Hundreds of professors and advocacy organizations are calling on University of California system President Janet Napolitano to crack down on classroom indoctrination at her most notoriously left-leaning campus. The letter takes issue with a student-taught course titled “Palestine: A Settler-Colonial Analysis,” claiming it was not properly vetted and “crossed the line from education to indoctrination.” The course is being sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) co-founder and UC faculty member Hatem Bazian.
Hundreds of professors and advocacy organizations are calling on University of California system President Janet Napolitano to crack down on classroom indoctrination at her most notoriously left-leaning campus.
In a letter to Napolitano Tuesday, 176 individual faculty members from colleges around the country and 47 religious, civil rights, education, and research organizations argue that a student-taught course titled “Palestine: A Settler-Colonial Analysis” was not properly vetted before being approved, which they point out is a violation of the Regents Policy on Course Content.
“Even after Dean Carla Hesse asked Ethnic Studies to re-review the syllabus in light of the Regents Policy, the department chair approved the course, denying that it had any particular political agenda or that it crossed the line from education to indoctrination,” the letter explains. “We find it hard to believe that a course with an obviously one-sided anti-Israel reading list, exclusively anti-Israel guest speakers, and a clear intent to justify the elimination of the State of Israel is considered to be consistent with Regents Policy.”
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