Jewish Students Reported a Professor for Anti-Semitism. Their University Retaliated Against Them.

On the first day of classes last fall, a psychology professor asked students in one of George Washington University’s required diversity courses to share their names and identities. The professor went around and asked everyone in the room to share their names and identities. “affirming” each student’s introduction, until one student said she was born in Israel.

“It’s not your fault you were born in Israel,” Lara Sheehi, a professor in the postgraduate Professional Psychology Program told the student, according to a classmate who spoke with him. Washington Free Beacon.

This comment set the tone for a contentious semester at Sheehi. Sheehi harassed her Jewish students repeatedly and then retaliated against them after they raised concerns with administration, according Title VI discrimination Reported This was filed Thursday with Department of Education.

“She began to retaliate against us,” One of the students said that he had told the Free Beacon. “She began to spread lies about us to the faculty—smearing our reputations to the people who are going to be our clinical supervisors for years to come.”

Compilation of student testimonies submitted to anti-Semitism watchdog Stand With Us. The complaint claims that Sheehi accuses students of racism, encourages classmates to degrade and exclusion them for their Jewish identity and takes disciplinary action against them when they confront her. The group says the university condoned the professor’s actions.

Sheehi, George Washington University and Sheehi did not respond to a request for comments.

Sheehi teaches “decolonial, liberatory, and anti-oppressive theories and approaches to clinical treatment,” According to Biography of her faculty. Advocate for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions BewegungCo-authored a book called Psychoanalysis under Occupation – Practicing Resistance in Palestine. Her social media feed is full of anti-Semitic remarks, in which she refers to all Israelis as “vile”fucking racist” and declares it to be “so fucking ridiculous how zionism works.”

“Destroy Zionism and commit to land back, then we’ll take you seriously you fucking genocidal fucks. Fuck you,” she In a tweet directed towards the Israel Defense Forces.

Sheehi forced Jewish students to attend anti-Semitic lectures during her one-semester course. At times, she suggested that their inability to comply with the lecturer would jeopardize their future as clinical psychologists. Sheehi invited a radical speaker to campus in September. He falsely claimed that Israel is her country. Tests Its missile systems against Palestinian children.

It took place between Yom Kippur and the Jewish High Holy Days Rosh Hashanah. Dr. Nadera Sulhoub-Kevorkian used the occasion as a platform to share her knowledge.

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