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We visited the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) campus to ask students their opinion on Hamas and the events of October 7.
Here’s what we found…
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🚩Screenshots from an ethnic studies presentation used in California’s Sequoia School District.
Anti-Israel activists use ethnic studies programs to indoctrinate students with pseudohistory and the oppression binary.
In 2025, ethnic studies will be mandated in CA high schools.
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We need to talk about American universities🧵
This is Johannah King-Slutzky, the Columbia grad student who demanded "humanitarian aid" for students protesting Israel on campus.
Have you wondered how a supposedly educated person could make such an absurd and tone-deaf request?
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Mx. Skye Tooley reportedly no longer teaching at Fairburn Elementary School in Los Angeles after parents discovered social media posts of inappropriate assignments and promises to teach students to "unlearn Zionist propaganda" that says Hamas is a "terrorist organization."🧵
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A
@monthly
study on Pro-Palestinian protests found it was overwhelmingly an elite college phenomenon. Of 1,421 public and private nonprofit colleges, 318 (22%) had protests and 123 (9%) encampments, primarily at elite colleges, where few students come from lower-income families.
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Tim Walz Brings ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies to Minnesota
From kindergarteners to high schoolers, students will soon be indoctrinated in a radical ideology across the state. Katherine Kersten details how Minnesota's K-12 education is about to undergo a big transformation. 🧵 1/12
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This kind of academic jargon may sound impressive to a layperson, but it is actually intellectually bankrupt.
Jargon is often a hallmark of pseudoscience.
Charlatans frequently use jargon to deceive people into buying their snake oil - a term used to describe a scam.
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🧵 WHAT IS ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP?
It refers to various fields in academia that have evolved over time from critiquing power structures to academic coursework aimed explicitly at driving social change.
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A Quick Explainer on Woke Antisemitism 🧵
Woke antisemitism is a progressive dogma that portrays Jews as white, privileged, and complicit in white supremacy, thus viewing them as oppressors. Initially a set of academic concepts, it has gained widespread acceptance on the left.
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Watch social psychologist
@JonHaidt
explain in one minute the problem within certain university departments and their shift towards a “totalizing perspective” that has led students to view Palestinians as victims and Israelis as their oppressors. (2017)
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Johannah’s academic focus belongs to a family of identity and culture-focused studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We call it activist scholarship.
It is a form of snake oil.
Influenced by Marxist Critical Theory and postmodern thought, activist scholarship focuses
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Academic hoaxes such as the Grievance studies affair and the Sokal affair have helped to expose the unrigorous practices in activist scholarship.
In the 2018 Grievance studies hoax, three academics —
@peterboghossian
,
@hpluckrose
, and
@ConceptualJames
— submitted deliberately
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College students across the West are learning to view the war between Israel and Hamas through the lens of an overly simplistic ideology that divides people into either “oppressors” or “oppressed” categories.
Visit for more educational materials.
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🚨 A new framework is being introduced in K-12 education called “anti-Palestinian racism.”
This framework relies on a radical, anti-Israel perspective and treats any disagreement with this stance as racist.
The Toronto District School Board recently adopted this framework 🧵
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Make no mistake. Ethnic Studies—which several states now mandate in K-12 education—is radical, ideological, anti-Israel activism in disguise.
LAUSD teacher Lupe Cardona explains: “a true Ethnic Studies which is anti-imperialist, which is anti-capitalist, which is anti-Zionist.”
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While many people go to college and receive a rigorous education, it entirely depends on the field of study.
This is Johannah’s focus in school:
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On the left, a teacher at a Harris/Walz rally referred to public education as "the greatest instrument of social justice in this country." On the right, a recent assignment at a Los Angeles elementary school.
Teachers' political views do not belong in the classroom.
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Other fields of study advance knowledge objectively, but activist scholarship uses knowledge selectively to advance specific social and political goals.
This approach is unscientific because it starts with a conclusion and looks for evidence to support it, leading to flawed
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Some disciplines are designed specifically to breed leftist activists, which are not concerned in objective truth, but in their truth, and how it can be applied to better the lives of the identity groups they deem to be “marginalized.”
This sounds like a noble goal, but it often
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Screenshots from an ethnic studies presentation used in California’s Sequoia School District.
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Unfortunately, this 2010 quote from Christopher Hitchens remains evergreen
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Their objective was to reveal that these journals were accepting papers not based on research quality but on their alignment with specific ideological beliefs.
One of the faux papers accepted in a peer-reviewed Humanities journal was a chapter from Hitler's "Mein Kampf" with
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It’s commonly assumed that college campuses are bastions of practical, fact-based learning, but it depends entirely on the discipline. Some courses are more focused on promoting specific ideologies than imparting knowledge about the world.
Few understand just how intellectually
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Diversity shouldn't be limited to demographics — it should include intellectually diverse viewpoints.
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Anti-racism, as a concept and approach, was developed by proponents of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Intersectionality. It was launched into popularity in 2020, especially by Ibram X. Kendi’s book, “How to Be Anti-Racist.” 🧵
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Activist scholarship is not rigorous like other disciplines; it prioritizes its political goals over the genuine production of knowledge.
It begins with a conclusion and searches for evidence to confirm it – a hallmark of pseudoscience.
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The Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV) is a nonprofit that believes philosophical liberalism, based on the ideas of the Enlightenment, is better for addressing injustice than Critical Social Justice (CSJ) and identity politics, which fuel novel forms of antisemitism.
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A Guide to Left-wing Antisemitism 🧵
Left-wing antisemitism entails prejudice, discrimination, or hostility against Jews, based on leftist ideologies. It's especially insidious, as it often masquerades as part of a broader "Social Justice" movement.
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Peer-reviewed journals are often seen as the gold standard in creating knowledge, but the peer-review system in activist research is broken.
Many Humanities journals serve as platforms for leftist activism, peer-reviewed by like-minded activists.
Figure:
@PsychRabble
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NEW! Infographic slideshow adapted from a compelling 2021 article in
@SapirJournal
, "Critical Race Theory and the 'Hyper-White' Jew," by esteemed JILV board member
@PamelaParesky
.
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"None of the 78 historically black colleges had encampments, and only nine had demonstrations.
Protests were primarily concentrated in California and the U.S. Northeast, and were most prominent at elite universities."
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This is what it’s like to be a Jewish student walking across a college campus in the US: Protesters ambush students who are merely holding Israeli and American flags, flipping them off while chanting “RACISTS GO HOME” at
@DePaulU
(Chicago, Illinois).
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Reporters push back against a protester at Columbia University (tuition: $86,000 a year) who asks that “basic humanitarian aid” (their Grubhub and Postmates orders) not be “violently stopped” from reaching their encampments at Hamilton Hall, despite no evidence this has happened.
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📈Our new report on the rise of anti-Israel activism in teachers’ unions was profiled today in
@J_Insider
🧵
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The horrific stabbing attack on
@SalmanRushdie
is a tragic example of what happens when freedom of expression is deemed unacceptable. We wish him a speedy recovery.
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@JILVorg
is proud to have spearheaded the
#JewishHarpersLetter
supporting liberalism, social justice & equality, and opposing the imposition of Critical Social Justice. Thank you to all the original signatories. Please join us in signing the letter!
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🧵: A 2021 review of the social media habits of university DEI employees found a disproportionately high number of anti-Israel posts that could qualify as antisemitic.
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So, why do students overlook human rights abuses occurring around the world?
Because it doesn’t fit the framework they have been indoctrinated into – those deemed minorities are seen as incapable of wrongdoing, and minorities cannot oppress other minorities.
And why the focus
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Peter Boghossian - Understanding Cancel Culture: implications for higher education and beyond
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Wondering where campus antisemitism came from and what to do about it? Read this slideshow, adapted from
@DavidLBernstein
's recent article, "Poison Ivy League." He identifies 3 trends that have contributed to the problem and 3 solutions for a long-term strategy.
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Intersectionality, when applied as a “Social Justice” instrument beyond its original legal framework, tends to radically oversimplify complex social dynamics. It can promote a regressive, binary worldview that unfairly labels Jewish people as "privileged" and "oppressors."
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Today,
@BillAckman
published a letter to his social media (later adapted into an article for
@bariweiss
's
@TheFP
) about the realizations he's made since Oct 8 about DEI and the ideological capture of universities. We adapted an excerpt from the letter into a visual slideshow:
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Activist scholarship is a serious problem. It produces fundamentally flawed research in fields like race, gender, sexuality, society, and culture. Such research is then disseminated through teachings and references by professors and activists, despite being biased or incorrect.
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This curricula was heavily influenced by Marxist-derived Critical Theory and postmodern thought and eventually gave rise to activist scholarship.
The former offered critique and examined power dynamics, while the latter is more explicitly aimed at driving social change.
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What ideology is driving campus protests against Israel?
Atrocities are committed all over the world, yet students at prominent colleges across the US have spent weeks in encampments protesting Israel, a Western liberal democracy and the world’s only Jewish state. 🧵
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In activist scholarship, students are educated with a reductionist model that divides individuals based on traits such as race, sex, class, sexuality, and ability, assigning them roles as privileged or oppressed.
This framework posits that systems of oppression — white
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Postcolonial Theory and its offshoots, like Palestine Studies, attempts to legitimize pseudohistory. Its purpose is to “reenvison history" from the “perspective of the oppressed.”
Postcolonial Theory may encourage violence against perceived “oppressors” via “decolonization.”
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Affected fields include but are not limited to: Gender Studies, Fat Studies, African-American Studies, Disability Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, as well various “Theory”-based domains like Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory and Postcolonial Theory.
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“The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity.
It holds that Israel is an ‘imperialist-colonialist’ force, that Israelis are ‘settler-colonialists,’ and that Palestinians have a right to
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UPDATE: Mx. Skye Tooley, a member of
@UTLAnow
, has been moved to a third elementary school, Dayton Heights, after sparking outrage among parents numerous times for inappropriate school assignments. Tooley is not taking responsibility and says she was targeted for being trans.
Mx. Skye Tooley reportedly no longer teaching at Fairburn Elementary School in Los Angeles after parents discovered social media posts of inappropriate assignments and promises to teach students to "unlearn Zionist propaganda" that says Hamas is a "terrorist organization."🧵
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Bret Stephens identifies the real problem in today’s academia: “intersectionality, critical theory, post-colonialism, ethnic studies and other concepts that may not seem antisemitic on their face but tend to politicize classrooms and cast Jews as privileged and oppressive.”
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One of Tooley's posts read, "You can teach about Palestine in elementary!🇵🇸"
"To bring awareness, we made protest posters and hung them in our hall."
Slogans included:
"From the River to the Sea, Palestine Must Be Free"
"Bombing people’s homes is not okay!"
"Stop the bombing"
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Tooley was recently hired as a 5th-grade teacher at Fairburn Elementary in Los Angeles. When parents received notification of the new staff and looked at her social media, they were disturbed by what they found and raised their concerns with the school district.
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Please encourage your Rabbi to sign this important statement on the free expression of ideas
@PamelaParesky
@PsychRabble
@bariweiss
@RabbiWolpe
@thanerosenbaum
@blakeflayton
@jonkay
@samk_harris
@bungarsargon
@AbigailShrier
@CathyYoung63
@EricRWeinstein
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Lozenski co-wrote an article on fighting for Ethnic Studies in K-12 education. "Given the devastating impact of Israeli colonialism... studying Israeli settler colonialism" is "at the heart of the discipline of Ethnic Studies." 7/12
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Anti-racism: Racist until proven innocent (which isn't actually possible).
Liberalism: Innocent until racism is proven.
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In the 1960s, college campuses became hubs for student activism, leading to the development of curriculum to address social and political issues.
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Anti-Israel activists have hijacked the K-12 system using ethnic studies programs to indoctrinate students with false information about the United States, Israel, Jews, and society in general. 🧵
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Queer Theory emerged in the 1990s and teaches that heterosexuals impose "heteronormativity," a system of oppression, onto LGBTQ+ individuals.
Queer Theory says that gender is "fluid" and a "performance," not fixed or tied to biology and that biological sex is a social construct
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Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky (
@76brandy76
) recently appeared on
@TMZLive
and said that people comparing the anti-Israel protests to those against the Vietnam War have it wrong—they resemble the KKK, who tried to block black students’ access when schools integrated.
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The standards, approved in January, require first-graders to explore concepts like "ethnicity, equality, liberation, and systems of power." Fourth-graders will examine colonization and resistance movements against discrimination. 3/12
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This is "A Quick Explainer On Woke Antisemitism," inspired by the book Woke Antisemitism by
@DavidLBernstein
.
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Hillary Clinton commented on the anti-Israel college protests on MSNBC's Morning Joe yesterday, saying, “young people... don't know very much at all about history.”
Palestinians could have had their own state for 24 years, when President Bill Clinton facilitated a two-state
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Check out this Jewish scholars letter calling for "principles of free inquiry" in academia & warning that categorizing "individuals into monolithic group identities poses a particular threat to the Jewish people." Sign if you're an academic & share!
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Following the most recent controversy, Tooley made her Instagram and X profiles private. Her TikTok is still public, where she has a video downplaying concerns of antisemitism.
A link to some of the teaching material she promotes is still available:
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Tooley, who identifies as an "autistic trans demiboy non-binary," proudly shares her social justice-themed assignments for her young students on social media, including lessons on pronouns, LGBTQ solidarity and ending police brutality.
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Tooley previously taught at Saturn Street Elementary School in Los Angeles, but drew controversy in 2022, sparking numerous headlines about her unusual teaching practices, which included lessons on “many more genders out there in the universe” than just boy and girl.
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Critical Race Theory (CRT) originated in legal studies and evolved into a form of activist scholarship extending across multiple disciplines.
Its more recent iterations suggest that America today is an irredeemably white supremacist country and racism is a permanent feature of
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law in 2023 to mandate "liberated" ethnic studies in K-12 education. The Minnesota Department of Education will soon release guidelines for implementing these new requirements across the state's public and charter schools. 2/12
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THREAD: Selected quotes from a new article in The Atlantic, written by Dara Horn—author of "People Love Dead Jews" and a Harvard alumna who served on former Harvard President Claudine Gay’s antisemitism advisory committee.
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Australia's largest newspaper
@Australian
writes about
our efforts to expose the link between critical social justice ideology and antisemitism. Other Jewish communities in the Diaspora, concerned about the rise of the ideology in their countries, have reached out to us.
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@WestsideCurrent
UPDATE: It seems that Tooley may have been moved to yet another elementary school in
@LASchools
. Hope the parents of Dayton Heights Elementary are prepared!
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LIVESTREAM: Black Jewish Perspectives - A discussion on tensions between Black Americans and Jews
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High school students will be taught about topics such as "racial capitalism" and "anti-Blackness," viewing themselves within "racialized hierarchies" shaped by "dominant European beauty standards." Activists are heavily involved in crafting this curriculum. 4/12
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Most people are familiar with antisemitism associated with the far right. The Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV) was established to confront a specific ideology emerging on the left that has become embedded in our institutions and often propagates antisemitic tropes.
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Fat Studies says that oppressive power structures, including “white supremacy” and “patriarchy,” arbitrarily designated fatness as unhealthy.
Fat Studies incorporates progressive activism, like the “Body Positive” movement, aimed at liberating fat people from diet culture and
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What is Critical Social Justice (CSJ) Anyway? - A Conversation with Helen Pluckrose - Jewish Institute for Liberal Values
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JILV founder
@DavidLBernstein
, along with David Steinberg and Sam Goldstein, has coauthored a new article for the
@nationalpost
, arguing that combating antisemitism requires resisting "woke" ideology. 🧵
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"Minnesota’s experience with this radical restructuring of its public education system may give Americans a picture of what the nation as a whole could soon face," writes Katherine Kersten for
@WSJopinion
. 12/12
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Lozenski’s radical perspectives are evident in an article where he described the BLM riots as "mass uprisings against racialized state violence" and predicted the downfall of the American social order. He urged schools to fight systemic racism. 6/12
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We wanted to see if there was a connection between the justification of Hamas’ atrocities on October 7 and a trendy campus ideology that portrays Jews as “white” and “oppressors” and Israel as “colonizers” and an “imperialist” force.
Our recent conversations with students at the
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In 2023, Tooley received the "Human Rights Award" from
@WeAreCTA
, one of the largest and most powerful teachers' unions in the state with over 300,000 members.
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What is Critical Social Justice (CSJ) Anyways? - A Conversation with Helen Pluckrose
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Elie Wiesel's son: Too many of us have again become 'The Jews of Silence' | Elisha Wiesel | The Blogs
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It is useful to know the differences between liberal and leftist. Liberals are generally considered center-left, whereas a leftist “tends to be a person farther left, advocating for more radical social and economic change and more government intervention in the marketplace.”
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Woke ideology implicates Jews in the oppression of other minorities due to their perceived group advantage. It feeds the antisemitic trope about Jewish power. Jews are presumed to be powerful and cause the suffering of those who are presumed to be powerless.
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Woke ideology is concerned with power dynamics. It posits an overly simplistic model of society that categorizes people by their group identity and ranks them as either “oppressors” or “oppressed” in a winner-takes-all conflict.
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New op-ed in
@Newsweek
by Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky (
@76brandy76
), Director of Education and Community Engagement at
@jilvorg
, discusses the politicization of education, which has led to a decline in student learning that disproportionately affects students of color. Link below⬇️
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In university Humanities departments, the various identity-based “studies” fields, influenced by postmodernism and Marxist-inspired Critical Theory, produce activist scholarship that favors personal perspectives over objectivity and empirical evidence.
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As a result, woke antisemitism is now a prominent feature in far-left and progressive circles.
Although postcolonial activists claim to oppose “settler-colonialism,” their disproportionate focus on Israel, compared to other nations, suggests an underlying antisemitic bias.
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Postmodernism’s brazen rejection of empirical science and liberalism as “tools of the oppressor,” (because of their origins with white men), has led to an academic culture ripe for ridicule and hoaxes due to its lack of intellectual rigor.
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Anti-American and antisemitic sentiments we often see today originate from the same source: a radical ideology that is hostile to the U.S. and Israel, viewing both as “white supremacist” endeavors.
We should reject this worldview and strengthen our commitment to American values.
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IMPLICATIONS: Students may now be taught a single version of history, which recasts Israel as a settler-colonial project. Students and faculty may face accusations of racism for rejecting this framework.
Read the full backgrounder by Mika Hackner:
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The St. Paul course emphasizes "resistance" to American institutions, instructing students to challenge "systems of inequality." It encourages collective action against "oppressive power rooted in racism." 11/12
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