Students and faculty at Oberlin College are “working actively to deal with this unprecedented situation” created by the controversial social media postings of Prof. Joy Karega, a professor at the school wrote Monday in The Forward. Karega was broadly condemned for making and promoting anti-Semitic statements in her Facebook posts, which were first revealed by The...

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[Update March 16: A similar letter now appears in the Oberlin review, this time with two significant differences: First, the organization that was originally described as connected to it, but apparently disavowed it as well, was not listed as Oberlin JVP but rather Students for a Free Palestine (SFP). Second, it lists the...

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The American Council of Trustees and Alumni on Wednesday backed Oberlin College’s Board of Trustees for condemning Professor Joy Karega’s anti-Semitic social media posts. Oberlin’s trustees denounced Karega’s posts, which were first reported by The Tower two weeks ago, as “anti-semitic and abhorrent” on Saturday. “Oberlin’s trustees are right,” wrote the academic watchdog group on...

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An anonymous e-mail sent to a large number of Oberlin College students on Sunday accused Israel and “Zionist Jews” of responsibility for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. The emails came amid mounting controversy over the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of Joy Karega, an Oberlin professor whose Facebook posts were first exposed by The Tower two weeks...

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Responding to mounting criticism, Oberlin College Board of Trustees chair Clyde McGregor issued a statement Saturday criticizing the school’s response to the Facebook posts of Prof. Joy Karega. Karega’s claims, which included the belief that the Jewish Rothschild family secretly owns most of the world’s central banks and that Israel...

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Joy Karega, the Oberlin College professor whose support for anti-Semitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories was first reported last week by The Tower, offered her thanks for an article at the conspiracy site Veterans Today that claimed she spoke “honestly about 9/11 and the two 2015 Paris false flags.” In a Facebook...

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Oberlin College President Marvin Krislov expressed concern about the anti-Semitic conspiracy theories of associate professor Joy Karega, but refused to explicitly condemn her, in a blog post published on the Oberlin website Monday night. The Tower revealed last week that Karega had posted links on Facebook indicating her beliefs that the Rothschild family, a Jewish...

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Oberlin College professor Joy Karega has been under fire over the past week after The Tower revealed that she had a history of posting anti-Israel and anti-Semitic conspiracies theories on her Facebook page. It is now evident that she has used social media to express preposterous beliefs on other subjects as well. While Karega has deleted many of...

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The conspiracy theories surrounding Jews and Israel espoused by Oberlin College Professor Joy Karega, first reported on Thursday by The Tower, have prompted a tepid response from the school, despite mounting controversy. In a statement initially published on an alumni Facebook page and later communicated to The Tower, Oberlin College President...

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A professor at Oberlin College, one of the most prestigious institutes of higher education in the country, has written and shared a series of Facebook posts claiming that Jews or Israelis control much of the world and are responsible for the 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo attacks and the rise of ISIS. Joy Karega, an assistant professor...

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