The school said in a statement to Fox News, “In a recent, end-of-year virtual class on zoom, the discussion went in an unplanned direction as students expressed strong and, at times, heated opposing viewpoints and sentiments about the recent conflict in the Middle East. What violence could have taken place if this happened in person? Because it really felt like a virtual mob.” They’re supposed to be the mediators in the discussion, not the ones who are fueling the fire.”Īnother student similarly told Fox News, “For professors who are the experts in this anti-oppression curriculum to not stand up or do anything or say anything to intervene was quite shocking. “The horrifying thing is that there were professors that were expressing their opinions on it. They’re supposed to be the mediators in the discussion, not the ones who are fueling the fire.”

“I was sick to my stomach,” one student said, adding that “the horrifying thing is that there were professors that were expressing their opinions on it. Jewish students told Fox News that professors on the lecture made no effort to stop the protest and one even joined in, and that there wasn’t any opportunity for pro-Israel students to chime in. The fear of anti-Semitism as the fear of ‘this could happen again’ is being used preemptively to oppress and kill others.” The Zoom chat also featured comments like, “The Holocaust has been used as a tool.

Participants read out statements accusing Israel of engaging “in the ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians from their land” and praising Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for calling Israel an apartheid state, among other things. Many of the nearly 200 participants on the lecture changed their Zoom user names to “Free Palestine: Decolonization” and put Palestinian flags in their backgrounds. A May 20 Zoom lecture at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College-CUNY devolved into a pro-Palestinian protest, leaving several Jewish students wary of returning to campus for in-person classes.įox News reported that the lecture, which took place during a “Practice Lab” session, was about the varying manifestations of oppression.

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