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Princeton fostering 'continued antisemitism' by hosting speaker who compares Israelis to Nazis
Pete Hegseth weighs in on the petition to remove a statue of John Witherspoon, Princeton's sixth president, from his alma mater's campus for owning slaves:
Princeton University is pushing the "disturbing continued antisemitism" fostered on college campuses by hosting a prominent pro-Palestine activist who has repeatedly compared Israelis to Nazis, Fox News' Pete Hegseth said.
"A guy like this should not be chosen in the first place if your goal is to foster dialogue," Hegseth, a Fox & Friends Weekend co-host and Princeton alumnus, said. "If your goal is to foster one particular viewpoint you've decided is the legitimate viewpoint, then he probably represents the views of the English department, which is left-wing and pro-Palestinian."
Princeton hosted pro-Palestinian activist and journalist Mohammed El-Kurd on Wednesday, sparking outrage from the campus’s Jewish community. El-Kurd has accused Jewish Israelis and Zionists of eating the organs of Palestinians; often called them bloodthirsty; repeatedly compared Israelis to Nazis; and praised terrorism against Israeli civilians.
"Believing in what he's espoused is by definition, intolerance," Hegseth told Fox News Digital. "The university says it does not tolerate intolerance, but only as it pertains to other forms of racism."
"Somehow antisemitism gets a carve-out," he added. "And it's an ongoing sin and a stain that the modern left is oddly, eerily and scarily silent on."
The executive director for Princeton’s Center for Jewish Life, Rabbi Steinlauf, told The Princeton Tory: "We have reached out repeatedly to Professor Jeff Dolven in the Department of English, expressing our disappointment in this invite, and respectfully asking that his department publicly provide context for Mr. El-Kurd’s rhetoric: our request is for the English Department to acknowledge and call out his dangerous language."
The Anti-Defamation League wrote that "even a cursory analysis of his [El-Kurd's] social media and his book ‘Rifqa,’ reveals an indisputably troubling pattern of rhetoric and slander that ranges far beyond reasoned criticism of Israel. It is unvarnished, vicious antisemitism." In his book, El-Kurd wrote, "they [Israelis] harvest organs of the martyred [Palestinians], feed their warriors our own."
El-Kurd has also compared Israelis to Nazis in numerous tweets from May and June of last year.
He tweeted that "Zionist settlers" were starting fires in a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem and said "these are the sadistic barbaric neonazi pigs that claim to be indigenous to our land."
"I don’t care who this offends they have completely internalized the ways of the nazis," he tweeted in another.
Hegseth said the English department's sponsorship of El-Kurd "is part of the disturbing continued antisemitism that is allowed to fester and be fostered at college campuses across America."
"If you're going to bring that radical of a view in, at least bring a fact-based, commonsense view from the pro-Israeli side who will call out the ahistorical and, frankly, immoral stances that he takes," Hegseth told Fox News.
El-Kurd, a correspondent the progressive magazine, The Nation, was invited to Princeton as the speaker for the annual Edward W. Said ’57 Memorial Lecture, which is intended to foster serious discussions about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
A Feb. 5 letter, signed by over 40 students, called on the English department to "openly denounce a speaker committed to disseminating hatred, libel, and calls to violence against Jewish members of the University community." The letter clarified that in the name of free speech, they were not calling for cancelation, but condemnation of the event.
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School Districts Across a Red State Adopted Policies to Hide Students’ Gender Transitions From Parents<
Documents obtained by a parental rights group show that school districts across the state of Idaho adopted policies to conceal students’ gender transitions from their parents after the Idaho State School Board Association instructed them to do so.
According to parental rights organization Parents Defending Education, several Idaho school districts implemented policies that stated that school staff members could be demoted or terminated for violating a student’s confidentiality relating to LGBTQ+ issues, including disclosing the student’s gender identity from their parents. The policies were discovered in FOIA documents obtained by PDE. The ISSBA provided school districts with a template to create such policies.
For example, the Orofino Joint School District’s policy adapted by the ISSBA states that: “School employees should not disclose a student’s transgender status or sexual orientation to other individuals...the student’s parents/guardians, unless they have a legitimate need to know or unless the student has authorized such disclosure. Action in violation of such student confidentiality may subject an employee to discipline, up to and including possible termination and for certificated personnel, a report to the Professional Standards Commission.”
Another school district in Juliaetta, Idaho appeared to pay the Idaho School Boards Association at least $2,000 for “template policies,” which included a template to create the district’s LGBTQ+ policy keeping parents in the dark about their child’s gender identity.
"This is further proof that living in a 'red' state doesn't protect families from these issues in school - and that the traditional power brokers in education policy who families have trusted for many years, like school board associations, are as much a part of the problem as well-known activist groups,” PDE President Nicki Neily said. It's worth noting that state school board associations are funded by dues from local school boards - which themselves are paid for through taxes. It's time for local school districts to take a stand against these unaccountable bureaucracies and cut off the spigot."
In September, Republican Sen. Tim Scott (SC) introduced legislation that would prevent schools from hiding information about a students “gender identity” from their parents, which Townhall covered.
“The law in the United States has long recognized the importance of parental rights. A parent’s right to oversee the care education of their child is guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment,” the bill reads. “Parents have a fundamental, constitutionally guaranteed right to raise and educate their children in the way they choose.”
“Public schools across the country are violating these fundamental parental and familial rights by deliberately hiding information about gender transitioning from their parents,” it continued.
“These schools are sabotaging the parent-child relationship and encouraging children to keep secrets from the adults who are charged with protecting and defending them – their parents,” the bill said. “Children do best when their parents are actively involved in their education.”
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Virginia parents outraged after education board nominee who stood against socialism is ousted
Virginia senators nixed Suparna Dutta's nomination to the education board one week after she sparred with another member over the Constitution and socialism.
Virginia Democrats blocked a conservative appointee from serving on the state education board to silence opposing viewpoints, parents in the Old Dominion State told Fox News.
"Her ejection is a kick in the gut to all of us parents who are concerned about lack of transparency, lack of choice and hoards of our tax dollars being used to fund district-mandated social activism supplanting academics in the classroom," Fairfax County parent Brooke Corbett told Fox News.
"Voting to remove her because she's not qualified for the board as a public school parent is just as ludicrous as stating parents should not be telling schools what to teach when they object to offensive, unacademic socialist instruction," she continued.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who campaigned on parental rights in schools, appointed Suparna Dutta to the Virginia Board of Education in July. But the Indian immigrant and Fairfax County parent advocate lost her confirmation in the Senate of Virginia Tuesday night on a party-line vote.
"Unfortunately, this is all too common," Fight for Schools Executive Director Ian Prior told Fox News. "Our schools and education system has become so infiltrated by angry, woke, know-it-all activists that it is going to take a generation to undo the damage."
"This says a lot about the far left and their so-called equity, diversity, and inclusion," Prior, himself a Virginia parent, said. "What they really are for is uniformity of viewpoint and if that includes diversity then they get to go virtue signal as if that’s more important to them than finding people that will march in lockstep with their morally bankrupt ideas."
Dutta's removal came one week after she sparred with another board member over whether public schools should present socialism as "incompatible with democracy." The parental rights advocate encouraged public school curriculums to focus on "traditional American values" in an earlier board meeting, leading the progressive Virginia Grassroots Coalition to labeled her a "far-right extremist" as it campaigned against her confirmation.
"I thought people celebrated diversity. Whether it's diversity of thought, diversity of viewpoint or diversity of any of the many characteristics?" Dutta told Fox News ahead of the vote.
Prior, a champion for school choice and parents' rights, said he's not surprised Virginia democrats mobilized to "spike the appointment of a well qualified and respected parent advocate like Ms. Dutta. Her diverse viewpoints and experience would be too much for their fragile minds."
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-parents-outraged-education-board-nominee-stood-socialism-ousted
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