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Twitter is not the real world, and often what transpires within the confines of that website is of no consequence. But on Monday, March 1st, Twitter played host to what I am labeling the InTeaFada. The InTeaFada was an uncoordinated, spontaneous satirical campaign by a group of Zionist Twitter users who were sick of the disingenuous slogans and the dishonest discourse ceaselessly leveled at people who simply support the state of Israel’s existence. They took the United Kingdom, a nation whose “right to exist” is universally beyond question, and leveled all of the rhetoric traditionally spewed at Israel, against the UK. It was, in essence, performance art.
The University of California Merced’s School of Engineering was on Wednesday sticking by one of its top professors despite a viciously antisemitic and anti-Zionist Twitter account that he maintained for nearly two years having come to light.
A spokesperson for the school said that its faculty member Abbas Ghassemi, a professor emeritus in its engineering department had operated the account as a private individual.
“As the now-inactive Twitter account made clear, these were the opinions of a private individual, not the positions of the institution,” James Chiavelli assistant vice chancellor of external relations at UC Merced said in a statement.