{"id":6660,"date":"2009-02-16T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2009-02-16T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T23:59:55","slug":"bippity-boppity-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6660","title":{"rendered":"Bippity-Boppity-Boo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A York University (the other one &#8212; in the UK) professor <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/damian_thompson\/blog\/2009\/02\/13\/york_university_harassment_adviser_accused_of_posting_antisemitic_photo_on_facebook\">posted this photo<\/a> up on his Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/damian_thompson\/gallery\/view_gallery.one?pid=58869957\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wa3.images.onesite.com\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/user\/damian_thompson\/ant.jpg?v=151650\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem? The professor in question is also employed by the school as a &#8220;harassment adviser&#8221;, someone whom students theoretically can confidentially go to if they feel like they are being discriminated against. If I&#8217;m a Jewish student, what does it tell me if the person who is supposedly my advocate against harassment thinks &#8220;anti-Semitic&#8221; is a magic word wielded by Israeli witches? How can I possibly go to this person if I feel like I&#8217;m being harassed on account of being Jewish (particularly if, Heaven forbid, it&#8217;s tied up with putatively &#8220;anti-Zionist&#8221; or &#8220;anti-Israel&#8221; discourse)?<\/p>\n<p>When I was in college, my instincts told me that in academic settings, claims of anti-Semitism are prone to be dismissed out of hand, and this is something that has been verified by experience. But it&#8217;s rarely expressed as bluntly as it is here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A York University (the other one &#8212; in the UK) professor posted this photo up on his Facebook page: The problem? The professor in question is also employed by the school as a &#8220;harassment adviser&#8221;, someone whom students theoretically can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-semitism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}