The home of a Jewish professor at Oberlin College was vandalized last Thursday, with a note saying “Gas Jew Die” left at the door, a few days after a professor at the college was fired for writing and sharing anti-Semitic posts on Facebook. The professor was identified as Benjamin Kuperman, an associate...

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After a long investigation held largely behind locked doors, Oberlin College has finally fired Joy Karega, an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition who moonlighted on social media as a hardcore anti-Semite. The Board of Trustees accused Karega inter alia of “failing to meet the academic standards that Oberlin requires...

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Oberlin College Cans Karega Joy Karega, an associate professor of rhetoric at Oberlin College whose Facebook posts featured conspiracies about Jewish bankers controlling world events and accusations that Israel founded ISIS and was responsible for 9/11, was dismissed by the college Tuesday. The school’s board of trustees said in a statement...

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Joy Karega, an assistant professor at Oberlin College whose Facebook posts featured anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish global power and accusations that Israel was behind the 9/11 terror attacks and the creation of ISIS, was officially dismissed by the school’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday. The Board of Trustees found...

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A professor at York University in Toronto who posted anti-Semitic material to social media has been fired by the university for violating its policies. York found that Prof. Nikolaos Balaskas violated university guidelines by posting materials on Facebook that “target identifiable groups based on such factors as race, religion, and ethnic origin” and...

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Following a string of scandals that erupted after The Tower reported that an Oberlin College professor had posted anti-Semitic material on Facebook, Marvin Krislov announced Tuesday that he is stepping down as president of the private liberal arts school at the end of the 2017 academic year. The Tower reported in February that...

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Oberlin College professor Joy Karega, who was heavily criticized after The Tower revealed in February that she had posted Facebook status claiming that Israel was behind the rise of ISIS and the 9/11 terror attacks and Charlie Hebdo terror attacks, has been put on leave and will be barred from...

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The controversy that emerged this spring over Oberlin College’s inaction after The Tower revealed professor Joy Karega’s Facebook posts, which many characterized as anti-Semitic, was only the latest in a series of failures by the college to properly address hostility towards Jews on campus, Tablet reported Tuesday. The Tower’s scoop that Karega had posted theories that ISIS was a...

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A majority of faculty members at Oberlin College have signed a letter condemning a colleague’s anti-Semitic social media posts. Joy Karega, an assistant professor at Oberlin, has been heavily criticized since The Tower disclosed her Facebook posts in February. “When the anti-Semitic Facebook posts by one of our colleagues came to light, many of us on...

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Some of the most notorious white supremacist websites have expressed support for Joy Karega, the Oberlin College professor who has come under heavy criticism after her Facebook posts, which contained conspiracy theories that many considered to be anti-Semitic, were revealed by The Tower last month. Karega shared her beliefs that Israel was behind the Charlie Hebdo terrorist...

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