The University of Oregon has long faced controversies over the alleged political bias on its campuses, including celebrating the career of a professor who physically attacked pro-life students as a model of activism. It has been criticized for monitoring off-campus speech and unconstitutionally censoring dissenting faculty. Now, Law Professor Ofer Raban is accusing the Law Review and school administrators of discriminating against an Israeli professor who was allegedly rejected for publication because of his association with an Israeli university.
Prof. Raban offered the following account:
The events unfolded in 2024, after an Oregon Law Review editor recommended the publication of an article written by the Israeli professor. Conceding the article’s merits, a second law review editor rejected the recommendation because the author was a faculty member at an Israeli university. The law review management agreed, claiming that publishing the article would be perceived as an endorsement of Israel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—although the article dealt with environmental law and had nothing to do with that conflict.
When the original reviewer objected that this may amount to unlawful discrimination, the matter was taken to a high-ranking law school official. A meeting was held, and the official reportedly gave the green light to the discrimination. At least two law school administrators, possibly more, were aware of the stated basis for the rejection and connived in it. A concerned member of the law review (who did not attend the meeting) was told that the law school’s administration had cleared the discrimination.
…The University of Oregon’s Office of Investigations and Civil Rights Compliance has been investigating the matter since February, with little to show for it. To date, as far as we know, no action has been taken against any official at the law review or the law school, and the sole action by the university has been a muted request for anti-bias training for new members of the Oregon Law Review.
If true, the account is a shocking exercise of discrimination based on national origin and a rejection of core values of intellectual exchange in higher education. As Professor Raban noted, The Ninth Circuit has long barred “discrimination by proxy” where “the defendant enacts a law or policy that treats individuals differently on the basis of seemingly neutral criteria that are so closely associated with the disfavored group that discrimination on the basis of such criteria is, constructively, facial discrimination against the disfavored group.” Davis v. Guam, 932 F.3d 822, 837 (9th Cir. 2019). He also cites Pac. Shores Props., LLC v. City of Newport Beach, 730 F.3d 1142, 1160 (9th Cir. 2013) (“In a case of proxy discrimination the defendant discriminates against individuals on the basis of criteria that are almost exclusively indicators of membership in the disfavored group.”). He adds that the record of the University of Oregon could offer further evidence to support a finding of discrimination:
Unfortunately, open discrimination against Israelis is the unsurprising culmination of messages emanating from the highest levels at the University of Oregon. Like many other institutions, the University experienced anti-Israel demonstrations that included the by-now familiar “from the river to the sea” banners and other denials of Israel’s right to exist. The University of Oregon’s response to these protests has been a shameful capitulation. A 2024 agreement between the university and the protestors included the issuance of a statement by the University of Oregon President calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza (a position long advocated by Hamas); the creation of two new faculty positions (presumably tailored to the ideological preferences of the demonstrators); and a taskforce that would consider the university’s economic divestment from Israel.
This February, four University of Oregon departments (Sociology, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality), along with one University Institute (the Global Studies Institute) and one academic center (the Global Justice Program) co-sponsored and paid for a visit to the university by a pro-Palestinian activist who denies Israel’s right to exist (which passes for the same thing in some circles), had celebrated the October 7 atrocities, and has since declared that she stands by that sentiment.
Again, we have not heard the opposing side from the University of Oregon. However, the account of Professor Raban is deeply disturbing and should be a concern for not just the university but the legislature.
Kudos: Reason
University of Oregon is a joke. It’s one of the lamest Leftist Indoctrination Entities (aka “LIEs”) in the entire Marxist catalogue of Lies. The entire Administration and faculty consists of anti-Semitic depraved, dumb, degenerates who can’t discern their rectums from holes in the ground.
I have to say I was disappointed to see that most of the comments about the Univ. of Oregon law review discrimination had nothing to do with what Professor Turley’s offering today dealt with.
I think the most compelling argument is that the State of Oregon has nothing to say about what appears to be blatant anti-Israel activities within its borders —
Jonathan: Let me get this straight. DJT imposed trade tariffs on the world telling us they would make us rich, curb illegal immigration and drug smuggling, create more factory jobs here at home, shrink the federal deficit–and promote world peace. Then this week DJT did an about face. He lowered tariffs on Jaguars, Land Rovers and Roll Royce. How is that supposed to create more auto factory jobs here at home? Then this weekend DJT went backwards even further. He agreed to lower the China tariffs from 145% to 30%. In turn the Chinese lowered theirs from 125% to 10%. What did the “art of the deal” guy get from the Chinese? Nothing. Only an agreement to talk. The Chinese didn’t give away anything of substance. Looks like when pushed against the wall DJT caved again.
In a way I’m disappointed. I had promised my young great granddaughters they could look forward to working in a iphone factory near us, using their tiny hands to assemble smartphones. That once in a lifetime job opportunity appears to have vanished. I have a lot of explaining to do. But I always look on the bright side. With a clown as our president there will always be a circus in town. I told my great granddaughters I would take them this summer to DC to see the circus. They are excited!
“U.S. customs duties soared to $16.3 billion in April, up 130% from a year ago, for an average of $543 million, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.” $543 million per day!
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/us-china-trade-deal-news/card/customs-duties-skyrocket-in-april-but-fall-short-of-trump-s-claims-kLJJ7idVg9GrMjZat27J
How’s that sound, Dennis?
What does this have to do with the Oregon law professor????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I hope you understand that those customs duties are paid by the US companies that import the goods, and that the duty is added to the prices that American consumers pay.
As such, they are a drag on the economy.
The duties and tariffs are simply taxes payable to the US government by the companies that import goods.
The fact that duties are increasing indicates that the US government is collecting more taxes from American companies.
Or do you believe Trump’s lies that foreign governments pay duties and tariffs ?????
And I hope that YOU realize that about half of the “US Companies” absorb the cost, as well as the fact that the “US companies” are actually foreign companies registered to do business here on behalf of their foreign supplier.
And i Hope that YOU realize that China et al would have no need or desire to negotiate if it were not for the extreme down spin of sales/business due to the tariffs. Why do nations want to negotiate and settle?
Did you think we are so stupid that we didn’t know who pays? Oh almighty intelligent poster, thank you for educating us!
I hope you realize that whether or not a company “absorbs” tariffs is irrelevant.
It is is still a drag on the profitability of the company and therefore a drag on the economy.
I hope you realize that Trump is not negotiating or settling anything.
He is simply caving to the demands of the market place.
He announces tariffs, the markets tank, he reverses tariffs, the markets recover.
Rinse and repeat.
It is just on again off again nonsense to placate the MAGA mob and make it look like he is doing something.
He is just playing a stupid game that may actually be market manipulation to allow his cronies to profit from inside information.
There is no meaningful negotiation going on.
I hope you realize that you did not answer any of the things said by the @9:25 comment, you just skirted around with a general “it is irrelevant.” typical
Makes you look like George? or the dumb Anonymous that Meyers and Upstate always bring up?
I answered everything.
I explained that companies absorbing tariffs is not a good thing for the companies or the economy.
I explained that there are no actual negotiations going on with anyone despite Trump’s lies.
Trump has absolutely no understanding of the marketplace or what is going on with international trade.
When told that the Port of Long Beach was seeing a 50% reduction in container ship traffic from China, he responded that this is great because we are saving a lot of money.
This is an insane comment.
He thinks that the only thing that is important is keeping as much money as possible by not spending anything.
By his logic, every time you buy groceries, you’re losing money because you used to have $30 but now all you have is some worthless dinner.
Exchanging money for goods of equivalent value is not losing money, except in the mind of someone who is mentally impaired.
International trade is the exchange of money in payment for goods between a willing buyer and a willing seller.
China is not simply loading up ships with goods, shipping them here and forcing us to buy their stuff.
American companies order the goods from China and are willing to pay their prices because it is cheaper than producing stuff here.
It is very simple.
China knows this, and will force Trump to cave again and again and again.
China can simply wait Trump out. They have the “stuff” and we have the money, but money is worthless unless it can be exchanged for goods. It is simple economics.
This is not negotiating.
It is stupidity on the part of Trump.
Trump’s economic worldview makes absolutely no rational sense.
He believes that spending money is a sign of weakness and necessarily a loss.
Rather than exchanging money for goods of equivalent value, he thinks it is better to get them through intimidation, coercion, corruption, extortion, and bribery. This explains his obsession with “deals”–a magic process far superior to market transactions or standard rules of trade .
In his mind ordinary consumption is a non zero-sum concession of weakness, a sign that one is unable to get or take what one wants through force.
He believes that every transaction must have a winner and a loser.
He WANTS transactions to be unequal, and thinks that with his “deals,” he’ll always be on the winning end.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-can-t-have-an-intellectual-discussion-over-tariffs-sen-rand-paul/vi-AA1EGVJd?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=c7dae628af88482be1518c7ddcf9264e&ei=16
“I hope you realize that whether or not a company “absorbs” tariffs is irrelevant.
It is is still a drag on the profitability of the company and therefore a drag on the economy.”
False. Tariffs are a drag on consumption. The economy is driven by production, not consumption. Tariffs will not cause the US to produce less. In the long run they will result in the US producing more.
Your argument regarding Tariffs is stupid – MOST of the world has had significant tariffs on US goods for all of my lifetime. While their economies are in trouble, it is not because of Tariffs. The US and UK and many other developed countries funded their govenrment almost entirely on Tariffs through the 19th century – when growth was much higher than today.
“I hope you realize that Trump is not negotiating or settling anything.
He is simply caving to the demands of the market place.
He announces tariffs, the markets tank, he reverses tariffs, the markets recover.
Rinse and repeat.”
You are free to beleive whatever you wish.
But why you expect people to beleive you when you have beleived nonsense like the collusion delusion or Russian disinformation or myriads of other left wing nut nonsense over the past decades.
It would take a book to list all the nonsensical things you and your ilk have tried to sell that have proven wrong.
If as you claim – Trump has just caved – we will see that in the long run.
Though honestly – even YOUR thesis – which is not likely STILL results in long term net gains for the US.
The US is the largest market in the world. Chaos with respect to international trade incentivizes moving production to the US. Some of that would happen regardless,
but there is a reason the Japanese moved most production for US markets to the US decades ago, Why Mercedes, and Airbus, and TSMC and many many others have been moving production to the US.
Foreign trade depends on comparative advantage. For the US that means higher standards of living require the production of more high tech high skill products for foreign markets, because we can not compete on labor costs alone.
But rising global standards of living reduce the comparative advantage of foreign producers for US markets – which results in a slow shift of SOME production for US markets back tot he US. The lower the labor cost advantage of a foreign country, the more Tariffs tip the balance to moving production for US markets to the US.
The EU and JP have labor costs comparable to the US. They have higher energy costs, higher raw materials costs and higher transportation costs. They have growing problems competitively producing products for export to the US.
CN has lower labor costs – but much higher than they were 10, 20,40 years ago.
They have highly unreliable energy and high energy costs, higher raw material costs, and much higher transportation costs. Again they have growing problems competitively producing products for export to the US.
Add to this the uncertainty Trump’s tariffs have introduced and here are LOTS of reasons to move production for the US market to the US.
Even if Trump as you claim “caved” and everything returns to the status quo ante – production for US markets will move to the US faster than before.
Put simply – even if your claim Trump caved is True – the US still wins.
But your claims and predictions have never been true.
All evidence suggests that Trump’s Tariffs have secured the US a very strong bargaining position in negotiations that are now taking place.
I would further note that Trump is NOT agreeing to bring tariffs to zero.
He is very serious about using tariffs to raise federal revenue.
“It is just on again off again nonsense to placate the MAGA mob and make it look like he is doing something.”
And the border is not secure, and there are not peace negotiations going on accross the world driven by the US.
“He is just playing a stupid game that may actually be market manipulation to allow his cronies to profit from inside information.”
Not this stupidity again. You can not profit from indie information when that is information EVERYONE has.
Everyone with a brain knew the tariffs were coming. You could have invested based on that knowledge in Dec. 2024 – and profited from it. All you had to do was beleive what Trump said.
Everyone KNEW from the start that Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were going to result in trade deals. Trump telegraphed that from Day one. So AGAIN everyone KNEW ahead of time that the tariffs were eventually coming down – and you could invest and make money from that knowlege.
This is not insider trading – this is all fully transparent. The rich and the poor had equal knowledge months in advance.
“There is no meaningful negotiation going on.”
Given that frameworks and specific concessions have already been made by all sides.
That is just a silly claim.
The question is NOT whether there are negotiations, it is only how hard a line is Trump taking.
Before the tariffs took effect – even left wing outlets were reporting that world leaders were jambing Trump’s phone trying to negotiate.
Claiming there are no negotiations is idiocy.
The question is not whether there are negotiations, but how beneficial those negotiations will be to the US.
Anonymous – while they other Anoymous is full of schiff, the FACT is all taxes – every single tax ever levied of any kind is ALWAYS paid for by consumers.
The closer we are to direct consumption taxation the more efficient (less wasteful) that taxation is. Further the closer we are to consumption taxes the more the people understand they have skin int he game when elections roll arround.
The quality of the choices people make has little to do with their education, intelligence, knowledge, and a great deal to do with how direct the consequences positive and negative are of their choices.
“I hope you understand that those customs duties are paid by the US companies that import the goods”
Typically the duty is paid by the international company importing the goods.
Walmart as an example has told the chinese – they will NOT pay any more than the negotiated price.
“that the duty is added to the prices that American consumers pay.”
Correct, this is true of ALL taxes.
But the law of supply and demand is immutable – higher prices mean less purchases, and that means more alternate suppliers at lower costs.
The long term results of Tariffs are increased US production – and more importantly increased US working class jobs.
Numerous polls have show that Trump supporters understand this, and are prepared to pay higher prices at Walmart – or buy less from Walmart in return for more and better paying jobs in the future.
I would note that merely the Threat of Tariffs incentivizes increased production in the USS for US markets.
“As such, they are a drag on the economy.”
Not at all. This is one of the problems with the left and with Keynesian economics.
It is blindered to consumption – consumption is important – as Adam Smith noted the purpose of all production is consumption.
But all consumption is paid for by DOMESTIC production.
Tariffs on consumer goods do NOT impact domestic production,
and therefore they do NOT negatively impact the economy. GDP is the same, wages are the same. What changes is the quantity of foreign produced goods consumed.
This BTW is NOT true of tariffs on raw materials. Some US Tariffs on goods sold to the rest of the world are tariffs on Raw materials – that negatively impacts those countries ability to produce.
“The duties and tariffs are simply taxes payable to the US government”
Correct, and all taxes negatively impact the economy. But common sense – as well as the economic research of Christine Romer – Obama’s CEA found that the least negatively impacting taxes are direct taxes on consumption – sales taxes and tariffs.
Property (wealth) taxes are the worst, Investment taxes are the next worst, Income taxes are the next worst.
The least harmful way to provide the money to run government is consumption taxes.
This is also the most regressive form of taxation, but it is also the form that gives ALL voters “skin in the game” resulting in better choices in elections, and more focus on government fiscal restraint.
“The fact that duties are increasing indicates that the US government is collecting more taxes”
Correct.
“from American companies.”
Incorrect – all taxes are ultimately paid by consumers – the most efficient are those paid most directly.
“Or do you believe Trump’s lies that foreign governments pay duties and tariffs ?????”
Of course they do. They pay in reduced demand and reduced exports, and the US benefits from more domestic production at the expense of foreign countries.
Whether it is Trump or left wing nuts – much of what we are told in sound bites is over simplifactions.
But people – atleast Trump supporters are not morons.
They were not fooled by the collusion delusion.
The Russian disinformation claims.
The claims that Biden was competent.
The claims that lockdowns would work, that masks worked, that covid came from wet markets. not lab leaks.
and a long long list of other delusions that those on the left bought.
Trump supporters KNOW that this is a process – not an overnight change – even if Trump has said otherwise. They KNOW that their may be some pain before significant benefits.
They do not beleive Trump’s over simplifications – but they do not beleive yours.
They did not vote for Trump because he said he could fix everything on “day one”
The did not vote for Trump because they beleived that fixing things was all upside and no downside. They voted for Trump KNOWING this would not be easy that it might be painful in the short run.
I’ll confess. I’m not a big consumer. I keep things for a lifetime except tennis shoes. It ends in landfills because it isn’t burned. Technolgy can scrub the byproducts.
The replacements are foods. I consume those daily. I’d like to see more domestic agriculture. I’d like to see usa cotton with two tees.
I don’t think regulations should be dropped because we’ve seen polluted great lakes and the sequoia gigantia were nearly wiped out for wood chips.
Buy American
The downside to it is the 1.50 the Nike shoes actually cost and the tariff collected never really make it back to the chinese factory worker? I know you care as you wear your 150.00 Nike shoes that never make it back to the factory worker either…
# . The problem is much bigger. Saudi arabia for example bought Arizona land and was given free water to raise beef for use in arabia using domestic labor as well. It looks OK until you realize arabia was just using American people but it was jobs for the peasants. Of course the peasants never eat the domestic beef they labor to raise? The peasants eat beef raised in 3rd world nations that is inferior, may be diseased and old dairy cattle, not beef cattle. That’s how you’ll live as peasants never eating the best foods. That includes fruits, nuts , cotton and all other products. Arabia or Qatar etc is investing in usa ? Oh heck no, they’ll be using you as 3rd world labor. Who’ll get rich? The ranchers who’ll without any patriotism will sell their products without conscience. Glen beck the babbler is a beef rancher. 80 billion investment ? No, an agreement to buy beef and export it.
Enjoy your imported foods from the 4rd world. DJT just shot himself in the foot. To the real American farmers and ranchers, raise your products for American consumers and just say no. Ban food imports. Disgusting…vanilla beans from the dirt of a filthy nation with people sitting in the dirt and their bare feet in the beans is what you’re buying and they call it emerging markets? HN, it’s filthy and what you’ll eat.
Make America rich again? For the peasants you’ll get a job to buy imported products diseased and riddled with listeria and salmonella. I vomited firc2 days after eating shrimp ported from the sewers in Vietnam. Never again.
^^^ proofread much? 4rd world 😂. Hope you got the meaning—-> tariffs smeriffs, you’ll pay tariffs or you’ll employ our labor and buy our beef. DJT, they were anyway. Guess you got a commitment, an advance order for the peasants and no, American labor doesn’t want to build drones for cutter either. Cutter ordered some Boeing planes? Americans are flying in planes with wheels and doors falling off. Glad the Saudis and qatarians are flush.
Boo
HEY DEMMIS you complained when tariffs were put on- and now complain when they are lowered! WHAT A DF!!
Dennis – apparently you have never heard of negotiation.
This is what a winning negotiator looks like.
What will bring manufacturing jobs to the US ?
Two possibilities:
Make it harder for foreign countries to sell in the US.
Make it easier for US companies to sell elsewhere in the world.
Either works. Trump said from the very beginning that Tariffs were about fair trade.
I would note the later works faster – it is far easier to ramp up production of things the US already produces than to bring back the production of things we quit making 40 years ago.
Regardless we have only outlines of deals so far.
In those outlines other countries – starting with the UK and China have purportedly agreed to open their markets to US goods, in return for lower Tariffs. I would note that past US tariffs have been less than 3% – Trump seems committed to not lowering tariffs below 10%.
That will bring manufacturing back to the US – albeit more slowly.
“DJT imposed trade tariffs on the world telling us they would make us rich”
No he said they would increase working class jobs.
Tariffs are actually a wealth transfer from the rich to the working class.
A signifficant trade deficit MUST result in a large capital accounts surplus.
That means large amounts of capital get invested in the US.
While that is good for the country, it is better for the already rich than the working class.
Tariffs might be slightly net negative for the country, but they are good for the working class.
“curb illegal immigration and drug smuggling”
Trump did not promise that tariffs would do that.
He promised that border security and deportations – particularly of criminals, scofflaws would accomplish those things – and he has quite rapidly.
“create more factory jobs here at home”
That is happening regardless. But it takes time. It will happen faster and on a larger scale with Trump policies. But the re-industrialization of America is inevitable.
“shrink the federal deficit”
Treasury is getting alot of revenue from Tariffs. We will have to see what happens with that.
Trump is also trying to significantly cut federal spending. Left wing lawfare is thwarting that.
“promote world peace.”
We have seen more progress towards peace in the past 100+ days than the past 4 years.
“Then this week DJT did an about face. He lowered tariffs on Jaguars, Land Rovers and Roll Royce.”
This is part of a trade deal worked out with the UK that opens UK markets to US products.
Do you think Ford and GM are competing with Jaguar, Rolls Royce or Land Rover ?
“How is that supposed to create more auto factory jobs here at home?”
Because americans must produce the goods the UK has allowed us to sell in GB.
“Then this weekend DJT went backwards even further. He agreed to lower the China tariffs from 145% to 30%. In turn the Chinese lowered theirs from 125% to 10%.”
Correct – and they have agree to a tentative deal that opens China to more US products.
Products that american workers will make.
“What did the “art of the deal” guy get from the Chinese? Nothing. Only an agreement to talk. The Chinese didn’t give away anything of substance. Looks like when pushed against the wall DJT caved again.”
With both the UK and Chine there is an agreement in principle that the UK and China will open their markets to UK goods and services – as well as many other concessions.
The broad terms were agreed to – and the tariffs dropped for 90 days contingent on making progress to a final detailed deal.
“In a way I’m disappointed. I had promised my young great granddaughters they could look forward to working in a iphone factory near us, using their tiny hands to assemble smartphones.”
If Iphones are made in the US – and that is likely Apple is trying to get out of China, they will be made by robots. US manufacturing jobs will be for programmers and people to manage and repair the robots and factories.
“That once in a lifetime job opportunity appears to have vanished. I have a lot of explaining to do.”
What is new about that ? You have never understood Trump. You have beleived your own lies about him, and you have made up your own idiotic ideas about how his policies would work.
@John Say: As a “car guy”, I’ll opine that it shouldn’t be too difficult to compete with the “new” Jaguar, and the fadish, but notably unreliable (even among British autos) Rover.
China? No, lower class Americans got the right to buy cheap imported medicines. We’ll make the name brands and the Chinese central committee will buy them for personal use along with Saudis and cuttarians.
Good reason for excitement. Trump is doing good things, but who knows? A former DC resident, I relished being there for three years, but it has faded some. Get an old Hotel to stay in and simply enjoy the National Gallery (outstanding), American History (always too crowded, but…), National Cathedral (too much leftist leadership, but…), Zoo, National Archives (wow), Union Station (what a station can be; arrive there), Mass Ave, Rock Creek Park, Nationals game….On and on. Forget pols and Remember America!
Oregon Legislature?
Forget it Jake, it’s Oregon.
Ninety-nine percent of universities are giving universities as a whole a bad name.
Yeah, remember when Obama was made president of the Harvard Law Review with about the same standards for which he was given the Nobel Peace Prize trinket?