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University of Arizona Profs: Hamas Not Terrorists, Just An Anti-Zionist "Resistance" Group
The College Fix ^ | 11/13/2023 | David Huber

Posted on 11/13/2023 8:55:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A pair of University of Arizona education professors was recorded telling a “Cultural Pluralism for Young Children” class that Hamas is not comprised of terrorists, but is a “resistance” group merely opposed to Zionism.

Rebecca Lopez and Rebecca Zapien (pictured above), both of whom teach “teaching, learning & sociocultural studies,” initially appear to differ somewhat in their views in the audio obtained by the X account Israel War Room.

But not for long.

One of them concedes that Hamas representatives appear to be “like, speaking, like very antisemitic,” but is countered by her peer who says “they’re probably anti-Zionist, which, again, is about the Israeli state.”

“Antisemitism,” the second professor continues, “is different than being anti-Zionist.”

The first professor then claims the Hamas “movement” is about how Israel and the Zionists “have been taking away and taking away and blockading [Palestinians] so that they’re not allowed to leave, and they’re tired of that.”

She goes on to say it is “so exhausting” for Palestinians “to be constantly treated like crap, like you don’t matter,” and that Hamas is merely “responding” to this — much like the Black Panthers did in the U.S. during the civil rights struggle of 60-plus years ago.

This professor then states Hamas “doesn’t represent the Palestinian people” as they are “not elected officials.”

(In fact, they are.)

She says she “thinks [she] thought [Hamas] was a terrorist group” because people “just say” so, and her peer notes that “language matters.”

Despite having the ability to target its weapons, Israel puts “churches, shelters, schools [and] hospitals” in its crosshairs, the first professor continues. The targeting “seems to be very intentional and deliberate,” she says.

After a student in the class says Zionists are “almost as cruel as Nazis” and another student objects, one professor jumps in to say “genocide is awful” and that the “part that’s really brutal to think about is that there have been many holocausts” … but “we’re only taught about World War II.”

One professor eventually informs the class what they can do to support the Palestinian cause: engage in boycotts (she specifically mentions the BDS — Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions — movement), contact various representatives and organizations, and participate in marches.

In an education class at @uarizona, these professors chose to discuss the current Israel-Gaza war and the broader Israeli/Palestinian conflict. What was shared was an entirely BIASED, ANTISEMITIC, BLATANTLY FALSE, and TERRORISM-SUPPORTING narrative. Listen for yourself. 🧵
(1/9) pic.twitter.com/rF4EQ9j5nC — Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 12, 2023

According to Ballotpedia, Zapien last year ran unsuccessfully for an at-large Tucson Unified School District school board seat. In 2020 she penned an op-ed blasting the district for having police, aka School Resource Officers, in its schools.

“Stop funding the false and dangerous narrative that SROs are safe for our brown and black youth,” she wrote.

“Stop participating in the school-to-prison pipeline and start practicing transformative justice.”

On her personal website, Lopez includes the “Mahatma Ghandi” [sic] quote “If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: arizona; college; domesticenemies; education; gaza; hamas; israel; rebeccalopez; rebeccazapien; waronterror
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1 posted on 11/13/2023 8:55:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Their language skills are at elementary school level and yet they are “university professors”.

Unbelievable and shameful.


2 posted on 11/13/2023 9:02:53 PM PST by Murder of Crows
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To: Murder of Crows
Unbelievable and shameful.

But typical.

3 posted on 11/13/2023 9:12:23 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: SeekAndFind

Say the two freaks who teach at the Audrey Hale School of Terrorism.


4 posted on 11/13/2023 9:14:41 PM PST by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Watch this short video of young school children being turned into terrorists in their own words. Unbelievable hate for someone so young. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OFKVI2CrllA


5 posted on 11/13/2023 9:17:33 PM PST by Singermom
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To: Murder of Crows
Mossad should grab them, dress them in IDF uniforms, and dump them off in northern Gaza.

The fun will begin while the ditzy professor broads are trying to explain to the Hammies that they are with Hamas in spirit.

A few hours later, we'll see them getting a free ride in the back of a Hammie pickup truck...

6 posted on 11/13/2023 9:25:50 PM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe those weirdos need some resistance practiced on them


7 posted on 11/13/2023 9:43:43 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: SeekAndFind

These people are human garbage.


8 posted on 11/13/2023 9:44:11 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well then: long live the Empire!


9 posted on 11/13/2023 9:57:45 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: SeekAndFind

A couple of ditzy “Karen” terrorism experts. That’s some funny stuff. Where are their Bimbo Burkas?


10 posted on 11/13/2023 9:58:43 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The taxpayers picked up the tuition student loan deadbeat tabs for these idiots to teach the empty school of mush “Karen” crap. No wonder they all ran out and saw Barbie as soon as it hit the big screen. The Zero Gravity man bun boyz are full sissified.


11 posted on 11/13/2023 10:02:38 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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school = skulls


12 posted on 11/13/2023 10:03:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ('Build Back Better' is a Bidenskyyyyyyism for 'we gotta get rid of all dem white peoples'.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank God I had Nuns, who believed in TEACHING, who taught me.

I would exit the classroom if ever presented with the likes of these two coocoos

Also in my college days at Temple...NONE of the “Professors”
could touch the hem of my High School teachers.


13 posted on 11/13/2023 10:15:46 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: SeekAndFind

“University of Arizona education professors”

Traitors who need to be adjudicated as such.


14 posted on 11/13/2023 10:19:07 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: SeekAndFind

Professors Rebecca Lopez and Rebecca Zapien are typical of the deluded propaganda illusions the Islamic savages have spewed. I have one for therm: Why don’t they take a walk down the Santa Monica Pier and catch the mothership awaiting them?


15 posted on 11/13/2023 11:49:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stupid smart people


16 posted on 11/14/2023 12:24:13 AM PST by Impala64ssa (EVERY TIME A HEMI STARTS, AN EV DIES!)
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To: Paladin2

With the exception of very few subjects in the sciences the U. of Arizona is a glorified junior college.


17 posted on 11/14/2023 2:58:14 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: SeekAndFind
Charred remains and a CT scan of the remains show an adult and a child who were bound together and burned alive by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7.......This is NOT "resistence!"...this is wicked and brutal sadistic babararism!

Two spinal columns can be seen in the scan. The pair were likely embracing as they burned


18 posted on 11/14/2023 5:13:55 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Paladin2

In an attempt to bring more women into academia, they have let the standards drop. These two clowns are so stupid they don’t even realize how stupid they are.


19 posted on 11/14/2023 5:17:27 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: vpintheak
This was not combat, or a military conflict, or a state conflict, or a political conflict that happend.......Hamas enjoyed the murders so much that they did everything they could do to celebrate the killing.... They celebrated burning houses with civilians inside .... They enjoyed grabbing an 18-year-old girl from a party, a festival, dragging her to a car, and taking her to Gaza...... They enjoyed and celebrated the death. … These are monsters. They’re not human… They weren’t merciful to anyone. No one who was alive and encountered them remained alive. No one.....

These Hands belonging to one of the victims killed by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The victim was bound at the wrists—as seen by marks that the bindings left behind—and then burned alive......


20 posted on 11/14/2023 5:22:51 AM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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