A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.” In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack…
The newly-elected vice president of the University of Southern California student government resigned on Wednesday, following accusations that she is a racist for her support of Israel as a Jewish homeland. Rose Ritch, a senior from San Francisco who was elected by the student body in February, said in an open letter to the USC…
As a national reexamination of monuments and memorials of flawed heroes moves along, the University of Southern California has accelerated its own efforts, aimed at past leaders whose credentials may appear ugly in the spotlight of today. Prominent among potential targets: racists. Not so prominent: anti-Semites, a fact that has many on campus concerned. Already,…
Mike Myers, who brought the world Austin Powers, Wayne, Shrek and Fat Bastard, isn’t the first name you think of when it comes to Holocaust education, but there he was, popping up on Zoom, to speak–– movingly–– to hundreds of students from around the world about genocide and hate. “There’s a responsibility when you have…
A Nazi symbol or a piece of art? A vendor at the University of Southern California tried to explain that T-shirts featuring swastikas he was selling on campus were no more than an artistic expression. But according to a report on the local NBC news, the campus rabbi did not share the artistic value of…
So, you just won a Pulitzer Prize. Congrats! Your journalism legacy is secured. Unless you left journalism to work in PR, that is. That’s exactly what happened to one Rob Kuznia, formerly of the Daily Breeze newspaper, which covers the South Bay area of Los Angeles, who left his career as a metro reporter because…
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