USC is helping antisemitic students lead a witch hunt
Zachary Faria
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The University of Southern California is a shameful institution with its fair share of scandals. It is adding another to the list with its support for a witch hunt being carried out by pro-terrorist students against a Jewish professor.
USC suspended economics professor John Strauss and barred him from campus based on an edited video from pro-terrorist students who are seeking to have him fired. As “pro-Palestinian” students gathered on campus, Strauss walked by and declared the following: “Hamas are murderers. That’s all they are. Every one should be killed, and I hope they all are killed.”
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He was, and is, correct that Hamas are murderers. Hamas are terrorists, and the world would be a better place if they were removed from it. But these pro-terrorist students were upset at the proud display of opposition to terrorism. They captured Strauss’s comments on video, cut off the part where he mentioned Hamas, and then posted his comments on social media and presented them as if Strauss had been talking about all Palestinians. USC’s Muslim Student Union smeared Strauss by claiming he was “repeatedly calling for the murder of the entirety of Palestine.”
And yet USC decided to indulge the pro-terrorist tantrum of its antisemitic students and ban Strauss from campus within 24 hours of the edited videos hitting social media. He was stripped of his undergraduate classes and is forced to teach his graduate classes on Zoom because he is still banned from setting foot on campus.
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USC claims that “The university is always willing to change its approach as it receives and considers more information; our north star is protecting the safety of our community,” but that is obviously not true. It never received any “information” in the first place. It received disinformation in the form of edited videos captioned with lies that no one at the university even bothered to verify. The actual video shows exactly what Strauss said. There is no reason he should have ever been removed from campus, let alone not be allowed back immediately.
The USC students leading this antisemitic witch hunt are on the side of terrorists, as they made clear by causing an uproar over a professor who said “Hamas are murderers.” USC chose to support their witch hunt by punishing the professor without bothering to verify a single aspect of this story. It is a failure of leadership, which is becoming a common theme at USC in recent years.