In the weeks following the start of the Israel-Hamas war, students at Washington University have reported increased instances of Islamophobia and antisemitism.
The students called for the university to condemn Israel s attacks on Gaza and denounce a professor whose social media posts seemed to call for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Seth Crosby, a geneticist at Washington University in Missouri, tweeted on Friday that Israel was carrying out a much needed cleansing, yes, but not an ethnic one . He says he has been fired.
A Washington University Professor of Genomics, Dr. Seth Crosby, claims to have lost his job over a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, calling the latest Israel-Hamas war a “much needed cleansing.”
A veteran professor claims he was fired from Washington University for an anti-Hamas post on X over the weekend that was decried by Muslim groups as call for "ethnic cleansing."