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University of Kentucky Professor of Law Ramsi Woodcock Calls for the World to Destroy Israel

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In the green and rolling hills of horse-country and mint-julep Kentucky, a man has just stood up for evil in the garden. His name is Ramsi Woodcock — “Ramsi” suggests a partly Arab background — and he is a tenured professor at the University of Kentucky law school. He thinks that Israel should be wiped out, and that the entire world should join in eliminating the tiny Jewish state. For this, he was removed from his teaching duties, but not suspended. He’s been moved to another position, in the office of professional development, where he won’t be meeting with, and poisoning the minds of, students. More on this monster can be found here: “US professor sues university for probing his call for global war to ‘end Israel,’” by Luke Tress, Times of Israel, November 15, 2025:

A professor at the University of Kentucky on Thursday sued the university leadership and the head of the US Department of Education after he was investigated and removed from teaching for eliminationist rhetoric against Israel.

Ramsi Woodcock’s calls to destroy the Jewish state ran afoul of state antisemitism law, but he contends that his anti-Zionist diatribes are protected speech, in a case that touches on First Amendment protections and serves as a counterpoint to lawsuits filed by Jewish groups against universities across the US that argue anti-Zionism is discriminatory toward Jews.

Criticism of Zionism, or of Israel, is protected speech under the First Amendment. But calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state, which would of course involve the mass murder of Jews in Israel, is not. This is intended to whip up violence against the Jewish state. It is likely to do so. Some of those reading Woodcock’s words may well be inspired to attack individual Israelis — say, a speaker from the IDF — or Israeli institutions, including violent attacks on Israel’s consulates and embassy, which those attackers see as initial milestones along the way to destroying the Jewish state. It’s not hard to imagine that Woodcock’s inflammatory words would likely incite “imminent lawless violence,” and thus should lose their protected status, according to the opinion in Brandenburg v. Ohio.

Woodcock is a tenured law professor at the university’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law and has worked at the university since 2018. He sued the university president, other university leaders, and US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in a federal court in Kentucky.

Woodcock’s anti-Israel positions, published online, amount to a broadside of common far-left attacks against Israel, combining genocide and apartheid accusations, international law, colonialist academic theories, and characterizing Israel as an impediment to the world order.

“Zionism is not only racism, but colonialism, and the remedy is not equality but decolonization,” he said, characterizing Israel as an “American colony” and arguing against “any right of self-determination for Jewish people” between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Loathsome as they are, those words are still protected speech. But Woodcock did not stop there.

He has taken the argument a step further than many anti-Israel academics, though, by explicitly arguing for the violent destruction of Israel and laying out a plan for a global war against the Jewish state.

In public statements last year, he called to “end Israel” and demanded “war — by the international community against Israel.”

“We demand that every country in the world make war on Israel immediately and until such time as Israel has submitted permanently and unconditionally to the government of Palestine,” he wrote in a petition….

Woodcock is urging “every country in the world” to “make war” against the Jewish state, until it submits, through violence, to being part of a state of Palestine, which Palestinians would presumably rule once their land, which, in Woodcock’s view, the Israelis “stole,” has been returned to its rightful owners. No Jewish state, no matter how small, will be permitted to exist.

In July, in response to Woodcock, university president Eli Capilouto released a public statement calling Woodcock’s views “repugnant” and stating that the rhetoric could be antisemitic.

Woodcock’s rhetoric “could be antisemitic”? No, of course it is antisemitic. He’s just called for a war of annihilation to be waged against the Jewish state, which inevitably will mean the murder of many of its Jewish citizens. That’s stone-cold antisemitism, the kind of thing to warm the cockles of your heart, if you are Hitler or Himmler or Adolf Eichmann.

The question is this: is Woodcock’s “speech” calling for a war by everyone in the world against the Jewish state likely to cause some among his potentially vast online audience to be moved to “imminent lawless violence” against the state of Israel, its citizens, or its supporters? There is an epidemic of antisemitism now raging in the world. There are violent antisemites who, when they read what Woodcock is advocating, will very likely be inspired to that “imminent lawless action.” It doesn’t have to be a murder, like Elias Rodriguez’s murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, two employees of the Israeli Embassy. Someone who, having read Woodcock’s words, goes out and firebombs a car belonging to an employee of an Israeli consulate or company, or scrawls swastikas all over a Jewish school where an “Israel History Month” is being celebrated, could commit that “lawless action.”

As the University of Kentucky Law School, they are already lawyered up. See you in court, Ramsi Woodcock. I see that among those supporting you is CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land trial. If you lose your lawsuit, the law school may decide that moving you to a non-teaching position was not enough, given the violent nature of your views. Perhaps you could become the Al-Thani Professor of International Law at the University of Doha, sitting in your comfortably endowed chair, among your fellow Israel-haters, but still pining for a seat at the three-day eventing in Lexington and a glass of ole Kaintuck.

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  2. If calling for the genocide of Jews ever does become “protected speech”, Western democracy, in and out of the United States, will have entered its death throes.

    The University of Kentucky can be commended for doing something, anything, about this creep, but they should be going further. He should be fired. Let’s normalize that.

    We will be looking to hear more about this.

    • Western Civilization is already in its death throes due to leftism and islam. Look around.

      • Pray Hard, I agree with you 100%, Western civilization is in its death throes.

        Islam = Satan, whenever you see a mosque, you’re looking at HELL on earth. Whenever you see a Muslim you’re looking at Satan. Islam IS the Armageddon of the WORLD. Islam is the Armageddon of America!

        May God help all Jews, Christians, and non-Muslims. We’re in Dire Straits, surrounded, engulfed, by Satan’s Army. The Democrats and many Republicans encourage/support
        our demise.

        I love you God the Father, our Son and Savior Jesus Christ, the security of the Holy Ghost. ✝️🙏🏼❤️🇺🇸

  3. The thing is, the First Amendment right to speech….is a Federal Law. Is the U of Kentucky a federal institution? Or does it just get federal funding?

    The second thing, besides this creep being evil as can be, is that he’s calling for the murder of millions of people. The scum is calling for genocide.
    That should *earn* him more than just being given a different position at the school; it should mean he’s up on charges.

    His suit should be dismissed.

  4. This turkey is indicative in microcosm respecting what has happened to education in America.

    If one by now does not know that the Left with all its rubbish has taken over the educational system in the USA that person is, at best, a massive ignoramus.

    I would add here, and I think it a highly important “addition,” that no entity in America in our era has pushed the rot in education in this country more so than the Democratic Party of the USA has. Yes, there are other culprits with overlaps like the Ford Foundation and which contributed some 100 million dollars to the Marxist and corrupt Black Lives Matter (and this is why I refuse to buy any Ford car), but enemy #1 of America is the Democratic Party, which just this week with Senators like Kelly of Arizona and Slotkin of Michigan encouraged the American Armed Forces to disobey its Commander-in-Chief, President Donald Trump.

    In any case, this Bozo teaching at the University of Kentucky is a symptom here and not a cause. The cause is Leftism and this cause is led by the Democratic Party of the USA, a party I have come to despise through and through. Yes, please tell me anyone, how you can remain a Democrat and an American patriot. I say it can’t be done.

    Wise up, everyone. The greatest enemy of America is the Democratic Party of the USA. Nothing could be clearer.

    • Most of my family of idiots have voted Commiecrat for literally decades. It’s a reflexive action without thought and driven by a false loyalty to those who have betrayed them. Today’s Demorat party has nothing to do w/the values espoused by RFK, JFK or FDR.

    • Wellington says,

      “Yes, please tell me anyone, how you can remain a Democrat and an American patriot.”

      Many decades ago, one could be both a Democrat and an American patriot.

      Many decades ago…

  6. He’s swimming in cash, if he thinks that suing the university is gonna help him. Right now, universities have frozen hiring and are shedding people: the cocoon that used to exist around academia has been busted. He’ll probably find himself out of a job and money if he keeps at it

  8. “ We demand that every country in the world make war on Israel immediately”

    You demand? Oh, yeah? You and what “Queers for Palestine” army, you pathetic little POS?

    Note to Mr. J. David Rosenberg: it might be time to rethink your $20 million donation to the institution that employs this piece of dreck.

  9. Dismiss his stupid suit, FIRE THE alcoholic drug addled UGLY.. sub Beta Male. Apparently he has been drinking too much Kentucky whiskey or smoking too much Hemp. He has lost his mind. He is calling for GENOCIDE, full stop.
    He looks like a sub BETA MALE who needs to shut his mouth and quit blathering inanities and crawl into his safe space filled w/ booze or “SOMETHING”

  10. Israel has nuclear weapons. Maybe MAD will be the only doctrine keeping the rabid Jew haters from achieving their wet dream of eliminating the Jewish people and Israel because the destruction of Israel is only a symptom of their festering, Jew hating disease.
    I only wish Israel had nuclear powered boomers.

  11. Morally this is a clear cut case. Legally it is not. Three cases from the US Supreme Court. Pickering v. Board of Education, Connik v. Meyers, and Garcetti v. Ceballos, dictate the circumstances under which a public school or public university can regulate the speech of its employees.

    In this spat, if Ramsi Woodcock spewed any of this venom in a class or while he was on the job, or from university computers, then he is out of a job.

    If he only did so online, on his own time, the court will have to apply the balancing tests of Pickering, Conrick, and Garcetti. If a faculty member is speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, then the university may regulate speech only if its interest in workplace efficiency outweighs the employee’s interest in speaking.

    The University will try to show that his speech was disruptive of the functioning of the university, and he will claim the opposite. The case is likely to drag on for years, and possibly go to the U.S. Supreme Court because there is a circuit court split as to whether certain aspects of Garcetti apply. Kentucky is in the 6th Circuit and has the Sixth Circuit has not yet ruled on the application of Garcetti, i.e. whether speech related to scholarship or teaching, the “Garcetti Academic Footnote,” applies. Some circuit courts say it does, some say it doesn’t. So sit back and wait to see what how the courts rule. In the meantime blast Ramsi Woodcock‘s actions as morall6 reprehensible.

  12. University of Kentucky Professor of Law Ramsi Woodcock Calls for the World to Destroy Israel
    …………………………………………………………

    Preaching mass murder is *not* protected speech.

  14. Here we have another anti-semitic person that hates Jewish People calling for the violent destruction of the Jewish people and the establishment of a Palestinian land. Such hatred is stirred up by the devil Satan. In the book of Genesis in the Holy Bible the creator of the heavens and earth gave this land to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Israel by an eternal covenant. As a result that land is the land of Israel and it belongs to the Jewish people. It would be extremely foolish for any nation to attempt to destroy Israel and the Jewish people.

  15. Israel is interesting because it is not new. Every fall of empire is accompanied by the rise of anti-civilisation groups/cults. In Roman times there were loads of tribes who raided and stole stuff from Rome, the modern equivalent are the zionists trying to create their greater Israel.

    As for Jew suprematism, that is straight out of the nazi playbook, no further examples needed.

    The thing is that “civilised people” abhor these actions, but when s civilisation collapses then various groups will revert to barbarism, which is what we see in the oligarch Jews, Trump and brainwashed Israeli IDF Jews.

    But it is all fed by the same old motivations; greed and power. Nothing special, every animal shits.

    • The ONLY Colonists in Judae and Samaria are the ARABS . . . who came there with the Islamic Invasions . . .
      Jews who have lived in Jerusalem for 1000s of years . . .
      .
      My clueless friend . . . the Arabs were allies of the 3rd Reich, which is why today many call them Islamofascists !
      .
      Did you go to school to get this clueless . . . or are you a disgruntled muslim?

      • The largest division of the Waffen SS in terms of manpower (not equipment) was the all moslem Handshar division. I have read that among the diehard defenders of the Fuhrer bunker in Berlin were elements of the all moslame, Waffen SS Handshar division.

    • “As for Jew suprematism, that is straight out of the nazi playbook, no further examples needed.”
      Fallacy of argumentation employed: anachronism because Judaism predates the existence of Germany or the German language by millennia.

  17. I think it is time America led the world in making a law specifically outlawing anti-semitism. That way, shitheads like this so called professor can get banged up in jail where they belong. Or deported, as the case may be.

  18. I think it is time America led the world in making a law specifically outlawing anti-semitism. That way, shitheads like this so called professor can get banged up in jail where they belong. Or deported, as the case may be.

  19. This guy should be prosecuted for incitement to genocide, Hopefully he has no tenure, in which case he should be fired on the spot. And if he does not yet have the American citizenship, he should never be allowed to get it. After he has served his sentence, he should be declared a ‘persona non grata’ and kicked out of the US.

  20. He has tenure the report says clearly so, but as anon US citizen I am constantly shocked at the kind of peoiple who get appointed as professors in USA colleges. No doubt DEI has something to do with it.

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