University of California Merced History Professor Sean Malloy is the latest academic to go full Madam Defarge in higher education. Malloy is calling for the assemblage of tribunals to “dezionize” universities. He has explained that “People’s Tribunals” go beyond ridding universities of zionists “but also confronting the role of Zionist organizations, donors, Regents, and administrators in repression targeted at members of the university community.”

Malloy argues that “the tradition of People’s Tribunals perhaps provides a better path forward.” It was not enough to virtually eliminate conservatives and libertarians from faculty departments. He calls Zionists the “driving force behind many of the external and internal threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.”

According to his faculty bio, Sean Malloy teaches at the university’s Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies with a specialty in “colonialism, war, white supremacy, and the critical study of Zionism.” He writes in the Ethnic Studies Council at UC Substack that Zionism is a “driving force behind many of the external and internal threats to the UC and its faculty, staff, and students.”

The People’s Tribunal would “extensively document the University’s past complicity with the crimes of the Israeli state as well as its internal repression of anti-Zionist dissidents and then to formulate appropriate remedies and forms of accountability.” He added that they might “include representatives from Palestinian universities who could provide recommendations on how UC might at least partially atone for its past complicity with the destruction of those universities and the murder of their students, faculty, and staff.”

This is not merely to cleanse the university of “zionist” Regents and administrators, but “others within the UC system” who are guilty of “active collaboration with Zionism” or “the repression of students, staff, and faculty here at the UC.”

Previously, The College Fix reported how Malloy was outraged by a “threatening” display posted by the UC Merced College Republicans because it included the phrases “I Love Undocumented Firearms” and “ICE ICE Baby.”

Ironically, the man who is now calling for People’s Tribunals declared that he was “disgusted that some of [UC Merced] students would advocate for the government-sponsored ethnic cleansing of their fellow students.”

This is the type of academic whom faculty and administrators believe should be teaching students today. We recently discussed how Harvard Medical School hired an artist-in-residence who called for the release of Luigi Mangione and helped organize a panel that explored how weight-loss drugs are a militaristic, imperialistic plot.

Radical faculty members on the left are common across the country, and many espouse the same hate-filled and violent rhetoric.

Professors have regularly advocated “detonating white people,” denouncing police, calling for Republicans to suffer,  strangling police officers, celebrating the death of conservatives, calling for the killing of Trump supporters, supporting the murder of conservative protesters, and making other outrageous statements. A San Diego University professor celebrated the death of an Israeli soldier who was eaten by a shark.

While you cannot be too radical on the left for many departments, even a moderate or center-right applicant will find it challenging to secure a teaching position today.  An openly conservative candidate would be a nonstarter at many departments.  Forty percent of faculty admit they would never vote for a Trump supporter, regardless of qualifications, publications, or accomplishments.

Instead, they hire faculty like Malloy, who believes that faculties must now also be purged of accused zionists. For faculty who were silent as their conservative and Republican colleagues were gradually eliminated from departments, the move should hardly be surprising. We have seen those who once supported speech regulations and woke policies become the targets of the very mobs that they once appeased.

In Rage and the Republic, I write about how academic and political figures are ignoring history as they pander to radical groups. Democratic leaders like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries believe that they can ride a rage wave back into power. What they ignore is how these revolutions ultimately “devour their own.” Today’s revolutionaries become tomorrow’s reactionaries.

Of course, Professor Malloy and his People’s Tribunals will no doubt sort out those remaining in higher education.