Posted on 11/26/2023 8:01:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
Until recently, USC professor John Strauss was known mostly for his research on the economics of developing countries, with decades of fieldwork in Indonesia and China.
That changed Nov. 9, when Strauss stopped before students staging a walkout and protest calling for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip and holding a memorial to thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
The economics professor’s interactions with students that day ended with the 72-year-old Strauss, who is Jewish, declaring: “Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one should be killed, and I hope they all are killed.”
Students captured those remarks on their cellphones, almost instantly seeming to recognize a viral moment. “Can you say that for the camera?” one pressed.
A man wearing glasses and a green plaid shirt faces three young men John Strauss, a USC economics professor, was captured on camera telling students he wanted Hamas killed.
(Handout) Within hours, Strauss’ comments were posted online, shared and reshared on X, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.
As his remarks raced across the internet, his condemnation of Hamas was often excised, leaving only his “hope” for “all” to be killed. Captions and comments online framed his demand for “every one” to be killed in myriad, at times deceptive, ways. One Instagram post shared to millions of users claimed falsely that Strauss told the students, “[I] hope you get killed....”
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I wonder if this professor ever "spoke up" when whites were being targeted during the Summer of Floyd?
I wouldn't be surprised if he instead vocally supported BLM and denounced "white supremecy."
John Strauss is a recognized specialist in the fields of development economics and the economics of the household. Strauss is Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal, Economic Development and Cultural Change and was co-editor of the Handbook of Development Economics, Volume 4, which contains major surveys of the recent scientific literature on various topics in development economics, including a co-authored a chapter by Strauss on health and development economics. Strauss is the Principal Investigator of Indonesia Family Life Survey, a major panel survey of households and communities in Indonesia, funded by NIH, and a Principal Investigator of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, also funded by NIH. His previous positions include at Michigan State University, Yale and the University of Virginia. He is also affiliated with RAND Corporation and has an honorific professorship at Peking University.
https://dornsife.usc.edu/profile/john-strauss/
USC moves Jewish professor to remote teaching after he said Hamas ‘murderers’ ‘should be killed’
Our college step daughter wants to go to Amman Jordan this summer with her arab friends. I said she should go to Jerusalem while she is there, and even gave her an easy “if only for the history” she gave me a nasty stink eye and said no way.
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