Antisemite of the Week: Kylie Broderick - Teaching Jew Hatred

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Antisemite of the Week: Kylie Broderick - Teaching Jew Hatred
https://www.stopantisemitism.org/antisemite-of-the-week-6/antisemite-of-the-week-kylie-broderick-teaching-jew-hatred

Kylie Broderick is a graduate student at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC) and serves as the managing editor for the online magazine Jadaliyya https://www.jadaliyya.com/, which claims Israel is an "established an apartheid regime on the entire territory of historic Palestine". Broderick has a long history of hostility toward Jews and the Jewish State including supporting the antisemitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, calling for the erasure of the State of Israel and spreading horrific lies and insults about and to Jews.

Last week students at the UNC which showed up for Broderick's new class titled "The Conflict Over Israel Palestine" were treated to a one-sided antisemitic hate-fest from a graduate student professor who has been outspoken about her illegal plans. Per Dr. Mark Goldfeder, Esq. the Director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, Broderick's new anti-Israel class violates both Federal and State Law

Broderick has been a known antisemite for quite some time. For example, during Israel's bloody May conflict with the terror group Hamas, Broderick shamefully tweeted "Zionist dirtbags", similar to the commonly used antisemitic slur "dirty Jew."



Broderick also promotes the idea that Israel has no right to exist. Last month she re-tweeted a comment stating "All of Israel is occupied Palestinian territory" as a response to the Ben & Jerry's boycott of various sections of the Jewish state.



In 2020 Broderick tweeted about teaching the "2 sides" of the "modern Middle East" but clarified, "by '2 sides' I mean there is only 1 legitimate side – the oppressed – versus imperialist propaganda. I don't ever want to encourage them [students] to believe there is reason to take on good faith the oppressive ideologies of ... Zionists."

Broderick is also a strong supporter of BDS, a boycott movement that solely singles out Jewish products and businesses. In May she tweeted - "Everyone at UNC has a responsibility to step up for Palestinians & Palestine. Start following #BDS immediately." A few days later, Broderick made similar comments supportive of BDS in a local paper.



A few days prior to promoting BDS, Broderick obscenely shared a common antisemitic trope of Jews killing just to kill, tweeting - "Palestinians are being murdered for just being alive & bc they're inconvenient to Israel & its patron, the US imperialist death cult."

Despite dozens of complaints about Broderick submitted by both concerned students, alumni and various Jewish organizations to UNC Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz, her actions were dismissed. Instead Chancellor Guskiewicz issued a statement of defense for Broderick,outrageously stating students "will benefit from a thoughtful presentation of information relevant to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict."

This isn't the first time UNC has been under fire for antisemitism on its campus. In 2019 a complaint was filed with the Department of Education (DOE) against the University for allegedly discriminating against Jewish students after the school hosted notorious singer and antisemite Tamer Nafar to perform at an event titled "Conflict Over Gaza". During the forum, Nafar performed his "antisemitism song" causing nationwide outrage. UNC settled the complaint with the DOE and agreed to "take all steps reasonably designed to ensure that students enrolled in the University are not subjected to a hostile environment".

Despite Kylie Broderick's long history of clear bias towards the Jewish people and Jewish State, UNC has decided she is a qualified source to teach a Fall 2021 History class about "The Conflict Over Israel/Palestine". By allowing Broderick to teach this course, the University is clearly and blatantly violating its agreement with the Department of Education.

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jew "diplomat" dictates to American university.

ISRAELI DIPLOMAT PRESSURED UNC TO REMOVE TEACHER WHO CRITICIZED ISRAEL
An Israeli consul general baselessly accused a graduate student of antisemitism and said she shouldn't teach a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
https://theintercept.com/2021/09/28/israel-palestine-unc-academic-freedom/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

THIS AUGUST, Israeli consular officials in the southeast U.S. arranged meetings with a dean at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to discuss a graduate student teaching a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to two UNC professors with knowledge of the meetings, who asked for anonymity for fear of retribution, the Israeli official accused the Ph.D. student of antisemitism and said she was unfit to teach the course.

The intervention by an Israeli government official, Consul General to the Southeastern United States Anat Sultan-Dadon, followed a pressure campaign by right-wing pro-Israel websites and an advocacy group to remove the graduate student, Kylie Broderick, from teaching the history department course called "The Conflict over Israel/Palestine." The websites and pro-Israel advocacy group pointed to postings Broderick had made on Twitter that criticized Israel and Zionism and, without evidence, cited the postings as evidence of antisemitism.

In addition to the intervention by the Israeli government, the school faced pressure from a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, the two UNC professors told The Intercept. The professors said Rep. Kathy Manning, D-N.C., also met with the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences to exert pressure over Broderick's course.

"It is not a new phenomenon where outside parties have tried to stifle academic freedom on this subject," Broderick said. "But these people have never seen me teach, never seen my past evaluations which have said that I treat students fairly, and thus have no right to dictate what I say inside the classroom."

Israel-Palestine has become one of the most politicized areas of academia, with periodic firings of professors, prosecutions of students, and even the maintenance of public blacklists helping impose an atmosphere of fear and self-censorship over the topic. Even by that standard, the intervention of Israeli government officials directly with an American university over the teaching of a course represents a troubling new threat to academic freedom.

"I think that a representative of a foreign government attempting to police an academic class is, in the first place, ridiculous, and an obvious overreaction to what is essentially an issue that started on Twitter," Broderick said. "I also think it is strange that the Israeli consulate general was granted an audience. If this was a class on Hungary or Australia, would the university have permitted the attempted interference of a foreign government? The fact that this meeting happened at all is clearly a threat to academic freedom."

The controversy started over several tweets sent by Broderick that were highly critical of Israel and U.S. foreign policy, including support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel. Broderick rejected accusations leveled by Israeli consular officials that her criticisms of Israel on social media constituted antisemitism. "A critique of Israel and the political ideology of Zionism does not constitute bigotry any more than a critique of Iran, which calls itself an Islamic Republic, constitutes an Islamophobic attack," Broderick said. "States are not religions, nor are states a people."

BRODERICK HAD EXPECTED scrutiny some of her teaching, as Israel is always a hot-button issue in the United States. What she did not was the degree to which the smear campaign against her would balloon, up to and including interventions from officials of two governments.

In a statement to The Intercept, Sultan-Dadon confirmed the meeting with the dean of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences about Broderick. Though Sultan-Dadon declined to comment on the specifics of the discussion, she doubled down on her view that Broderick was antisemitic and unfit to teach a course on the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"Regarding the matter of the course 'The Conflict over Israel/Palestine' at UNC Chapel Hill taught by PhD student Ms. Broderick, I do have significant concerns regarding public statements that have been made by Ms. Broderick on this subject matter, some of which are not only heavily biased, but fall clearly under what is defined as antisemitic by the IHRA working definition of antisemitism," Sultan-Dadon said, referring to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's heavily contested definition of antisemitism.

The consul general went on: "I think it should be of concern to anyone who stands against antisemitism, and for academic freedom, that an individual who has not only made public antisemitic statements in reference to Israel and the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but also publicly stated that she does not believe there are two sides to this conflict and does not want to teach her students both sides, is the selected teacher for a course on 'The Conflict over Israel/Palestine.'"

Manning's congressional office did not respond to a request for comment on the meetings with UNC officials. Manning's website is short on foreign policy positions but says that support for Israel is a key issue for the U.S. House member.

The dean's office and UNC declined to comment on the meeting with officials. However, UNC officials appear to be holding firm despite the heavy outside pressure over Broderick's teaching of the course. An email from the chancellor's office this August, circulated online by pro-Israel groups, indicated that the course would go forward as planned, and Broderick has since begun teaching without controversy or complaints from students.

THE CONTROVERSY OVER Broderick's teaching of the course began this summer, after the pro-Israel website Algemeiner did a story focused on a series of tweets Broderick had made that were highly critical of Israel or deemed by the author, Peter Reitzes, to have been "crass."

The issue snowballed from there as other activist news websites picked up the issue and began spreading it in their networks — even reaching mainstream news. In August, a local ABC affiliate broadcasted an investigative story by journalist Jonah Kaplan. Kaplan quoted students saying that Broderick's tweets criticizing Israel were reminiscent of the rhetoric that fomented the Holocaust, describing them as a "new mutation of what anti-Semitism is today." Another student told Kaplan, regarding Broderick's tweets, "Just replace Zionist with Jew and it's pretty obvious it's anti-Semitic."

Similar campaigns, accusing critics of Israel of antisemitism despite a lack of direct evidence, have long become commonplace in U.S. academia.

"Academic courses all over the U.S. have been taught for a long time with a massive bias in favor of Israel, and if people in a classroom or faculty are pro-Israel, they should be allowed to make that argument. But what all this outside pressure on academics is trying to do is prevent the same from happening from the Palestinian perspective," said Jonathan Brown, a professor of Islamic civilization at Georgetown University. "There are fundamental questions at stake here about academic freedom and whether academics are expected to teach according to donor or even foreign government preferences."

In many ways, however, the discourse over the conflict is changing, with polls showing growing sympathy for the Palestinian cause and openness to criticism of Israeli government policy among Americans, including among liberal, progressive, and Jewish organizations that also prioritize the fight against domestic antisemitism. The intense pushback, even against graduate students critical of Israel teaching courses on the subject with the Israeli government itself directly involved, is seen by some as a way of trying to maintain a slanted status quo that is now going out of favor.

"When I was in college 20 years ago, if someone said something critical of Israel in class, you could hear a pin drop. It was frightening. Things are very different now," said Brown. "In a weird way, what is interesting about Broderick's case is that in all likelihood she is going to be fine, and that is a massive change from what would have happened even a decade ago."

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>>>  Broderick's new anti-Israel class violates both Federal and State Law

so, pretty much a Mathematical Proof that the State and Federal Governments are run by Jews for Jews.

IOW, verifying the common stereotype.