Left-wing transgender professor threatens violence against ‘zionist journalists’

Left-wing transgender professor threatens violence against ‘zionist journalists’

“A University of California professor came under fire Thursday for a social media post that appears to threaten extreme violence in the U.S. against journalists reporting on Israel — and their children,” reports The College Fix:

UC Davis Professor Jemma Decristo posted on X on Oct. 10: “one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation … they have houses w addresses, kids in school, they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.”

The post ended with a knife emoji, an ax emoji, and three red drops of blood.

The post was made just a few days after deadly terrorist attacks against Israel by Hamas that killed more than 1,400 civilians, including women and children.

Decristo is also listed as a faculty undergraduate advisor. The professor’s post was screenshot and spread quickly on social media this week.

“Hey @ucdavis, do you think it’s appropriate that one of your faculty advisors, @jemmaisOKeh, is publicly threatening to murder Jews at their homes and their children at their schools,” posted Jason Bedrick, a research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation….

Decristo is an assistant professor of American Studies at the public school. The professor is transgender and was previously called Jeramy Decristo. According to their faculty bio, Decristo’s “focus is on the interplay between sound, race, gender and embodiment.”…

Decristo is the second male-to-female transgender professor to make headlines this week for vitriolic statements against Jews. Mika Tosca, a transgender associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, also made news for a post on social media that stated Israelis are “pigs” and “savages” and they should “all rot in hell.”

Globe writer Ken Kurson wrote “we’ve got a trans woman who would surely face torture or death in Gaza, siding with those who attacked not the Israeli army or even its civilian infrastructure, but children and grandmothers and concert goers.”

“This is the sickness of Intersectionality,” Kurson argued. “The entire moral compass is based not on any recognizable calculus of appropriate behavior. Whoever is perceived as poor and powerless is automatically virtuous, whoever is perceived as rich and powerful is a candidate for butchering.”

For a transgender professor to be anti-zionist or pro-Hamas is ironic, because Hamas and Gaza oppress LGBT people, while Israel does not.

Colleges are allowing masked pro-Hamas rallies, even in states that ban public mask-wearing except on Halloween. Previously, some of these colleges enforced anti-mask rules against alt-right demonstrators.

Colleges may also be applying campus rules against inappropriate remarks in a selective fashion. Washington University in St. Louis investigated a professor for anti-Hamas remarks that some people viewed as dehumanizing toward Palestinians. But at Cornell University, there has been no investigation of a professor who called the Hamas terror attacks “exhilarating” and “exciting.”

A diversity and inclusion director at Cornel University supported the Hamas terror attack, writing that Hamas was “fighting for life, dignity, and freedom…against settler colonization, imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, which the United States is the model.”

Many colleges that have previously condemned microaggressions, Supreme Court decisions, Republican legislation, and things like students wearing sombreros to Halloween parties could not bring themselves to condemn either the Hamas terror attacks that killed at least 1400 people, or campus protests that explicitly praised the terror attacks. One university claimed it must remain neutral about “geopolitical issues and news events.” Such universities have often taken sides on political issues, such as climate change policy, and spoken out about news events, such as the death of George Floyd.

Northwestern University, which publicly criticized the Supreme Court for ruling against race-based college admissions, refused to “make an institutional statement” about the terror attacks by Hamas that killed relatives of some of its students.

Hamas kidnapped many civilians, including small children, seizing them as hostages. This hostage-taking came after the Biden administration agreed to pay a $6 billion ransom to Iran in exchange for the release of five American hostages. Hamas admits Iran gave it weapons it used in its attack on Israel. The Biden administration released millions of dollars to the Hamas-controlled government of the Gaza strip.

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