course, this attitude ignores the fact that Israel is a tiny country surrounded by huge hostile neighbors. but the Palestinian “defenders” ignore that. Anyways, my main point is that people need to learn that the Palestinians, and not just Hamas, are not innocent parties in this conflict.
An excellent investigative journalism expose’ article.
This kind of outstanding writing will go a long way to bringing facts and truth to more people.
Keep up the great work.
I suggest you look into the Women’s Studies Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. Tenured professor defaming Israel is par for the course there.
These departments, by their nature, attract the most left-leaning types. This was demonstrated in Israel, of all places, and centers around Bar-Ilan University, a center-right institution popular among traditional and “National religious” sorts. But back in 1995, one of their students assassinated Prime Minister Rabin. The country was justly shaken, but many blamed the university and its “conservative” ethos. Under pressure to create a forum for different voices, they created and Women’s and Gender Studies department. It didn’t take long for that department to become the core driving force for leftist/progressive activism on campus.
Just defund all these leftwingnut colleges! Review the curricula of each school and adjust any funding by the adherence to VALID courses! A “taylor swift” course is ridiculous and should not be supported by TAX PAYERS’ Dollars! That’s just ONE example – there are probably THOUSANDS equally absurd!