Shiran Canel’s lawsuit blames [School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)] for being “a place of hostility towards Israelis and Jews” and claims that, in her admissions interview, she was “subjected to the harassing inquisition of a single faculty interviewer who showed no interest in her academic qualifications and questioned her ability to work collaboratively alongside Arab and Palestinian classmates.” …
The lawsuit also states that after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, “SAIC’s campus came alive with hatred,” and that one professor described “Israelis as ‘pigs’ and ‘irredeemable excrement’ who should ‘all rot in hell.’”
Since the Oct. 7 attack, the lawsuit claims that Shiran “has endured an endless tide of hatred, discrimination, and exclusion” and that SAIC has “condoned and facilitated” this behavior.
[If that’s the case, then this lawsuit is a much-needed corrective. It’s time to reset the incentives in Academia and its identitarian ideology. — Ed]
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