AAUP President Demands Weapons Boycott on Israel and Attacks Trump Supporters as “Fascists”

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has long been criticized for far-left policies and activism. Some of us have criticized the organization for ignoring academic priorities and the record-low polling on public trust in higher education. Its president, Todd Wolfson, is now taking that activism global with a boycott policy that leaves little room for faculty members who support Israel.

I previously criticized the selection of Wolfson as the head of the AAUP. Wolfson, a Rutgers University anthropologist and former union leader, is a highly political activist who doubled down on the ideological intolerance that now defines higher education. His election was a defiant statement by faculty members that they will not yield in preserving the current ideological echochamber in our universities and colleges. He promised to keep AAUP as a “fighting organization” for liberal causes.

Wolfson has made clear that there is little tolerance for opposing views on this far-left agenda. Many have analogized Wolfson to teacher union figures like American Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten in making the organization an extension of the Democratic Party. Wolfson used his position to oppose Trump’s reelection and has remained an outspoken voice in support of Democratic causes.

One of the issues that has been most divisive on our campuses is the support of Palestine and Israel. Rather than support the free speech rights of both sides, Wolfson and AAUP have abandoned neutrality to call for a weapons boycott of the Jewish state.

A recent interview with Inside Higher Ed contains Wolfson’s signature radical rhetoric in declaring that “Vance and Trump and [Christopher] Rufo and Stephen Miller and the ilk that run our government are fascist in a 21st-century variant.”

Wolfson also echoes the identity politics that have long characterized policies in higher education:

“Faculty and the press and people of color and women and gay people and trans people and anybody that’s not white, Christian nationalist, in the end, is othered. And then even within the white Christian nationalist community, if you’re not MAGA, or you care about a free press, or care about free inquiry, you’re othered.”

One notable element was how Wolfson explained the new foreign policy of the AAUP. He makes clear that the AAUP now believes that Israel must be cut off entirely from any weapons by the United States:

“We believe strongly that no weapons should be sent to Israel at all. Not defensive or offensive, nothing.

What do we do in the U.S., where antisemitism has been used as a weapon, in many ways, by the Trump administration to bring universities to heel—and many times stripping out, or threatening to strip out, hundreds of millions of research dollars that often affect Jewish faculty members? Versus what our position should be on the conflict in the Middle East?”

Notably, he stresses that Israel is guilty of genocide while pushing the new jingoistic term “scholasticide”:

“First and foremost, our job is to safeguard ourselves at home and to set a vision that aligns with what we’re trying to do in the United States. We need to stand up for academic freedom, for freedom of speech, for freedom of assembly for our students so they can protest the war—the genocide, excuse me—that’s taking place in Gaza.

We need to stand up to the weaponization of antisemitism in the Title VI process. And we need to make sure that we defend our members…

The number of universities and faculty and university presidents [in Gaza] that have been killed and universities that have been destroyed in this war is mammoth. We are certainly educating our members on this concept of scholasticide.

It seems pretty evident that they are—but if, in fact, Israel is purposefully destroying the educational infrastructure, both K–12 and higher ed, of Palestine, and of Gaza, that stands against our values of academic freedom. And if that’s the case, and we can unify around that, then we will take a stand and call for an end to the scholasticide.”

So now the AAUP is advocating a weapons boycott, including defensive weapons for a nation that its neighbors have repeatedly attacked? Many countries and groups have dedicated themselves to Israel’s destruction. We have protests in the United States calling for liberation “from the river to the sea,” a mantra viewed as a call for the eradication of Israel. Rather than call for peace and support for academics on both sides, the AAUP is seeking to disarm one side.

The new sloganeering about “scholasticide” would be more convincing if Wolfson were not the very face of ideological orthodoxy and intolerance in higher education. This generation of faculty and administrators has destroyed the intellectual diversity of our campuses. Just last week, the leading AAUP publication ran a long column against intellectual diversity. 

What Wolfson and faculty members are doing today is the very definition of scholasticide by effectively purging conservative or libertarian faculty from departments and maintaining the current academic echo chamber. Applications and trust in higher education are plummeting. Yet, the response from the AAUP has been to double down on its political agenda and even adopt a foreign policy targeting Israel.

Given years of hiring faculty from the left to the far left, Wolfson can expect ongoing support from the ranks of the AAUP.  However, the public, donors, and many legislators have had enough with the ideological agenda in academia. They are supporting programs that return to core educational priorities and promote a diversity of thought.

Unfortunately, the result will be the increasing balkanization of higher education. However, with Wolfson and the AAUP leading higher education off an ideological cliff, many will choose to get out of the car in this game of chicken. Regrettably, others will decide not to go into academia. We cannot allow this orthodoxy to lead us to give up on the academy. We have to stay and fight for the restoration of intellectual diversity and tolerance in higher education.

352 thoughts on “AAUP President Demands Weapons Boycott on Israel and Attacks Trump Supporters as “Fascists””

  1. OK.. here’s a good defining mark of a Fascist.. it would help WOLFSON immensely to Learn This: This PURGING of ANYONE/ EVERYONE who does not follow what you believe in is a HALLMARK of FASCISM… It is a Great Mystery how folks like Wolfson are too dense to not see that THEY, led by WOLFSON, are the ones who behave like Fascists… Seriously… WHAT is wrong with these folks always stirring the pot and thinking stupid stuff like it’s OK for HAMAS to do OCT 7 and not face the consequences………?

  2. Wolfson is like the Stalinist Jews of Russia. Would turn in his own family to the NKVD to serve the party. Would have made a good Kapo was well. Dispicable

    1. The Israel Gaza peace is over . How long was that? 2 days?

      You put your youth with numbskulls like this 😂. So who is our Democrat king and queen going to be?

    2. Long, long ago, my mother worked as a secretary at the AAUP. It was then an elite lobby organization meant to cause fear in Congress over adequately funding our august institutions of higher education. I remember one of the research projects that met with almost universal approval: Pornography. No condemnation there. They all liked it. (Surely there were some smug dissenters!)
      So maybe there’s an indicator of the moral root base of the organization. Surely as least on the level of ‘secular’ approval of ‘free expression.’
      Then of course, funding for foreign policy imperatives finally becomes an issue [as per]. And when you have NO FEAR for the basis of your own funding to stay in business, relevant to policies that seem centered adequately on the givens of US Foreign Policy, such as practically unquestioned, infinitely discreet, almost open check support of the greatest nationality on Earth, known from antiquity as the Jews, and speciously in our time, as the Israeli’s — make sure you know what a Real knife fight is: mortal combat objectively cutting you (systemically) deep, wide and continuously while you’re dehumanized as an ‘antisemitic racist.’ The ride from one Budget CR to the next is not complete without the multiplex of Security services using an Israeli Representative of renown to Copilot the American Ship of State. It’s like for sure: there is no safe harbor access without the Harbor Master from Israeli Zion managing the mooring, and the docks.
      Damn the small stuff, like Hamas and Gaza. Go for the gold, like Iran, and Russia, and MAGA. It’s a small world after all, especially when AI has the potential of shaving back to a bad mustache like the Thousand Year Reichster promised to do.
      The relevance of AAUP would seem questionable except that they know their limits on screwing with funding from the Ststus Quo. Or do they? Isn’t ‘free expression’ a wonderful thing? Surely as long as it’s not too ascerbicly defined.

  3. How odd that there is a decline in confidence among conservatives when conservative Charlie Kirk toured college campuses to tell conservatives that higher education is a scam. He was taking in at least $10 Million a year from billionaires to become a millionaire telling middle and lower class conservatives to become serfs on the manors of the wealthy oligarchs.

    Conservatives, if they had any volition, would create their own parallel organization and show the existing ones how much better the conservatives are at it. Instead, they are upset that they aren’t being welcomed into a club they constantly criticize.

    1. conservative Charlie Kirk toured college campuses to tell conservatives that higher education is a scam.

      Charlie Kirk appeared at campuses under a sign saying “change my mind”, to engage indoctrinated Marxists like you – not conservatives – in open debate. An effort wasted on you, obviously. He DIDN’T tell them college was a scam – but he did point out how many AAUP professors were lying to them and intellectually dishonest, using their own words as examples..

      Bitter communist Bolshevik Birthing Boys have nothing better than lies to attempt defending these dishonest, corrupt, bigoted clowns. Perhaps you are one of those Marxist clowns!

      And as the virulent communist losers they are, they assume that Kirk, like them, must have every penny in their bank accounts from money somebody like the government gave them – rather than building a career.

      Little commie… Bolshevik Barack and Blow Job Clinton NEVER speak at an event for less than tens of thousands of dollars. But unlike Kirk, they didn’t build a business as well to be the source of their income – not to depend on somebody giving him money to show up at a rally for First Amendment freedom.

      1. Bills’ speaking fees were about $500,000 a pop. Which is alot more than 10’s of thousands of dollars. Typically, these fees were paid by foreign groups seeking favoritism from the Secretary of State, the (b)witch herself. A bribe is a bribe is a bribe, same mold as Biden.

        1. The Trump crime family got $2 Billion as an “investment.” That’s about 4000X a $500k speaking fee. Add in a $400 Million dollar “gift” of a white elephant jet.

          AFAIK not one dime went to President Biden and not one decision of SoS Hillary Clinton was altered. Feel free to post where that was found to be true.

          1. Sure they did…
            As I recall, the $2B you are alluding to was an investment with Jared Kuchners investment company by the Saudi’s (I believe). That means his firm manages the investment, the principal and earnings are not the Trump’s money, the investment company would collect a management fee. The Clintons on the other hand…and their “Initiatives racket” are quite suspect, selling their “brand” just like Hunter and Potato Head. Pretty sure the IRS had the Biden family dead to rights for tax evasion but the obstruction allowed the SOL to run out for poor crackhead Hunter. Be sure to pay your fair share now!

          2. ..whoever you are, Anonymous form the Darkside.. your posts are so completely wrong… go beyond being laughable to being delusional…

      2. Kirk literally wrote a book titled “The College Scam” ISBN: 9781735503738

        This is part of the blurb for the book:

        “In his newest book, The College Scam, Charlie Kirk answers all of these questions and more. Since founding Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk has been the leading voice across American college campuses standing up for conservative students.”

        Note that it says nothing about speaking to liberal students.

        AFAIK not a single Liberal had their mind changed, but crowds of conservative club members would show up to cheer him on and be a gauntlet for liberal students to pass through. From many of his interactions he simply dismissed those questioning his position and says “Next” when it is clear his basic reasoning has failed.

        Other than that, Kirk was literally a paid actor for the billionaires. They hired him to speak for them.

  4. Liberal definition of “Fascists” /făsh′ĭst/
    noun
    Anyone that disagrees with me.
    Example: I like vanilla ice cream. Joe like chocolate ice cream. Joe is a “Fascists”

      1. “You do realize “facists” is plural?”

        We do realize that you’re not a sophomoric grammar Nazi, but want to ensure we know are aware that you fall into the Democrat identity politics group of fascists.

  5. Millions gather to express total ignorance about political system

    U.S. — Millions of Americans took to the streets today in order to express to the world their total and absolute ignorance about the political system they live in. Several major cities including Boston, New York City and Chicago saw over one hundred thousand residents show up to proclaim their abject incomprehension of governance. “The world needs to understand how incredibly little we know,” said local man Roger McMahon, who had joined the march. “I really do not think the greater population appreciates how completely uneducated and illiterate we are when it comes to our own political system. That’s why I’m here marching. We’re going to join our voices together and let the message ring loud and clear that we are uneducated rubes in desperate need of a middle-school social studies class.”

    Rallygoers marched throughout the day on Saturday, chanting various slogans such as “Where do I live?” and “How does government work?” “It’s incredibly inspiring, seeing so many people walking arm in arm saying ‘Hey, I don’t know anything,'” said local woman Barbara Samson. “It feels incredible to be part of this movement of telling people that I’m a real dullard.” At publishing time, the rest of the world had politely told the rallygoers that the message had been received.

    -The Bee

      1. “Fueled By Billionaires”: No Kings Prepares Color-Revolution-Style Mobilization Against Trump

        Little do these white boomers know, the “No Kings” movement, supposedly against “kings and billionaires”, is, in reality, funded by leftist billionaire kings themselves. In truth, No Kings is bankrolled by far-left foundations backed by the same billionaire class that has been waging a political war against President Trump since his first term. Essentially, one faction of billionaires hates another, so their woke non-profit soldiers create a front group, brand it “No Kings,” and bankroll an army of paid protesters and unhinged left-wing activists. This is America in 2025: the permanent protest-industrial complex of hate and chaos, financed by the left.
        We traced $294,487,641 to the official No Kings 2.0 partners & organizers…all funneled through the same “Riot Inc.” dark-money networks:
        💰 Arabella network $79.7M+
        💰 Soros network $72.1M+
        💰 Ford network $51.7M+
        💰Tides $45.5M+
        💰 Rockefeller $28.6M+
        💰 Buffett $16.6M+

        https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fueled-billionaires-no-kings-prepares-color-revolution-style-mobilization-against-trump

        1. I know money went to Charlie Kirk directly and Musk put $250,000,000 into Trump’s re-election campaign.

          Who is getting all of this money that is claimed by zerohedge? Where is the money being spent?

          There were no venues to rent, many people made their own signs. The cost of advertising the event was minimal. How were $250,000,000+ accounted for?

          1. “I know money went to Charlie Kirk directly”

            I call BullSchiff on that lie. We’re fairly sure that you aren’t Kirk’s bookkeeper. The last thing he would do is hire a raging communist to do his accounting and tax returns. So: no, you don’t have a clue as to how the money in Kirk’s bank accounts got there. But Lyin’ Like A Proud Biden, you try claiming you do.

            “Who is getting all of this money that is claimed by zerohedge? Where is the money being spent?”

            Other than being spent to create, print, and distribute those professionally prepared protest signs? Other than to rent the audio systems, the venues, pay for municipal permits, etc? You sail your false flag warship on the Democrat River Of Denial.

            Sealioning:
            Sealioning is a form of adolescent trolling where someone persistently demands answers to insincere questions to provoke a response, often pretending to seek a civil debate while actually trying to exhaust or frustrate others with no intention of real discourse. This behavior is characterized by a facade of politeness and a refusal to acknowledge previous answers. Often used as a tactic by whining Democrats in online forums and podcasts

            1. There was a message exchange with Kirk about the fact that a Jewish billionaire was pulling his $2 Million a year funding from Kirk due to Kirk complaining that Israel was slaughtering Palestinians.

        1. Dustoff, what costs were incurred to simply walking in large numbers? Roughly 1 Million people participated; according to the propaganda piece from zerohedge, that is about $250 per person. How was the money transferred? What was the money spent on?

          Why has no conservative managed to crack the barrier and show their paycheck to riot from a Liberal billionaire the way that Charlie Kirk openly complained when he was cut off from a Conservative billionaire of $2 Million a year to back Israel?

          Zerohedge is quoting a tweet from Government Accountability Institute member Seamus Bruner who is backed by Robert Mercer. GAI was founded by Steve Bannon, who has repeatedly stated that a fire hose of misinformation is a useful attack on the opposition.

          Speaking on stupidity:

          Congressman Brandon Gill
          @RepBrandonGill

          Your “No Kings” Rally is literally sponsored by the Communist Party

          No kidding. The communist revolution is Russia was to depose their version of a king, the tsar.

          This is exactly the march that communists would support. It is also a march George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and both the Adams’ and John Hancock – well, a large list of America’s Founding Fathers – would also support.

          1. Now I see it was closer to 7 million nationwide. That’s a lot of W-2 forms to fill out. Maybe it was sent as cash? Who has $250,000,000 in cash on hand and who is hired to divide it up into 7 million envelopes? Even the postage for that is over $5 million in stamps.

    1. It works well on the left’s base, which consists of the parasitic insane whose sole goal is not freedom but enslavement, which includes “free stuff” and “free status.”

  6. This allegedly academic president of the AAUP and the Democrats’ New Hitler Youth Movement that support him, along with similar minded Democrats’ like Jefferies, AOC, etc. pin their hopes that those listening to them as they claim to be fighting for “Palestinian freedom” are ignorant of “Palestinian” history. Not just ancient history, but history just extending back to the 1960’s.

    They’re all over using From The River To The Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free supposedly meaning something no worse than recreating the ancient “Palestinian” empire. An empire, a culture, and a people who never existed. A “Two State Solution”!

    The Arab version as first introduced and then repeatedly used by the Arab Egyptian terrorist Yasser Arafat is Filastin sa-takun Islamiyah. Anglecized: From the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, all the people living there will be Muslim. Not Jews, not Coptic Christians – Muslim Arabs. Apartheid, terrorist style.

    “From the river to the sea…” did not exist in history among Muslim Arabs before Yasser Arafat created modern terrorism in the 1960’s. He popularized this war cry while browbeating the UN into accepting his claims there was such a thing as “Palestine”, and after that, a “West Bank” – rather than the thousands of years of the existing Hebrew/Jewish states of Samaria and Judeau.

    Arafat popularized that in the early 1960’s, when we first encountered Arafat coming from the Muslim Brotherhood and his uncle The Grand Mufti who advised Hitler on genocide, to found or direct not just one hajji terrorist genocidal anti-Semitic gang, but multiple hajji Muslim terrorist groups.

    For the youngsters out there too young to remember those terrorists in their heyday in the 1960’s and 1970’s, that would be the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Fatah, along with Black September, Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. How old is this AAUP union president, BTW, that he doesn’t remember this?

    Arafat, this Nobel Prize winning leader of those terrorist groups carried out his first terrorist bombings inside Israel – directed while living in his homeland of Egypt – in 964. His first bombing of an airliner was in 1970 of a SwissAir flight destined for Tel Aviv, killing 47 mostly European passengers and crew who were aboard. Later he directed the terrorist murder of Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics and dozens of other mass murder terrorist attacks on both Jews and on Americans.

    There is no other interpretation of Arafat’s “From the river to the sea…” war cry, than a demand that every Jew, every Coptic Christian, or anyone of any faith other than Islam who is living in Israel or anywhere else in that land between the river to the sea will be wiped out by Muslims. And by doing that ending the 5,000 years of Hebrew/Israeli countries on those lands that predate the Arab warlord who created Islam for terrorists like Yasser Arafat to follow in the 7th century by over 4,000 years.

    That is, if the Muslim terrorists can actually accomplish that without the UN’s help. The surrounding Muslim countries repeatedly tried to do that in three major invasions of Israel and got their asses kicked in a massive FAFO, instead of delivering the genocide they promised the Arabs/”Palestinians” living among the Israelis.

    There’s some current and ancient history to keep in mind when this Democrat AAUP union president and his fans in those universities’ Democrat New Hitler Youth Movement howl “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

    Hitler does indeed live, as Democrats, their Antifa and their New Hitler Youth Movement claim he does.

    But Hitler lives in on in the soul and demands of this Democrat AAUP union president. As well as in every other Democrat terrorist sympathizer chanting the Hamas genocidal war cry: Filastin sa-takun Islamiyah/From the river to the sea…/

    If are too young to know anything about Arab anti-Semitic Muslim terrorism that Yasser Arafat spawned and which is being followed by this AAUP union president, as well as other Democrats and their New Hitler Youth Movement on those professor’s campuses, it’s not hard to learn about:

    YASIR ARAFAT’S TIMELINE OF TERROR Up To 2004
    https://www.camera.org/article/yasir-arafat-s-timeline-of-terror/

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  8. The head of the AAUP is a communist criminal with absolutely no legitimacy in American fundamental law; he enjoys no authority to usurp the power of any branch of government.

    Americans are free to operate a business or accept or reject employment, independent of communist interference and coercion.

    He is a direct and mortal enemy of the American Thesis, Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.

  9. *. There’s little bio on Todd Wolfson. Makes it difficult to get a psych on him. He’s a socialist and his book Cyber Left is an example of his arena. The club of university profs is aligned with AFT. that completes the round up in education.

    The deletion of Europe and the known western civilization founded by the English is taking an alternate route of Spain as the foundation. This includes Italy and Roman Catholicism deleting protestants. What is PTs mother’s maiden name?

    The Greeks will be deleted and the literature will transfer to Roman writers. That’s a clean sweep. All English writers, poets, philosophers are being deleted. Ideas such as freedom and self rule unheard of.

    That leaves India, Africa and Asia,
    middle east . Slavery records deleted. I have no other information at this time. We are forever separated from history in the great segregation On high.

    Condolences

  10. No Kings Day?!
    Does this mean Burger King is closed today? I was hoping for a Whopper, repackaged as a “Trump BiG Johnson” or for the people of color model “The Big Mike” which comes with government cheese of course!

  11. OT

    Remake of Amadeus uses Asian actor as Mozart.

    Stupid move…or is it?

    It makes me think of Disney making so many woke movies doomed to fail.

    Why?

    THE PRODUCERS comes to mind. They scheme to make a play doomed to fail, “Springtime for Hitler,” and oversell shares by a lot and make a fortune if the play fails.

    Is that what is going on?

    Are movies purposely designed to fail to make a profit?

    Or are the Hollywood bosses truly this stupid?

    One or the other.

    1. I heard they were using a wheelchair-bound Spanish-speaking African lesbian actress to play Mozart. No?

      1. Oldman–
        “heard they were using a wheelchair-bound Spanish-speaking African lesbian actress to play Mozart. No?”

        You almost got it right. She speaks Ebonics, not Spanish, and she’s trans.

      2. oldman, making racist, misogynist, xenophobic, and ableist comments to prove they are all of those things.

  12. I wonder if the Democrats’ New Hitler Youth Movement are excited that today Arab Hamas terrorists seems to be saying “Game on!” – after they’ve lost the leverage of those terrorists having hostages to hide behind?

    Senior Hamas official: Terror group can’t commit to disarm, is open to 3-5 year truce; Doha-based politburo member says Hamas intends to maintain control of Gaza for ‘transitional phase,’ defends summary executions
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-official-terror-group-cant-commit-to-disarm-is-open-to-3-5-year-truce/

    The Arab HAMAS terrorists subjugating Gaza may finally discover what FAFO means when they no longer have terror hostages to hide behind and no American president willing to tell Israel they can’t fight terrorists the same way we fought and killed other hajji terrorists in Afghanistan.

    1. With Israel Withdrawal, Hamas Finally Able To Conduct Public Executions In Peace

      GAZA — Day-to-day life in terrorist occupied Gaza settled back into its normal pre-war routine. With Israel’s withdrawal to comply with the ceasefire agreement, Hamas was finally able to conduct public executions in peace. After two years of brutal conflict with Israeli forces, Hamas terrorists expressed relief that the peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump allowed them to get back to business as usual and handle the murdering Gazans themselves. “Like slipping into a comfortable pair of old shoes,” said spokesterrorist Amal Qadir. “It’s been a long time since we were able to enjoy our normal daily activities, but thanks to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, we can settle back into publicly executing people who refuse to comply with our demands. It’s nice.”

      Though the ceasefire was still in its early stages, the release of hostages and Israel’s willingness to pull back from the war front have given Hamas at least some semblance of having their lives go back to normal. “It’s refreshing to get a little taste of the way things used to be before the war,” Qadir continued. “Just this morning, we got up, went for a brisk morning walk, and lined up a few insolent rebels and shot them in the head before sitting down for breakfast. It’s wonderful to have peace.” Hamas went on to state that it should only be a matter of days before it would be filling mass graves with the dead bodies of executed Gazans. At publishing time, Hamas had also expressed hopefulness that it could use the ceasefire to get its bomb-making operations back up and running.

      -The Bee

            1. S. Meyer, who else is writing “oldman propaganda”

              Please cite your sources or feel free to try to form an idea on your own besides school boy level insults.

  13. OT Red Meat
    If Jack Smith is indicted for his role in this grand conspiracy, do you suppose Abby Lowell can get Jack off … off?

  14. Wolfson and Weingarten … proof that it takes a certain kind of non-productive person to play roles such as theirs in unions that don’t represent workers who produce for the economy.

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