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UC Merced’s preliminary inquiry into teaching professor Abbas Ghassemi, who owned a Twitter account rife with antisemitic content, has become a formal investigation into whether he violated the faculty’s code of conduct. Ghassemi’s Twitter account was deleted shortly after J. uncovered the antisemitic content in December. Among his roughly 2,200 tweets was a picture of a “Zionist brain” with the labels “frontal money lobe,” “Holocaust memory centre” and “world domination lobe.” In other tweets, he stated that Zionists and Israel controlled American banking, media, government policy and commerce. The account included his academic title, his name and a photo of him. His bio stated he was a professor at UC Merced. ....
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One of Brazil s most notorious politicians was the subject of a criminal complaint filed on Monday by the country s Jewish. “The opinions presented in this Twitter account do not represent UC Merced or the University of California,” said a Dec. 29 statement from Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg A. Camfield. “They were abhorrent and repugnant to us and to many of our colleagues and neighbors; they were harmful to our university, our students, and our years of work to build an inclusive and welcoming community.” The statement also promised that the school would develop programming for the upcoming semester on antisemitism, free speech and hate speech. ....
U.C. Merced notified the advocacy group End Jew Hatred late Monday that Ghassemi would not be teaching his scheduled courses, a decision independently confirmed by the Free Beacon. End Jew Hatred and other pro-Israel groups have been pressuring the school to take action since his tweets first surfaced. Online petitions have also called for Ghassemi to be fired. The decision marks a rare victory for pro-Israel advocacy groups fighting anti-Semitism on America s college campuses, which have become increasingly hostile to pro-Israel and Jewish students in recent years. Organizations involved in the effort to pressure U.C. Merced said they should be consulted in any administrative process addressing Ghassemi s actions. ....
‘The opinions presented in this Twitter account do not represent UC Merced or the University of California’ Officials with the University of California, Merced, have disavowed a series of anti-Semitic tweets made by one of their professors, condemned the language used by the scholar as “repugnant,” and launched an investigation into the matter. On December 21, JWeeklyreported that Abbas Ghassemi, a professor in the Engineering Department at UC Merced, had a recently deleted Twitter account riddled with various anti-Semitic tweets. One of the many tweets depicted a “Zionist brain,” characterized by labels such as a “frontal money lobe” and “world domination lobe.” Many of Ghassemi’s tweets also used “IsraHell” in place of “Israel,” ....