A 62-year old tenured UCLA professor has taken early retirement, citing the "woke takeover of higher education," including that classes at the university are "awash in anti-Zionism, a.k.a. thinly disguised Jew-hatred."
Anthropology professor Joseph H. Manson said in a post on his website explaining why he was resigning that among other incidents, a UCLA professor of Asian American Studies was celebrated by faculty and administration for inviting a guest lecturer who proclaimed that “Zionism is a form of white supremacism.”
After the incident caused a “considerable brouhaha,” the professor was “celebrated by the faculty and administration as a courageous, embattled exponent of academic freedom,” unlike professors across North America who didn’t fit in with woke orthodoxy who were forced to resign or fired, Manson said.
“More recently, the Asian-American Studies Department posted to its website a statement accusing Israel of settler colonialism, racial apartheid, etc. Irrespective of the content, doesn’t it infringe on the academic freedom of individual professors (and postdocs and graduate students, whose careers are dependent on faculty recommendations) for an academic department to take a political stand on behalf of all its members?
Several other Jewish faculty and I have made that case to the UCLA and overall University of California leadership, to no avail.”
Source: INN