We have another case of a professor who was put under scrutiny for her postings on social media. Joy Karega, an assistant professor of “rhetoric and composition” at Oberlin College posted bizarre claims on Facebook blaming Jews and Israel for 9/11 as well as ISIS. The college however has decided that such postings are protected and it is correct in doing so. However, once again, there is a concern over how colleges treat such controversies depending on the views and conclusions of the academics or students.
Karega reportedly posted controversial statements after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, including a picture showing an Islamic State terrorist with a Star of David tattoo pulling off a mask, exposing the face of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. She added “This ain’t even hard. They unleashed Mossad on France and it’s clear why.” She explained that the massacre was part of a conspiracy to stop French support for Palestinians. She also posted a statement that Islamic State is not Islamic, but rather “a CIA and Mossad operation” and even frustration that “there’s too much information out here for the general public not to know this.”
Then there is her view that “Israeli and Zionist Jews” orchestrated the 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
As wacky and weird these comments may be, they were made by an academic outside of their classes and express her political and historical viewpoint. Nevertheless, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin—Israel Law Center has called the speech ‘the worst kind of anti-Semitic rhetoric” and insisted that “it is not acceptable for the dean to hide behind academic freedom and claim this is freedom of speech.” She added that Karega “needs to be thrown off campus immediately.”
It is in fact free speech and there are academic protections for unpopular speech. The college is right. However, there is a growing concern over the test being applied to academics based on the content of such speech. The controversy raises again the question of a double standard in controversies at the University of California and Boston University, where there have been criticism of a double standard, even in the face of criminal conduct. Recently, we discussed a case at the University of London involving Bahar Mustafa. We recently saw a student suspended for a joke on Yik Yak that was denounced as racist. Another student was fired for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Oberlin is facing increasing criticism from Jewish groups and students who have objected to the advocacy on campus by the movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel (BDS). Various students organizations support the BDS and the Jewish students have objected that the movement “demonizes the Jewish state” and creates a threatening and unwelcoming environment for them. Such objections miss the point of educational institutions as forums for a wide array of different views and belief systems. Just as the BDS advocates should be free speach, so too are Jewish groups opposing the BDS. What is describes as a “toxic climate” is actually a free speech climate where people are free to speak their minds and answer the opposing views of others.
Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov embraced those values in a letter in discussing the necessity of free speech at Oberlin and other academic institutions:
“I am a practicing Jew, grandson of an Orthodox rabbi. Members of our family were murdered in the Holocaust. As someone who has studied history, I cannot comprehend how any person could or would question its existence, its horrors and the evil which caused it. I feel the same way about anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Regardless of the reason for spreading these materials, they cause pain for many people — members of our community and beyond. . . . Cultivating academic freedom can be difficult and at times painful for any college community. The principles of academic freedom and freedom of speech are not just principles to which we turn to face these challenges, but also the very practices that ensure we can develop meaningful responses to prejudice . . .
This freedom enables Oberlin’s faculty and students to think deeply about and to engage in frank, open discussion of ideas that some may find deeply offensive. Those discussions — in classrooms, residence halls, libraries, and across our campus and town — take place every day here. They are a vital part of the important work of liberal arts education at Oberlin and in our country.”
As for Karega, she says that the criticism of her has given her material for a new book and is simply part of the “antisemitism call-out culture.” She has further suggested that the criticism is racist”
“… I can generate articles for days on what I can describe as “antisemitism call-out culture” and some of its accompanying practices. I don’t have to tell some of you that these recent activities in my own professional life have handed me a LARGE body of data (emails, voicemail messages, tweets, Facebook inbox messages, etc.) that will shed light on and provide insight into how and to what extent anti-Blackness rhetorics show up in antisemitic call-out culture and practices.”
Once again, Karega’s views are not the issue, but rather her right to hold and speak opposing views. However, the same standard should be applied to professors and students being punished for their views under ill-defined “hate speech” rules.
“Israel Law Center has called the speech ‘the worst kind of anti-Semitic rhetoric” ”
Well, she teaches rhetoric, so at least she practices what she teaches.
Apparently simply being flat ass dumber than a bag o’ hammers isn’t reason enough to get fired in the Education Industry.
Joseph Jones. The British Mandate of Palestine was a convenient beachhead for the Western Allies to be able to quickly and safely deploy armed forces if needed to protect the budding oil interests then centered at Mosul. Not much has changed except for the name of the land.
I think what she says is looney, but she is free to say it. I’m also fine with passing around and making very public what she says. That way people can discuss it and make up their own minds about her and the university that employs her. That’s how it should work. Attempts to silence such speech just adds mystery to it. Why is she being silenced?
It’s her right to say whatever whacky thing she wants to say, as it is my right to ridicule her for saying whacky things. Another grand conspiracy theorist. The one thing these people have in common is a great need to feel important. They accomplish this by convincing themselves they know the ‘truth” about something everyone else has been deceived. That only a few know the “truth” and are willing to say it publicly separates them from the masses satisfying the need. Evidence and reason are irrelevant to people who have such a need. And when a professor uses bad reasoning and bad or no evidence, that professor practices sophistry which reflects badly back on the university that employs her.
If she teaches rhetoric and composition and does so well enough to be a professor at this level of education facility then what she expounds privately is her business. She is parroting what has been and continues to be stated by many individuals and publications. If she started encouraging students and readers to take action, then perhaps she should be bounced for conflict of interests. Free speech is sacred but it does cross the line where it is no longer free; thus the necessity to surface these moments and scrutinize. And, yes she is probably being given a pass because she is black. There is a lot of payback coming in various guises. Now is that racist?
I looked up Oberlin. It is in Oberlin, OH. Tuition is about $49,950 and rooms are $7,400. So think of this amount of money when you send your kid to such a place for “education”. You could send the kid around the world many times for a lot less than that. You could buy him/her a business to run for the rest of their lives for a lot less than four times 60K dollars (price of degree). You could buy a territory to open up Panera Bread shops and in four years you could have 20 stores or so which would be worth 20 million or so.
Are you folks nuts or what?
BLM activist gets in Hillary Clinton’s face and demands an apology. Hillary then has security bounce the activist.
Prof. Turley nails it again: “What is describes (sic) as a “toxic climate” is actually a free speech climate where people are free to speak their minds and answer the opposing views of others.” Isn’t this what college is supposed to be?
3 NYC SKYSCRAPERS WERE DESTROYED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION ON 9/11
Owner of the buildings, Larry Silverstein, arranged for them to be rigged for controlled demolition prior to 9/11. Israel, Zionist Jews & American traitors are guilty of 9/11.
9/11-WTC 7 Larry Silverstein says ‘PULL IT’ (INSIDE JOB)
https://youtu.be/p34XrI2Fm6I
THE U.S. ELECTION PROCESS HAS BEEN HIJACKED BY ZIONISTS
Trump & all the other candidates are owned by the Zionists
They are attempting to cover up that Israel did 9/11
9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!
2200 Architects and Engineers are telling us the U.S. Government is Lying about 9/11
The U.S. Government is complicit in the murders of 9/11
3 NYC SKYSCRAPERS WERE DESTROYED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION ON 9/11
Our enemy does not want you to know about the 3rd building, WTC 7. It was not hit by a plane
This issue exposes the wide and deep corruption of the governments, courts and media
“SCIENTISTS, ARCHITECTS, & ENGINEERS now affirm that the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center buildings was an inside job. The leading scientist of Scholars For 9/11 Truth, Dr Steven Jones, has proven that controlled demolition devices were placed within the WTC Twin Towers – and this is what brought the buildings down not the airplanes. According to Fox News journalist Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, Larry Silverstein tried on the afternoon of 9/11 to get approval to demolish WTC 7. Shortly before the building collapsed, several NYPD officers and Con-Edison workers told me that Larry Silverstein, the property developer of One World Financial Center was on the phone with his insurance carrier to see if they would authorize the controlled demolition of the building ? since its foundation was already unstable and expected to fall.” This was a lie. WTC 7 was not about to fall.
Larry Silverstein owned the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers that were destroyed on 9/11. Silverstein arranged for them to be rigged for controlled demolition prior to 9/11. Israel, Zionist Jews & American traitors are guilty of 9/11.
https://youtu.be/kQ2iVymP7hA
Israel & American Traitors did 9/11
2016 Election Cover-up
Former Director of Studies, Professor at U.S. Army War College Dr. Alan Sabrosky;
“Israel did 9/11. It is 100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation period.”
The 9/11 Commission Report is a 571-Page Zionist Lie
The U.S. military knows Israel did 9/11
We must break the Zionist Jew grip on the U.S.
https://youtu.be/H0v7_O53J0k
Where the frig is Oberlin and how much is one year’s tuition for full time student undergrad? Is this place in Europe?
I thought that 911 was some phone number one called for help.
As an American, the worst tragedy of America’s relationship with Israel is that Israel’s sum total meaning and significance to America is zero, absolutely nothing. This reality should be reflected in our public stance on Israel, but instead, Barack and then-Sec of State Hillary make public statement that “America has unbreakable bond with Israel.” This flies in the face of G. Washington’s advice in his Farewell Address wherein he said that “All foreign entanglements are temporary.” IOW, diplomacy is reserved only for nations which benefit the USA.
Considering Israel is the most hated nation on earth, and it is exclusively and solely a religious “Jewish” state surrounded by Islam, the net effect to the USA of its relationship with Israel is negative.
Per OBL’s 1996 Declaration of War against the West, Islam wars against the US for three primary reasons:
1. Western alliance and blind support of Israel
2. Western military occupation of Islam’s holiest of all holy lands in Saudi Arabia
3. Western support of the most evil dictatorships on earth such as the Al Saud clan, Turkey, Egypt, etc…..
No nation including the USA and Israel has a “right to exist.” To claim so is ludicrous. Any nation hated by enough of its neighbors shall eventually cease to exist. The borders shall change, as they do throughout history. Did ancient Rome have a “right to exist?” Should we resurrect ancient Rome? Does not resurrecting ancient Rome make you an “anti-Roman?” Me thinks not.
In the first C AD there was no such thing as a Jew, because the words Jew first appeared in print in 1775 AD in a play called The Rivals by Sheridan. So there was no such thing as a “Jew” in the first C AD, much less did they own what is now called Israel/was Palestine.
The term “Judeo Christian” is very likely the most oxymoronic term extant. Judaism is the religion descended from the Pharisees who murdered Christ (“traditions of the elders,” mixed in with Babylonian mysticism and other strange Egyptian paganism. To connect Christ with modern Judaism is one of the worlds most evil lies and tragedies. Yet, when one realizes how Judaism has possessed modern Christianity, one can easily see why modern so-called evangelicals are America’s most reliable supporters of wars in general, and specifically for Israel. Such support directly contradicts virtually everything Christ stood for. Which is why evangelicals are more accurately called Zionist-Christians.
Till I’m convinced otherwise, I believe the following is true. During WW2 but prior to Pearl Harbor, a Judaic employee of the US State Department invented the term Judeo Christian. Americans were isolationist, anti-war, and not riled up against Hitler, Germany, and Japan. The purpose in inventing the oxymoronic term Judeo Christian was to make Americans believe that Hitler’s persecution of Jews would lead to wholesale slaughter of Christians, and increase their desire to join the war.
These are not “bizarre” claims. Many rational people believe that 911 was a collaboration of the Mossad and members of our own government. You don’t get to decide what is “bizarre”. Stop internalizing the commands of your oppressors . Repeat. Stop internalizing……
If this twat was white, I would bet my bank acct that they would be fired. Effing hypocrites!
Then they wonder why they never make progress in race relations. There’s no credibility when you basebyour arguments on lies.
It’s not that I’m racist but I’m getting to be and the funny thing is, I don’t care about it anymore.
Oops, forgot to put up a video. This is a Hank Snow version of the Jimmy Rogers song, “Never No Mo Blues” Also called “I’m As Blue As I Can Be.” Which I heard the Doc Watson and Dawg somebody version on Pandora the other day, and I swore I heard it before. Which I did and it was on an old Hank Snow album I ripped off from my father years ago.
Anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_WzxoZalc
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Those Jews are so wonderful to have around.
Hmmm. So if she says it, it is OK. But if David Duke was a professor, and said Jews run the world, I bet he would get fired. Which probably the Jews do run the world, and I am thinking of changing my name back to my mother’s maiden name, (which is Jewish as all get out), and get my little piece of the action. And I won’t be a shiksa no mo, no mo, no moooo, no mo. No Mo. Yodel ladee who.
Mazel tov, you all!
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Anti semitism is ok and it would be interesting to know how white professors are treated for similar “infractions.