UC profs: Technical accuracy matters less than (some) students' feelings

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Campus Reform reports that in attempts to minimize student discomfort, the University of California’s Ethnic Studies Faculty Council has cautioned to avoid terms like “terrorism” when denoting civilian targeting that defies the International Humanitarian Law. Simultaneously, local Jewish students—including at the Bay Area's own Stanford University—are seeing heightened discrimination, while institutions like DEI offices turn a blind eye.

An Oct. 16 statement from the University of California’s Ethnic Studies Faculty Council appears to criticize educational institutions for referring to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel as “terrorism.”

These professors are worried that calling the group that beheaded, tortured, raped, mutilated, captured, burned, and killed over 1,400 civilians in one day terrorists may negatively affect members of the University of California system’s community.

Journalist Gabe Stutman posted the letter on X.

The relevant portion reads:

”It is deeply distressing that the UC and other higher education institutions’ administrative statements in the last week and a half. that irresponsibly wield charges of ‘terrorism’ and ‘unprovoked’ aggression, have contributed to a climate that has made Palestinian students and community members unsafe, even in their own homes.”

This article originally appeared in Campus Reform. Read the whole thing here.

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