Hat tip Algemeiner
"One posting on June 14 included the text “… reality bites!!!!!!” along with an image of a “Zionist brain” with labels such as “frontal money lobe,” “Holocaust memory centre,” “self-pity gland” and “world domination lobe.”
The University of California at Merced, the youngest campus in the UC system, has also been infected with expressions of Jew-hatred within its ranks. Emeritus Professor of Engineering Abbas Ghassem is the subject of controversy over anti-Jewish screeds on his Twitter account. The university is taking no action since he was not acting in his capacity as a university employee.
Legally, the university may be safe in its reasoning. I myself have often been accused of being anti-Muslim due to what I have written in this blog (which I don't consider myself to be. I am a critic of political Islam and Islamic teaching, but that is a topic for a different essay, of which I have written many.)
We might also keep in mind that on this same campus, a Muslim student went on a stabbing rampage in 2015 until he was shot dead by security. The threat of deadly violence is so real-including at UC Merced, and this type of rhetoric by one of their faculty-on or off the job- can have dangerous consequences.
So Professor Ghassemi will continue to enjoy whatever connection he has as an emeritus professor at UC Merced and no doubt, will continue to rant and rave about Jews and Israel. Note that the words found on his account are not just damning of Israel, but of Jews as people. We, on the other hand, are free to express our own opinion of what we have read. Abbas Ghassemi is an embarrassment-but one of many- to the University of California system.
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