College of Southern California (USC) economics professor John Strauss, who’s Jewish, has been barred from campus due to a doctored video circulated by anti-Israel activists who declare he stated all Palestinians must be killed.
In actual fact, as the complete video (clumsily included right here by an anti-Israel activist) reveals, Strauss was referring particularly to the Hamas terrorist group.
right here is @USC professor John Strauss saying “each one in all them must be killed, and I hope all of them are” whereas passing by college students who organised a memorial for 10,000+ Palestinian martyrs killed up to now month pic.twitter.com/Iuox2laMKL
— tara (@taraxrh) November 10, 2023
Video 1: ” … must be killed, and I hope they’re.”
Video 2: ” You persons are ignorant. Actually ignorant. Hamas are murderers. That’s all they’re. Each one in all them must be killed, and I hope they’re.”
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and Muslim activists solely cited the previous video in pushing for USC to take towards Strauss.
The Los Angeles Instances reported Sunday:
As [Strauss’s] remarks raced throughout the web, his condemnation of Hamas was typically excised, leaving solely his “hope” for “all” to be killed. Captions and feedback on-line framed his demand for “each one” to be killed in myriad, at instances misleading, methods. One Instagram put up shared to thousands and thousands of customers claimed falsely that Strauss informed the scholars, “[I] hope you get killed….”
Inside a day, an affiliate dean informed Strauss that he was on paid administrative go away, barred from campus, and that he would now not train his undergraduates this semester.
Inside the week, a petition demanding that USC hearth Strauss for his “racist, xenophobic conduct” and feedback that “promote and incite violence” had collected greater than 6,500 signatures.
The UK Day by day Mail famous:
Strauss stated he was provoked by what he felt had been anti-Semitic and anti-Israel sentiments overheard whereas strolling to class.
‘I’m Jewish, I’m very pro-Israel,’ he informed USC Annenberg Media. ‘And so I yelled out ‘Israel perpetually. Hamas are murderers.’
USC’s free speech coverage states: “The respectable expression of differing opinions and considerations, together with unpopular, controversial or dissident viewpoints, is a necessary aspect of the tutorial course of.”
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