(Jewish Group) Jewish Rights Groups: Johns Hopkins University 'Must Do More' After TA's Anti-Israel

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Jewish Rights Groups: Johns Hopkins University 'Must Do More' After TA's Anti-Israel Tweets

The controversy surrounding the anti-Israel tweets of a Teaching Assistant (TA) at Johns Hopkins University won't go away, as Jewish rights groups press the university to reveal the actions they have taken against the young graduate student who posted them.

In a series of tweets, copies of some of which were provided to Newsweek in the form of screenshots, Rasha Anayah, a Ph.D. candidate and teaching assistant in the university's chemistry department, tweeted out a question posted as a survey, and followed it up with other posts.

On November 15, 2020, Anaya tweeted,

"ethical dilemma: if you have to grade a zionist students exam, do you still give them all their points even though they support your ethnic cleansing? like idk [I don't know]."

Anayah posted two possible answers: "Yes [redacted] be a good ta"; and "free Palestine! Fail them."

According to the post, there were 18 replies that day, 77% of which favored failing the students. On November 16, she posted a response to the poll results that supported failing the students by saying, "like I agree but too many of you want me to get fired."

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Bigot.

[raging moderate]

1. PS An Early British census found more Jews than expected.

I cannot remember the exact details, but I read that the British took over the land that had been Israel and found more Jewish people living there than they had expected, and it was a large number. Just because the Romans tried to kick out all the Jewish people after they tried to rise against Roman rule, that does not mean the Romans succeeded. We need to stop hero-worshipping the Roman Empire and admit that they did a lot of damage wherever they invaded. Do you really feel that the pagan boorish Romans should get to decide the history of your region? Are you quite sure that the anger you feel against Jewish people was not really caused by others? Plus there was a long time after that for the Jewish people to mosey back in where their ancestors had lived, right? As they had for thousands of years before the Romans rampaged in and wrecked everything for everybody, as I recall. Look! This has been disputed territory for a long long time. Let's try to find a way for everyone to live, okay?