After a year of coddling antisemitic faculty, the University of Pennsylvania decided to suspend a JEWISH conservative professor, Monday, for “hate speech.”
This decision solidifies a board recommendation made last August to suspend Law Professor Amy Wax for one year with half-pay and to strip her named chair, reprimanding her political speech as “discriminatory.”
Ironically, the move was approved by then-President Liz Magill. Who has since resigned in disgrace for tolerating antisemitic discrimination on her campus and telling Congress that it “depends on the context” whether calling for the genocide of Jewish students violates university policy.
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UPenn has been focused on tenured law professor Amy Wax for years, starting between 2017 and 2018 when thousands of outraged petitioners called for her firing amid comments she made on racial and cultural disparities.
This includes an observation she gave during a podcast interview, stating “an inconvenient truth” that she’s never seen a black student graduate in the top quarter of her class. Her additional thought crimes include claiming “not all cultures are equal” in an op-ed that lamented the decline of “bourgeois” values of 1950’s America.
In another publication, she suggested that “everyone wants to go to countries run by white Europeans,” because of their “superior” cultural values. Pennsylvania Black Lives Matter leader, Asa Khalif responded by reportedly threatening to “make things very uncomfortable” on campus if she wasn’t fired within a week.
While UPenn couldn’t find enough of an excuse to fire at that time, the Law school’s dean barred Wax from teaching first-year students in the spring of 2018.
For the next 7 years, Wax became professor non-grata and the target of probes and petitions for her firing.
When the terrorist attacks on October 7 occurred, UPenn’s administration suddenly became free speech absolutists. In the name of “the free exchange of ideas,” Magill allowed faculty members to host a pro-Hamas literary festival on campus, featuring antisemites who have compared Jews to Nazis, claimed “most Jews” are “evil,” and blamed them for a poor economy in Europe, according to reports in the Washington Free Beacon.
The university’s interim president cited similar jargon to justify keeping another professor who recently shared a slew of antisemitic cartoons.
This past Spring, hundreds of UPenn alumni demanded that eight antisemitic professors receive the same treatment Amy Wax dealt with, but were seemingly ignored.
“These people are as intellectually mediocre and undistinguished as you could possibly imagine,” Wax said in reaction to Monday’s announcement.
Amy Wax on the "Midwit Gynocrats" she has had to deal with at Penn.
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"These people are as intellectually mediocre and undistinguished as you could possibly imagine."
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“They want to be able to punish the people that they do not like: conservatives… dissenters,” she said. “And they want to be able to protect the people that they do like: Pro- Palestinians… antisemites, people who champion the ‘oppressed’ as they see them,” she stated in an interview prior.
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