Posted on 01/05/2022 8:50:14 AM PST by george76
Diversity, equity, and inclusion staff often act as “political activists” and contribute to hostile conditions for Jewish students at universities, according to a study recently published by the Heritage Foundation.
Jay Greene, senior research fellow at the foundation’s Center for Education Policy, and James Paul, director of research at the Educational Freedom Institute, co-authored the December report, titled “Inclusion Delusion: The Antisemitism of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Staff at Universities.”
The study should help people understand that the “nice-sounding words” of diversity, equity and inclusion are “masking university programs that actually spew hate and division, particularly with respect to Jews,” Greene told The College Fix via email.
The study concluded DEI staff are “particularly unwelcoming toward Jewish students,” noting that this attitude may promote antisemitic sentiments at universities.
“The political activism of DEI staff may help explain the rising frequency of antisemitic incidents on college campuses as well as the association between college and graduate education and higher levels of antisemitic attitudes,” the report stated.
Greene and Paul searched the public Twitter feeds of 741 DEI personnel at 65 universities to reach their conclusion, comparing their statements on Israel to those on China for comparison.
The authors searched for key terms such as “Israel,” “Palestine” and “China” mentioned in tweets, retweets and “likes” of tweets connected to the DEI staff accounts.
“Those DEI staff tweeted, retweeted, or liked almost three times as many tweets about Israel as tweets about China. Of the tweets about Israel, 96 percent were critical of the Jewish state, while 62 percent of the tweets about China were favorable,” the report stated.
Greene and Paul cited multiple examples from Twitter without identifying individual DEI staff.
One such tweet by a Multicultural Student Center staff person stated, “Condemn the Apartheid State of Israel for their Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian.”
The word “apartheid” appears 43 times in reference to Israel in DEI staff public communications, the study found. The word “colonialism” occurred 39 times, and the word “genocide” appeared nine times in tweets regarding Israel.
The study asserted that the tweets, retweets and likes of DEI staff involve instances of antisemitic qualities according to a definition of antisemitism composed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
“The frequent use of words such as apartheid and colonialism are meant to portray Israel as a racist endeavor and deny its right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people,” the study stated.
Greene and Paul also pointed to the “double standard” evidenced by “the sparsity of criticism of China relative to Israel,” since the study found that “DEI staff were less likely to offer criticisms of China than of Israel, and those criticism tended to be less strongly worded.”
Greene, in his email to The Fix, said that rather than “welcoming diverse students, these programs are actually left-wing radicals being paid with taxpayer subsidies and tuition dollars.”
“Universities need to dramatically scale back these programs and ensure that they focus on the legitimate goals of welcoming students.”
Andrew Pessin, campus bureau editor for the Algemeiner and a professor at Connecticut College, told The College Fix on Dec. 27 that the study confirms what he has been “seeing anecdotally for the past several years, that DEI staff tend to be problematically hostile to Israel.”
“They’re welcome to their personal opinions of course, but if their job is to create an inclusive environment for all students on a campus, that must extend to Jewish and Zionist students as well, who have just as much right to a safe campus environment as anybody,” Pessin said. “It’s hard to do that when you’re busy bashing Israel all over social media.”
The report triggered “a significant reaction” in social media and other news coverage that has mostly agreed with the conclusions of the study, Greene told The College Fix.
“Essentially, our research documented what many people suspected to be true. Now that the facts are more firmly established, people feel empowered to take action to reign in DEI programs,” Greene said.
A coalition of 2,000 rabbis called for a halt of DEI efforts in response to the study, Fox News reported.
“We believe that universities should suspend all DEI programs pending a comprehensive review of how candidates are selected for staff positions, because those harboring what should be obvious disqualifying biases were apparently identified on literally dozens of campuses with influence over thousands of students,” Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told Fox News.
Negative reactions to the report mostly consist of doubts over whether the documented anti-Israel bias constitutes antisemitism, Greene said to The College Fix.
“We address this in the report noting that the double-standard and hate-filled language used to attack Israel clearly cross the line to being antisemitic,” Greene said.
Lol. “Diversity and inclusion” staff are the worst bigots of all. Everyone is a red diaper doper baby.
Isn’t discrimination (in this order) the purpose of the office:
anti-Jew
anti-Asian
anti-Christian
anti-white generic
anti-heterosexual male?
these new kinds of university and college staff
are there to
allocate employment and study opportunities
BASED ON RACIST Criteria
their duty statements and their actively discriminatory conduct make this crystal clear, explicit
Democrats have hated Jews for a very long time. They were utterly silent when the Nazis were killing millions of Jews and the feckless douchebags refused to give shelter to refugees who were fleeing Europe.
Then after WW2 the Democrats under Truman sat idly by while the French and British hounded the remaining Jews who were fleeing Europe for Israel.
Ever since they’ve done nothing but hate on Israel for the sin of existence.
And for some inexplicable reason a majority of the Jews are so damned suicidal that they vote for the Democrats in droves. Makes me wonder how many such fools voted for the Nazis when they had the chance.
That’s “Diversity, Inclusion and Exclusivity” group. (DIE)
I often wonder how much of the hatred toward whites is largely driven by Jews being considered white.
I also wonder what many statistics by race would look like if Jewish people were separated. They are also starting to put Asians in with whites in determining disadvantaged categories.
They have a narrative they want to maintain.
Old saying is “scratch a liberal and find a fascist.”
Hasn’t changed.
Why should I care?
Which political party gets the vast majority of Jewish votes?
“Diversity and inclusion” staff are the worst bigots of all.
—That’s because their manifest goals are conformity and exclusion. According to the politically correct narrative, members of certain groups and holders of certain views are to be shamed, shunned and banished. That doesn’t seem very “diverse” to me.
This did not need a formal study.
Liberals always do the opposite of what they say. Just like any crazed nutcase.
🙄
My shocked face.
“Diversity and inclusion” staff are the worst bigots of all.
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Every official agency means the exact opposite of its title.
Treading a fine line between officially hating all white people, but not Jews.
And they REALLY hate whitey.
“And for some inexplicable reason a majority of the Jews are so damned suicidal that they vote for the Democrats in droves. Makes me wonder how many such fools voted for the Nazis when they had the chance.”
Oh, that Adolf guy. He’s just a big mouth. Sure he talks about the Master Race and about rounding us up and punishing us (for being Jewish), but that can’t happen in the most civilized and advanced country in the world. What I like about him is that he supports national health insurance - so he gets my vote!!!
.....Then after WW2 the Democrats under Truman sat idly by while the French and British hounded the remaining Jews who were fleeing Europe for Israel.....
WRONG! Harry Truman bravely recognized Israel despite the counsel of his advisors!
https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/presidential-inquiries/recognition-israel
Would that we had Democrats like Truman, instead of the current scurvy bunch! Truman might not even be a Democrat today!!!!
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion staff” are hostile to the real purpose of any university, and to those who support that real purpose—Jews, Christians, Asians, agnostics, etc., etc.
They ALL should be removed, and any university president who supports them should be removed as well!!!!
Lol. “Diversity and inclusion” staff are the worst bigots of all. Everyone is a red diaper doper baby.
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Yep, and every one of them needs to be hounded and harassed and bullied whenever they slither out into the light of day.
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