Mayer writes, “The Title VI complaint in question outlines gross antisemitic comments and behavior by Professor Lara Sheehi of the GWU psychology department. Among other misdeeds, Sheehi allegedly told one student, ‘It’s not your fault you were born in Israel.’ Further reporting on the situation alleges that Professor Sheehi ‘spread lies about [her Israeli students] to the faculty — smearing [their] reputations to the people who are going to be [their] clinical supervisors for years to come.’”
And in an ironic twist, Sheehi teaches a required “diversity” course.
[I don’t think it’s *just* anti-Semitism, although that’s bad enough. Academia has grown entirely hostile to traditional faith in general, except to the extent that some religions can be seen as victim classes. Israel as an explicitly Jewish state is clearly a lightning rod for that hostility, but it goes beyond anti-Semitism and into religious nihilism in favor of the Religion Of The State Itself. — Ed]
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