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<a href="https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/users/1688049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Hoover</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). According to her university profile, her “research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements.” Hoover has also “published articles about food sovereignty, environmental reproductive justice in Native American communities, the cultural impact of fish advisories on Native communities, tribal citizen science, and health social movements.”
Since childhood, Hoover has identified as a descendant of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq Indian tribes. However, according to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, she revealed that “she has no tribal connections after decades of claiming otherwise.” This discovery was based on “genealogical research.”
On her website, Hoover posted a <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Statement about Identity”</a> providing her reaction to her genealogical discovery. In this short essay, she addresses her life experience under the assumption that she was a native. In the opening paragraphs, she provided background on her upbringing:  
“Our Native identity has structured not only our family activities but how we relate to other people and they to us. I have been a fancy shawl dancer and bead worker for over three decades, something my sisters and I learned at powwows when we were young, and this has brought us great joy. I have been grateful to the people of Akwesasne who took me in called me their chosen daughter, auntie, and friend, and who put me to work. When people told me ‘welcome home’ when I would come to visit, that meant something to me. In short, this identity has shaped my entire life and guided my work.”
Hoover concludes: 
“Now, without any official documentation verifying the identity I was raised with, I do not think it is right for me to continue to claim to be a scholar of Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent, even though my mother is insistent that she inherited this history for a reason.”
According to <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Californian</a>, Hoover, who used to teach at Brown University, “has received criticism in light of her statement, with many coming forward to allege the harm she caused Native communities there, especially regarding a statement she wrote denouncing the Pokanoket Tribe’s calls for Land Back from Brown.”
“UC Berkeley considers the issue of Hoover’s ethnic identity to be a ‘deeply personal matter,’ according to a campus statement provided by campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.” The college does not “consider race or tribal identity in making employment decisions, in light of allegations that Hoover was a part of a “cluster hire.”
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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/hatem-bazian/">Hatem Bazian</a> is a professor of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the <a href="https://zaytuna.edu/academics/faculty/hatem-bazian">co-founder and assistant professor </a>at Zaytuna College, which is the only accredited American college in which the curriculum is based on Islamic fundamentals. Bazian’s resume is littered with antisemitic and pro-terror incidents, both on and off-campus.

When attending San Francisco State University, Bazian accused the student newspaper of being <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/19590/profiles-in-hate-hatem-bazian">infiltrated by “Jewish spies</a>,” and allegedly denied Jewish students jobs while serving as Student Body President, claiming their support of Israel exhibited their racism.

Bazian’s activism grew more militant with time. At an Islamic conference in 1999, he was quoted by the Detroit Free Press reciting an Islamic Hadith <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/8865/hatem-bazian-personal-story">calling for the slaughter of Jews</a>.
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After 79 members of Students for Justice in Palestine were arrested for disrupting a Holocaust memorial, Bazian asserted that the university's actions were racially motivated. During the subsequently organized protests, Bazain <a href="https://www.jweekly.com/2018/10/22/berkeley-city-councils-shameful-tolerance-of-anti-semitism/">insinuated that powerful Jews controlled the University and orchestrated the arrests</a>.

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Bazian’s thinly veiled antisemitism is seamlessly <a href="https://canarymission.org/professor/Hatem_Bazian">interlaced with his anti-Israel demagoguery</a>. A proponent of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,  Bazian has called for the dismantlement of the state of Israel and has praised the terrorist group Hamas. Bazian <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv5yaKxNgo&amp;ab_channel=HamasOnCampus">openly called for a domestic insurrection</a> within America. Calling the crowd to arms at a 2003 anti-war rally, Bazian called for an “Intifada” to start in America.

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The Intifada was then in the midst of its third year of blood-soaked carnage in Israel. Before it abated in 2006, <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/comprehensive-listing-of-terrorism-victims-in-israel">over one thousand men, women, and children would perish</a> from sniper fire and suicide attacks on buses, markets, and restaurants. The most gruesome attacks included the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/10/26/what-the-ramallah-lynchings-taught-us-about-palestinian-incitement/">public lynching and disembowelment of two Israeli soldiers</a>, and the <a href="https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/18-years-after-sbarro-suicide-attack-pa-has-paid-910823-to-the-culprits-598106">bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria</a>, killing 15 civilians, including 7 children and a pregnant woman.

Extending to the classroom and beyond, Bazian has co-founded two anti-Israel groups: <a href="https://canarymission.org/organization/SJP">Students for Justice in Palestine</a> (SJP), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

Bazian co-founded SJP with fellow professor <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/snehalshingavi">Snehal Shingavi</a> in 2001 in solidarity with Palestinian groups, as the Intifada raged in Israel. The group is known for its belligerent tactics and hostility towards Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus. SJP openly calls for the destruction of Israel and has never been shy about their support for Hamas. <a href="https://canarymission.org/individual/Azka_Fayyaz">A student senator and member of SJP</a> at UC Davis <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-film-depicts-jewish-students-growing-insecurity-on-campus/">welcomed “Hamas and sharia law"</a> to campus.

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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF2qAJl65k&amp;ab_channel=CanaryMission">American Muslims for Palestine</a>, of which Bazian serves as Chairman, is rooted in the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP). Facing scrutiny by the federal government over its ties to overseas jihadist groups, IAP ceased operations in 2003 to avoid prosecution. Many of the staff then <a href="https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20160419/104817/HHRG-114-FA18-Wstate-SchanzerJ-20160419.pdf">reconstituted under the new banner of AMP with Bazian as Chairman</a>. Screenshots from IAP’s former website show that the group openly encouraged Islamic terrorism and what can only be described as ethnic cleansing of Jews.

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Bazian is a tenured professor at one of the world’s most prestigious colleges. Tens of thousands of students have passed through his classroom while accruing many thousands more in debt, over his many decades in academia. His radicalism isn’t hidden—Bazian has openly embraced and preached the most radical, violent, and bigoted positions imaginable and sought to inspire future leaders with those same values.

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UPDATE - May 27, 2022
A previous edition that attributed a quote to Hatem Bazian has been corrected and attributed to an article hosted on the IAP website in December, 2000

<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/john-powell/">John A. Powell</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. During a<a href="http://www.whiteprivilegeconference.com/"> White Privilege Conference</a>, Powell was caught on film saying that the Bush Administration deliberately took money away from strengthening the levees during Hurricane Katrina because the levees were protecting black people.

<a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">Nancy Scheper-Hughes</a> is the Chancellor’s Professor Emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkely. Her university biography <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/nancy-scheper-hughes">states</a> that Scheper-Hughes approaches her work through a “politically engaged perspective” to examine “structural and political violence.”

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Anti-Second Amendment 
Immediately following the Pulse nightclub shooting, in which a Muslim man who pledged allegiance to ISIS <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-injuries-shooting-orlando-nightclub-police/story?id=39789552">entered Pulse, a gay nightclub, and opened fire, killing 50 individuals</a>, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">published</a> an article on the Berkeley Blog, a university website, to reflect on the events of the previous evening, titled, Radical evil: A reflection on the Orlando massacre.

In her article, Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">describes</a> the Pulse nightclub as a “sacred space” that was attacked by a man she describes as “radically evil.” However, she then blames the killings on hate speech of the “trumpers'' and the <a href="https://home.nra.org/">National Rifle Association</a>.

Referring to the Second Amendment in the post, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160621134259/http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2016/06/19/radical-evil-a-reflection-on-the-orlando-massacre/">states</a> that we have “failed as a democracy” to let “one amendment trump” all other amendments, leading to killings like the one in Orlando. She alleges that massacres throughout American history are typically committed by “orthodox conservatives” that suffer from a "perversity of heart."

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Censorship
In mid-2017, the Berkely College Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/BerkeleyCRs/status/884816647546064896">announced</a> on the group's Twitter account that they would host popular commentator Ben Shapiro. In an article for the website, CounterPunch, Scheper-Hughes <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">decries</a> the decision to host Shapiro at the university, describing him as a “smart aleck, wisecracking, racist, sexist, misogynist, Islamophobic jerk.” She goes on to describe Shapiro as a “very dangerous, extremely controversial, physical threat” to Berkeley’s student body.

Scheper-Hughes further <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/13/the-great-wall-of-uc-berkeley-vs-baby-face-shapiro/">describes</a> Ben Shapiro in her article as a member of the “alt-light” that engages in hate speech. Hughes states that the First Amendment is a “work in progress” and that the amendment is “ignorant” and inadequately able to combat “hate speech.”

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While acknowledging that the university is “stuck” with the protections that the First Amendment affords Ben Shapiro, Scheper-Hughes implies that free speech can be regulated to ban hate speech.

The Professor Watchlist team reached out to Scheper-Hughes for comment but has not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 642-6000
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://jewishstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ron-hendel/">Dr. Ronald Hendel</a> is a Professor of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. At the beginning of Hendel’s class, titled “Jewish Civilization I: The Biblical Period,” he told students not to take his class if they think the Bible is infallible. After one student started questioning and challenging him, Hendel told the student “If you disagree with the approach we use, that’s an F.”

<a href="https://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/person/andrew-little">Dr. Andrew Little</a> is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California in Berkeley. According to his university <a href="https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/andrew-little">biography</a>, Dr. Little’s research focuses on authoritarian politics, communication and information manipulation, and conflict.

While working as a professor at Cornell University, Dr. Little vocally opposed the hiring of conservative professors by the university. In an interview with The Cornell Daily Sun in October 2015, he stated that <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">the quality of research and academic integrity would suffer if universities hired conservative professors</a>.

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In the same article, titled “Cornell Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show,” reporters for the Cornell Daily Sun <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2015/10/15/cornell-faculty-donations-flood-left%E2%80%88filings-show/">note</a> that over 96% of the political donations of Cornell staff went to Democrats and only 4% were donated to Republican candidates.
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Published - July 2021

<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/ramon-grosfoguel-1/">Ramon Grosfoguel</a> is an associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to his university biography, Grosfoguel also specializes in decoloniality and the study of Islamophobia.

Grosfoguel is notable for his vocal opposition to the state of Israel and support for BDS. In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu1PCTNGgB8&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv">interview</a> with the Islamic Human Rights Commission during Al-Quds Day (an <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/on-quds-day-irans-leader-says-zionism-a-virus-that-must-be-eliminated/">Iranian holiday</a> dedicated to the destruction of Israel) not only did he claim that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians, but that Israel is a threat to peace across the world. Grosfoguel claimed that Israel is infiltrating nations and aligning itself with openly fascist organizations in order to strangle freedom of speech.

Grosfoguel also claims that Jews <a href="https://www.okcir.com/Articles%20VII%202/Grosfoguel-FM.pdf">cynically use the Holocaust</a> to elicit sympathy from the world in order to commit atrocities against Arabs;

“The simplistic identity politics of the Holocaust hegemonic narrative that essentialized Jewish identity as homogenous eternal victims and always intentionally innocent ended with Gaza.”   

“These simplistic and reductionist narratives about the Holocaust and Jewish identity were exploited by the Zionists for the last 60 years to legitimate their fundamentalist Jewish state built upon the practices and methods of settler colonialism against the Palestinians.”                  

“Hitlerism as a continuation of colonial racist ideology came back to hunt Palestinians this time at the hands of European Jews who ironically were escaping from the Nazi Holocaust.” 

“...the Holocaust was always manipulated, abused, and institutionalized by the Israeli settler colonialist state from its foundation in 1948 until today to justify its colonial domination, expansion, and terror.”
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Grosfoguel specializes in anti-colonial rhetoric. Rather than a past vestige, Grosfoguel maintains that colonialism is an ongoing attempt by Western nations—particularly Israel and the United States, to maintain dominance throughout the world. Grosfoguel lectures that the capitalistic, Christian-centered West is able to bleed poorer nations dry to maintain their wealth. He claims that Christianity itself has given rise to genocides around the world, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z8ISZolAMw&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=2m4s">“pre-modern” societies were far more peaceful</a> than modern, Western nations.

To Grosfoguel, the concept of human rights is a Western farce that is used to justify foreign invasions. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=9m46s">He has claimed</a> that America is a “rogue state” that has murdered upwards of 70 million people.

“Here comes the quintessential rogue state in the world, USA, calling other nations rogue states….This is really amazing, because this country, the last 60 years, has killed more than 70 million people.”  

In the same lecture, he held nothing back when grotesquely claiming that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jFaJf-aVE&amp;ab_channel=IHRCtv=7m0s">should have been put to death</a> alongside Sadam Hussein for his crimes as an imperialist:

“So Donald Rumsfield should have been sitting alongside Sadam Hussein and been judged, ok? And been hanged together with him.”  

Grosfoguel travels frequently to speak about his views on decolonization and is renowned among the Left for his views on the subject. In 2018, he was invited to deliver <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pwX2ZQl0C0&amp;t=3173s&amp;ab_channel=LuiginoBracciRoa-Situaci%C3%B3nenVenezuela">opening remarks</a> addressing this topic at a Caracas-based conference hosted by Nicholas Maduro. Grosfoguel was well received at the conference and can be seen warmly greeting the dictator below.

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<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/keith-feldman-1/">Keith Feldman</a> is a head graduate advisor and an associate professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Speaking before the Berkeley-based conference Critical Discourses on Islamophobia, Feldman reserved most of his speech to criticize Barack Obama for killing jihadists. Labeling the administration’s <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">use of drones to eliminate terrorists as Islamaphobic</a>—or what he termed as “racialization from above—he asked, “What happens when Islamophobia takes to the skies?”

Feldman compared the death of Osama bin Laden to a Jim Crow-era lynching. As he was describing his killing as the “residue of late nineteenth-century colonial settler violence,” Feldman <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/20132/uc-berkeley-and-the-islamophobia-lobby">displayed a black lynching victim in the background to serve as an analogy to his death.</a>

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In 2015 while discussing his book, <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-shadow-over-palestine">A Shadow Over Palestine</a>, he claimed that <a href="https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/22864/berkeley-prof-race-in-america-is-like-occupation">American ghettos are akin to the Warsaw ghetto</a> during the Holocaust, which itself is akin to modern-day Palestinian refugee camps.

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Feldman’s book praises the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/7244/a-radical-romance-with-the-palestinians">United World Conference Against Racism</a> held in Durban, South Africa. <a href="https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/durban-and-911-ten-years-later">The gathering is notorious for its antisemitism</a>, with vendors <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/durban-i-un-conference-against-racism-2001">selling the conspiratorial</a> ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and displaying banners that read ‘What if Hitler Had Won?’ Feldman praises this conference for uniting “hundreds” of NGOs to declare that “Zionism is racism.”
Updated - Spring, 2021

<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Zeus Leonardo</a> is a Professor in the<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Graduate School of Education</a> at the University of <a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California-Berkeley</a>. According to his university profile, Dr. Leonardo’s courses include: “Race, Whiteness Studies, and Education” and “Proseminar: Social Critique of Education.” Much of Dr. Leonardo’s work utilizes critical race theory to analyze areas such as race, class, culture, and gender in education.

Dr. Leonardo is also listed as an Affiliated Faculty Member of the Critical Theory Designated Emphasis at UC Berkeley. As part of the Graduate School of Education, the program explores the “<a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/academics/ma-and-phd-programs/critical-studies-race-class-and-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">root causes and effects of white supremacy and settler colonialism in education</a>,” according to the official website.

Upon completion, those enrolled will earn a certification of “Designated Emphasis and Specialization in Critical Theory.” The university flaunts critical theory’s association with the Frankfurt School of Economics on its website. The Frankfurt School of Economics was <a href="https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/BG3567.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">composed of openly Marxist economists whose writings eventually formed the basis for critical race theory</a>.

<a href="http://criticaltheory.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The page prominently hosts a picture of Angela Davis</a> alongside the post-modernist, <a href="https://fee.org/articles/herbert-marcuse-the-philosopher-behind-the-ideology-of-the-anti-fascists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>. Davis was a member of the Leninist-Black Panther Party as well as the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/viewhttps://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-309-AngelaYvonneDavis.jpg/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives</a> list for her role in the shooting deaths of four during the Marin County Civic Center Attacks.

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To learn more about <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/angeladavis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Angela Davis, visit her profile on the Professor Watchlist</a>.

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.

Dr. Leonardo has additionally published a number of other articles on critical race theory, race, and education. These include titles such as, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23793406.2016.1167111?journalCode=rree20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tropics of Whiteness</a>,” “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01596306.2013.822624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Story of Schooling: Critical Theory and the Educational Racial Contract</a>,” and, “<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13613320120117180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Souls of White Folk</a>.” Another is titled, “<a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203880371/race-whiteness-education-zeus-leonardo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race, Whiteness, and Education</a>,” in which he affirms the “central role” racism plays in society.

Dr. Leonardo declares racism to be systematic rather than based on individuals and must be addressed as such. He outlines the paper’s intent to interrupt this “dangerous” assertion in order to confront “whiteness” and racism in education. Further, in the same paper, Dr. Leonardo advocates the blending of Marxism and whiteness studies to understand racism. He then addresses the “myth” that whites do not think of themselves exclusively along with racial terms and that capitalism has spread “whiteness” across the globe.

In a separate lecture, Dr. Leonardo lauds critical race theory in even more explicit terms. In a lecture titled, “Who is afraid of CRT?” hosted at George Washington University, the event was <a href="https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/who%E2%80%99s-afraid-critical-race-theory-and-what-exactly-it-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marketed as an examination of “critical race theory, marxism, and whiteness studies</a>”.

In the lecture, Dr. Leonardo states the intent of his work in whiteness studies is to solve the problem of “whiteness” itself.

“In whiteness studies, whiteness is  the problem to be posed, if not solved.”

In another clip–captured by the Twitter user, <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mythinformed MYKE</a>—Dr. Leonardo states, “whites are not born white,” rather, they are “abused’ by their white parents and raised that way.
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Recommended reading from the professor of education at Berkeley includes concepts such as “white people are not born white”.
White people are “born human” and then “white parents physically and psychologically ABUSE them” into becoming “white people”. <a href="https://t.co/GOtjrFCC7m">pic.twitter.com/GOtjrFCC7m</a>

— Mythinformed MKE (@MythinformedMKE) <a href="https://twitter.com/MythinformedMKE/status/1450083463726518276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 18, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Video later emerged of Dr. Leonardo stating in a lecture that "to abolish whiteness is to abolish white people."
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UC Berkeley education professor Zeus Leonardo: "To abolish whiteness is to abolish white people. That's very uncomfortable perhaps, but it asks about our definitions of what race is and what racial justice might mean."
This is what teachers are learning.<a href="https://t.co/cLWEGSZ8tM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/cLWEGSZ8tM</a>

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1498335108830486533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://gse.berkeley.edu/">Graduate School of Education</a> of the University of California-Berkeley at (510) 643-6644 or at gsedean@berkeley.edu  
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<a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/khiara-bridges/#tab_profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Khiara Bridges</a> is a <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California-Berkeley Law Professor</a>, critical race theorist, and an advocate for abortion. She has further claimed that men can give birth and has refused to say whether unborn babies are worthy of dignity.

Dr. Bridges condemned the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.—<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/19-1392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dobbs V. Jackson Women’s Health Organization</a>—as an <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/06/24/khiara-m-bridges-court-abortion-ruling-is-an-assault-on-women-and-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“assault” against both women and democracy.</a> Dr. Bridges further alleged that <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/video/californians-express-outrage-over-roe-163817289.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning abortion is a form of racism</a>:

“When you have a law that makes abortion unavailable, you have a law that makes unavailable a service upon which Black people disproportionately rely, so there’s a specific racial impact.”

Since the 1973 ruling, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/since-roe-abortion-has-killed-more-black-babies-than-the-entire-black-population-of-the-u-s-in-1960" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an estimated 20 million black children have been murdered via abortion</a>.

Speaking before a <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?521318-1/senate-judiciary-committee-hearing-abortion-access-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate hearing</a> regarding abortion policy, Dr. Bridges refused to address John Cornyn’s (R-Texas) question regarding disproportionate rates of black abortion. She again refused to answer when asked if an unborn baby has any value.
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Cornyn: "Do you think a baby delivered alive has value?"
Demo abortion witness: "Yes."

Cornyn: "Do you think that a baby that is not yet born has value?"

Dem abortion witness: "I believe that a person with the capacity for pregnancy has value." <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/eYaOYumYSJ</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546889853031383042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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During her testimony, Dr. Bridges referenced “persons with the capacity for pregnancy” when speaking about individuals who sought abortions. When questioned by Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) if she was referring to pregnant women, Dr. Bridges replied that she was referring to all “cis-women, trans-men, and non-binary people.”

When further pressed if abortion is a women’s rights issue, Dr. Bridges accused Hawley of asking questions that exposed “trans people to violence.”

Dr. Bridges then asked Hawley if he believes that men can become pregnant. Astonished, Hawley replied, “No, I don’t think men can get pregnant,” she further accused him of denying that trans people exist.
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Hawley: Why are you using the term "person with a capacity for pregnancy" instead of "woman?"
Bridges: "Your line of questioning is transphobic and opens trans people to violence."

Hawley: "You're saying I'm opening up people to violence by saying women can have pregnancies?" <a href="https://t.co/eYaOYumYSJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/Yi46NlQCr0</a>

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1546891926997188608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dr. Bridges is a scholar of critical race theory and author of “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Critical_Race_Theory.html?id=VMhDvAEACAAJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Critical Race Theory, A Primer.</a>” At Berkeley, her biography lists her as an expert in “Civil Rights and Civil Liberties,” “Critical Legal Theory,” and “Racial and Social Justice.”

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Students And Parents may contact the Dean of Berkely Law at (510) 642-6483
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<a href="https://english.berkeley.edu/profiles/386" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grace Lavery</a> is an Associate Professor for the English program at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic specialties are 19th-century British literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He is a transgender professor who “transitioned” in 2018. He claims his “work in trans feminist studies is… focused on the belief that transition works; that it is truly possible to change sex.”

In February of 2022 <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/professor-suspended-twitter-hopes-queen-dies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lavery was suspended from Twitter</a> for tweeting “I hope the queen dies,” a few days after Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for Covid-19. He even tagged the British government in the tweet. Lavery <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542993/Berkeley-professor-suspended-Twitter-tweeting-hopes-COVID-stricken-Queen-DIES.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailUK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the Daily Mail</a>: ​​“I do not think they [Twitter] should ban people for hoping that public figures die, whether the person in question is Elizabeth Windsor, Donald Trump, or Jeremy Corbyn.” Since his suspension, Lavery has no longer been active on Twitter. 

<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=19010" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> reported that Lavery tweeted the following statement on January 29, 2022: “i [sic] think that everyone is secretly as much of a pervert as we are, and we’ll win because of it.” Since Lavery’s Twitter account has been suspended, none of his tweets can be accessed. 

On the following day Lavery tweeted “i [sic] think we should seize all private property, so there’ll be nowhere for you adults to try your naughty little spanks except in the gutter with the rest of us… 3. Senile elderly woman masturbating surreptitiously during mass,” among several other explicit tweets. 

Lavery wrote the book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Please-Miss-Heartbreaking-Staggering-Penis/dp/1541620658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis”</a>, which was released in February of 2022. The Amazon description for the book states:
“Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and 100 percent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. As soon as she solves her “penis problem,” she begins receiving anonymous letters, seemingly sent by a cult of sinister clowns, and sets out on a magical mystery tour to find the source of these surreal missives…”

<a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/people/spring-2022-lecturer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Peace and Love El Henson</a> is a Lecturer and Black Studies Collaboratory Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university biography, El Henson “primarily focuses on black queer femmes, state violence, pornography, and ethnography.” 

El Henson’s research is twofold:
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The first uses black femmes’ theatrical performances from online interracial pornography to read real-life state policing encounters and vice versa.” El Henson’s goal  is to “denude the unconscious racialized pornographic BDSM (Bondage and Discipline/Domination and Submission/Sadism and Masochism/Sadomasochism) structured into interracial relations across sites of chattel slavery, professional pornography, public schools, universities, neighborhoods, and beyond.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Her second area of research “offers ethnographic case studies on black femmes who use erotic performance as a mode of survival, artistry, and pleasure amid genocide of low-income black neighborhoods in Oakland, CA.”</li>
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Dr. El Henson wrote a report in 2017 when she was in Graduate School at the University of Texas, Austin which she titled, <a href="https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/63533/ELHENSON-MASTERSREPORT-2017.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Scenes of Subjection’ &amp; Subjectivity: Punishment, Torture, Captivity, Annihilation and Genocide of (Queer) Black Girls and Women in the ‘Afterlife of Slavery.’”</a> In the abstract, El Henson wrote that she explores: “the punishment, torture, captivity, annihilation and ultimate genocide black girls and women are subjected to by white supremacist, antiblack, hetero-patriarchal, hetero-sexist, and heteronormative school staff, police and state forces in public schools and beyond.”

In the report, El Henson claims that there has been an “antiblack genocide in the United States” throughout the country’s history. 

El Henson uses the term “queer” to describe black girls, black women, and black people “as a modifier to signify black communities who embody a range of gender identities, performances and sexualities in and out of U.S. black and white socially accepted norms—as classification of norm fluctuates by social group. This means that these terms can embody a range of black people who are bisexual, asexual, lesbian, transgender, heterosexual and more.”

In the report’s introduction, El Henson relates an experience she had when volunteering at her “old middle school in a hood of Oakland, CA.” A female student named Myra was dismissed from a class with a referral because her shirt was “too distracting and inappropriate.” Myra responded to the teacher, who was a man, by saying “F*** you,” whereupon she left the classroom. El Henson claims the teacher gave her a referral because he “could not resist over-sexualizing young black girls bodies,” and also due to his “perversions” and “[h]is uncontrollable sexual desire and arousal for a black girl” which “was ‘inappropriate’ and the true distraction to the classroom space.” However, she provides no evidence indicating that the teacher felt the way that she describes him to have felt. 

<a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/uc-berkeley-to-offer-a-nicki-minaj-course-for-spring-semester/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to KTLA,</a> for the Spring semester of 2023, Dr. El Henson will teach a course entitled “AAS 140.2: Nicki Minaj: The Black Barbie Femmecee &amp; Hip Hop Feminisms.” El Henson says that the course will address the influence Minaj has had on the hip-hop industry and how it relates to the “broader historical-social structures and hip-hop feminisms.” However, KTLA reports the course is still being evaluated by the university’s administration. On a Twitter thread about the course, Nicki Minaj <a href="https://twitter.com/dr_peaceandlove/status/1578191853433761794" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>, “I’d love to stop by [the class].”

<a href="https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/users/1688049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Hoover</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). According to her university profile, her “research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements.” Hoover has also “published articles about food sovereignty, environmental reproductive justice in Native American communities, the cultural impact of fish advisories on Native communities, tribal citizen science, and health social movements.”

Since childhood, Hoover has identified as a descendant of the Mohawk and Mi’kmaq Indian tribes. However, according to <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20572" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, she revealed that “she has no tribal connections after decades of claiming otherwise.” This discovery was based on “genealogical research.”

On her website, Hoover posted a <a href="https://www.profelizabethmhoover.com/identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Statement about Identity”</a> providing her reaction to her genealogical discovery. In this short essay, she addresses her life experience under the assumption that she was a native. In the opening paragraphs, she provided background on her upbringing:  
“Our Native identity has structured not only our family activities but how we relate to other people and they to us. I have been a fancy shawl dancer and bead worker for over three decades, something my sisters and I learned at powwows when we were young, and this has brought us great joy. I have been grateful to the people of Akwesasne who took me in called me their chosen daughter, auntie, and friend, and who put me to work. When people told me ‘welcome home’ when I would come to visit, that meant something to me. In short, this identity has shaped my entire life and guided my work.”
Hoover concludes: 
“Now, without any official documentation verifying the identity I was raised with, I do not think it is right for me to continue to claim to be a scholar of Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent, even though my mother is insistent that she inherited this history for a reason.”
According to <a href="https://dailycal.org/2022/11/01/campus-associate-professor-elizabeth-hoover-rescinds-claim-to-native-american-ancestry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Californian</a>, Hoover, who used to teach at Brown University, “has received criticism in light of her statement, with many coming forward to allege the harm she caused Native communities there, especially regarding a statement she wrote denouncing the Pokanoket Tribe’s calls for Land Back from Brown.”

“UC Berkeley considers the issue of Hoover’s ethnic identity to be a ‘deeply personal matter,’ according to a campus statement provided by campus spokesperson Janet Gilmore.” The college does not “consider race or tribal identity in making employment decisions, in light of allegations that Hoover was a part of a “cluster hire.”
Published -- November 17, 2022

Chesa Boudin previously held the position of the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco. He is now the <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Director of Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center.</a>

Chesa Boudin has been outspoken about how he believes that the prison system is set up to be disadvantageous towards minorities. According to <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/chesa-boudin-brings-lifetime-of-experience-to-lead-new-criminal-law-justice-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Berkeley Law’s website</a>, “Chesa understands that mass incarceration and privatized prisons disproportionately harm people of color and reflect the institutional inequities of America’s legal system.” These ideas of legal institutions like prisons being systemically unfair towards people of color, and that a major focus needs to be put on fixing that, is what Boudin plans on bringing to the students that he will be teaching at Berkeley Law School.

The website also quotes Illinois State’s Attorney Kim Foxx who states that Chesa Boudin “knows that criminalizing poverty and homelessness entrenches racist policies and power structures, and that this approach fails to uphold the values of equal rights and due process we supposedly hold dear.” One of Boudin’s goals that is outlined in Berkeley’s announcement is that he plans to bring people once incarcerated into the Berkeley Law’s Criminal Law and Justice Center. 

Before he was elected as District Attorney, Chesa Boudin told the <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/What-s-the-answer-to-quality-of-life-crimes-in-14563426.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a>, “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc., should not and will not be prosecuted.” Rising local crime rates due to Boudin’s efforts to not prosecute these crimes are what led to outcry from residents asking for his recall.

The <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2022/fixing-san-francisco-problems/crime" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chronicle</a> reports that in 2020—Chesa Boudin’s first year in office—property crimes skyrocketed, “with more than 4,400 incidents of property crime per 100,000 residents.” In this same report, 23% of residents stated that safety and crime was the biggest problem in the city while 39% stated homelessness as the city’s biggest issue. 

Additionally, the <a href="https://sfchamber.com/press-release-citybeat21/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">San Francisco Chamber of Commerce</a> released a 2021 poll where “eight out of ten San Franciscans consider crime to have worsened in recent years” and around 70% of San Francisco residents believe that their quality of life has decreased significantly. Nonetheless, UC Berkeley has placed Chesa Boudin in charge of Berkeley Law School’s Criminal Law and Justice Center where he will be teaching students about the criminal legal system. 

<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/06/san-franciscos-da-chesa-boudin-faces-possible-recall-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reports that Chesa Boudin was recalled due to his ‘soft on crime’ policies that led to prosecutors being unable to “seek cash bail, try juveniles as adults or seek lengthy prison sentences for offenders with gang affiliations.” When confronted with the possibility of recall, Boudin told the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-government-and-politics-san-francisco-seniors-c865bc8fa7006fb806b6e5b639f64857" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a> that San Francisco residents were frustrated and angry “at the Trump administration and misinformation that administration fueled on everything from public safety to vaccines.” 

Boudin did not hold himself accountable for the complaints of the residents and instead blamed the Trump administration for the chaos that was occurring in the city. He was successfully recalled on June 7, 2022 and was unable to serve the remainder of his term as the 29th District Attorney for San Francisco.
Published - June 13, 2023

<a href="https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/4055928/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Victoria Huynh</a> is a Ph.D. student and instructor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. According to her university profile, her <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fields of study</a> include “critical refugee studies, abolition feminism, trauma &amp; memory, and Vietnamese &amp; Southeast Asian Studies.”

On October 24, 2023, Huynh sent an email out to students in her “Asian American Communities and Race Relations” class offering them a “field trip and/or extra credit opportunity” to attend a Pro-Palestine rally. According to a flyer, the event is a “national call to walk out in solidarity with Palestinians facing bombardment, genocide, and settler-colonialism.”

Hyunh’s <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/college-students-offered-extra-credit-attend-pro-palestine-rally-1837897" target="_blank" rel="noopener">email said</a>:
“(1) Students can attend the national student walkout tomorrow against the settler-colonial occupation of Gaza (info attached below) OR (2) Students can watch a short documentary on Palestine and call/email your local California representative using this linktree.” 
The <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1717134083250086050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1717134083250086050%7Ctwgr%5E258baed471a10c082496afe213537c4bf35675da%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.campusreform.org%2Farticle%3Fid%3D24266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full email</a> can be seen below:

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A spokesperson for the University of California, Berkeley <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/world/students-can-get-extra-credit-for-attending-palestinian-march-says-uc-berkeley-1r8O8kDk3HV6mlgd3K8amL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a statement</a> the extra credit assignment was changed after it was brought to the attention of school officials.
“Students can now attend any local event they wish—such as a book talk or a panel discussion—related to the course’s subject, including the protest…or they can watch any documentary they wish about the Middle East.” 
“As soon as the administration was made aware of the assignment it moved quickly to ensure that it would be changed. The situation has been remedied, the assignment has been changed and there are now a number of options for extra credit, not just one.”
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Published - October 31, 2023

<a href="https://www.berkeley.edu/about/">Ian Kivelin Davis</a> is a Faculty Advisor for the Media Studies Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

In a 2016 article for <a href="https://medium.com/media-in-the-middle/news-flash-the-new-york-times-thinks-trump-is-beneath-america-daae02b7eca7">Medium</a> about President Donald Trump and racism in America, Davis wrote:
“Trump did not invent racism. He is just packaging it in a way white, middle-class people can see . . . not unlike cell phones now capture, for white America, the systemic oppression black Americans experience at the hands of our lauded and praised police force. The difference is that white America now has to look at it on their television screens and Facebook posts of distant relatives. Oh, lament white America! Your poor eyes and refined sensibilities must be strained.”
The main theme of the article is that, while Trump is allegedly an “enabler” of racism in the U.S., racism has always existed in spite of Trump’s Presidency:
“Trump marvelers seem to wring hands over the Donald as an enabler or facilitator of American racism. True, but this journalism trope misses a key point. These sentiments preexisted Trump.” 
In 2021, Davis wrote an <a href="https://www.academia.edu/45522395/Capitol_Riots_and_the_Mythic_Meaning_of_1776">article</a> for Academia Letters titled "Capitol Riots and the Mythical Meaning of 1776." 

In the article, Davis likens the January 6th protesters to the American revolutionaries of 1776 in a manner that is meant to trivialize the former and mythologize the latter. Believing them to have attempted a revolution, Davis calls the Capitol protesters “Tourist Revolutionaries.”
“Tourist Revolutionaries on display during the Trump riot were engaging in a symbolic act that reenacts a mythical history of the country… January 6th was a genteel, candy-coated revolution, closer to carnival than coup...”
Davis considers the tyranny that led the American revolutionaries to revolt against the British monarch to have been unjustly compared with the outcome of the 2020 Presidential election by the protesters. 
“Tourist Revolutionaries, energized by the symbolism of ‘1776,’ confuse the tyranny of the monarch King George with the compromises of democracy and shared self-governance with fellow Americans.”
For Davis,  the protesters were misled and were seeking to subvert “electoral democracy” on behalf of President Trump:
“This was a symbolic act for a substantial number of Trump supporters who were misled by President Trump to believe they were ﬁghting for the preservation of America rather than the subversion of electoral democracy to prop up the president’s personal ambitions.”
Published - November 21, 2023

Racial Ideology

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<a href="https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/rudy-busto/">Rudy Busto </a>is an Associate Professor at the University of California &#8211; Santa Barbara. His work is described as examining how “race structures state and civil society” and how the concept of race structures religion. 
As reported by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14987">Campus Reform</a>, Busto recently gave a lengthy presentation to one of his classes at the end of the semester in which he explained in detail why he believes that America is not an exceptional nation. He declared that “history has dispelled the notion of American Exceptionalism,” Busto listed off the reasons why he believed that America was no longer exceptional, including losing the Vietnam War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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University of California-Santa Barbara

<a href="http://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/mireille-miller-young">Dr. Mireille Miller-Young</a> is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Miller was sentenced to three years’ probation after violently attacking a 16-year-old pro-life activist on campus. She was convicted of assault, theft, and destruction of property, but the University of Santa Barbara never fired her.

<a href="https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/rudy-busto/">Rudy Busto </a>is an Associate Professor at the University of California - Santa Barbara. His work is described as examining how “race structures state and civil society” and how the concept of race structures religion. 

As reported by <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14987">Campus Reform</a>, Busto recently gave a lengthy presentation to one of his classes at the end of the semester in which he explained in detail why he believes that America is not an exceptional nation. He declared that “history has dispelled the notion of American Exceptionalism,” Busto listed off the reasons why he believed that America was no longer exceptional, including losing the Vietnam War and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

<a href="https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/student/timothy-snediker/">Timothy Snediker</a> works in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He first rose to notoriety for tweeting about his desire to assassinate Jesus Christ.

Snediker’s animosity towards Christ stems from his belief that the concepts of the individual and capitalism, both of which he opposes, arose out of Christianity during the enlightenment in Europe.

In the <a href="http://jcrt.org/religioustheory/2016/05/18/theodicy-of-money-the-scene-and-subject-of-forgiveness/">Theodicy of Money - The Scene of and Subject Forgiveness</a>, Snediker writes:

“Against the standard left critique of capitalism, which presupposes a certain secularism and a certain atheism, one must rather grapple with the peculiar verve of a comment made by Giorgio Agamben: “God did not die; he was transformed into money...To the identity of Christianity and capitalism corresponds the identity of God and money….Today, it is simply not enough to be an atheist, because, in the last instance, everyone believes in money." 

As written in <a href="https://jcrt.org/archives/14.1/snediker.pdf">The Autonomy of the Now</a>, he further expands on his position:

“Our hypothesis is that, under the brutal conditions of global capitalist hegemony, resistance necessitates the affirmation of the intrinsic instability and artificiality of identity…”

“...resistance to power necessitates a two-fold refusal of the authority and sovereignty of both Christianity and Secularism…”

“Secularization is the strategic means by which the West (which is to say, Christendom, or European colonialism, or, simply, Christianity) effects its accumulations, its appropriations, and its dominations.....Christianity’s hegemony has not waned; it has metamorphosed and Metastasized."

“Christianity is the identitarian religion par excellence: it ceaselessly works to individualize, legitimate and commoditize one’s identity....this is how Christianity was constituted as a privileged instrument of power”

“Resistance to power necessitates, therefore, a restoration of the autonomy of the now, which in turn requires a two-fold counter-strategy: one the one hand, an acceptance of the instability of identity and the concurrent affirmation of our becoming-other; on the other hand, a refusal of power, which, in the era of global capitalism amounts to a critique of the secular, or, again, a critique of Christianity. “

"Our imperative is to join the struggle for subjectivity, to struggle to speak truthfully about ourselves, to discover that relation to the outside which allows us, in accordance with Nietzsche’s injunction, to become what we are—to become, in a word, anti-Christian."

Snediker’s vitriol towards Christianity exploded when asked what he would do if he could travel 2000 years back in time, he <a href="https://notthebee.com/article/asked-what-hed-do-if-he-could-go-back-in-time-religion-professor-says-easy-i-would-find-and-assassinate-jesus-of-nazareth">tweeted</a>:

“Easy. I would find and assassinate Jesus of Nazareth.” 

He then proceeded to double-down, tweeting:

“Theologically speaking, it would be really important to get him before his calling and ministry begins, so that gives me roughly a decade to make it to Palestine, locate the man, and make my move. I don’t want to be the heroic Judas avant la lettre” 

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<a href="https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/mary-bucholtz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Mary Bucholtz</a> is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California - Santa Barbara. Dr. Bucholtz’s areas of specialization include race, language, gender, sexuality, and African American English in California. She teaches larger, Gen-Ed courses for non-linguistic majors and is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Kids-Language-Styles-Identity/dp/0521692040" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Kids: Language, Race and Styles of Youth Identity</a>. “

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kx-LdeZ3EY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a lecture recorded in 2020</a> for the Linguistic Society for America, Dr. Bucholtz announced that she is “passionate about dismantling racism and white supremacy in linguistics” during a lecture on racial equity. She began the lecture with a Native American “land acknowledgment” and characterized herself as a white, cis female-identifying person who is a “racist in recovery.”

Dr. Bucholtz ended her portion of the lecture by arguing that white students devalue inclusivity because they are uncomfortable with losing their place of privilege. She told teachers that they will need to be ready to “push back against their pushback”.

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During another part of the Q&amp;A portion of her lecture, one listener asked how marginalized students in conservative communities can connect with one another. In her response, Dr. Bulcholtz urged students to take steps in order to protect themselves.

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<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15840" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a lecture captured by the site Campus Reform</a>, Dr. Bucholtz claimed that white people, including herself, are by definition racist and must acknowledge that fact before any social progress can be made.

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In another presentation, Dr. Bucholtz stated that she focuses on <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ZF8hrFLlfWIU97nshTp_NtG9z1ElDAF/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">white linguists because they are the ones who have created, reproduced, and benefited from the racist and exclusionary practices of our discipline, so white people must be the ones to fix it</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Bucholtz for comment but was unable to receive a response as she is on a sabbatical until June 3oth, 2020.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Linguistics of UC-Santa Barabara</a> at (805) 893-7488 or at contact@linguistics.ucsb.edu. 
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Dr. <a href="https://www.csusb.edu/profile/dny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Yaghoubian</a> is a Professor of History at <a href="https://www.csusb.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">California State University, San Bernardino</a>. 

In a series of articles and interviews reviewed by the Professor Watchlist team, Dr. Yaghoubian excuses despotic regimes around the world, demonizes the nation of Israel, and praises the terrorist group, Hezbollah. 

During <a href="https://en.mehrnews.com/news/175145/US-led-propaganda-targets-any-govt-that-opposes-US-hegemony" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one interview with Mehr News Agency</a>—an Iranian-based news station <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061227215730/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolocaustDenial_83/4868_83.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notorious for featuring segments that dispute the veracity of the Holocaust</a>—Dr. Yaghoubian offers high praise for Syrian autocrat, Bashar-al Assad. 

The professor describes him—along with Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro—as a “popularly elected leader” who is unfairly portrayed as a “thug, terrorist, criminal, and often murderer” and is just following his electoral mandate. According to Dr. Yaghoubian, Assad is vilified by Western media in part for his refusal to serve as “lapdogs” for Israeli Zionists.  

Since the Syrian Civil War erupted in 2011, Assad has been accused of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/10-000-bodies-inside-syrian-president-bashar-al-assads-crackdown-1406315472" target="_blank" rel="noopener">torturing thousands of political dissidents and prisoners of war to death.</a>  Assad <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/27/AR2007052701117.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">further runs unopposed</a> during each election, ensuring victory.  

Dr. Yaghoubian further maligns Israel as an apartheid state that is committing ethnic cleansing of Arabs. Launching into a polemic during an interview for Tehran Times—another Iranian-owned TV station—he states that <a href="https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/460714/Selling-out-Palestine-will-not-result-in-regional-security-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza is undergoing a “murderous onslaught” by Israel</a>. 

Dr. Yaghoubian further states that Israel forces Gazans to drink poisoned water. He even goes so far as to allege the “Zionist jailers” are placing Gazans on a  caloric-restrictive diet in their “open-air prison.”

Dr. Yaghoubian maintains that Israel directs America’s foreign policy to benefit the “<a href="https://en.irna.ir/news/83255687/US-academic-Pompeo-is-a-Zionist-zealot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promotion of Zionist colonialism</a>” across the Middle East. The same article claims Israel is directing the United States’s foreign policy against the terror organization Hezbollah, whom he praises. 

Founded in 1982, Hezbollah is an Iranian-funded and directed terror organization based in Lebanon that funds itself through drug smuggling <a href="https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/hezbollah-the-worlds-leading-narco-terrorist-organization/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">with Latin-American cartels and cells in North America</a>. The group is known for<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/131/hizballah" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> launching terror attacks across the world</a> that have claimed American lives.  

Dr. Yaghoubian urges the United States to recognize Hezbollah as a “natural ally” for stabilizing the Levant. He further lauds the group for its broad domestic support and social services. 

This is not the sole time Dr. Yaghoubian has praised Islamic fundamentalists. While condemning the <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/irans-gen-soleimani-killed-in-airstrike-at-baghdad-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone strike in January 2020</a>, a subsequent article by the professor praised him as an Iranian hero. 

Soleimani was a General in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)—composed of Iran’s elite military units—until his death. The group was <a href="https://2017-2021.state.gov/u-s-designates-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps-as-a-foreign-terrorist-organization/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 2019</a>.  

As commander of the Quds Force, he was <a href="https://centerforsecuritypolicy.org/qassem-soleimani-ran-ied-program-to-kill-and-maim-us-coalition-troops/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responsible for Iran’s international subversive and terrorist operations</a>. It is estimated that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/iran-responsible-for-deaths-of-more-than-600-american-troops-in-iraq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the deaths of over 600 Americans in Iraq through roadside bombs</a> may be traced back to Soleimani and the IRGC. 

In an interview following the strike, Dr. Yaghoubian <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220122014610/https://en.abna24.com/news/gen-soleimani-assassination-motivates-axis-of-resistance-to-continue-his-path-us-academic_1215378.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleges that Soleimani was murdered at the direction of America’s “Zionist pied pipers.”</a> He claims the attack was carried out on behalf of Israel so that Zionists may continue to conduct ethnic cleansing in Palestine. He vows the “craven murder” will only motivate an “axis of resistance” against the United States and urges other nations to follow the “heroic” path of Soleimani and Muhandes, the other IRGC general killed in the strike.    

<a href="https://www.csusb.edu/profile/dny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to his university profile,</a> his research includes work on Modern-Iran, Iran-US relations, national identity, and minorities in the Middle East. 

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Yaghoubian for comment but has not received a reply by publication.
Published - October 31, 2022

<a href="https://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/people/christopher-sebastian-parker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Sebastian Parker P.h.D</a>. is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. According to his university profile, his academic specialties are “American Politics, Identity, Race, Ethnicity, [and] Public Opinion.”

In 2013, Parker published a book about the American Tea Party movement called <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691151830/change-they-cant-believe-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America </a>

In the book, Parker draws “connections between the Tea Party and right-wing reactionary movements of the past, including the Know Nothing Party, the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s, and the John Birch Society,” according to the Princeton University Press overview.

In 2016, Parker <a href="https://prospect.org/power/trump-s-racist-appeals-silver-lining/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote an article</a> for The American Prospect entitled “Do Trump’s Racist Appeals Have a Silver Lining?” Parker cites his claim that Trump is racist on the former President’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement about immigrants</a> during his 2016 campaign, in which Trump said:​​“They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” 

Parker claims a new racism has emerged to replace the racism of segregation and Jim Crow:  
“With the civil-rights laws that made segregation illegal, and the death of Jim Crow in the South, this old-fashioned racism gave way to a "new racism" built not on laws but on racial stereotypes.”
He also argues ,“Certain code words often accompan[y] this new racism. In the beginning, the term "equal opportunity" was often paired with such code words and phrases as “law and order" and "welfare queen.” 

In a 2020 article called <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/check-your-patriotism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Check your Patriotism”</a>, Parker states that the African-Americans killed by police officers, such as Sandra Bland and George Floyd,  “were effectively lynched.”

Regarding the Fourth of July, Parker wrote, “this holiday is a sham, a fraud to the 13% of the population whose forebears were slaves. By any metric, Black people remain second-class citizens. Whether it’s life <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4984780/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expectancy</a>, <a href="https://www.abebooks.com/Black-Wealth-White-New-Perspective-Racial/30080054029/bd?cm_mmc=ggl-_-US_Shopp_Trade-_-used-_-naa&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwudb3BRC9ARIsAEa-vUtyzocLl5j6TVm8N2-Jl80c8sU2x6MN9ReTaS5blYnVIvE8Uz5OLygaAg4xEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wealth</a> or achieving a <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/reports/2018/05/23/451186/neglected-college-race-gap-racial-disparities-among-college-completers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college education</a>, Black people lag behind whites. (I can easily identify other criteria, but space limits recommend otherwise.)”

Yet, in the following paragraph of the article, he claims that the solution “to get the country on the right track”, is patriotism, which requires sacrifice and “commitment to the values on which the country is founded: freedom, equality, tolerance.” He claims patriotism was the motivation behind previous American progressive movements like “the women’s movement, labor movement and the civil rights movement.”
Published -- November 1, 2022

<a href="https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/people/omiseeke-tinsley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omise’eke Tinsley</a> is Chair and Professor of Black Studies at the University of California - Santa Barbara. 

Tinsley’s faculty profile says she is “motivated by love for boundless black femme creativity, [and] her research focuses on queer and feminist, Caribbean and African American performance and literature.” In 2022, she penned a manuscript titled “The Color Pynk: Black Femme-inist Love and Criticism,” which “explores black femme aesthetics of resistance in the Trump era.” 

In an article for the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/08/30/opinion/find-your-black-lgbtq-joy-its-your-superpower/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boston Globe</a> that was co-written with her trans-gender spouse (a biological female pretending to be a male), the couple aimed to validate the “queerness” of their daughter amid alleged threats the LGBTQ community faces from American institutions:
“As a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/17/lgbtq-pride-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rise in racial and anti-LGBTQ violence</a> accompanies the rise of ‘parental choice’ bills, we have to think about the multiple ways our Black daughter is vulnerable to police violence, racial violence, and gender violence as she goes back to school. Despite moving our family from Texas to California, and transitioning from Trump’s presidency to Biden’s, we’re increasingly concerned about how much our daughter has to protect herself.”
The authors also offered four pieces of advice for their daughter at the article’s conclusion:

“1. Know YOU are never what’s broken in this crazy world; who you are can NEVER be wrong, period. Textbooks, TikToks, attitudes, assumptions all around you may be pathological; your Black queerness never will be.

"2. Assess what makes YOU feel safe, always and everywhere. Don’t do anything that seems like it will buy you more trouble than you want to handle that day. Waving rainbow flags and calling out teachers’ transphobia isn’t the most queer-positive thing you can do: Whatever protects and empowers YOU as a young Black queer person whose life matters is.

"3. Know that we have your back and other adults do, too. If you decide to express your Black queerness in a way your peers, principal, or school police don’t know how to handle, it’s our job as your parents to advocate for you. Your parents and grandparents, biological and gay aunties, coaches and cousins, will take on the brunt of those school board, parent-teacher, and community fights so you can focus on the important work of growing up.

"4. Whenever and wherever you can, have fun! Racists, homophobes, and transphobes hate Black LGBTQ joy. So, create your happiness wherever you can, knowing it’s your secret weapon for survival.”

In another <a href="https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2016/3/18/our-black-transgender-marriage-not-revolutionary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> written by the couple, titled “Our Black Transgender Marriage Is Not Revolutionary,” they write about their move from Texas to California to marry and protect themselves from “certain kinds of state interventions and…. violence.”
“We are both black queer people who now live in Texas, and our ability to legally marry is crucial to our physical and emotional safety. It shields us and our young daughter from certain kinds of state interventions and everyday violence we might otherwise be more vulnerable to. And it reminds us that we have a bond, a deep love and tenderness, that helps keep us whole and sane in a world that treats black people, queer people, transgender people, and black women as disposable.”
According to <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>, Tinsley appeared on a 2023 <a href="https://youtu.be/0A3ID6pPsCU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel</a> to “discuss the need to expand queer terminology from ‘queer’ to ‘quare.’”

Tinsley defines “Quare” as: 
“Quare… is a black-identified member of the LGBTQIA+ community who embodies resistive femininity; believes the dismantling of misogynoir, femmephobia, and transmisogyny are necessary for black freedom.” 
Regarding the vocabulary she uses in her work, Tinsley said: 
 “In my scholarship now, I use profane and vernacular language, like ‘black femme-inist,’ ‘black p***y power,’ ‘non-binary vagina,’ [and] ‘freedom dreaming’ … The loving reworking of language to hold our shifting understandings of what makes black, gender, and sexual creative folks simultaneously human and divine - which E. Patrick does by the simple mouth-opening shift of a vowel - is what I hold from quare.”
Published - November 14, 2023

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<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/psychology/profile/christy_olezeski/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christy Olezeski</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. She serves as the Director and Co-Founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program. 
In a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-professor-blasted-program-working-3-year-olds-gender-journey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted video</a>, Olezeski states, “the Yale gender program, is an interdisciplinary program working with gender-expansive individuals 3-25.” Continuing, she says the program “helps individuals who are questioning their gender identity as transgender or non-binary” and vows to help children on “their gender journey.”
The <a href="https://www.yalemedicine.org/departments/pediatric-gender-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program’s website</a> claims that surgeries are only preformed on individuals over the age of 18. The website further alleges, “Social transition is the only medically accepted form of gender-affirming care–and the only form of care we provide–for that age group.” 
Continuing it states, “Some youth are exploring their identity. Others know that how they feel inside does not match up with the gender they were assigned at birth. We help sort through these questions.” 
Yale has since deleted the YouTube video in which Olezeski discusses the gender program. She has also made her personal social media pages private. 
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<a href="https://provost.yale.edu/people/jason-killheffer">Jason Killheffer</a> is the Assistant Provost of Academic Integrity Programs at Yale University. As part of an undercover operation by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas, Killheffer called the Constitution propaganda. He told an undercover journalist “If your freedom of expression impacts other people’s ability to engage actively in the community, to engage in their education or really take full advantage of everything that the university has to offer, then that’s when things cross that line.” In other words, Killheffer believes that being triggered by a Constitution is a valid reason for the university to step in and possibly prevent distribution.

Daniel Martinez HoSang is <a href="https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/daniel-hosang" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an Associate Professor</a> of Ethnicity, Race &amp; Migration and American Studies at Yale University. He has written many publications and focuses his work on racism and race in politics. He holds strong opinions about conservatives and has both written and lectured several times on the subject.

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Dr. HoSang recently wrote a book with <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/josephlowndes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Joseph Lowndes</a>, who is also on the Professor Watchlist. The book, titled “<a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/producers-parasites-patriots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity</a>,” discusses white supremacy in conservative politics. In the book, Dr. HoSang accuses conservatives of being racist and participating in “multiracial white supremacy.”

According to Dr. HoSang, white conservatives work to maintain their economic power while also highlighting and praising minority conservatives in an effort to portray the concept that they aren’t racist.

https://twitter.com/yale/status/1292782749611429888?lang=en

Dr. HoSang has also recently become involved in K-12 learning. He was one of the founders of an organization in Connecticut called the <a href="https://antiracistteaching.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective</a>, or ARTLC. The organization works with students and teachers alike to push anti-racism, and in turn, Critical Race Theory, in K-12 schools across Connecticut. In an article for the CT Mirror, Dr. HoSang alleges that “if we want to address racism in society at large, we have to address it in policing, and housing, and health care — but we also need to address it in the 3rd grade music classroom, in the 7th grade social studies classroom.”

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Dr. HoSang also leads workshops for K-12 teachers that perpetuate the ideals that racism runs deep in education and teaching across all subjects. He helps teachers create curriculum centered on anti-racism and Critical Race Theory.  In the summers of 2020 and 2021, Dr. HoSang was a core faculty member of the AAPF’s Critical Race Theory Summer School lecture series for teachers and scholars. The program’s purpose is to counter conservative and republican efforts to keep Critical Race Theory out of the classroom.

According to the DailyMail, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11418747/Yale-sophomore-student-20-reveals-hid-attempted-suicide-college-raped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paul Hoffman is the psychologist</a> in charge of student mental health at Yale University. Hoffman is at the center of a story involving Yale’s policies that ban suicidal students from campus. 

DailyMail said, “To return to class, [students] must reapply - writing an essay, and sending in letters of recommendation…Those who left for mental health reasons also had to demonstrate to Yale that they’d addressed their problems.”

Hoffman’s <a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/paul-hoffman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university profile</a> says he’s Chief of Mental Health and Counseling, Voluntary Faculty for Departments and Organizations, and the <a href="https://yalehealth.yale.edu/directory/clinicians/paul-hoffman-phd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Director of Mental Health</a> and Counseling for Yale. No further information is available regarding Hoffman’s employment.

After a student attempted suicide, Hoffman attended an unpublicized Zoom call between the student, her parents, and Yale representatives. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/11/yale-suicides-mental-health-withdrawals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post reported</a>, “In an interview, Hoffman and other Yale officials declined to discuss Yale’s withdrawal policies or specific student cases.”

Washington Post continued, “As soon as the Zoom call with Hoffman ended, hospital staffers handed [the student her cellphone]. She began typing out the email Hoffman had asked her to send.” The email eventually played a role in the student’s expulsion. 

Yale’s <a href="https://yalecollege.yale.edu/policies-procedures/leave-absence-withdrawal-and-reinstatement#:~:text=Any%20student%20may%20voluntarily%20withdraw,activities%2C%20or%20use%20University%20facilities." target="_blank" rel="noopener">mandatory medical withdrawal and reinstatement</a> policy says, 

"Any student may voluntarily withdraw; Yale College also reserves the right to require students to withdraw in certain cases. Students on withdrawal may not stay in residencies on campus, attend classes, participate in extracurricular activities, or use University facilities. They may come to campus only upon receiving prior permission from their residential college dean or the Dean of Student Affairs.”

<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11418747/Yale-sophomore-student-20-reveals-hid-attempted-suicide-college-raped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to DailyMail</a>, Hoffman said mandatory medical withdrawals are “very rarely used.” The source also said, “Hoffman said the majority of students are now able to keep therapy appointments within two weeks, and Yale is planning on increasing its mental health resources.”

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Published - November 17, 2022

<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/psychology/profile/christy_olezeski/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christy Olezeski</a> is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. She serves as the Director and Co-Founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program. 

In a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/yale-professor-blasted-program-working-3-year-olds-gender-journey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now-deleted video</a>, Olezeski states, “the Yale gender program, is an interdisciplinary program working with gender-expansive individuals 3-25.” Continuing, she says the program “helps individuals who are questioning their gender identity as transgender or non-binary” and vows to help children on “their gender journey.”

The <a href="https://www.yalemedicine.org/departments/pediatric-gender-program" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program’s website</a> claims that surgeries are only preformed on individuals over the age of 18. The website further alleges, “Social transition is the only medically accepted form of gender-affirming care–and the only form of care we provide–for that age group.” 

Continuing it states, “Some youth are exploring their identity. Others know that how they feel inside does not match up with the gender they were assigned at birth. We help sort through these questions.” 

Yale has since deleted the YouTube video in which Olezeski discusses the gender program. She has also made her personal social media pages private. 

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Published - December 28, 2022
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<a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/zareena-grewal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zareena Grewal</a> is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. Grewal’s faculty profile says her research “focuses on race, gender, religion, nationalism, and transnationalism across a wide spectrum of American Muslim communities.”  

The university profile also describes <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Islam-Foreign-Country-American-Authority/dp/1479800562" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grewal’s book</a> - “Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority”- as “an ethnography of transnational Muslim networks that link US mosques to Islamic movements in the post-colonial Middle East through debates about the reform of Islam.”

<a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479800568/islam-is-a-foreign-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NYU Press</a> further promotes the book with questions like “What does it mean to be Muslim and American?” and “Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims?”

Grewal was featured in the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/12/radical-yale-professor-faces-calls-to-be-fired-over-comments-on-hamas-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a> after she allegedly defended the Hamas terrorist organization’s attack against Israel in October 2023. According to the Post, “[Grewal] is facing calls to be ousted over her social media posts in which she appeared to justify Hamas terrorists killing Israeli civilians—and called Israel a ‘murderous, genocidal settler state.’”

While Grewal’s <a href="https://twitter.com/ZareenaGrewal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media posts</a> remain in a protected and private status, the following screenshot from her account was shared across the internet:

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<a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2023/10/12/petition-to-oust-pro-palestine-professor-for-promoting-lies-and-violence-gains-25000-signatures-in-just-over-a-day/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale News said</a>, “The University defended Grewal’s right to free speech in comments to the News.” The source also quoted Yale University spokesperson Karen Peart saying: “‘Yale is committed to freedom of expression, and the comments posted on Professor Grewal’s personal accounts represent her own views.’”

A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/remove-zareena-grewal-from-the-yale-faculty-for-hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">petition to terminate</a> Grewal has amassed over 53,000 signatures at the time of this post.
Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/meredithe-mcnamara/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meredithe McNamara</a>, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Affiliate Faculty at Yale School of Medicine. Her university profile says she “cares for youth aged 11–25” and is interested in “implementing best practices in the care of youth facing complex trauma and high-risk social situations.” Dr. McNamara’s Yale New Haven Health <a href="https://www.ynhh.org/physicians/meredithe-mcnamara" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> biography states:
“Adolescent medicine is a one-stop shopping for all of a youth’s health needs, including general care, mental health and coping with trauma…safe sex and birth control, substance use support, and gender-affirming care.”
In a video titled “<a href="https://vimeo.com/839075778" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Transition in Young People</a>,” Dr. McNamara is asked how policies that restrict gender transition in minors affect their mental health. She stated:
“They’re very harmful to the mental health of trans and gender-diverse young people. The intrusion of legal interference in standard healthcare is not something that we’re really used to. This is kind of like a brand new and dangerous force that’s infiltrating not only our healthcare but also our social networks…”
She goes on to say that sex reassignment bans are “causing a lot of existential dread” and “deprive young people of life-saving healthcare that affirms who they are.”

Dr. McNamara appeared as a guest on <a href="https://youtu.be/9iHKUJPvjtc">News Nation</a>, with host Chris Cuomo, where she advocated for transitioning children from an early age:

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In a <a href="https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/day-of-silence-q-and-a/">Yale article</a> titled “Day of Silence Q + A with Meredithe McNamara,” Dr. McNamara further claims that “anti-gay legislation” negatively threatens the health and rights of LGBTQ people in five ways: 
“(1) perpetuates stigma and disrupts access to healthcare…
(2) leads to social and economic marginalization…
(3) gives tacit approval for violence and harassment,
 (4) worsens mental health, and 
(5) fuels persecution.”
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When <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/yale-doctor-cant-name-a-study-that-supports-trans-drugs-surgeries/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testifying before Congress</a> in 2023, Dr. McNamara couldn’t cite any legitimate medical study to prove her claims:
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Dr. Meredithe McNamara also can’t name a single study that shows transition helps kids.<a href="https://t.co/yCHyWYrHIz">pic.twitter.com/yCHyWYrHIz</a>
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillboardChris/status/1698788221029912731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 4, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Please send information regarding Meredithe McNamara to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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Published - November 6, 2023

<a href="https://wgss.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kalindi Vora</a> is a Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Vora’s <a href="https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/kalindi-vora" target="_blank" rel="noopener">areas of research</a> include:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Feminist Science and Technology Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Postcolonial Studies”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Critical Race &amp; Ethnic Studies/American Studies”</li>
</ul>
The description for Vora’s course “<a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/teaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Feminist Futures</a>” states,
“To understand speculation as a political practice, this course brings together critical texts from materialist theory, feminist science studies, queer kinship and affect studies (including queer of color critique), women of color feminism and transnational ethnic studies…”
Vora’s “Marxist Thought” class “examines critical engagements between scholarship from postcolonial, feminist and other radical Marxist traditions” while focusing on “philosophical and political debates stemming from issues of race and gender…”

Vora <a href="https://www.kalindivora.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared</a> on The Harmony Show podcast alongside a co-host who identified as a “robosexual/idolator” to discuss Vora’s book “Surrogate Humanity: Race Robots and the Politics of Technological Futures.” She described the concept of the book:
“[T]he whole book is trying to explain how we think that this is a new kind of antiracist and feminist analytic that we can use to think through the way that racial and gender politics come up around labor in technology…
“And we start the book by thinking alongside the historian and black feminist, Saidiya Hartman, who wrote a book called ‘Scenes of Subjection.’ In that book, Hartman talks about the concept of the surrogate…in the context of US chattel slavery.”

In 2017, the University of California, Davis <a href="https://research.ucdavis.edu/fri_director/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> Vora as the Director of its Feminist Research Institute (FRI). The institute exists as a “collaborative, trans-disciplinary hub for exploring how gender, sexuality, race, and other social structures inform the design, execution, and interpretation of research.”

During her time as the Director, Vora led a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/kalindi-vora-and-sarah-mccullough-antiracist-approaches-sts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> on “antiracist approaches to STS [science, technology and society].” She also joined a <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/events/mellon-racial-capitalism-speaker-series" target="_blank" rel="noopener">panel discussion</a> to analyze “racial capitalism” and <a href="https://fri.ucdavis.edu/news/director-kalindi-voras-feministfutures-closing-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared in an article</a> explaining “abolitionist care.” 

Vora defines abolitionist care as “an antidote to violence that demands a [commitment] to maintaining, repairing and attending survivors of violence while [fighting] capitalism’s anti-rationality [and] the materiality enforced by racial capitalism.”

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<a href="https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/megan-ranney/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Ranney</a> is the Dean of Yale University’s School of Public Health. Her research focuses on “developing, testing, and disseminating digital health interventions to prevent violence and related behavioral health problems, as well as on COVID-related risk reduction.” Ranney previously served as the Warren Alpert Endowed Professor of Emergency Medicine at Brown University.

In an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/opinions/public-trust-in-scientists-ranney-jetelina/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial for CNN</a>, Ranney addressed the decline in trust of physicians due to the over-administering of COVID-19 vaccines. Ranney writes:
“[Physicians are] worried about what lies ahead if we don’t turn the ship on trust in science. Imagine if there’s another pandemic, a climate disaster or a biosecurity hazard like anthrax—and we haven’t fixed the trust problem. Think about what might happen if we, as a country, stop funding the science innovation that has allowed our dramatic gains in human health. And what if more Americans refuse to get their kids vaccinated or if our public health institutions are shut down?”
On November 29, 2023, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gun-crime-expert-blasts-red-state-cherry-picking-by-yale-professor-in-senate-hearing-political-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News featured Ranney</a> in an article titled “Gun crime expert blasts red state ‘cherry-picking’ by Yale professor in Senate hearing: ‘Political bias.’” While testifying before Congress about gun violence, Ranney was suspected of naming certain states based on her political ideology.

When asked why she thought “Chicago has become America’s largest outdoor shooting range?”, Fox said, “Ranney responded by comparing Chicago to three [conservative-led] states and claiming Mississippi, Louisiana and Missouri ‘actually have higher firearm death rates.’”

When further pressed about Chicago’s crime statistics, Ranney stated:
“I think there’s easy access to firearms combined with environmental conditions, lack of great education. There have actually been studies that when you green vacant lots and repair abandoned buildings in urban neighborhoods you see decreases in gunshots and violence as well as stress and depression in the neighborhoods around them.”
<a href="https://president.yale.edu/president/yale-talk/approaching-gun-violence-public-health-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">During her talk</a> with Yale University President Peter Salovey, Ranney <a href="https://president.yale.edu/sites/default/files/yaletalkepisode39-ranney-transcript.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded to the question</a> of funding for firearm death research:
“The biggest reason is that from 1996-2020, there was virtually no federal funding…partly because it wasn’t defined as a public health problem, but partly because in 1996 [a representative] from Arkansas…passed the Dickey Amendment, which told the CDC that it was prohibited from using funds to promote or advocate for gun control.”
Please send information on Megan Ranney to <a href="mailto:Wathlists@tpusa.com">Wathlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - January 9, 2024

<a href="https://afamstudies.yale.edu/people/phillip-atiba-solomon-fka-goff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Phillip Atiba Solomon</a> (formerly known as Phillip Atiba Goff) holds three positions at Yale University:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Chair of African American Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Carl I. Holland Professor of African Studies</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Professor of Psychology</li>
</ul>
Solomon’s faculty profile says, “He quickly became a national leader in the science of racial bias by pioneering scientific experiments that exposed how our minds learn to associate [b]lackness and crime implicitly — often with deadly consequences.”

Solomon also co-founded the <a href="https://policingequity.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Policing Equity</a>. According to the “What We Do” page, the organization claims to “promote justice” by:
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Reducing harm within existing law enforcement systems, pursuing strategies that address the racist behaviors, policies, and practices of law enforcement.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Redesigning and implementing new models that safeguard and empower communities to enhance and maintain collective public safety.”</li>
</ul>
In 2019, Solomon <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/dr_phillip_atiba_solomon_how_we_can_make_racism_a_solvable_problem_and_improve_policing/footnotes?referrer=playlist-talks_to_help_you_understand_r&amp;delay=2m&amp;subtitle=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented a TEDx Talk</a> titled “How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing.” In his introduction, he said:
“Police chiefs like talking to me because I’m an expert on a problem that feels impossible for them to solve: racism in their profession. Now my expertise comes from being a scientist, who studies how our minds learn to associate blackness and crime and misperceive black children as older than they actually are.”

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A 2023 revised version of the <a href="https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/cbpp18st.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Department of Justice document</a> entitled “Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2018–Statistics Tables” shows that out of 61.5 million American residents who had contact with police that “whites (26%) were more likely than blacks (21%), Hispanics (19%), or persons of other races (20%) to experience police contact.” 

Although the statistics show that “a higher percentage of blacks (4%) and Hispanics (3%) than whites (2%) experience threats or use of force,” a <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019 FBI report</a> reveals black people commit higher rates of murder/manslaughter and robbery. These are daunting demographics considering black people make up <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14% of the total population</a> in the United States (depending on the source of information).

Solomon contributed an <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/abolition-isn-t-a-relic-of-our-past-it-s-the-key-to-revitalising-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> to the World Economic Forum entitled “‘Abolition’ isn’t a relic of our past. It’s the key to revitalizing democracy.” He opened by asking, “Are you an abolitionist?” and lists flashpoints of history where the term was used to fight slavery (e.g. Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln). He proceeded to write:

“Abolition, however, is not a relic of history. It is an ongoing movement to rethink the systems that produce inequity and build a society that values the lives of the most vulnerable. It permeates almost every issue that the World Economic Forum includes on its <a href="https://www.weforum.org/events/the-davos-agenda-2021/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2021 Agenda</a>, from COVID-19 to tax policy.”

He further encouraged readers to take on a mindset of “abolition democracy,” the term coined by radical activist and NAACP co-founder, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/web-du-bois-black-reconstruction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W.E.B. Du Bois</a>. Solomon <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/abolition-isn-t-a-relic-of-our-past-it-s-the-key-to-revitalising-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
“In my own work as the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for Policing Equity, that means fundamentally reimagining public safety … It means measuring justice along with crime, and aligning our mechanisms of public safety with the values of the communities — particularly communities that have historically faced discrimination and disinvestment.”
“Charity alone, kindness from those who have benefitted most from institutions that marginalize the vulnerable, cannot lead us to justice. Abolition democracy, the working of rebuilding our systems with equity at their core, just might be able to.” 
Please send tips, updates, and information on Professor Phillip Atiba Solomon to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - June 27, 2024
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<a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/amanda-calhoun/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amanda Joy Calhoun</a>, MD, MPH is Chief Resident of the Albert J. Solnit Integrated Adult/Child Psychiatry program at Yale University. According to her faculty profile, Calhoun “specializes in the effects of medical anti-Black racism.”

After the 2024 U.S. General Election, Calhoun is facing criticism after telling Vice President Kamala Harris supporters to disassociate from relatives who voted for President-Elect Donald Trump. She explained her reasoning on the MSNBC show The ReidOut:

“So, if you are going through a situation where you have family members or you have close friends who you know have voted in ways that are against you, that are against your livelihood, then it’s completely fine to not be around those people, and to tell them why.”

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Calhoun told Reid that setting boundaries between Trump-supporting family members and telling them “I have a problem with the way you voted” is a necessary action. She claimed this may be beneficial to one’s mental health.

The Professor Watchlist did not find any published works or significant research contributions in the realm of higher education.

Please send information and tips on Amanda Joy Calhoun to Watchlists@tpusa.com.

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Sexualization

Christy Olezeski

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M Shelly Conner

<a href="https://uca.edu/ftcw/facultystaff/mshellyconner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shelly Conner</a> is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. According to her university profile, Conner’s teaching specialties include “Creative Writing,” “Gender &amp; Women’s Studies,” and “African American Literature.”
Her profile describes her as a “multi-genre writer” who is the “creator of the Quare Life web series and has published essays on dapperqueer aesthetics, black womanhood, self-sustainable living and their intersections in various publications.”
One of Conner’s articles <a href="https://thegrio.com/2020/03/05/twenties-queer-black-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes her reaction</a> to the show “Twenties,” a show “written by a black queer woman with a black queer woman lead.” In discussing the main characters, Conner discusses her “rapt attention” in learning that a lesbian relationship in the show was “strictly casual.” However, she writes:
“I was midway through mental applause for presenting a lesbian relationship that wasn’t invested in chasing the model of heteronormative monogamy when I learned that Hattie’s [main character] partner is regarded as straight.” 
Conner goes on to describe how Hattie’s friends tell her to stop dating straight women, but Conner is disappointed to learn that the friends are also straight. She writes:
“It’s like when a caring white friend (but white nonetheless) gives genuine advice on something you experience as a Black person. No matter how sound or solid the advice, it’s mitigated through a person who not only hasn’t experienced the matter but also has de facto benefited from it at some time.” 
Conner finishes her article by commiserating that “Black queer/lesbian communities” tend to “remain outside of the scope of shows relegating us to always being the token.”
Another one of Conner’s articles was featured in <a href="https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/male-desire-of-unconscious-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Feminist Wire</a> and titled “Don’t Get Caught Sleeping: Male Desire of Unconscious Women.” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/1-in-3-college-women-are-raped-jesuit-womens-conference-tells-attendees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote about the article saying Conner “argued that men are taught that sex is better when women are in a passive state.” The article states:
“Not only are young boys taught that it is their duty to initiate sexual contact with women, it is also presented that it should occur when women are in their most passive states.”
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<a href="https://uca.edu/ftcw/facultystaff/mshellyconner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shelly Conner</a> is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. According to her university profile, Conner’s teaching specialties include “Creative Writing,” “Gender &amp; Women’s Studies,” and “African American Literature.”

Her profile describes her as a “multi-genre writer” who is the “creator of the Quare Life web series and has published essays on dapperqueer aesthetics, black womanhood, self-sustainable living and their intersections in various publications.”

One of Conner’s articles <a href="https://thegrio.com/2020/03/05/twenties-queer-black-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes her reaction</a> to the show “Twenties,” a show “written by a black queer woman with a black queer woman lead.” In discussing the main characters, Conner discusses her “rapt attention” in learning that a lesbian relationship in the show was “strictly casual.” However, she writes:
“I was midway through mental applause for presenting a lesbian relationship that wasn’t invested in chasing the model of heteronormative monogamy when I learned that Hattie’s [main character] partner is regarded as straight.” 
Conner goes on to describe how Hattie’s friends tell her to stop dating straight women, but Conner is disappointed to learn that the friends are also straight. She writes:
“It’s like when a caring white friend (but white nonetheless) gives genuine advice on something you experience as a Black person. No matter how sound or solid the advice, it’s mitigated through a person who not only hasn’t experienced the matter but also has de facto benefited from it at some time.” 
Conner finishes her article by commiserating that “Black queer/lesbian communities” tend to “remain outside of the scope of shows relegating us to always being the token.”

Another one of Conner’s articles was featured in <a href="https://thefeministwire.com/2014/11/male-desire-of-unconscious-women/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Feminist Wire</a> and titled “Don’t Get Caught Sleeping: Male Desire of Unconscious Women.” <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/1-in-3-college-women-are-raped-jesuit-womens-conference-tells-attendees/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> wrote about the article saying Conner “argued that men are taught that sex is better when women are in a passive state.” The article states:
“Not only are young boys taught that it is their duty to initiate sexual contact with women, it is also presented that it should occur when women are in their most passive states.”
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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.

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<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.”

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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'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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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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<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.”
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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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<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.” 
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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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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.
Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://sas.rutgers.edu/">School of Arts and Sciences</a> at (848) 932-7896 or email the School at <a href="mailto:info@sas.rutgers.edu">info@sas.rutgers.edu</a>. 
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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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<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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Published - April 4, 2024

<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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<a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/people/chandan-reddy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chandan Reddy</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington-Seattle. 
In 2011, Reddy published a <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/freedom-with-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> titled “Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State.” The aim of the book is described as:
“[T]he nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a “counterviolence” to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject.”
“Freedom with Violence” is a part of the Duke University Press series titled “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/series/Perverse-Modernities-A-Series-Edited-by-Jack-Halberstam-and-Lisa-Lowe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Perverse Modernities</a>,” which is described in the following way:
“Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.”
In the first chapter of “Freedom with Violence,” Reddy states:
“In this sense, seeing the passage of law against anti-GLBTQ [sic] hate crimes as an amendments of both US racial globalism (the NDAA) and US racial capitalism (the 1969 Civil Rights Act) suggests the critical importance of sexuality in our contemporary moment…”
According to the <a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/18/uws-chandan-reddy-named-one-of-six-freedom-scholars-for-work-on-race-gender-and-sexuality/?utm_source=UW+News+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly+Roundup&amp;mkt_tok=MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGO7cEb7uYxwqFWyTStD9DsYMyIRW5l-v4OZVw5WX9zMgCQz5XW856TH5q5PugTQk5qOMcwQapfoD2AA-Xm0zGZug7nY8dxH8VT6vob7O3UCzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Washington</a>, in 2023 Reddy “was named a ‘Freedom Scholar’ by the Marguerite Casey Foundation…The Foundation honors six scholars nationwide for their work in advancing racial and economic justice, awarding each a $250,000 unrestricted grant. The Freedom Scholar awards were created in 2020.”
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<a href="https://education.uw.edu/people/rjd">Robin DiAngelo</a> is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She is best known for her New York Times bestselling book titled “<a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/publications/">White Fragility</a>,” which examines DiAngelo’s belief that all white people have embraced and internalized bigotry in order to protect institutional racism in every aspect of American life.

Robin previously described her all-encompassing view on systemic racism in her article <a href="https://www.robindiangelo.com/publications/">“Nothing to Add,”</a> noting that systematic racism results in the unequal distribution of resources amongst racial groups, essentially defining racism as any and all racial disparities.

She writes, “...whiteness scholars define racism as encompassing economic, political, social, and cultural structures, actions, and beliefs that systematize and perpetuate an unequal distribution of privileges, resources, and power among white people and people of color.”

DiAngelo states that the unequal distribution of resources is what makes racism an inexorable part of the free market.

“Capitalism is so bound up with racism...Capitalism is dependent on inequality, on an underclass. If the model is profit over everything else, you’re not going to look at your policies to see what is most racially equitable.” 

During her appearance on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZfiSjTHVqA&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;ab_channel=TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon">Jimmy Fallon</a>, DiAngelo explained that individuals are not immune to racism, as it's a foundational aspect of our nation. Racism is not an individual act or offense, but rather a system that disproportionately discriminates against people of color and automatically benefits whites. During an appearance on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dteOQPzc_so">CBS News</a>, she stated that white privilege is automatically bestowed upon white people whether they consider themselves racist or not. During a later interview with the <a href="https://youtu.be/neV_GlvUGn4?t=439">Family Action Network</a>, DiAneglo will go to her “last breath” believing that all white people are racist;

“I will hold to my last breath that all white people that live in a society whose foundation is white superiority internalize the message of white superiority…”

During an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU">appearance</a> at the Seattle Public Library, she went further, declaring that all white people have a “deeply internalized” sense of white supremacy.  According to DiAngelo, white people are born and bred into racism and “internalize” their bigotry. She uses this basis to define “white fragility” is the inability of white Americans to come to terms with their inherent racism and resultant defensive reaction to being accused of harboring racist beliefs. Through this, white Americans maintain a racist system that they benefit from.

DiAngelo uses the individual as an example of the presence of racism in American society. She explains that racism is structural rather than individual, thus attributing any disparities to individual acts, such as behavior or values, is emblematic of “white fragility” and how white Americans protect racist institutions from systematic change.

DiAngelo <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/magazine/white-fragility-robin-diangelo.html?referringSource=articleShare">travels extensively</a> to promote her work, regularly speaking before <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrOFpaB-PQI">city governments</a> and major corporations like Levi’s. She recently faced blowback at the University of Connecticut for <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=15430">charging</a> $20,000 for a three and a half-hour lecture before only 44 administrators. She also received criticism from Missouri Senator Josh Hawley when it was discovered that her work is <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-requests-smithsonian-explain-controversial-talking-about-race-initiative">featured prominently</a> in diversity trainings hosted by government institutions.

<a href="https://smea.uw.edu/faculty/cleo-woelfle-erskine-ph-d/">Cleo Wölfle Hazard</a>, P.h.D, is an Assistant Professor for the School of Marine &amp; Environmental Affairs and also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. 

Wölfle Hazard’s university biography states, “As a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz, ze [sic] drew this field experience together with queer, transgender, and Indigenous theory to theorize how river sciences could work against the Manifest Destiny logics that shape settler environmental governance in the Western US.”

Wölfle Hazard’s book <a href="https://water-relations.net/underflows/">Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice</a> (2022), draws “on the idea of underflows—the parts of a river’s flow that can’t be seen, the underground currents that seep through soil or rise from aquifers through cracks in bedrock—Wölfle Hazard elucidates the underflows in river cultures, sciences, and politics where Native nations and marginalized communities fight to protect rivers.”

In writing Underflows, Wölfle Hazard aimed “to show how Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other radical traditions in which queer, trans, and Two-Spirit people have always played key roles are crucial to meeting the intersecting challenges of climate change, settler-colonial legacies of environmental harm, and gendered violence.”

In Underflows Wölfle Hazard claims that, during the Covid-19 pandemic, “police violence and federal inaction amplified suffering in Black and Brown communities.”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/gender-confirmation-surgeries-are-like-ecological-restoration-princeton-hosts-queer-trans-feminist-river-scientist/">The College Fix</a>, in the fall of 2022, Wölfle Hazard gave a <a href="https://environment.princeton.edu/event/environmental-humanities-colloquium-underflows-queer-and-trans-among-rivers/">talk at Princeton University</a> entitled “Underflows: Queer and Trans Among Rivers:”

“In the talk, “Wölfle Hazard compared ‘gender confirmation surgeries’ to ecological restoration, arguing transgender bodies are similar to bodies of water. ‘When I pay my surgeon to cut my penis into a neo-vagina, I am moving toward myself through myself,’ Wölfle Hazard said, quoting gender studies theorist Eva Hayward.”

In 2014, Wölfle Hazard acted as a “salmon oracle” at the Bay Delta Science Conference, an experience which he recalled during his Princeton talk. The College Fix reports that, “Scientists attending the conference would proceed to talk to the salmon. Later, Wölfle Hazard and July Hazard presented the scientists’ responses to actual salmon “by reading, by playing voice recordings underwater, and by dragging written messages behind our canoe.”
Published - October 19, 2022

<a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/people/kemi-adeyemi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kemi Adeyemi</a> is an Associate Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and Director of The Black Embodiments Studio at the University of Washington. 

According to Adeyemi’s article <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.4.2.0056#metadata_info_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Donald Trump is the Perfect Man for the Job”</a>, the professor had her class go through an exercise in which she and the students recited the sentence, “Donald Trump is the perfect man for the job [i.e. Presidency].” This exercise took place the day after the 2016 Presidential Election.  Yet, Adeyemi’s understanding of the U.S. president’s role was “continuing the violence that has always been at the very heart of the US.”

In 2022, Adeyemi published a book entitled <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/feels-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Feels Right: Black Queer Women &amp; the Politics of Partying in Chicago”.</a> The University of Washington’s <a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/research/publications/feels-right" target="_blank" rel="noopener">description for the book</a> states that “feeling good is elusive for black queer women whose nightlives are undercut by white people, heterosexuality, neoliberal capitalism, burnout, and other buzzkills.”

“Feels Right”, according to Adeyemi, “pays particular attention to three sites in which black queer women strategically forge black queer space in the midst of the neoliberal city that severely regulates their modes of thinking, moving, and feeling.” Another quote from the introduction of the book states: “Black queer women’s shared practices of taking pleasure—of singing along to the music, watching people dance (and hyping them up), dancing themselves, and making platonic and sexual connections with one another—articulate their rights to occupy the landscapes of pleasure that the neoliberal city is organized around.”

Adeyemi has also published several other books and articles, among which are “Queer Nightlife”, and “Black/Queer/Women/Lean: Re-Aligning the Disciplinary Function of 90°”.

The description for “Black Feminist Geographies”, a course taught by Adeyemi, states: 

“Stereotypes about blackness, gender, and sexuality are enmeshed with how we think, feel, and move about the landscapes we move through - and black people are often seen threatening presences that "need" to be policed, contained, and completely erased. This course considers how black feminist approaches to geographic space reveal ways that these restrictive understandings of blackness, gender, and sexuality are refused and redefined.” 
Published - October 21, 2022

<a href="https://familymedicine.uw.edu/osher/osher-team/cora-breuner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Cora Breuner</a> is Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine at the University of  Washington. 

According to her Seattle Children’s Hospital profile, Breuner’s “research interests include the evaluation of yoga as an adjunctive intervention for eating disorders, biofeedback for chronic headache and the assessment of complementary medicine for diabetes.” One of her goals “is to incorporate complementary, holistic and integrative medicine into the outpatient and inpatient arenas at Children’s [Hospital].”

According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-minors-dont-have-agency-to-get-tattoos-but-do-for-gender-affirming-procedures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, Breuner “signed on to a 2018 <a href="https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/142/4/e20182162/37381/Ensuring-Comprehensive-Care-and-Support-for?autologincheck=redirected?nfToken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policy statement</a> supporting ‘gender-affirming’ care for transgender/gender-diverse children.” The title of the policy is, “Ensuring Comprehensive Care and Support for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents.” In the section for “Gender-Affirmative Care”, the policy lays out the following beliefs: 

— “transgender identities and diverse gender expressions do not constitute a mental disorder;”

— “variations in gender identity and expression are normal aspects of human diversity, and binary definitions of gender do not always reflect emerging gender identities;”

— “gender identity evolves as an interplay of biology, development, socialization, and culture; and…”

— “if a mental health issue exists, it most often stems from stigma and negative experiences rather than being intrinsic to the child.”

In an <a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/804508548?ft=nprml&amp;f=804508548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview with NPR</a> titled “What your Teen Wishes You Knew about Sex Education”, Breuner said: 
“Sometimes, parents are actually, interestingly, very excited about this and are happy that their child is exploring other gender or another sexuality. So they actually want the kid to explore things faster than the kid wants to.”
Though Breuner favors “gender-affirmative care” for youth, she thinks that minors should not be legally allowed to get tattoos. The College Fix reports that Breuner thinks “it is time to reconsider various laws regarding tattoos and minors.” There are no federal laws regarding minor tattoos, but such laws are different from state to state. 

In a piece for the <a href="https://archive.ph/jrdrq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> she explains that minors do not “have that kind of agency to make a decision.”

Breuner has been “Top Doctor” in Seattle nine times from 2014 to 2022. 
Published -- November 22, 2022

<a href="https://history.washington.edu/people/laurie-marhoefer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laurie Marhoefer</a> is “a historian of queer and trans people in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” at the University of Washington. 

On June 6, Marhoefer published a <a href="https://theconversation.com/historians-are-learning-more-about-how-the-nazis-targeted-trans-people-205622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">piece</a> for The Conversation titled “Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people.” The main premise of the article is to assess the treatment of transgender people in Nazi Germany and how it differed in severity from how they were treated in the Weimar Republic. 

Marhoefer even related the Nazi treatment of transgender people to the current treatment of such people in the United States by condemning certain states that have prohibited “gender affirming health care”: 
“Today, right-wing attacks against trans people in the U.S. are intensifying. Though the <a href="https://www.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2018/aap-policy-statement-urges-support-and-care-of-transgender-and-gender-diverse-children-and-adolescents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Academy of Pediatrics</a> and every major medical association approves gender-affirming health care for trans kids, Republican politicians have <a href="https://www.hrc.org/resources/attacks-on-gender-affirming-care-by-state-map" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned it in 19 states, with even more moving to prohibit it</a>..It’s a reminder that attacks on trans people are nothing new – and that many of them are straight out of the Nazi playbook.”
Marhoefer commends the way transgender people were treated under the Weimar Republic, before the Nazi regime came to power in Germany. According to Marhoefer, “Gender-affirming medicine is now over 100 years old – and it has roots in Weimar Germany:”
“The Weimar Republic, the more tolerant democratic government that existed before Hitler, recognized the rights of trans people, though in a begrudging, limited way. Under the republic, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police granted trans people permits</a>.”
She proceeds to list other privileges that transgender people had under the Weimar Republic: 
“Under the Republic, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans people could also change their names legally</a>, though they had to pick from a short, preapproved list. In Berlin, transgender people published several magazines and had a political club. Some glamorous trans women worked at the internationally famous <a href="https://perspectives.ushmm.org/item/photo-of-the-eldorado-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eldorado cabaret</a>. The sexologist <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-early-20th-century-german-trans-rights-activist-who-transformed-the-worlds-view-of-gender-and-sexuality-106278" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Magnus Hirschfeld</a>, who ran Berlin’s <a href="https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/ausstellungen/institute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute for Sexual Science</a>, advocated for the rights of transgender people.”
Marhoefer addresses what happened to transgender people and institutions after the Nazis came to power:
“The rise of Nazi Germany destroyed this relatively open environment. The Nazis shut down the magazines, the Eldorado and Hirschfeld’s institute.”
In 2022, Marhoefer published “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Racism-Making-Gay-Rights-Sexologist/dp/1487505817/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=&amp;asin=B09Z78TM27&amp;revisionId=5c41b4f5&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love</a>.” In the book’s introduction, she questions:
“Why are the assumptions that to be gay is to be white and that racism (not to mention sexism and anti-disability politics) is a side issue[?]…These questions draw my attention because I am a student of the many scholars who have argued that sexuality and racism are inseparable.” 
Marhoefer even claims that “same-sex desire is something that everybody feels at one time for another.”
Published - June 8, 2023

<a href="https://dance.washington.edu/people/christine-sahin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christine Sahin</a> is an Acting Assistant Professor at the Seattle-based University of Washington. According to her university profile, Sahin is a “dance practitioner-scholar and ethnographer specializing in contemporary Egyptian raqs sharqi (“belly dance”) and other MENAT (Middle Eastern, North African, and Turkish) dance genres.”

In October 2023, Sahin participated in a rally at the University of Washington that was in support of Hamas terrorists. <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-dance-professor-attends-pro-hamas-protest-on-university-of-washington-campus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a> reports Professor Sahin was identified by students—in fact, Turning Point USA chapter student leaders—as “wearing pro-Hamas gear with their signature keffiyeh as the crowd called for the genocide of Jews” while attending the rally.
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🧵UW employs Hamas supporting professor<a href="https://twitter.com/UW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@UW</a> students identified professor Christine "Shiraz" Sahin during the terrorist-supporting rally on campus last week. She was wearing pro-Hamas gear with their signature keffiyeh as the crowd called for the genocide of Jews <a href="https://t.co/I9ahXqH9iM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/I9ahXqH9iM</a>
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehoffather/status/1714118600561455360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The video taken by the TPUSA students at the University of Washington shows Sahin identifying herself as a professor and standing between a trans individual and pro-Israel supporters. The Israel supporters were trying to explain to the transgender individual that he would be welcomed in Israel, but would be killed in Gaza for his gender identity.

In the background of the video, “pro-Hamas demonstrators can be heard chanting ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,’” as the Post Millennial reports, “which is a call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.”
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Israeli students at University of Washington explain to a transgender individual that Palestine would actually harm them, and that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that supports pride.<a href="https://twitter.com/choeshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@choeshow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@jasonrantz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/thehoffather?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@thehoffather</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@charliekirk11</a> <a href="https://t.co/16Pg4T2hl3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/16Pg4T2hl3</a>
— Rachel Anderson (@RachelA1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelA1776/status/1712928632325452094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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After the October 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel, Sahin posted on her social media that she stands with “Palestinian liberation &amp; the necessary end to genocide, occupation, &amp; ethnic cleansing.”

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Sahin also supported a statement released by Students United for Palestinian Equality &amp; Return at the University of Washington (<a href="https://twitter.com/uw_super?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SUPER UW</a>), the same group responsible for the pro-Hamas rally. SUPER UW’s statement condemned the University of Washington’s president for sending a letter to the community about a Jewish grad student who was murdered in the Hamas attacks.

Sahin commented on SUPER UW’s statement, writing, “I’m a UW professor and I stand w/ Palestinian liberation &amp; the end of occupation.”

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Published - October 20, 2023

<a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/people/chandan-reddy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chandan Reddy</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington-Seattle. 

In 2011, Reddy published a <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/freedom-with-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> titled “Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State.” The aim of the book is described as:
“[T]he nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a “counterviolence” to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject.”
“Freedom with Violence” is a part of the Duke University Press series titled “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/series/Perverse-Modernities-A-Series-Edited-by-Jack-Halberstam-and-Lisa-Lowe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Perverse Modernities</a>,” which is described in the following way:
“Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity.”
In the first chapter of “Freedom with Violence,” Reddy states:
“In this sense, seeing the passage of law against anti-GLBTQ [sic] hate crimes as an amendments of both US racial globalism (the NDAA) and US racial capitalism (the 1969 Civil Rights Act) suggests the critical importance of sexuality in our contemporary moment…”
According to the <a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2023/10/18/uws-chandan-reddy-named-one-of-six-freedom-scholars-for-work-on-race-gender-and-sexuality/?utm_source=UW+News+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=Weekly+Roundup&amp;mkt_tok=MTMxLUFRTy0yMjUAAAGO7cEb7uYxwqFWyTStD9DsYMyIRW5l-v4OZVw5WX9zMgCQz5XW856TH5q5PugTQk5qOMcwQapfoD2AA-Xm0zGZug7nY8dxH8VT6vob7O3UCzo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Washington</a>, in 2023 Reddy “was named a ‘Freedom Scholar’ by the Marguerite Casey Foundation…The Foundation honors six scholars nationwide for their work in advancing racial and economic justice, awarding each a $250,000 unrestricted grant. The Freedom Scholar awards were created in 2020.”
Published - November 9, 2023

<a href="https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/megan-ming-francis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Megan Ming Francis</a> is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. Her fields of interest include “Legal Mobilization,” “Minority and Race Politics,” “Race and Ethnicity,” and “Social Movements.”

In 2015, Francis presented a <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/megan_ming_francis_we_need_to_address_the_real_roots_of_racial_violence?language=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TED Talk</a> entitled “We need to address the real root of racial violence,” wherein she stated:
“The present crisis surrounding race in the United States, I think, suffers from a lack of attention to the root causes. Better attention to the root causes — I am convinced — will help us figure out how to move past where we are right now in terms of the current racial climate in the United States … [W]e tend to think the problem of racial violence is isolated to a few stubborn racists … And we tend to think the cure to racial injustices in the United States should always revolve around education.”
Francis then proposed a new thought for ending systemic racial injustice in America, stating:

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In 2021, Francis co-authored an article titled “<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/society/racism-discrimination-education-democracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We Need a Racial Reckoning to Save Democracy</a>.” Francis et al. stated that American history makes the “crucial mistake” of “trying to move forward without reckoning honestly with injustice.” In a discussion on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Francis et al. said, “The heart of [America’s] amnesia is the failure to grasp the truth that it took until 1965 to ensure the right to vote to African Americans.”

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Francis has a history of speaking out against alleged racial injustice and pro-life legislation on social media.

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On the performative racial politics of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cuomo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cuomo</a>:
"In 2015, Camonghne Felix was a 23-year-old activist and poet, trying to figure out how to make change in the world after her work with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter..." <a href="https://t.co/2wRmtRVCcl">pic.twitter.com/2wRmtRVCcl</a>
— Megan Ming Francis (@meganfrancis) <a href="https://twitter.com/meganfrancis/status/1370429678343757826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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but remember conservative justices UpHOld tHe lAw...thEy Are nOt ACtivisT 🙄 <a href="https://t.co/9RlpX1ymzm">pic.twitter.com/9RlpX1ymzm</a>
— Megan Ming Francis (@meganfrancis) <a href="https://twitter.com/meganfrancis/status/1521318973207285765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Please send tips, updates, and information on Megan Ming Francis to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - April 30, 2024

<a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/people/bettina-judd">Bettina Judd</a> is an Associate Professor in the <a href="https://gwss.washington.edu/">Department of Gender, Women &amp; </a>Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. According to her faculty profile, “Judd is an interdisciplinary writer, artist and performer whose research focus is on black women's creative production and our use of visual art, literature, and music to develop feminist thought.” 

Judd’s profile also states that her “current book manuscript argues that black women’s creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls ‘feelin.’” 

In response to the October 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, Judd tweeted the following:
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N*zis hate Jewish, Arab, Muslim, and Black folk (and all of the intersections therein). This stance is beyond embarrassing and it’s a white Nationalist tactic to cozy ourselves up to eating ourselves from the inside out. Shame.
— Feelin Bettina Judd (@bettinajudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/bettinajudd/status/1719153435327770752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Judd claims the “American way” is one and the same with white supremacy:
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White supremacy is very insidious and quiet, because all it takes is living the American way to feel comfortable in it. <a href="https://t.co/5IyC1KgadN">https://t.co/5IyC1KgadN</a>
— Feelin Bettina Judd (@bettinajudd) <a href="https://twitter.com/bettinajudd/status/1705325447419134436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In June 2022, in the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade decision being overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Judd expressed <a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2022/06/24/folks-on-the-ground-have-been-activated-and-ready-uw-expert-on-reproductive-justice-and-the-u-s-supreme-court/">dissent</a> with the Court’s ruling and connected its consequences to “black reproductive lives.” 

Judd wrote,
“One of the kinds of dystopic, terrible things about this ruling and its relationship to that, is that in a country where Black women are far more likely to die during childbirth, to force folks toward childbirth also seems like a death plan. I don’t think of it as happenstance that that is the idea, because there is this sense that Black reproductive lives matter less, that this nation would somehow be better off if Black women stopped having children.”
Judd claims that the lessening of black women's access to abortion entails the loss of certain welfare benefits from the government:
“Concurrent with stripping access to abortion is also the stripping of what folks on the right are calling entitlements – food stamps, even WIC, the nutrition program for women, infants and children.”
Concluding the article, Judd places the load of abortion access on the states:
“States where abortions are legal will have to carry the load. Abortion funds help those who need access to care, who need to be able to travel to get an abortion, who need a place to stay while they’re getting health care.”
Published - November 6, 2023

<a href="https://dental.washington.edu/people/douglass-jackson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Douglass Jackson</a> is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the UW School of Dentistry. In 2005, he was named assistant dean of dentistry. Fifteen years later Jackson was <a href="https://dental.washington.edu/dr-douglass-jackson-to-lead-schools-heightened-diversity-efforts/">appointed </a>“Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), pending approval by the UW Board of Regents.”

In a statement following his appointment to the role, Jackson said:
“What motivates me every day to do this work is the realization that we live in a place where talent is equally distributed and opportunity is not…I’m thrilled to work in this new capacity alongside the many people at the school and university who recognize the societal cost we pay by not addressing this discrepancy, and how failing to address it limits our ability to be the best school we know we can be.”
In a virtual faculty town hall <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m58Z5ZWkS0o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">meeting</a> held in January of 2021 (provided to the Watchlist Team by a former student), Jackson commented on systemic “constructs” during his speaking time: 
“We have constructs of unquestioned power that are built into our systems and processes. These constructs justify who gets elevated or who gets downgraded; they help us decide who gets included or who gets excluded. These are constructs which we use to judge or categorize others but also how others categorize and judge ourselves.”
Jackson said the UW Dental school needs to grow in the area of EDI (i.e. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion). He questions what he claims are harmful constructs inherent in the UW Dental school community:
“We need to identify those constructs in our culture that are sustaining inequity, dismantle them, and in a mindful and inclusive way replace them with constructs that sustain equity along with the diverse groups that comprise who we are.”
The doctor also stated that he and some associates in the UW Dental School community were implementing various EDI initiatives. One of their initiatives, since enacted, is establishing an EDI Affinity group within the UW Dental School community. Jackson encouraged his fellow community members to be a part of this initiative. One part of this affinity group is an EDI book club. At the time of the town hall, Jackson said the club was reading <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/ibramxkendi">Ibram X. Kendi’s</a> book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-to-Be-an-Antiracist-audiobook/dp/B07TT85KLQ/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=616990763969&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9030089&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=6964597715175028901&amp;hvtargid=kwd-614485839288&amp;hydadcr=24634_13611738&amp;keywords=how+to+be+antiracist&amp;qid=1686077593&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Be an Anti-Racist</a>.” 

Jackson then proceeded to discuss various EDI priorities: “EDI need[s] to show up as mission-critical every single day,” he said. Jackson called for “Pre-doctoral admissions for greater increased representation of minoritized populations [and] making sure [the school’s] curriculum reflects the diversity of the world in which we live and addresses systemic inequities that impact oral health.” 

In a subsequent virtual faculty <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxRVbp7MqE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">town hall</a> held in June of 2020, Jackson made the following claims about race:

“Race is nothing more than a social construct. It is not biologic.” According to Jackson, the EDI Affinity group uses Kendi’s definition of racism verbatim, obtained from “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-to-Be-an-Antiracist-audiobook/dp/B07TT85KLQ/ref=sr_1_1?hvadid=616990763969&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9030089&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=6964597715175028901&amp;hvtargid=kwd-614485839288&amp;hydadcr=24634_13611738&amp;keywords=how+to+be+antiracist&amp;qid=1686077593&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How to Be an Anti-Racist</a>.”
“Racism is a marriage of racist policies and racist ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequities.”
They also use Kendi’s definition of racial inequity: 
“Racial inequity is when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing.”
Kendi, a <a href="https://www.bu.edu/antiracism-center/profile/ibram-x-kendi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor of Humanities</a> at Boston University, claims that racism is an integral part of American institutions and that white Americans benefit from such racism. He has also called for an <a href="https://www.politico.com/interactives/2019/how-to-fix-politics-in-america/inequality/pass-an-anti-racist-constitutional-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anti-racist amendment</a> to the U.S. Constitution, which includes, but is not limited to, the following: 
“The [anti-racist] amendment would make unconstitutional racial inequity over a certain threshold, as well as racist ideas by public officials (with “racist ideas” and “public official” clearly defined). It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees.”
Kendi also <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/28/bu-professor-suggests-amy-coney-barrett-is-a-white-colonizer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s adoption of two Haitian children, and is opposed to interracial families.  

Jackson also addressed the school of dentistry’s goal of building anti-racism into its curriculum. He mentioned <a href="https://dental.washington.edu/people/natasha-m-flake/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Natasha Flake</a>, Professor of the Endodontics department, along with <a href="https://dental.washington.edu/people/kimberly-espinoza/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kimberly Espinoza</a> of the DECOD program as key figures in promoting the school of dentistry’s anti-racist curriculum, and its overall anti-racism agenda.
Published - July 5, 2023

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<a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/bret-gustafson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bret Gustafson</a> is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Gustafson describes himself as a “political anthropologist with an interest in climate politics, fossil fuels, and the energy transition.”
In November 2023, Gustafson came under fire for <a href="https://www.kmov.com/2023/11/28/washington-university-professor-under-fire-anti-israel-bias-after-social-media-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitic social media comments</a>. After protesters in Los Angeles threw smoke devices and vandalized the home of the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Gustafson <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1729509403676598707" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly posted</a> the following:
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/bretgustafson?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">user’s account</a> has since been made private, but his Twitter biography includes a link to his faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis. The university provided the following statement to First Alert 4:
“Bret Gustafson is currently employed by Washington University. The opinions he has expressed as an individual do not represent the university’s position. We do not condone intimidation and we will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or threatening behavior.” 
In 2021, after a student destroyed a flag display that was part of a 9/11: Never Forget Project, Gustafson <a href="https://yaf.org/news/nearly-50-washu-professors-sign-statement-defending-9-11-vandal-american-flag-is-symbol-of-american-imperialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> in support of the vandal, calling the crime a “protest.” <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2021/09/14/community-statement-against-islamophobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The letter</a> further said the American flag is “the symbol of American imperialism and violence in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and beyond.”
Gustafson is also a proponent of fossil fuel divestment. In March 2023, he participated in a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/uncategorized/2023/03/01/green-action-rally-demands-university-divestment-from-fossil-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Action rally</a> that called on the university to divest from fossil fuels and “recognize the impacts of environmental racism.” He said the university “directly contributes to violence against all of us” because “everybody breathes the toxic impacts of burning coal to produce electricity.” He stated:
“It’s really quite embarrassing to be a faculty member at WashU. It should be [embarrassing] for students and alumni to be associated with a University that’s really far behind a lot of things.” 
He added:
“When Chancellor Martin says they can’t do anything because they’re just trying to protect the money for the University, there are plenty of other places you can invest your money in this daily sick capitalist system that we live in.”
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Published &#8211; December 4, 2023

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<a href="https://search.med.wustl.edu/s/search.html?f.Tabs%7CmedPeople=People&amp;query=kaytlin+reedy-rogier&amp;profile=medicine&amp;collection=wustl-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaytlin Reedy-Rogier</a> is an Instructor in Clinical Medicine for Washington University in St. Louis’s School of Medicine. 

<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-u-lecturer-warns-medical-students-not-debate-systemic-oppression-shut-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> reports that Reedy-Rogier was caught on camera warning students that if they try to debate her on critical race theory and “systemic oppression,” she “will shut that s— down real fast.” During a lecture, she said: 
“I have a really hard time being neutral around issues of systemic oppression. So oftentimes you will know how I feel. This does not mean that I am opposed to hearing other perspectives, I would like to be very clear about that: I am always willing to engage in dialogue with folks that may disagree with me. Always.” 
She continues: 
“And I will not think less of you, nor will I try to fight you or debate you. And in fact, if you try to fight me or debate me, I will shut that s— down real fast.” 
Reedy-Rogier also has argued the field of medicine “<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11551901/Washington-Uni-St-Louis-lecturer-says-race-implications-practice-medicine.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a really bad racism issue</a>,” stating: 
“We are very firm in race being a social construct, and that that has implications for how we practice medicine. That has implications for how we understand research, and that has implications for how we understand health disparity. And so when we are asking you all to engage in this, we’re really asking you to think about your own identities, and what that means to be anti-racist, which is an active stance in medicine that we know has a really bad racism issue.” 
Reedy-Rogier’s lecture is part of the <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/lecturer-cautions-students-not-to-challenge-her-on-systemic-oppression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">medical school’s “Health Equity &amp; Justice” lessons</a> within the “Gateway Curriculum” that was rolled out in 2020. In the wake of the riots and protests surrounding the death of George Floyd, the medical school vowed to “require diversity and bias training for all searches and admissions processes including student, resident, fellow, faculty, and staff positions in education.”
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Published - January 17, 2023

<a href="https://gephardtinstitute.wustl.edu/people/sarah-garwood/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Sarah Garwood</a> is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. According to her university profile, Dr. Garwood “provides care for complex adolescent patients.” She also designed and serves as co-director of the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

The Transgender Center <a href="https://www.stlouischildrens.org/conditions-treatments/transgender-center#:~:text=The%20Washington%20University%20Transgender%20Center,that%20addresses%20your%20specific%20needs." target="_blank" rel="noopener">provides a range of services</a> including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and menstrual suppression. The center’s website states: “Gender affirming care isn’t meant to influence people in any particular direction. We don’t ‘treat’ anyone’s identity or tell anyone what they should or shouldn’t do.”

The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11754435/Emails-doctors-St-Louis-transgender-clinic-telling-teachers-affirm-fifth-graders.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington University Transgender Center is being investigated</a> by the Missouri Attorney General’s Office and the office of Senator Josh Hawley after a former employee <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored an article “blowing the whistle”</a> on the “morally and medically appalling” actions happening at the center.

The whistleblower, who previously worked at the center for four years, <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">detailed the center’s aggressive and early intervention</a> and its “lack of regard for the rights of parents.”

<a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/2023-02-09-Senator-Hawley-Letter-to-WashU.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In a letter</a> to the university chancellor, hospital president, and the center’s co-directors, Senator Josh Hawley writes:
“That report presented substantial evidence that, like so many other pediatric gender clinics across the United States, this Missouri-based clinic appears to have been operating without transparency, oversight, and accountability - and causing devastating harm to children in the process.” 
Dr. Garwood has also been in the news after emails were discovered by <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/emails-reveal-school-district-sought-out-advice-from-st-louis-childrens-hospital-transgender-center-regarding-multiple-fifth-graders-transitioning-at-the-same-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Parents Defending Education (PDE)</a> that show her encouraging the Parkway School District not to disclose students’ chest-binding practices to parents. When school officials asked for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/childrens-hospital-advised-school-district-not-require-disclosure-students-chest-binding-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advice on how to handle chest-binding</a>, a staff member from the Transgender Center responded by quoting Dr. Garwood, saying:
“I would actually decline any requirements for disclosure by students or from school to parents.” 
Similarly, when asked for advice on how to handle fifth graders who are suffering from gender dysphoria, Dr. Garwood responded:
“The best we can do is affirm, validate and allow for the exploration, if in a few weeks or months, a student wants to go by their legal name and pronouns that match their sex assigned at birth, no harm was really done in affirming them before.” 
As of publication, Dr. Garwood is still employed by the university.

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Published - February 17, 2023

<a href="https://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty-staff/bret-gustafson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bret Gustafson</a> is a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Gustafson describes himself as a “political anthropologist with an interest in climate politics, fossil fuels, and the energy transition.”

In November 2023, Gustafson came under fire for <a href="https://www.kmov.com/2023/11/28/washington-university-professor-under-fire-anti-israel-bias-after-social-media-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitic social media comments</a>. After protesters in Los Angeles threw smoke devices and vandalized the home of the president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Gustafson <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1729509403676598707" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly posted</a> the following:

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The <a href="https://twitter.com/bretgustafson?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">user’s account</a> has since been made private, but his Twitter biography includes a link to his faculty page at Washington University in St. Louis. The university provided the following statement to First Alert 4:
“Bret Gustafson is currently employed by Washington University. The opinions he has expressed as an individual do not represent the university’s position. We do not condone intimidation and we will not tolerate discrimination, harassment or threatening behavior.” 
In 2021, after a student destroyed a flag display that was part of a 9/11: Never Forget Project, Gustafson <a href="https://yaf.org/news/nearly-50-washu-professors-sign-statement-defending-9-11-vandal-american-flag-is-symbol-of-american-imperialism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> in support of the vandal, calling the crime a “protest.” <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2021/09/14/community-statement-against-islamophobia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The letter</a> further said the American flag is “the symbol of American imperialism and violence in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and beyond.”

Gustafson is also a proponent of fossil fuel divestment. In March 2023, he participated in a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/uncategorized/2023/03/01/green-action-rally-demands-university-divestment-from-fossil-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Action rally</a> that called on the university to divest from fossil fuels and “recognize the impacts of environmental racism.” He said the university “directly contributes to violence against all of us” because “everybody breathes the toxic impacts of burning coal to produce electricity.” He stated:
“It’s really quite embarrassing to be a faculty member at WashU. It should be [embarrassing] for students and alumni to be associated with a University that’s really far behind a lot of things.” 
He added:
“When Chancellor Martin says they can’t do anything because they’re just trying to protect the money for the University, there are plenty of other places you can invest your money in this daily sick capitalist system that we live in.”
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Published - December 4, 2023

<a href="https://brownschool.wustl.edu/faculty-and-research/vanessa-fabbre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanessa Fabbre</a> is an Associate Professor in the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Her focus areas are “LGBTQ aging,” “Social work practice,” and “Interpretive methodology.” She’s also an affiliate faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

Fabbre <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has a history</a> of writing and co-authoring LGBTQ-centered publications:
<ul>
 	<li>“The manifestation of multilevel stigma in the lived experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming older adults” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:3fE2CSJIrl8C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2020</a>)</li>
 	<li>“The State of Theory in LGBTQ Aging: Implications for Gerontological Scholarship” (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30626272/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2019</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Agency and social forces in the life course: The case of gender transitions in later life” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2017</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Gender transitions in later life: A queer perspective on successful aging” (<a href="https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/55/1/144/2957454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2015</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Gender transitions in later life: The significance of time in queer aging” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014</a>)</li>
 	<li>“Social work and transitions of care: Observations from an intervention for older adults” (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkeXtO4AAAAJ&amp;view_op=view_citation&amp;citation_for_view=dkeXtO4AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2011</a>)</li>
</ul>
Fabbre <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Intersections-Ageing-Gender-Sexualities-Multidisciplinary-ebook/dp/B07PHVCC1R/ref=sr_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.uIzuBBXouRy-mXXoLg4PiIj0ZXRyM8Wi2MG9Sn2eSuA.7tbFaegOBzScIl-yR4_PRsJXtvmbB4Il5IVA4d467_Q&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;qid=1715985535&amp;refinements=p_27%3AVanessa+Fabbre&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-2&amp;asin=B07PHVCC1R&amp;revisionId=e5aa79e8&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">edited a book</a> called “Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives.” The introduction states :

“Since its inception in black feminist scholarship in the late 1980s, intersectionality has been influential across, and been explored beyond, disciplinary boundaries … Intersectionality is not used in this book to look specifically at the oppressions that come from gender and race alone … Instead, we are following important work that has utilised intersectionality and made important contributions to exploring the relationship between class and sexuality and to the exploration of ageing sexualities.”

Fabbre’s work was featured in a video entitled, “Transgender Research - Gender Transition in Later Life - Selected Works of Dr. Vanessa D. Fabbre.”

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In May 2024, Fabbre added her signature to an <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/15ZWaALNM0vYF1wWloU28WIZhP0Wl2VdTa6mcLVLBreI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">open letter from Brown School students</a> to support pro-Palestinian protests on campus. The letter states, “As social work, public health, and social policy students, we stand in solidarity with Palestinians. We condemn the continued silence of the administration at the Brown School and Washington University in St. Louis.”

Please send tips and updates on Vanessa Fabbre to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.
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<a href="https://jimes.wustl.edu/people/david-h-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David H. Warren</a> is a Lecturer of Middle East Studies and Arabic at Washington University in St. Louis. Aside from <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Rivals-in-the-Gulf-Yusuf-al-Qaradawi-Abdullah-Bin-Bayyah-and-the-Qatar-UAE/Warren/p/book/9780367280628" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publishing a book</a> in 2021 and his 2022 <a href="https://www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022%20Religious%20Freedom%20Tolerance%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paper</a> that “examine[d] the intersection of religious tolerance promotion and authoritarianism in the Gulf,” Warren has no other notable scholarly contributions.

In the paper, he uses the term “religious tolerance promotion” or RTP to indicate how friendly authoritarian regimes are toward those who openly practice their beliefs in society. Understandably, Warren did not include Palestine or Gaza in the piece. This could be due to the Gazan government <a href="https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1449-A-Short-History-of-Palestinian-Rejectionism-Cohen-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rejecting statehood multiple times</a> and the fact that its terrorist branch, Hamas, does not tolerate any religion outside of its <a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Islamic Resistance Movement</a>.  

<a href="https://x.com/davidhwarren/with_replies?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Warren’s Twitter account</a> confirms his antisemitic views. On August 29, 2024, he posted about pro-Palestinian protests that occurred on Washington University’s campus. 

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The tweet links to a <a href="https://www.studlife.com/forum/2024/08/28/opinion-submission-a-letter-from-suspended-faculty-against-genocide" target="_blank" rel="noopener">university newspaper</a> article titled “Opinion Submission: A letter from suspended faculty against genocide.” Since Warren is only a non-tenured lecturer, his signature does not appear on the letter. The Professor Watchlist couldn’t confirm if Warren was off work in April when his superior colleagues <a href="https://www.studlife.com/news/2024/04/30/the-aftermath-of-april-27-protesters-denounce-police-response-administration-condemns-encampment-and-students-and-faculty-suspended" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined one</a> (of many) anti-Jewish protests that resulted in the arrest of four faculty members. 

The statement says, in part:
“As faculty members who were suspended and banned from campus this spring for standing with students against the genocide of Gaza, we know that our school remains gripped by a moral crisis stemming from its complicity in the occupation of Palestine. In April [2024], we experienced firsthand how the University prioritizes its ties to weapons contractors like Boeing over its commitment to the safety and well-being of its community members.” 
The following antisemitic and anti-American posts are also sourced from Warren’s social media:

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Antisemitism

Terror Supporter

Climate Alarmist

Bret Gustafson

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<a href="https://confucius.columbian.gwu.edu/people">Paul J. Wahlbeck</a> is Director of the Confucius Institute and the Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute">Confucius Institutes</a> are 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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Dr. Leana Wen is a <a href="https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/health-policy-and-management/leana-wen-md-msc_faaem" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Research Professor of Health Policy and Management</a> at George Washington University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Wen is an emergency department medical doctor and a CNN Medical Analyst. She is also an op-ed columnist for a few different publications, and previously she was the President of Planned Parenthood - a tenure that lasted only eight months.

Over the last year and a half, the focus of Dr. Wen’s research and interest has been on COVID-19. She <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2021/05/01/how-can-u-s-solve-problem-of-vaccine-hesitancy.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">often speaks on the subject for CNN</a> and other news outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times. In a video clip recently released by CNN, Dr. Wen compared unvaccinated Americans to drunk drivers. You can watch the clip below:

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In <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/09/bidens-six-step-covid-strategy-does-not-go-far-enough-compel-vaccinations/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an article published by the Washington Post</a>, Dr. Wen alleges that President Biden’s six-pronged strategy for COVID vaccination doesn’t go far enough. In her opinion, he is not doing enough to compel the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and he needs to do even more. She argues that “the administration can and must go much further.”

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One of her many complaints is that President Biden has not mandated vaccinations for plane and train travel. Dr. Wen believes the government should use its power to implement this mandate in order to “make it clear that there are consequences to remaining unvaccinated.” Dr. Wen alleges that travel is a privilege, not a right.

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Dr. Wen is a huge proponent of vaccine passports. She notes that Israel and the European Union have vaccine verification methods, and the United States should as well.

Dr. Wen also thinks that all children over 12 years old should be required to be vaccinated, and the COVID vaccine should be added to the other immunization requirements for children. Dr. Wen explains how she would convince parents to vaccinate their children <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9W7IJdig7w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in this video</a>.

Dr. <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/elisabeth-anker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elisabeth Anker</a> is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Science at  <a href="https://americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Washington University</a> in Washington DC. The author of “<a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/ugly-freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ugly Freedoms</a>,” Dr. Anker has described freedom as a “slippery concept” that upholds patriarchy, <a href="https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2974/Ugly-Freedoms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colonialism, ecological destruction, and white supremacy</a>.

In an article for the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Dr. Anker <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vilifies right-wing and conservative groups who utilize “freedom” as their rallying cry to remove COVID-19 restrictions</a>. Her comments were published just as the Canadian government began cracking down on the “Freedom Convoy” by using emergency police powers.

The Freedom Convoy was organized in the winter of 2022 to protest the <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/29/trucker-freedom-convoy-set-to-protest-justin-trudeaus-vaccine-mandates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian government's enforcement of a vaccination mandate for truckers</a>. Participants parked their trucks in downtown Ottawa and halted traffic for weeks in front of the Canadian Parliament. Elsewhere, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/08/freedom-convoy-supporters-block-traffic-canadas-busiest-border-crossing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">truck drivers blocked vital points of entry on the US-Canadian border</a>.

After several weeks, the city police began <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/canadian-police-seize-fuel-trucker-covid-protest-court-silences-horns-rcna15294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seizing fuel and other supplies</a> from the convoy. The crowdfunding site, “GoFundMe,” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/ottawa-police-admit-to-lobbying-gofundme-to-withhold-funds-from-canadian-truckers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled a donation page from the truckers at the request of the Ottawa Police</a>. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau authorized the use of the “Emergencies Act” which grants the Canadian government extrajudicial powers in breaking up the blockade.

The <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/freedom-convoy-trucker-protests-organizers-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organizers of the protest were soon arrested</a> and <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-freedom-convoy-organizer-tamara-lich-denied-bail?utm_campaign=64483" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held without bail</a>. Individuals who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trudeau-announces-unprecedented-action-freezing-bank-accounts-of-freedom-convoy-protesters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated or donated to the convoy soon found their bank accounts frozen</a>. As police moved to clear the site of the protest, footage emerged of mounted units <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/woman-trampled-freedom-protest-indigenous-elder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trampling demonstrators, including an elderly woman in a mobility scooter</a>. Additional footage shows <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/video-rebel-news-journalist-assaulted-injured-by-police-at-freedom-convoy-protest-rebel-news-were-suing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police injuring reporters</a> and <a href="https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2022/02/18/ottawa-police-threatens-media-with-arrest-amid-crackdown-on-trucker-protests-n2603491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatening others with arrest for covering the protest.</a>

In the days leading up to the crackdown, Dr. Anker described the protests as a “violent” form of freedom and accused the “far-right” of abusing liberties to oppose equity.

“On the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that’s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination.”

She further laments how Canadians take advantage of the concept of freedom as a “national entitlement,” just as Americans do.

“It's been taking a lot of people by surprise to see people in Canada, who often seem so much more accepting of social interdependence, to start pushing back against it with the language of individual freedom.”

In a previous article for the New York Times—titled, “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220204102257/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/opinion/ugly-freedom-discrimination-racism-sexism.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Exploitation of ‘Freedom’ in America</a>,”—Dr. Anker condemns Americans who cite their “ugly freedoms” to remove mask mandates and prohibit abortions.

“Each of these actions used the language of freedom to justify anti-democratic politics. These, then, are what I call “ugly freedoms”: used to block the teaching of certain ideas, diminish employees' ability to have power in the workplace, and undermine public health.

“These are not merely misunderstood freedoms, or even just a cynical use of the language of freedom to frame bigoted policies. They manifest, instead, a particular interpretation of freedom that is not expansive, but exclusionary and coercive.”

She goes on to write that the “long history of ugly freedoms” includes justifications for slavery, marital abuse, and segregation; freedoms in America, she argues, have suppressed “nonwhites, women, and workers,” and have been used to justify white supremacy.

As of publication, the Canadian Parliament has just voted <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/canadian-parliament-votes-to-extend-emergencies-act-for-30-days/#slide-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to extend the Emergencies Act</a>. The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, has indicated that certain emergency powers will remain permanent.
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Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. <a href="https://t.co/g8JTCwzmqX" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/g8JTCwzmqX</a>
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1494852056145969155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/david-silverman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Silverman</a> is a Professor at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. 

According to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a>, David Silverman criticized Thanksgiving, stating it presents Native Americans as a “caricature” and whitewashes the nation’s bloody founding and history. His comments came during a segment on NPR’s, “<a href="https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1057940813:1057940820" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Woke History</a>.” 

In the interview, Silverman characterizes Thanksgiving as the myth of “native people making friends with colonists and then bloodlessly granting their country to these newcomers.” He asks listeners to reflect on the “damage done to indigenous people in the classroom” by this narrative.  

He further alleges the holiday negatively impacts white children:

“...in sanitizing the bloodiness of colonial history, it doesn't allow them to understand where their privilege comes from, it doesn’t allow them to think critically about this country’s origins, and in turn, it handicaps them from thinking about our present and our future.”

Silverman added that football teams like the “Redskins” who play on Thanksgiving make a “caricature” out of Native People: 

“…they misrepresent the Native past and they make many Native people today uncomfortable and invisible to the larger public. It does a great deal of damage. This is not just innocent fun.”

Silverman also promoted  his book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/This-Land-Their-Wampanoag-Thanksgiving/dp/1632869241" target="_blank" rel="noopener">This Land is Their Land</a>.” According to the description, Thanksgiving “celebrates a myth of colonialism and white proprietorship of the United States.” 

In the text, Silverman <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/11/27/george-washington-university-prof-thanksgiving-should-be-a-day-of-mourning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advocates replacing the holiday</a> with a “National Day of Mourning” to reflect on the genocide of native Americans by white people: 

“The National Day of Mourning calls attention to the fact that white America’s triumphs have been borne on native peoples’ backs.” 

Despite his criticism, Silverman admitted to NPR that he still celebrates Thanksgiving. 

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<a href="https://psyd.columbian.gwu.edu/lara-sheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Lara Sheehi</a> is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at George Washington University (GWU).  Her biography states that she teaches “decolonial, liberatory, and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment.”

In January 2023, the pro-Israel organization “StandWithUs” <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed a complaint against GWU</a>, alleging that Sheehi maintains “a pervasive, hostile, and discriminatory environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”

<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/jewish-students-reported-a-professor-for-anti-semitism-the-university-retaliated-against-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a> reports that during the first fall class of 2022, Sheehi asked each student to verbally affirm their ethnic identity. When one student announced that she was Israeli, Sheehi allegedly replied, “It’s not your fault you were born in Israel.”

For the remainder of the semester, the complaint states that Sheehi would berate and accuse Jewish students of racism. Fellow classmates were incited to exclude them at the direction of Sheehi. When students reported Sheehi, she allegedly retaliated against them.

George Washington University <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/29/gwu-professor-lara-sheehi-accused-of-antisemitism/">would later clear Sheehi of all wrong-doing</a>. The findings of an internal probe declared there is “no evidence that the discourse (in the class) crossed the line.”

On her personal social media account—which appears to <a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">have been </a><a href="https://twitter.com/blackflaghag">deleted</a> as of publication—Sheehi expresses the same anti-Israel sentiments and support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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Much of Sheehi’s professional work demonizes Israel and recruits academics for the BDS movement. According to a report by <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/308321" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arutz Sheeva</a>, Sheehi used her position as President of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility to advocate for the “decolonization” of Palestine. As President of the US Palestine Mental Health Network, Sheehi worked to boycott <a href="https://usapalmhn.org/about-dont-go/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Israeli health conferences and mental health professionals.</a>

In 2022, she co-authored <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781138596207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine</a>” with William &amp; Mary professor <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/stephensheehi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stephen Sheehi</a>.  During an <a href="https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/43950" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a>, she described the piece as an examination of the ”profound psychic violence” Israel inflicts on Palestinians.

Sheehi characterizes herself in the same interview as a “life-long BDS activist.” She adds that it is crucial for Palestinians to resist Israel’s “eurocentric” practices that further “white supremacy and capitalist exploitation.” Despite their attempts to the contrary, Sheehi continues, Israelis will never be looked at as anything other than an “occupier, oppressor, and settler” toward Arabs.

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After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Sheehi shared posts to her private Instagram account that described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs” and endorsed their “armed resistance.” In screenshots obtained by <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/how-dare-you-slander-the-names-of-our-martyrs-inside-a-george-washington-professors-pro-hamas-tirade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Free Beacon</a>, Sheehi praised a statement critical of “anyone condemning the Palestinians’ armed resistance.”

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She also expressed support for GWU’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, which described the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs.”

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The Washington Free Beacon provided images of Sheehi’s posts to George Washington University. The university declined to comment and directed the Free Beacon to the <a href="https://president.gwu.edu/thoughts-recent-campus-events-and-war-israel-and-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school’s statement</a> on “the war in Israel and Gaza.”

The statement “stressed the importance of coming together and caring for one another, especially those who are Israeli, Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, Arab, or connected to the region and this war.”

Sheehi remains under federal investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights after her <a href="https://www.jns.org/standwithus-files-complaint-against-george-washington-u-alleging-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">treatment of Jewish students</a> prompted StandWithUs to file a complaint against her in January 2023.

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<a href="https://elliott.gwu.edu/michael-barnett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Barnett</a> is a Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University.

Barnett participated in a <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12850253/George-Washington-University-Hamas-anti-Semitism-Israel.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">December 2023 faculty panel</a> titled “Understanding the Conflict in Israel and Palestine.” During the discussion, which was sponsored by the School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Anti-Racism Coalition and the Institute for Middle East Studies, Barnett argued Palestine has a “right of resistance,” saying:
“Israel rightly can claim self-defense, but I also want to note here that Hamas and the Palestinians also have a right of resistance.” 
After the panel, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Yolanda Haywood <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/10/news/gwu-med-faculty-panel-defended-hamas-right-of-resistance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apologized to the medical community</a>.
“The primary goal was to offer an experience that would result in thoughtful reflection and be a stimulus for broader, open communication. As the webinar proceeded, it became clear that this program was not a balanced presentation on this most divisive and difficult subject.” 
In his article titled “<a href="https://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2023/06/02/the-responsibility-to-protect-palestinians/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Responsibility to Protect Palestinians</a>,” Barnett claimed, “Israel has routinely violated international law, including that related to refugees, human rights, and occupation.” He believes the United States was willing to overlook these violations in the name of the “peace process.” However, he claims:
“The peace process has been dead for at least a decade and there is now a “one-state reality” from the river to the sea. In this one-state reality, Palestinians have few rights or protections and Jewish privilege is enshrined in various laws and rules that systematically discriminate against Palestinians, providing strong evidence for claims that Israel is now an apartheid state.” 
In response, Barnett says the United States needs to become a “guardian” to the Palestinians rather than an “enabler of the oppression.”
“The West might consider placing smart sanctions on Israel and leaders that benefit from Israel’s hold over the territories, or introducing trade restrictions.” 
In October 2023, Barnett penned an article for The Guardian titled “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/24/israel-palestine-gaza-invasion-ceasefire-hamas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">If Israel invades Gaza it will be a disaster for both Palestinians and Israelis</a>.” He writes:
“Many months ago I used the UN’s early warning indicators to see whether Israel should be put on a watch list for potential atrocity crimes, ethnic cleansing and possibly even genocide. Israel ticked all the boxes and perhaps all that was needed to trigger these crimes against humanity was an act that caused widespread torment and rage in Israel.” 
He further claims:
“Israel rules this state with force and apartheid-like measures - Gaza is governed by isolation, deprivation and violence, and the West Bank with a creeping annexation that imposes Jewish supremacy and the denial of basic human rights to Palestinians.”
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<a href="https://confucius.columbian.gwu.edu/people">Paul J. Wahlbeck</a> is Director of the Confucius Institute and the Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute">Confucius Institutes</a> are funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

Paul J. Wahlbeck

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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 
<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”
Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 
Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”
Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
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Dr. Elaine Parker-Gills is an Adjunct Professor of <a href="https://www.antioch.edu/academics/undergraduate-studies/liberal-studies-ba/literature-and-creative-writing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberal Studies/African American Studies at Antioch University-Los Angeles</a>. She also provides “Higher Education Teaching, Advising, Counseling, and Consulting” for Antioch University, along with being Co-Convener for “Messy Conversations” (which her Linkedin profile describes as “an ongoing intercampus public dialogue on race and antiracism”). 

<a href="https://commonthread.antioch.edu/cool-course-black-power-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Common Thread</a>, Antioch University’s newspaper, had a discussion with Parker-Gills about a new course she is teaching called “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party.”

Parker-Gills told Common Thread her critical view on the Founding Fathers of the United States of America: “If the founding fathers really loved freedom and were god-fearing as they said, we would all be in a different situation today.” She also made the following comment about American history:  “America has a great story, a phenomenal story. It is a wonderful experiment that started off horribly wrong.” 

Regarding Parker-Gills’ view of American history, Common Thread wrote: “She believes that it’s precisely not knowing this history that makes it difficult to heal the things that are still broken. This is due in no small part to the whitewashing of history in the institutions of education and publishing, which has silenced too many voices and too many narratives.”

Common Thread states that in “The Rise of Black Power Movement &amp; the Black Panther Party” Parker-Gills “focuses on how the rise of the Black Power Movement and the Black Panther Party are widely misunderstood.”
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<a href="https://cas.gsu.edu/profile/sierra-carter/#profile-publications-tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sierra Carter</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, an Adjunct Faculty Member at Emory University, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her work has been<a href="https://www.drsierracarter.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> featured prominently in publications</a> such as The Washington Post, NPR, and NBC News.   
Carter alleges a direct link exists between racism and the declining health of African Americans. “Racial discrimination as an acute and chronic stressor can affect development and further exacerbate chronic illnesses and stress-related disorders,” she states on<a href="https://www.drsierracarter.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> her personal site</a>.
<a href="https://theconversation.com/racial-discrimination-ages-black-americans-faster-according-to-a-25-year-long-study-of-families-143313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A study conducted by Carter</a> alleges individuals who experienced racism as a child are more likely to suffer depression, advanced aging, and early death. She writes, “The experience of constant and accumulating stress due to racism throughout an individual’s lifetime can wear and tear down the body.”
Continuing, Carter states that her work has “significant implications” due to the number of black Americans who are killed by “racial injustice” and suffer from racial health disparities. Carter vows to interrupt racism with her colleagues so that “black lives matter and are able to thrive.”
Despite her assertions, <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2019-42997-001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at no point in Carter’s study did she determine if the racist incidents her subjects described even occurred</a>. Incidents were only self-reported via a short questionnaire and were never independently verified. In addition, the study did not diagnose any patients with depression but still claimed that a correlation existed between those that experienced symptoms of depression and racism. The study only surveyed a relatively small sample size of 800 families. 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/brain-scans-of-black-women-who-experience-racism-show-trauma-like-effects-putting-them-at-higher-risk-for-future-health-problems-165511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another study conducted by Carter</a> claimed that racism alters the long-term brain function of black women. She concluded that racist incidents are far more detrimental to the long-term health of black women than traumatic events like childhood abuse, physical abuse, and sexual violence. 
As with the prior study, <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2782454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a small sample size of only 55 black women was surveyed</a>. Self-reported instances of racial discrimination against participants were also never verified by researchers. 
Dr. Carter has been contacted for comment. This article will be updated accordingly. 
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Georgia State University

<a href="http://education.gsu.edu/profile/stephanie-behm-cross/">Professor Stephanie Behm Cross</a>, Georgia State University, published an academic journal article lamenting the “insidiousness of silence and whiteness” on college campuses. In her article, she states that “Remaining silent may itself be the luxury of white privilege and may reinforce oppression." She goes on to say, “This is particularly true when working as a White faculty member, operating with high levels of White fragility, within a system of higher education cloaked in Whiteness.”

EXCLUSIVE - <a href="http://www.campusdirectory.gsu.edu/#person/tbolsen">Toby W. Bolsen</a>—Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University—is a convicted child sex offender who appears on the <a href="https://www.nsopw.gov/en/Search/Results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI’s national registry</a>.

On June 6th, 2001, a warrant was <a href="https://www.judici.com/courts/cases/case_history.jsp?court=IL070015J&amp;ocl=IL070015J,2001CF39,IL070015JL2001CF39D1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued for Dr. Boslen by the Department of Moultrie County, Illinois for criminal sexual assault.</a> The 25-year-old Bolsen was charged with and pleaded guilty to Aggravated Criminal Sexual Abuse against a 17-year-old girl, with a bail set at $50,000.

He received a sentence of 180 days in jail, 48 months of probation, and was forced to register as a sex offender in addition to paying restitution to the victims. <a href="https://www2.illinois.gov/idoc/OFFENDER/Pages/InmateSearch.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to Illinois prison records, Dr. Bolsen has completed his parole</a>, likely before 2009.

<a href="https://isp.illinois.gov/Sor/Details/X01B3928?x=24289ef3-7857-45ff-8169-9a6ef5c98b62" target="_blank" rel="noopener">His official profile lists him as having committed aggravated criminal sex abuse against a victim between the ages of 13-18</a>. According to Illinois state law, an individual may be charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse if they are <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=072000050K11-1.60" target="_blank" rel="noopener">5 years older than the victim, threatened the victim, or physically harmed the victim during the assault of an underage woman.</a><a href="https://isp.illinois.gov/Sor/Details/X01B3928?x=24289ef3-7857-45ff-8169-9a6ef5c98b62" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2256" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-06-10-at-3.02.40-PM-1024x461.png" alt="" width="500" height="225" /></a>

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The Rockford Register Star reports that Dr. Bolsen was a <a href="https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/state/2007/10/20/more-than-2-dozen-illinois/44636388007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scholastic Bowl coach at Sullivan High School in Moultrie County at the time of his conviction</a>. Dr. Bolsen was also one of twenty-five Ilinois teachers disciplined within a two-year period for sexual misconduct with students or minors.

Dr. Bolsen is a <a href="https://tobybolsen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduate of Southern Illinois University and Northwestern University. He has been teaching at Georgia State since 2010</a>. He has authored numerous academic papers—primarily on climate change and was awarded the “Outstanding Faculty Award” from the University in 2015.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Dr. Bolsen and the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University for comment. Both were asked if the University requires Dr. Bolsen to disclose his conviction or instructs minors and/or high school students. Neither responded prior to publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://politicalscience.gsu.edu/">Department of Political Science at Georgia State University</a> at (404) 413-6159 or at mherb@gsu.edu. 
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<a href="https://cas.gsu.edu/profile/sierra-carter/#profile-publications-tab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sierra Carter</a> is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University, an Adjunct Faculty Member at Emory University, and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University. Her work has been<a href="https://www.drsierracarter.com/media" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> featured prominently in publications</a> such as The Washington Post, NPR, and NBC News.   

Carter alleges a direct link exists between racism and the declining health of African Americans. “Racial discrimination as an acute and chronic stressor can affect development and further exacerbate chronic illnesses and stress-related disorders,” she states on<a href="https://www.drsierracarter.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> her personal site</a>.

<a href="https://theconversation.com/racial-discrimination-ages-black-americans-faster-according-to-a-25-year-long-study-of-families-143313" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A study conducted by Carter</a> alleges individuals who experienced racism as a child are more likely to suffer depression, advanced aging, and early death. She writes, “The experience of constant and accumulating stress due to racism throughout an individual’s lifetime can wear and tear down the body.”

Continuing, Carter states that her work has “significant implications” due to the number of black Americans who are killed by “racial injustice” and suffer from racial health disparities. Carter vows to interrupt racism with her colleagues so that “black lives matter and are able to thrive.”

Despite her assertions, <a href="https://psycnet.apa.org/manuscript/2019-42997-001.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">at no point in Carter’s study did she determine if the racist incidents her subjects described even occurred</a>. Incidents were only self-reported via a short questionnaire and were never independently verified. In addition, the study did not diagnose any patients with depression but still claimed that a correlation existed between those that experienced symptoms of depression and racism. The study only surveyed a relatively small sample size of 800 families. 

<a href="https://theconversation.com/brain-scans-of-black-women-who-experience-racism-show-trauma-like-effects-putting-them-at-higher-risk-for-future-health-problems-165511" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another study conducted by Carter</a> claimed that racism alters the long-term brain function of black women. She concluded that racist incidents are far more detrimental to the long-term health of black women than traumatic events like childhood abuse, physical abuse, and sexual violence. 

As with the prior study, <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2782454" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a small sample size of only 55 black women was surveyed</a>. Self-reported instances of racial discrimination against participants were also never verified by researchers. 

Dr. Carter has been contacted for comment. This article will be updated accordingly. 

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Published - December 8, 2022

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<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California &#8211; Los Angeles.
In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.
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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.
In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.
Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.
In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:
“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.
If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“
<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.
“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“
In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:
“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.
Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.
No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 
The BLM-inspired 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>
Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.
In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.
The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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University of California-Los Angeles

<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/jonathan-m-zasloff/">Jonathan Zasloff</a> is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zasloff was caught on social media in January of 2015 stating that Republicans were catering to their KKK core of old, angry, white Southern men with reactionary views on race.

*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist Team, Susan Pertel Jain is no longer listed as the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute at UCLA.*

<a href="https://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/person/1366">Susan Pertel Jain</a> is a former Director of the Confucius Institute at Wayne State University. <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/confuciusinstitute" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Confucius Institute</a> is funded by the Chinese Communist Party and serves as a focal point for the dissemination of propaganda and foreign espionage on American campuses.

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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*Following coverage by the Professor Watchlist team, the Confucius Institute at UCLA has closed.*
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<a href="https://www.confucius.ucla.edu/about-us/team">Scott L. Waugh</a> is the former Chair of the Confucius Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. 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.

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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<a href="https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/kimberle-w-crenshaw">Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw</a> is a Professor of Law and the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at the <a href="https://www.ucla.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)</a>. She also teaches law as a professor at the <a href="https://www.law.columbia.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia School of Law</a>.

Dr. Crenshaw is best recognized as a founding scholar of critical race theory and intersectionality. She has continued to make significant contributions to each field throughout her career. Both concepts have been widely adopted by the radical left as the basis for their activism and movements.

Dr. Crenshaw <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1229039?read-now=1&amp;refreqid=excelsior%3Ad80f43d375e3f40179924f768317a237&amp;seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first defined intersectionality in a landmark paper published for the Stanford Law Review, titled, “Mapping the Margins.</a>” In it, she praises identity politics as necessary to the lived experiences of American minorities.

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However, Dr. Crenshaw then comments that identity politics does not go nearly far enough, countering that intersectionality is needed to successfully combat what she alleges is the systemic oppression minorities face in America.

Intersectionality is used by activists and academics to depict racial and sexual oppression as interconnected amongst various minority groups. For example in “Mapping the Margins,” Dr. Crenshaw claims that a black woman would suffer from both systemic racism and sexism in America. She further characterizes the theory as the link between <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/">contemporary politics and postmodernism</a>. Academic James Lindsay describes <a href="https://newdiscourses.com/2021/03/forging-woke-one-ring-kimberle-crenshaws-mapping-margins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">intersectionality as the “birthplace of wokeness.”</a>

Much of intersectionality’s academic framework was used by Dr. Crenshaw to develop concepts of critical race theory. She drew additional inspiration from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/12/kimberle-crenshaw-the-woman-who-revolutionised-feminism-and-landed-at-the-heart-of-the-culture-wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">critical legal studies, which, like critical race theory, posits that no American law can truly be neutral or impartial.</a>

Ben Shapiro defines critical race theory—also referred to as critical theory—in an article for Breitbart <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2012/03/11/what-is-critical-race-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as an intellectual branch of Marxism that alleges American society and all of its founding institutions are infected with white supremacy</a>. Furthermore, proponents of critical race theory believe that people should take proactive steps to dismantle these institutions in the name of equity, which is also referred to as being “anti-racist.”

Dr. Crenshaw herself further defined the concept in an appearance on MSNBC in July of 2021, She characterized her theory as a method to understand how racial inequality is produced—or acts as a “conduit”—from laws, institutions, and historical oppression, all of which are referenced interchangeably with white supremacy. The full video may be viewed below.

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One such institution that Dr. Crenshaw targets are police departments and policing as a whole. In a <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet from September 2020</a>, she demanded that all police departments be defunded, a move deemed necessary for the full dismantlement of “white nationalism.”
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The call to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefundThePolice?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#DefundThePolice</a> should be a mandate to dismantle the hyper-militaristic, racist functions of the police as the coercive power of white nationalism.
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— Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks) <a href="https://twitter.com/sandylocks/status/1306271685625049089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Crenshaw’s work and activism have been instrumental to school districts adopting critical race theory into their curriculums. One district in Illinois allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-illinois-school-district-forced-students-on-privilege-walks-compared-whiteness-to-the-devil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated students by race during a “privilege walk</a>” and compared “whiteness” to the devil during class lessons. Another school district in Buffalo, New York taught students that<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/buffalo-public-schools-critical-race-theory-curriculum" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> America is, “built on racism,” and all Americans, “have an implicit racial bias.</a>”

Dr. Crensaw’s work has spawned other prominent critical race theorists like Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of the 1619 Project. She has described <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/what-does-intersectionality-mean-2021-kimberle-crenshaws-podcast-must-listen-way-learn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jones work as “phenomenal” to the rethinking of the American founding</a>.

Dr. Jones <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://nypost.com/2020/03/14/new-york-times-corrects-the-1619-project-but-its-still-a-giant-lie/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Though now retracted for numerous false claims</a>, the documents have now been <a href="https://dc.medill.northwestern.edu/blog/2020/07/21/the-1619-project-curriculum-taught-in-over-4500-schools-frederick-county-public-schools-has-the-option/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added to the curriculum of 4,500 schools across the country</a>.

Readers can visit the <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nikolehannahjones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile of Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist</a> to learn more.

Despite evidence to the contrary, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a number of pundits on the left claim that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools</a>. However, Dr. Crenshaw herself has written that the theory may serve as a <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?s=27" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“catch-all” for race-based scholarship</a>.
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Well well well, if it's isn't Kimberlé Crenshaw, founder of critical race theory, telling us that the term "critical race theory" can be "used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue"—exactly as I've been saying all along. 👍<a href="https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/0xQrB80nC3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GP7mLZAm9x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/GP7mLZAm9x</a>
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1417313212207271936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Updated - September 21, 2021

<a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mr. Johnathan Perkins</a> is the Director of Race and Equity for the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of California - Los Angeles.

In a series of tweets—<a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uclas-race-and-equity-officer-who-wished-death-upon-clarence-thomas-once-admitted-to-staging-a-race-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first highlighted by the Post Millennial</a>—Mr. Perkins attacks Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, Ginni Thomas, writing that he hopes Mr. Thomas dies in the hospital and accuses Mrs. Thomas of treason.

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At the time, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/justice-clarence-thomas-hospital-supreme-151322076.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clarence Thomas had been hospitalized for the flu</a>. The accusation directed at Ginni Thomas refers to her involvement in <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/jan-6-committee-likely-to-request-ginni-thomas-testimony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voter integrity protests surrounding the 2020 general election</a>.

In the tweet, Mr. Perkins refers to Clarence Thomas as “Uncle Thomas.” The phrase is a racial slur used to accuse black people of selling out their race to white people.

Mr. Perkins is no stranger to racially-incendiary remarks. On his <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal blog, he writes about white privilege, systemic racism, and antiracist work</a> on a frequent basis.

In one article, he berates the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/10/1/an-open-letter-to-my-white-extended-family-ahead-of-november-3rd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conservative, white members of his family in an open letter posted prior to the 2020 general election</a>. He demands to know who plans to vote for a president who “incites white supremacist violence against black people” and vows to never associate with that family member again:

“If you, or any of your immediate family (spouses, children, children-in-law) are planning to vote for Donald Trump on November 3, I ask that you please contact me to discuss before that date. I hope that I never again have the unfortunate experience of discovering that someone in my own family has voted for a president who continues to incite white supremacist violence against Black people, violence and hate against the LGBTQ+ community, hatred and misogyny against women, and violent racist xenophobia against brown immigrants.

If, once again, we affected family members are forced to cope with this trauma, I regret that I, personally, will no longer be able to associate with the family member/voter in question. I will not attend family events where that member is present and will call out said family loudly whenever we interact from now on. I will no longer ignore the fact that my family members voted for all these things, against my humanity.“

<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/2/27/white-privilege-a-euphemism-for-white-supremacy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Another post defines white privilege</a> as “the idea that white people enjoy a particular set of benefits, simply by virtue of their whiteness (despite the harmful costs).” Mr. Perkins further writes that this privilege is a “manifestation of white supremacy” and many white people may be regarded as virulently racist as a Klansman.

“I need to make something abundantly clear: white supremacy, like most harmful social constructs, exists on a spectrum. The Beverly Hills middle school English teacher who, intentionally or otherwise, does not include literature by black authors in her curriculum, is operating within the same fundamental system of beliefs, the same structure, as the Mississippi Klansman: whiteness as supreme, which by definition does not acknowledge blackness, which necessarily degrades it.“

In one article—published during ongoing riots in the summer of 2020—Dr. Perkins <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220328223757/https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2020/5/31/dont-talk-to-me-about-looting-an-open-letter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">excoriates white people who might hold concerns about the continuous rioting and looting</a> that was occurring in cities across the country. Describing white people as the “original looters of this country,” he writes that America had been founded on looting and violence, and no meaningful civil rights movements can, or would take place without riots:

“America is the original looter. White people are the original looters in this country. The original colonizers looted the indigenous people of this land damn-near completely to death. The original colonizers stole us from our homes, brought us to this place, and continued to loot and terrorize us for the last 400 years.

Violence has been the American way since its inception. Looting and pillaging is as American as apple pie. You think the so-called Boston Tea Party was a party? It was a riot.

No meaningful civil rights advancement has taken place in this country without riots. I personally choose to never carry out or even promote violence. But police violence, government violence, is the only thing Black people have ever known in America.” 

The BLM-inspired 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>

Mr. Perkins <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/campus-hate-crime-hoaxes-a-best-of-list/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously staged a race hoax while attending the University of Virginia.</a> He alleged that two police officers racially profiled him frisked him, and mocked him during detention. Although <a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/964739540685101/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later admitting that he fabricated the incident</a>, he now maintains the <a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/2/24/7-points-to-consider-about-the-jussie-smollett-ordeal-from-someone-whos-been-there" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI pressured him to recant his story</a>.

In his role at UCLA, Mr. Perkins describes himself as a “<a href="https://johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/8/17/g2t7llr5oviffi0gq4do7cqr2bn1k4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">full-time professional practitioner of anti-racism”</a> who is dedicated to dismantling white supremacy. <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/edi-ucla/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to its website, the purpose of The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion</a> itself is based on the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UN Declaration of Human Rights</a>.

The Professor Watchlist Team reached out to Mr. Perkins for comment but have not received a reply by the time of publication.

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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://equity.ucla.edu/who-we-are/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion</a> at (310) 825-3935. 
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Updated - April 6th, 2022

<a href="https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Appel</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California - Los Angeles.

According to her university profile, Appel is “an economic anthropologist interested in transnational capitalism and finance; finance, debt and debtors’ unions; the African continent’s place in global capitalism; the economic imagination; anti-capitalist and abolitionist social movements.” 

Appel is the Associate Faculty Director of the UCLA Luskin <a href="https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/hannah-appel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Institute on Inequality and Democracy</a>. According to its website, the mission of the Institute is “concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working in alliance with social movements and communities on the frontlines of struggle, the Institute seeks to abolish structures of inequality.”

According to the <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/23/protesters-occupy-then-vacate-dodd-hall-following-2nd-encampment-dispersal-at-ucla" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daily Bruin</a>, Appel participated in a sit-in while police swept a campus encampment of protesters. 

Appel, who’s also a member of UCLA’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine group, stated that she anticipates an eventual “escalation” and a “deepening of the movement” as union members withhold grades and cancel discussion sections. She also explained her rationale for protesting and her efforts as a professor to support student protesters:
“When the university sees that folks are withholding grades, they get scared. They’re scared because we’re flexing our collective power, and optimally, that fear drives them to the bargaining table, and then we win.” 
According to <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/ucla-professor-claims-not-allowing-food-water-into-pro-gaza-encampment-is-torture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a>, UCLA officials stated there was “reasonable cause to find that demonstrators’ activities – including erecting barricades, establishing fortifications and blocking access to parts of the campus and buildings – [were] disrupting campus operations.”

The College Fix also reports that Appel “accused the university of employing ‘torture’ tactics against the student activists” and expressed concern about the actions being deemed an unlawful assembly. Appel defended the actions of people providing water and food to the protesters despite the “unlawful protest” declaration by the university: 
“But here’s the thing: Even if this is unlawful which, of course, I don’t think it is […] you cannot deny people to send in water in an effort to get them to do something against their will.”
Published - May 30, 2024

Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion

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<a href="https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/elle-lett-phd-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elle Lett</a>, Ph.D., is an Associate Fellow and MD Candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. According to his university profile, Lett is a transgender woman who “applies the theory and principles of Black feminism to understanding the health impacts of systemic racism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination on oppressed groups in the United States.”
Lett is also a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>, “the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender lives.” According to the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">center’s website</a>, their mission is to inform “policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.”
Lett was quoted in a September 2021 article for STAT titled, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/23/health-equity-tourists-white-scholars-colonizing-health-disparities-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.”</a> The paper discusses how the field of health equity research has grown in recent years, but argues “researchers with little or no background or training in health research, often white and already well-funded, are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.”
Lett states, “For this to be ethical and just, it requires you to redistribute some of your privilege and benefit.”
The article goes on to discuss a study, led by a white author, that “documented the lack of black medical school faculty.” STAT claims the study had similar findings to a study published three years earlier by black researchers, including Lett. In response to this, Lett says:
“It is troubling that a white man, who has had every privilege conferred on him, is writing a paper about the plight of Black academics. He is extracting from our pain for his career advancement.”
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Published &#8211; December 9, 2022

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University of Pennsylvania Professor <a href="https://rels.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> penned an MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion editorial</a> responding to the controversial 2024 Olympics' opening ceremony where “transgender” performers mocked Leonardo da Vinci’s depiction of The Last Supper.

Butler offered the following explanation in light of the sacrilegious production:
“[I]t wasn’t about the Last Supper at all. The so-called re-enactment was a scene of a bacchanal, a fest of the Greek god Dionysus …  Thell that, though, to those unable to see the scene outside the lens of their conservative religious convictions … Tolerance, sadly, isn’t what conservatives are noted for, especially since many of them deemed the 2024 Olympics ‘woke.’”
She further claimed that Christians have a “limited” worldview that “doesn’t consider views that fall outside their faith.”

Butler has a history of demonizing Christianity, including this quote from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Evangelical-Racism-Politics-Morality/dp/1469661179?asin=B08JG7NHXQ&amp;revisionId=37269deb&amp;format=1&amp;depth=1">her book</a>, “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America” :
“White Evangelical Racism tells a concise history of the evangelical movement and—here is the hard part—the racist and racial elements that imbue its beliefs, practices, and social and political activism. It is racism that binds and blinds many white American evangelicals to the vilification of Muslims, Latinos, and African Americans … Racism is a feature, not a bug, of American evangelicalism.”
In response to the outrage among religious conservatives after viewing the Olympics ceremony, Butler <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/olympics-2024-apology-christians-last-supper-elon-musk-mike-johnson-rcna164008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>:

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Butler’s faculty profile shows her on leave for the 2024-25 academic year.

Please send tips and updates on Anthea Butler to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 

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Updated - August 6, 2024
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<a href="https://africana.sas.upenn.edu/people/anthea-butler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthea Butler</a> is an Associate Professor of African and Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also serves as Interim Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.

Identity Politics

Butler advocates for professors to strike on the job in order to promote social justice causes. First tweeting her support for an NBA-style<a href="https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/emotional-frustrated-raptors-discussed-boycott-wake-jacob-blake-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> strike</a> to protest “police violence,” Butler then created her own strike aimed at school and university staff called “Scholar Strike.” 

<a href="https://www.scholarstrike.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instructing</a> professors and faculty members of colleges and universities to walk out of their positions and teaching duties for two days, Scholar Strike intends to “call awareness to the racial climate in America, and the rash [sic] of police shootings and racialized violence.” As a result, hundreds of academics<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/08/28/professors-plan-strike-racial-justice"> pledged</a> to join the strike.

In a 2020 Twitter thread, Butler also<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15673" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> describes</a> conservatives as “craven and evil.” She levels<a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ivy-league-professor-award-carson-coon-of-the-year" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> attacks</a> against Dr. Ben Carson as the  “the coon of the year” over comments he made regarding the confederate flag.<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Carson" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Dr. Ben Carson</a> is a renowned neurosurgeon who served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump Administration.

Butler believes that conservative candidates continue to receive support en masse from evangelicals due to fear.<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/white-evangelicals-love-trump-aren-t-confused-about-why-no-ncna1046826" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Writing</a> for NBC News, Butler accuses conservatives of voting in order to preserve what political power they still have. Historically a dominant force, Butler states, evangelicals turn to authoritarians like Trump in order to protect themselves from societal change. She continues, stating that this is not a unique phenomenon, as Evangelicals have a long history of supporting racist movements and institutions.

The core of Butler’s popular authorship is her allegations of the overlap between evangelicalism and white supremacy, having written a book entitled,<a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> White Evangelical Racism</a> explaining this indictment. Interviewing on “Act. tv,” she<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMZpsrYGLeA&amp;ab_channel=act.tv" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> claims</a> that the history of Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan.

During the same interview, Butler claims that evangelicals believe that police are “ordained” by God to kill black people.

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In a <a href="https://twitter.com/AntheaButler/status/1351922696989380609" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> from January 2021, Butler repeated a claim from the same book that racism is inherent in evangelicals.

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In 2013, Butler went as far as to claim that a “white-racist” is the god<a href="https://antheabutler.com/americas-racist-god/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> worshipped</a> by this country.

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Anthea Butler served as a<a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/ncr-exclusive-campaign-names-three-dozen-catholics-biden-co-chairs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> co-chair</a> of “Catholics for Biden” in 2020.
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<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/jonathan-d-katz">Dr. Jonathan Katz</a> is an Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Practice and the History of Art at the <a href="https://www.upenn.edu/">University of Pennslyvania</a>. According to his university biography, Katz’s positions deal with the “intersections of art history and queer history.”

In a 2016 article, Professor Katz<a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2016/06/katz-orlando.html"> blamed</a> conservatives for the Pulse Nightclub shooting that claimed 49 lives. He wrote, “What we are trying to do here is camouflage the root of the problem, which is a long history of violent political rhetoric and homophobic policies by Republican officials and their conservative allies.”

Rather than Islamic Terrorism, he argued that anti-gay bigotry from the Christian right is a greater threat than ISIS.

Katz had previously<a href="https://www.catholicleague.org/the-american-taliban-catholic-league-2/"> referred</a> to The Catholic League, the nation’s largest Catholic civil rights organization, as “the American Taliban.”

<a href="https://mshp.med.upenn.edu/people/nadia-dowshen-md-mshp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nadia Dowshen</a> is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the co-founder of the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania’s (CHOP) Sexuality and Gender Development Clinic. According to her university profile, the clinic provides medical and psychosocial support to more than 500 gender variant children and adolescents.

The Post Millennial reports that Dr. Dowshen <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/chops-gender-clinic-founder-says-age-is-just-a-number-when-advocating-for-double-mastectomies-for-healthy-14-year-old-girls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified before the Pennsylvania Health Committee</a> in a September 2020 hearing titled “Appropriate Care Models for Transgender Adolescents.” During the hearing, Representative David Zimmerman asked Dowshen what would be the youngest age that her clinic would refer a girl for a double mastectomy, or the removal of a girl's healthy breasts.

Dowshen replied that the majority of bilateral mastectomies performed at the clinic are performed on girls ages 16 through 18 but that she would refer children “as young as age 14.” She justified her decision by saying:
“I think it’s really important to remember that age is a number. As an adolescent medicine and development specialist, we know that where a child is cognitively and socially is more important than the exact number of their age.” 
Dr. Dowshen also commented on puberty blockers for children, stating “the major medical intervention that is considered fully reversible is puberty blocking medication.” <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-chop-gender-clinic-co-founder-praises-rachel-levines-initiatives-for-medical-transition-of-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Post Millennial</a> reports that puberty blockers can cause brain swelling, vision loss, stunted growth, cognitive issues, and bone density loss, among other problems. When combined with cross-sex hormones, they can lead to sterility and a lack of sexual function.

During the Q&amp;A portion of the hearing, Dr. Dowshen admitted that the clinic <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/childrens-hospital-of-philadelphia-perform-medical-gender-transition-on-minors-in-foster-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accepts referrals from youth homeless shelters and the foster care system.</a> When asked by Representative Pamela A. Delissio how children “find their way” to the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic, Dowshen replied:
“We are really getting referrals from a variety of resources. We’re also getting a lot more referrals from other institutions … Sometimes from within the foster care system, the mental health system, through homeless shelters for youth.” 
Dr. Dowshen co-published an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211227195726/https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/transgender-athletes-sports-ban-pennsylvania-new-jersey-20210610.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘They just want the chance to play’: Reject transgender sports bans.”</a> The article states:
“The authors of bills to deny trans youth these opportunities say they want to protect other children and, particularly, prevent transgender girls from having what they say is an unfair advantage over other girls.” 
Dowshen then argues that there are not biological differences between girls and boys in sports:
“But these claims are based on misunderstandings of biology and hormones, have not been backed by any concrete examples of unfair athlete advantage, and are irrelevant to K-12 school sports.”
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Published - November 2, 2022

<a href="https://ldi.upenn.edu/fellows/fellows-directory/elle-lett-phd-ma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elle Lett</a>, Ph.D., is an Associate Fellow and MD Candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. According to his university profile, Lett is a transgender woman who “applies the theory and principles of Black feminism to understanding the health impacts of systemic racism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination on oppressed groups in the United States.”

Lett is also a <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about/fellows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies (CATS)</a>, “the leading academic organization dedicated to scholarship on the social, cultural, and political conditions of transgender lives.” According to the <a href="https://www.appliedtransstudies.org/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">center’s website</a>, their mission is to inform “policy-making and public discourse in ways that improve quality of life for the transgender community.”

Lett was quoted in a September 2021 article for STAT titled, <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/23/health-equity-tourists-white-scholars-colonizing-health-disparities-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“‘Health equity tourists’: How white scholars are colonizing research on health disparities.”</a> The paper discusses how the field of health equity research has grown in recent years, but argues “researchers with little or no background or training in health research, often white and already well-funded, are rushing in to scoop up grants and publish papers.”

Lett states, “For this to be ethical and just, it requires you to redistribute some of your privilege and benefit.”

The article goes on to discuss a study, led by a white author, that “documented the lack of black medical school faculty.” STAT claims the study had similar findings to a study published three years earlier by black researchers, including Lett. In response to this, Lett says:
“It is troubling that a white man, who has had every privilege conferred on him, is writing a paper about the plight of Black academics. He is extracting from our pain for his career advancement.”
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Published - December 9, 2022

Political Science Professor <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> was featured on the StopAntisemitism Twitter account after the announcement of her Norton’s <a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/node/9810" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new course</a> called “Why Palestine Matters to America.”

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Shocking new low at UPenn - Anne Norton is set to teach a class on “Why Palestine Matters to America.”
The same Anne Norton that claims Jews play the victim card and calls for physical violence - “kneecap then”.

Why has this barbaric antisemite not been fired by UPenn? <a href="https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam">https://t.co/vv3qZjAGam</a> <a href="https://t.co/7SUPvu3acR">pic.twitter.com/7SUPvu3acR</a>

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href="https://twitter.com/StopAntisemites/status/1856150222381941066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In October, the Twitter account belonging to Eyal Yakoby <a href="https://x.com/eyakoby/status/1845981387741860343?s=46" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a> a post liked by <a href="https://x.com/annenortonnow?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Norton</a> that said, “Playing the victim is what Jews are best at.”

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Norton was featured in an <a href="https://jewishunpacked.com/when-professors-cross-the-line-into-antisemitism-on-social-media/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by Yakoby wherein he discussed Norton and other UPenn professors who used their personal social media accounts to promote “hatred for the Jewish people.” In particular, Norton was quoted telling her audience “Please don’t amplify” allegedly speaking about the Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023. The <a href="https://www.ajc.org/IsraelHamasWar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violent terrorist attack</a> included rape, kidnapping, slaughtering infants, and burning victims alive.

Norton also made headlines in May 2024 when the media arm of Stop Antisemitism <a href="https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/anne-norton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> a profile revealing her leftist views on Israel. Additionally, Norton was named in a 2023 <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/13/news/upenns-anne-norton-losing-professorship-over-anti-israel-posts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> by the New York Post that said top donors were divesting from the university due to her outspoken antisemitic views. The Post said:

“Investors…confirmed to the Post they are in talks with UPenn to cut ties with Norton following a string of controversial posts and tweets, including endorsing a post claiming Jewish people are best at ‘playing the victim.’ The [donors] have sponsored Norton through [her] President’s Distinguished Professorship since 2018.” 

As of publication, the University of Pennsylvania has neither released a statement denouncing Norton’s views. 

Please send tips and updates on Anne Norton to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
Published - November 19, 2024
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<a href="https://live-sas-www-polisci.pantheon.sas.upenn.edu/people/standing-faculty/anne-norton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anne Norton</a> is the Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, Norton’s research interests include “identity and history, gender and race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and tradition and revolution.”

Professor Norton has been outspoken about her support for the student-led <a href="https://www.fossilfreepenn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fossil Free Penn</a> club. In November 2019, she <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an open letter supporting the group</a> after the club interrupted a Board of Trustees meeting and demanded a town hall meeting with leadership about fossil fuel divestment.

The letter reads:
“While not all of us agree on every tactic the students may employ, we as faculty urge our colleagues and University administrators to hear them out, engage them constructively, and take much bolder action.”
It continues:
“Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.” 
In April 2022, Norton <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/04/49-penn-faculty-support-ffp-encampment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed another letter</a> in support of Fossil Free Penn — the activist group had camped out for six days on campus to urge the university “to take a leadership role in stabilizing the world’s climate.” The letter says: “We believe that student activists are right to call for Penn to do more and we support their peaceful protest.”

In June 2021, Professor Norton signed a “statement of concern” titled <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/statements/statement-of-concern/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards.”</a> The letter was circulated by New America, a liberal think tank, and signed by professors from across the country. The statement says:
“State legislatures have advanced initiatives that curtail voting methods now preferred by Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as early voting and mail voting. Republican lawmakers have openly talked about ensuring the “purity” and “quality” of the vote, echoing arguments widely used across the Jim Crow South as reasons for restricting the Black vote.” 
The letter acknowledges it is “always far better for major democracy reforms to be bipartisan,” but argues that in the “current hyper-polarized political context such broad bipartisan support is sadly lacking.” The statement ends with a call to action:
“We urge members of Congress to do whatever is necessary - including suspending the filibuster - in order to pass national voting and election administration standards that both guarantee the vote to all Americans equally, and prevent state legislatures from manipulating the rules in order to manufacture the result they want.”
Published - December 13, 2022

<a href="https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/people/beans-velocci">Beans Velocci</a>, who uses the pronouns ‘they/them’, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science and Core Faculty in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Velocci describes her work as using “queer, trans, and feminist methods to interrogate classification systems and how they become regarded as biological truths, primarily in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States and its colonial and white supremacist context.”

In a Penn Today article titled, “<a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/going-beyond-binary-historical-explorations-sex-and-gender">Going beyond the binary in historical explorations of sex and gender</a>,” Velocci describes how she first became interested in the field. She recounts being in an undergraduate course and reading a book called “Herculine Barbin,”—“a memoir of a person described as a ‘hermaphrodite.’” Velocci says:
“And it was in that moment that I was like, ‘There’s not something wrong with me. The issue is that gender is constructed!’” 
Velocci says she began plotting a career path with the goal, “to be a historian and destroy the gender binary with history and primary source analysis.”

When asked by Penn Today about the relevancy of her work, Velocci says:
“I don’t have the privilege to not be relevant; state legislators are making it impossible not to be. I hope the conversations we have in class help my students think about and make sense of what’s going on in the world right now.” 
In June 2020, Velocci wrote an article titled “<a href="https://avidly.lareviewofbooks.org/2020/06/04/these-uncertain-times/">These Uncertain Times</a>.” In this piece, she argues that much of what the news and social media classify as ‘uncertain’ is rather ‘inconvenient knowledge’ or ‘manufactured ignorance’ that someone is benefitting from. To provide an example, she claims:
“The US government acknowledging that people aren’t so easily classified as male and female would, at the very least, mean they would have to find something to do other than legislate against trans people trying to pee in public (maybe they could have spent that time preparing for a pandemic instead).” 
Velocci argues that “Covid-19 is disproportionately killing black and brown people” and “the Trump administration has spent the pandemic thus far artificially lowering the caseload numbers by refusing to make testing widely accessible (how’s that for manufactured ignorance).” She claims:

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Published - December 28, 2022

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/mae-eskenazi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mae Eskenazi</a> is a Graduate Associate in the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Eskenazi is teaching a fall 2023 course titled, “Intro to Disability Studies.” According to the course description, this class “fuses disability studies, queer theory, Black feminist theory, visuality studies, film theory, and disabled artistic practices.”

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<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/06/disability-studies-new-fall-course" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports, “Eskenazi said that the questions explored through the course remain extremely relevant to the contemporary world, particularly amid the COVID-19 pandemic, current financial precarity, and ‘ongoing racialized and gendered logics of colonialism and imperialism.’” Additional <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-disability-studies-course-to-fuse-visuality-studies-queer-black-feminist-and-film-theory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">course topics</a> include crip theory, the AIDS epidemic, and sensorial artistic practice, among others.

When discussing the course, Eskenazi stated:
“Disability, debilitation, and illness are facets of everydayness, so I hope that this course removes disability from the visual spectacle that it causes and instead posits lived experiences of disability and debilitation into everyday life for the students who are studying.” 
According to Eskenazi’s university profile, she is a “transgender person” who uses they/them pronouns. Her profile reads,
“Mae Eskenazi (they/them) is a visual artist and ritualist whose interdisciplinary approach extends across sculpture, lens-based media, installation, plant medicine, and performance. Calling upon lineages of disabled/trans carework, Mae is interested in the enmeshment of BDSM, the medical industrial complex, mobility, and disability as it relates to biopolitical surveillance, control, and dichotomies of pain/pleasure. 
Curious about the invocation of the somatic and haptic, their work situates itself within questions of grief, memory, and collective amnesia as it unfolds beyond teleological temporalities within trans, disabled, chronically ill, and queer life.” 
Her <a href="https://www.meskenazi.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal website</a> features several pieces of her “work,” including the “(Im)Mobility Appendage.

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The description reads,
“(Im)Mobility Appendage is a live performance that explores the tension between the visible wound and the tacit wound. Over the course of one hour, viewers watch a kneeling figure get pierced twenty-six times followed by each piercing being strung to the wall like outstretched wings. The performance calls upon viewers to actively bear witness to the intimacy and eroticization of pain.” 
Eskenazi’s other works include projects titled “The Tetherings” and “Offerings to Bob Flanagan” among other less family-friendly projects that can be found on her website.

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Published - July 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.english.upenn.edu/people/melissa-e-sanchez" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melissa Sanchez</a> is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She’s also the Director of the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies</a> and the <a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/center/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies</a>. According to her university profile, Sanchez’s research and literature focuses on “feminism, queer theory, and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature.”

Sanchez is the author of three books.“<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Faith-Promiscuity-Tradition-Cultures/dp/1479840866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Queer Faith</a>: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition” reassesses “key texts of the pre-history of modern monogamy - from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare - to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the perversity of desire and the elusiveness of self-knowledge.”

Her other books are “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Queer-Theory/dp/1474256678" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shakespeare and Queer Theory</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Subjects-Sexuality-Politics-Literature/dp/0199754756" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erotic Subjects</a>: The Sexuality of Politics in Early Modern English Literature.” The latter “examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers used scenarios of erotic violence and cross-gender identification to explore the origins and limits of political allegiance.”

In April 2022, Sanchez participated in one of the School of Arts and Sciences “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PennSAS/videos/60-second-lecture-melissa-sanchez/1309588992779918/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60-Second Lectures</a>.” She discussed why the executive board of the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program (GSWS) changed the name of their research center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies (FQT Center).
“This change was meant to signal a more inclusive understanding of who our center is for, and more explicitly to demonstrate the center’s and the program’s commitment to solidarity with all women and all sexual and gendered minorities across campus.” 
Sanchez said GSWS and the FQT Center have a particular focus on “trans affirmative policies.” She discusses her opinion on the supposed lack of all-gender bathrooms on campus and the difficulty of accessing gender-affirming care. Sanchez claimed:
“These conditions in higher education are but a piece of a national climate in which the human rights and dignity of trans, non-binary and gender nonconforming persons are at best neglected and at worse willfully violated.” 
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Sanchez was quoted in an article titled, “‘<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2022/07/abortion-penn-philadelphia-supreme-court-roe-wade-upenn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A gut punch</a>’ Penn community reacts to uncertainty of abortion rights in Pennsylvania.” Sanchez stated:
“The ruling was like a gut punch, and in other ways it was exactly what I was expecting and exactly what’s been coming for decades. [This ruling is] not so much like a turning point as a culmination of what’s been happening since the 1970s. It’s more like a nail in the coffin.” 
Sanchez is also an outspoken supporter of <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/11/fossil-free-penn-fossil-fuels-ivy-league-upenn-philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">divesting from fossil fuels</a>. In November 2019, students from Fossil Free Penn interrupted the University’s Board of Trustees meeting to demand that administrators agree to a town hall meeting with students about fossil fuel divestment. In the wake of this incident, several faculty—including Sanchez—signed an open letter to the university that stated, in part:
“At the very least, the University leadership should agree to the town hall that the students are calling for and commit to a candid and open-minded deliberative dialogue on this uniquely pressing issue. Further, we believe that Penn should join the list of universities that have divested from fossil fuels, signaling an institutional commitment to the goals set forth by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in October 2018.”
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Published - September 22, 2023

<a href="https://mec.sas.upenn.edu/people/huda-fakhreddine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Huda Fakhreddine</a> is an Associate Professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Fakhreddine helped organize the <a href="https://nelc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2023/09/22/palestine-writes-literature-festival" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Palestine Writes Literature Festival</a> that was held on the University of Pennsylvania campus in September 2023. After the university came under fire for hosting the event, Fakhreddine said the festival’s promoters “reject the suggestion that we would invite or engage anyone who is antisemitic or endorses antisemitism.”

Fakhreddine shared her frustration with the “conflation between criticism of Israel and antisemitism.” She added, “The assumption that supporting Palestinians means antisemitic sentiment is ignorant and racist.”

However, festival participant Refaat Alareer was featured in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/upenn-reportedly-sponsored-palestinian-writer-who-joked-about-hamas-burning-baby-in-oven-after-it-allegedly-ignored-warnings-/24292" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> after he “took to X to mock the Jewish baby that Hamas terrorists cooked alive in an oven during the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks.”

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<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/12/are-most-jews-evil-top-us-university-hosting-palestine-literature-festival-featuring-avid-anti-zionists/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Algemeiner</a> notes that Alareer has shared antisemitic sentiments on his X/Twitter account since 2018, when he tweeted, “Are most Jews evil? Of course they are.”

On October 16, 2023, Fakhreddine <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> at the University of Pennsylvania to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Fakhreddine spoke at the walk-out rally, stating:
“Israel is the epitome of antisemitism … it desecrates the memory of the Holocaust victims. It humiliates every Jewish person.” 
<a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/09/penn-palestine-writes-literature-festival-magill-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> reports that participants in the rally also criticized University President M. Elizabeth Magill’s statement on the conflict. Magill’s statement referred to the Hamas attacks as a “terrorist assault” and clarified the university’s stance on the Palestine Writes Literature Festival:
“The University did not, and emphatically does not, endorse these speakers or their views. While we did communicate, we should have moved faster to share our position strongly and more broadly with the Penn community.” 
In <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Magill’s comments</a>, Fakhreddine said, “[The statement] was a complete shock to me. I could not fathom that in the midst of actual literal genocide being broadcasted live on the air, [Magill] had time and energy to write that letter without a single mention of Palestine.”

On October 27, 2023, Fakhreddine posted a petition titled “<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfklLdVWlH1yNSK3T4mINpIhbx8T6uiBxReVOMhTNb9EbitRQ/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Academics Against the Assault on Gaza</a>” on her <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1717946669004710374" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>, with the message “Sign and Circulate.” The letter states:
“We are concerned academics watching with horror as Israel subjects 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, more than half of them refugees, to industrial-scale violence of unfathomable proportions, to war crime after grotesque war crime, to siege and starvation.”
“We say, ‘Enough!’ No to another forced mass displacement of Palestinians! No to fascist incitement! No to the sadistic collective punishment of a captive population! No to this nihilistic and gainless war!” 
Fakhreddine <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOnCRPGqU6IMiq9p_2xthefc9g8R_3UE0UOpXc6nlAO_FL_g/viewform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">circulated another statement</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/FakhreddineHuda/status/1714944831649182082" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> that stated:
“Israel is a racist apartheid regime. It hates innocence so kills children. It hates the truth so kills journalists. It hates nature so uproots olive trees.”
It concludes:
“We, the undersigned, take this opportunity to stand with our people in Gaza, in particular, and Palestine in general, in solidarity with their legendary resilience and their struggle in defense of their historical right to their land. We salute their courageous stance against the forces of colonization, fascism, and racism.” 
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Published - November 3, 2023

<a href="https://creative.writing.upenn.edu/people/ahmad-almallah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ahmad Almallah</a> is a Palestinian poet and artist in Residence in the Creative Writing and English departments at the University of Pennsylvania.

On October 16, 2023, Almallah <a href="https://www.jns.org/upenn-fire-your-antisemitic-professors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">participated in a walkout</a> on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus to “protest the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.” Almallah was the first faculty member to speak at the rally and shared that he had missed two of his classes to be present at the event.

Professor Almallah led chants of “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free” and “resistance is justified, when you are occupied.” <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/upenn-palestine-rally-what-the-editorials-wont-post/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Times of Israel</a> writes,
“The former implies a desire for a Palestinian state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and, consequently, the erasure of the State of Israel entirely. The latter seems to justify Palestinian terrorism without qualification, be it bombing civilians on buses or murdering entire families in Israeli villages.” 
Almallah told the crowd:
“When for 17 years, a piece of earth was removed from the world, only to sustain the slow murder of its jailed population … its mothers who have been giving birth to human animals, according to the other side. SHAME!” 
He concluded his speech by shouting “Intifada, intifada, intifada,” which has long been a Palestinian call to murder Jews and Jewish Israelis. The protest lasted roughly seven hours, with protesters waving Palestinian flags and <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/10/18/israeli-jew-has-bastardized-judaism-pro-palestinian-rally-upenn-descends-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chanting slogans</a> such as, “Israel, Israel, you can’t hide, we caught you in genocide.”

Almallah told <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn-walkout-palestine-rally-march-magill" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Pennsylvanian</a> he wanted to participate in the event because he wanted to “do something to reaffirm [his] humanity.” He also told the newspaper, “I feel as though I am a lonely Palestinian, that nobody has reached out from the institution or extended any words of sympathy to me.”

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://gsws.sas.upenn.edu/people/sophie-lewis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sophie Lewis</a> is a visiting scholar at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. According to her university profile, her scholarship “operates in the spheres of trans feminist cultural criticism and queer social reproduction theory, and [her] interests include utopian critiques of the family, Marxist feminisms, Black radicalism and antiwork theory.” Lewis authored “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Abolish-Family-Manifesto-Care-Liberation/dp/1839767197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation</a>” which makes the case for family abolition. She also wrote “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Full-Surrogacy-Now-Feminism-Against/dp/1786637294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family</a>” which advocates for higher rates of surrogacy to “overthrow” the family.

After Hamas terrorists attacked Israel in October 2023, Lewis <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed a statement</a> titled, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine.” The letter begins, “We are writers who unequivocally stand with Palestine and its fight for liberation against the illegal occupation of ‘Israel’ and the violent settler colonial apartheid state.”

Some of the letter’s claims include: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The west is actively backing the ongoing settler colonial project that endorses either a slow or fast genocide, but is genocide either way.”</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Any form of Palestinian resistance is in no way equivalent to the daily violence of ‘Israeli’ settlers, the IOF (‘Israeli’ Occupying Forces), and the entire ‘Israeli’ state apparatus. Palestinian resistance exists because settler colonial occupation exists.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“The resistance is an ongoing response to a long history of ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“Politicians at all levels of government internationally, primarily those in the west, are deliberately weaponizing islamophobic and orientalist language in order to manufacture consent for genocide in Palestine, heighten surveillance and policing domestically, and suppress any manner of showing solidarity with Palestine.” </li>
</ul>
The writers end with several “calls to action” for the signatories and their institutions, including: 
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To stand in firm, vocal, and unwavering solidarity with Palestinian resistance against their occupation until liberation, by amplifying Palestinian voices in a time of mass disinformation and silencing; and by openly discussing the occupation in your workplace, home, on social media, in your work.” </li>
</ul>
<ul>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To boycott all other literary institutions who profess Zionist affiliations.” </li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">“To engage with the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led movement to end international support for ‘Israel’s’ oppression of Palestinians and all institutions complicit in ‘Israeli’ apartheid and settler colonialism.” </li>
</ul>
The statement has since been removed but can still be found on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231019194337/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVp2E4VoBgXTOYDs6BAAWI8fiaEUqFLOHoN50LKy4oI/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internet archives</a>.

Lewis also shared the following on her <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter account</a>:

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Please send any information regarding Sophie Lewis to <a href="mailto:watchlists@tpusa.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watchlists@tpusa.com</a>.

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Published - November 7, 2023

<a href="https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/dwayne-booth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dwayne Booth</a> is a Lecturer at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Booth, who goes by the pen name Mr. Fish, joined the faculty in 2015 and has been a cartoonist for 20 years.

Booth came under fire after the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-lecturer-is-behind-grotesque-anti-semitic-cartoons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington Free Beacon</a> discovered political cartoons about the Israel-Hamas war that were posted on his website. The Free Beacon reports:
“[Booth] has published several anti-Semitic cartoons since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, including one that depicts Zionists sipping Gazan blood from wine glasses, a version of the ancient blood libel employed in anti-Semitic propaganda that accused Jews of using the blood of Christian children for baking matzah and other rituals.” 
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Another cartoon shows Jews in a Nazi concentration camp holding signs with slogans such as “Free Palestine” and “Gaza, The World’s Biggest Concentration Camp.”

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Several more examples of Booth’s cartoons can be seen below:

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In <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/dwayne-booth-penn-political-cartoons-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to Booth</a>, Penn’s Interim President J. Larry Jameson wrote:
“I will not, and should not, respond to every event on our campus, but I want it understood that these political cartoons, posted on a personal website, were not taught in the classroom and do not reflect the views of the University of Pennsylvania or me, personally. I find them reprehensible, with antisemitic symbols, and incongruent with our efforts to fight hate.” 
Jameson added:
“At Penn, we have a bedrock commitment to open expression and academic freedom, principles that were unanimously reaffirmed last week by our Faculty Senate Executive Committee. We also have a responsibility to challenge what we find offensive, and to do so acknowledging the right and ability of members of our community to express their views, however loathsome we find them.”
In a follow-up article, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/penn-president-will-not-act-to-remove-anti-semitic-cartoonist-from-faculty-citing-bedrock-commitment-to-open-expression/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Free Beacon</a> criticized Jameson’s response, saying he made it clear the university would not act to discipline or remove Booth from the faculty:
“Jameson’s tepid response … raises questions about whether the school has implemented meaningful changes in the wake of former president Liz Magill’s dismissal in December and the establishment of a task force on anti-Semitism.” 
In response to the university’s statement, Booth <a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/penn-lecturer-criticized-for-creating-reprehensible-antisemitic-cartoons/3766737/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defended his comments</a> and argued that work could be “misread.”
“Political artists have always had to grapple with the possibility that a misreading of their work, willing or otherwise, could disrupt the intention and usability of their commentary, thereby complicating the trajectory of whatever debate might follow.” 
“In the case of the international conversation about the current war in Gaza, it will be impossible to have a substantive debate over the specifics and potential outcomes so long as there remains a lazy conflation that makes the State of Israel and the politics that guide its actions as a nation inseparable from Judaism, itself.” 
On February 5, 2024, Booth <a href="https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-lecturer-political-cartoons-antisemitism-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a cartoon</a> entitled “Quiet!” which showed Uncle Sam with his hand over a person’s mouth. The caption read, “Critical thinking is bad for America.”
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Published - February 15, 2024

Elle Lett

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Dr. Allyn Walker is an openly transgender —preferred pronouns they/them—a postdoctoral fellow at the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a>. In June of 2021, Dr. Walker <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow">wrote a book titled</a>, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.
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The book, which Dr. Walker describes as interview-based research, discusses non-offending pedophiles (or Minor-Attracted Persons, as Dr. Walker calls them). According to Dr. Walker, the book highlights people who are attracted to minors who don’t don’t commit violent crimes in order to challenge the “widespread assumption that those who are ‘preferentially attracted to minors’ are always predators and sex offenders.” The book details how those who don’t commit violent crimes against children navigate their feelings and attraction to minors.
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On November 11, 2021<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a series of videos on Twitter of Dr. Walker came to light</a>. In these videos, Dr. Walker tries to normalize the term “Minor-Attracted Person” (MAP) and destigmatize pedophilia. In the video, Dr. Walker claims that it is important to call a group by a name in which they want to be called. Dr. Walker states that groups are advocating for MAP as their name because it’s less stigmatized than the term pedophile, and they are doing nothing wrong if they aren’t committing violent crimes against children. Dr. Walker goes on to say that who a person is attracted to (in this case children) isn’t indicative of the morality of that person or that attraction. The video series can be viewed below:
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🚨🚨🚨This non-binary assistant professor at Old Dominion University is trying to normalize the term MAP (Minor Attracted Persons) <a href="https://t.co/riD6TdIt8k">pic.twitter.com/riD6TdIt8k</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After the video received a significant amount of backlash, <a href="https://www.wtkr.com/news/odu-releases-statement-after-assistant-professor-gives-controversial-interview-defending-people-attracted-to-children">Old Dominion University—Dr. Walker’s employer at the time—released a statement</a>, asserting that, as an academic community, it’s vital to be “willing to consider scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives.” They went on to claim that they don’t endorse or promote any crimes against children or any form of criminal activity.
Old Dominion University would later announce that Dr. Allyn Walker would <a href="https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old_dominion_university#.Yn343qjMI2w">resign at the expiration of his contract</a> in May 2022.
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Update &#8211; May 16th, 2022
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In a statement, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/moore-center-for-the-prevention-of-child-sexual-abuse/">The Moore Center for Prevention of Child Abuse</a> at Johns Hopkins University announced Dr. Walker has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow. In a series of tweets, the center praised Dr. Walker for his expertise and “comprehensive public health approach” in child sexual abuse prevention.
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Allyn Walker is a leader in the field of perpetration prevention research, which is essential for developing a comprehensive public health approach to addressing child sexual abuse and effective prevention programs. We are delighted to have Allyn Walker join our team. <a href="https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL">https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL</a>
— Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU) <a href="https://twitter.com/MooreCenter_JHU/status/1525123391388278788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/contact-us">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> at (410) 955-3543

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Dr. Allyn Walker is an openly transgender —preferred pronouns they/them—a postdoctoral fellow at the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a>. In June of 2021, Dr. Walker <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520306363/a-long-dark-shadow">wrote a book titled</a>, A Long, Dark Shadow: Minor-Attracted People and Their Pursuit of Dignity.

<img class="size-full wp-image-1773 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-15-at-11.31.39-AM.png" alt="" width="466" height="222" />

The book, which Dr. Walker describes as interview-based research, discusses non-offending pedophiles (or Minor-Attracted Persons, as Dr. Walker calls them). According to Dr. Walker, the book highlights people who are attracted to minors who don’t don’t commit violent crimes in order to challenge the “widespread assumption that those who are ‘preferentially attracted to minors’ are always predators and sex offenders.” The book details how those who don’t commit violent crimes against children navigate their feelings and attraction to minors.

<img class="size-full wp-image-1774 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Screen-Shot-2021-11-15-at-11.33.14-AM.png" alt="" width="479" height="253" />

On November 11, 2021<a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> a series of videos on Twitter of Dr. Walker came to light</a>. In these videos, Dr. Walker tries to normalize the term “Minor-Attracted Person” (MAP) and destigmatize pedophilia. In the video, Dr. Walker claims that it is important to call a group by a name in which they want to be called. Dr. Walker states that groups are advocating for MAP as their name because it’s less stigmatized than the term pedophile, and they are doing nothing wrong if they aren’t committing violent crimes against children. Dr. Walker goes on to say that who a person is attracted to (in this case children) isn’t indicative of the morality of that person or that attraction. The video series can be viewed below:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1458985538334068740?s=21

After the video received a significant amount of backlash, <a href="https://www.wtkr.com/news/odu-releases-statement-after-assistant-professor-gives-controversial-interview-defending-people-attracted-to-children">Old Dominion University—Dr. Walker’s employer at the time—released a statement</a>, asserting that, as an academic community, it’s vital to be “willing to consider scientific and other empirical data that may involve controversial issues and perspectives.” They went on to claim that they don’t endorse or promote any crimes against children or any form of criminal activity.

Old Dominion University would later announce that Dr. Allyn Walker would <a href="https://www.odu.edu/news/2021/11/a_statement_from_old_dominion_university#.Yn343qjMI2w">resign at the expiration of his contract</a> in May 2022.

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Update - May 16th, 2022
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In a statement, <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/moore-center-for-the-prevention-of-child-sexual-abuse/">The Moore Center for Prevention of Child Abuse</a> at Johns Hopkins University announced Dr. Walker has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow. In a series of tweets, the center praised Dr. Walker for his expertise and “comprehensive public health approach” in child sexual abuse prevention.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
Allyn Walker is a leader in the field of perpetration prevention research, which is essential for developing a comprehensive public health approach to addressing child sexual abuse and effective prevention programs. We are delighted to have Allyn Walker join our team. <a href="https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL">https://t.co/IuFQj7FVIL</a>
— Moore Center for Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse (@MooreCenter_JHU) <a href="https://twitter.com/MooreCenter_JHU/status/1525123391388278788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Students and Parents may contact the <a href="https://publichealth.jhu.edu/contact-us">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> at (410) 955-3543

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Associate History Professor <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a>. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

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<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Gill-Peterson’s faculty <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/jules-gill-peterson/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">profile</a> shows him on leave for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Please send information on Jules Gill-Peterson to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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<a href="https://www.jgillpeterson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jules Gill-Peterson</a> is an Associate Professor of History at <a href="https://www.jhu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins University</a>. He has referred to the gender binary as “junk science” and advocated for allowing children to transition at any age.

In his substack—<a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/archive?sort=new" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sad Brown Girl</a>—Peterson attacks conservatives as transphobic, denies there can be only two genders, and documents his life as a transwoman and activist. In one article, titled “The Cis State,” he claims the <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/the-cis-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gender binary never existed historically in the medical community</a>. Rather, politicians and psychologists invented the concept 70 years ago in a nefarious attempt to control people.

“...[S]ex did not become cis until the invention of the concept of gender in the mid-twentieth century. Gender was invented by psychologists to bring order to the collapse of the sex binary in science and medicine.”  

During an interview with Scientific American, <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/how-junk-science-is-being-used-against-trans-kids2/#Echobox=1649463388" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peterson claims the idea of a gender binary is still weaponized by present-day scientists against trans people.</a> After being introduced by the host as a “science historian,” he again states that scientists had no idea what determined sex or gender until the mid-20th century.

Further on, Peterson asserts there is no consensus on what determines whether someone is male or female. He then compares any scientific attempts to do so with the “junk science” of the eugenics movement and inflicting harm on trans people.

The full interview may be viewed below:

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Peterson often addresses issues surrounding transgender children and berates critics who challenge that children can transition at a young age. On his <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">personal Twitter account</a>, Peterson urges his followers to “champion” trans children, and even “to want there to be trans kids in the world.”
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South Dakota has spent SEVEN YEARS working to pass this anti-trans bill. Trans people have had to organize against it for seven years—and now it passes. Chase is right, everyone needs to champion trans kids in progressive coalition. Kids can’t outrun seven relentless years alone. <a href="https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/UTael9Kkdx</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1488624230031933444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">February 1, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I believe more than ever that the way to end a child-hating culture where everyone is invested in children suffering is to learn to want there to be trans kids in this world. To relinquish the wish that we selfishly own them. To greet transness not as hypothetical but valuable. <a href="https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://t.co/pMqf4Gx5zK</a>
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1501618969903570944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a separate thread, he calls for the “abolition” of the family to relieve the “bulwark” of protection that parents provide children.
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an underrated problem in the left’s neoliberal retreat from family abolition (shoutout again to <a href="https://twitter.com/reproutopia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@reproutopia</a>) is that trans kids are left with a pitifully anemic option for care. the...family? we except the family to ideally care for trans kids? based on what evidence?!
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222843573383169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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I am certainly heartened that many families do love and champion their trans kids. but I also want a political movement that relieves loving trans kids from a privatized, sentimental and normative politics of the family as bulwark against the various ends of the world underway.
— Jules Gill-Peterson (@gp_jls) <a href="https://twitter.com/gp_jls/status/1430222847675359242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 24, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Peterson claims that <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/163113/behind-gop-strategy-outlaw-trans-youth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">it’s false to “presume” that trans kids will be cared for by their families</a>. His comments appeared in an interview with The New Republic, where he depicted parents as an impediment to trans children. He attacks white women as segregationists who weaponize their status as mothers to fuel anti-trans legislation. “The figure of the mom is hanging over everything,” she states.

In a separate substack article, <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/we-the-abuser-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he further claims that “parental rights” are inhibiting minors from making fully autonomous decisions about their gender</a>.

“The slogan of ‘parental rights” is at the root of the fantasy that children are quasi-property, not people.”

Conservatives who object to transitioning children are <a href="https://thenewinquiry.com/from-gender-critical-to-qanon-anti-trans-politics-and-the-laundering-of-conspiracy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">branded as QAnon-style conspiracy theorists</a> who are aiming to construct an “<a href="https://jewishcurrents.org/the-anti-trans-lobbys-real-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authoritarian Christian ethnostate.</a>”

Much of this ire is directed toward author Abigail Shrier author of, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters/dp/1684510317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Irreversible Damage.”</a> The book examines the exponential increase in rates of gender dysphoria among teenagers—of which Shrier attributes to <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/how-peer-contagion-plays-into-the-rise-of-teens-transitioning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“peer contagion”</a>—and the negative, <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/hormone-treatments-gender-dysphoric-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">long-term health effects on teens who undergo gender transitions</a>.

Reacting to a Senate testimony delivered by Shrier on trans children, Peterson <a href="https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/abigail-shrier-goes-to-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">labels her as a “TERF”</a> (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist) who is unqualified to speak on trans issues, in part because Shrier is not transgender herself. She accuses Shrier of flirting with white supremacy and peddling “pedophilic fantasies.”

“I invite you to join me in standing against the extreme sexual harassment, pedophilic fantasies, and torturous sadism of TERF and anti-trans rhetoric peddled by people like Shrier, backed up by an army of internet trolls and well-funded cultural tastemakers getting rich off pretending they are humiliated and canceled.“

Peterson is also the author of “History of the Transgender Child,” which maintains that <a href="https://history.jhu.edu/faculty-books/histories-of-the-transgender-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender children have been prevalent and well-documented over the last century</a>. He further serves as the General Editor of <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly">Transgender Studies Quarterly</a>, of which the next issue will feature “Trans Marxist” authors and perspectives.
Students and Parents may contact the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University at (410) 516-7575 or at <a href="mailto:history@jhu.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">history@jhu.edu. </a>
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Published - October 14th, 2022 
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<a href="https://krieger.jhu.edu/africana/directory/shani-mott/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> is a Lecturer of Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). Her research interests “address how mid-twentieth century writers of both fiction and non-fiction strategically deployed racial language in American popular culture.”

Mott’s university profile also mentions a manuscript titled, “Saving the Soul of the Great Republic: Imagining Race and Writing Democracy.” According to the description, the book “argues that authors writing during the inter- and postwar years of the twentieth century relied on ‘literary racial transvestism,’ a practice wherein black authors wrote novels with predominantly white characters and [vice versa].”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Mott and her husband <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/nathanconnolly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> (also a JHU professor) in the article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix said the couple filed a lawsuit alleging that a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a home in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Mott’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Mott and her husband did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Mott and her husband appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/nathan-connolly/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nathan Connolly</a> is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). His professor profile says, “I write about racism, capitalism, politics, cities and migration in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My work pays special attention to people’s notions of family, property and citizenship in the United States and the wider Americas.”

<a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/home-appraiser-countersues-professors-who-accused-him-of-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The College Fix</a> featured Connolly and his wife <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/shanimott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shani Mott</a> (also a JHU professor) in an article, “Home appraiser countersues professors who accused him of racism.” The Fix reported that the couple filed a lawsuit alleging a white appraiser valued their home differently after the couple removed evidence that would indicate their ethnicity.

Their <a href="https://wp-orep-cdn.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/30175948/2020_Valuations_Maryland_complaint_70.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit claims</a> the appraiser “dramatically undervalu[ed] their home in an appraisal because of their race and their home’s location adjacent to a black census block, notwithstanding that it is also located within Homeland, an affluent, mostly white neighborhood.” When the couple’s white friend posed at the homeowner, the appraisal allegedly went from $472,000 to $750,000.

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The College Fix said the countersuit mentions a house in the same neighborhood that sold within a month of Connolly’s. The same company appraised the home for $7,000 less than the purchase price. Further, Connolly and his wife did not provide their appraiser with documentation of any additional estimates showing a higher home value.

Connolly and his wife appeared on ABC Live News to tell their side of the story:

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As of publication, both lawsuits are ongoing.
Published February 15, 2023

<a href="https://history.jhu.edu/directory/todd-shepard/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Todd Shepard</a> is the Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are listed as “Modern France and French Empire,” “Decolonization” and “Gender and Sexuality.”

On November 6, 2023, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/">published an announcement</a> welcoming a letter signed by 24 <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/school/johnshopkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins</a> faculty members, including Shepard.

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="aligncenter wp-image-3292 size-full" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” The organization also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Todd Shepard to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 16, 2023

<a href="https://anthropology.jhu.edu/directory/naveeda-khan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Naveeda Khan</a> is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and the Department Chair at the Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include “nature philosophy and nature in Islamic theology, migration and memory.”

On November 3, 2023, <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-faculty-write-open-letter-in-solidarity-with-gaza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins News-Letter</a> featured Khan and co-author <a href="https://www.professorwatchlist.org/professor/clarahan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Professor Clara Han</a> after they penned the “<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Open Letter from JHU Faculty in Solidarity with Gaza</a>.” The News-Letter stated, “The letter condemns the violence inflicted on the Palestinian people by Israel, expresses solidarity with the Palestinian people and calls for an immediate ceasefire.”

The News-Letter further claimed, “The letter also emphasizes a commitment to upholding academic freedom in the context of the global dehumanization of Palestinian life in media cover and public discourse.” 

Khan told the News-Letter that “the letter is only a small step that joins forces with the various efforts organized by Hopkins students, such as the October 30 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/11/hopkins-community-partakes-in-walkout-in-solidarity-with-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walkout</a> and the October 23 <a href="https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2023/10/dissenters-at-johns-hopkins-university-organize-vigil-to-mourn-palestinian-lives-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candlelight</a> vigil organized by the Johns Hopkins Dissenters and Speak Out Now.”

On November 6, the <a href="https://www.cair.com/about_cair/cair-at-a-glance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Council</a> on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published an announcement</a> welcoming Khan’s statement signed by 24 Johns Hopkins faculty members. 

The open letter—drafted two weeks after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack against Israel—starts by acknowledging the loss of life on both sides of the conflict. However, the statement of solidarity with Gaza goes on to say:
“...Palestinians in Gaza are being subjected to a draconian collective punishment. We condemn the horrific ongoing violence inflicted on the Palestinian people, and we urgently call for an end to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. The risk of genocide is real.”
The full letter can be viewed <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HsB2Sk1pwRecDS5ttTaC1liG8FtNmwJa/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> and below. 

<img class="size-full wp-image-3292 aligncenter" src="https://backend.professorwatchlist.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Screenshot-2023-11-16-at-1.16.33 PM.png" alt="" width="585" height="806" />

<a href="https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-welcomes-hopkins-faculty-letter-calling-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-encourages-faculty-at-other-institutions-to-call-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CAIR</a> Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry said, “We applaud the faculty members at Johns Hopkins who took a stand against the Israeli government’s openly genocidal campaign against the people of Gaza…” CAIR also “encouraged faculty members at other institutions of higher education nationwide to follow suit and call for an immediate ceasefire.” 

Please send information on Naveed Khan to <a href="mailto:Watchlists@tpusa.com">Watchlists@tpusa.com</a>. 
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Published - November 17, 2023