“Boston University has been considering hiring an anti-Israel postdoctoral associate as a professor,” Sarah Ihmoud.
Ihmoud isn’t just anti-Israel, she is an antisemitic propagandist “who portrays Jews as rapists, Jewish leaders and academics as promoting rape … and more.” It is dangerous to allow her to be teaching students.
It is no secret that campuses across the U.S. are saturated with Islamic supremacist antisemities and student groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. The last thing Boston University needs is another Islamic supremacist antisemite. Let’s hope that enough people complain to stop the hiring of this wretched propagandist. No university would tolerate the same hateful propaganda toward Muslims or any other visible minority group (and of course they shouldn’t).
“Boston University Considering Hiring Professor Who Accuses Israel of ‘Rape,’ ‘Systematic Massacres,’” by Jackson Richman, JNS, November 8, 2019:
JNS.org – Boston University has been considering hiring an anti-Israel postdoctoral associate as a professor, reported Americans for Peace and Tolerance.
While the school has yet to hire Sarah Ihmoud, the offer is “imminent,” according to APT.
Ihmoud presented her paper, “Sexual Violence, Women’s Bodies, and Israeli Settler Colonialism,” to the university. In it, she alleges that the “rape and killing of Palestinian women was a central aspect of Israeli troops’ systematic massacres and evictions during the destruction of Palestinian villages in 1948.”
She also wrote, “Israeli officials’ repressive policies and incitement against the Palestinian people work to empower and embolden Israeli settler society to embody the power of the state and viciously attack Palestinians. This is clearly exhibited in the attacks on Palestinian women’s bodies inside Al-Aqsa mosque these last weeks in Jerusalem, by both settler publics empowered by the state’s military protection, and members of the state security forces.”
APT stated that “the claims made are false,” and that “the paper, like all of Ihmoud’s writings, is not simply anti-Israeli, it is blatantly antisemitic and unsupported by any facts and does not merit ‘academic scholarship’ status.”
It continued, “Boston University should not hire a person who portrays Jews as rapists, Jewish leaders and academics as promoting rape … and more. This hateful propaganda, posing as scholarship, is no different from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the crudest German junk science proving that Jews are genetically inferior to Aryans.”
Boston University President Robert Brown could not respond to a request for comment, as the university is in the midst of hiring-consideration reviews.
“The fact that Ms. Ihmoud has presented this work as academic scholarship and is now being considered for a faculty position at a university as esteemed and reputable as Boston University is extremely troubling,” The Lawfare Project wrote in a letter sent last week to Boston University. “Ms. Ihmoud portrays Jews as rapists, Jewish leaders and academics as promoting rape, and Jewish women as having orgasms while thinking about Jewish men raping Palestinian women.”….