We visited the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) campus to ask students their opinion on Hamas and the events of October 7.
Here’s what we found…
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NAVI works to restore North American values in K-12 classrooms, opposing radical ideologies, antisemitism and anti-American & anti-Western activism in education
Joined April 2021
- 🚩Screenshots from an ethnic studies presentation used in California’s Sequoia School District. Anti-Israel activists use ethnic studies programs to indoctrinate students with pseudohistory and the oppression binary. In 2025, ethnic studies will be mandated in CA high schools.
- We need to talk about American universities🧵 This is Johannah King-Slutzky, the Columbia grad student who demanded "humanitarian aid" for students protesting Israel on campus. Have you wondered how a supposedly educated person could make such an absurd and tone-deaf request?
- Mx. Skye Tooley reportedly no longer teaching at Fairburn Elementary School in Los Angeles after parents discovered social media posts of inappropriate assignments and promises to teach students to "unlearn Zionist propaganda" that says Hamas is a "terrorist organization."🧵
- A @monthly study on Pro-Palestinian protests found it was overwhelmingly an elite college phenomenon. Of 1,421 public and private nonprofit colleges, 318 (22%) had protests and 123 (9%) encampments, primarily at elite colleges, where few students come from lower-income families.
- Tim Walz Brings ‘Liberated’ Ethnic Studies to Minnesota From kindergarteners to high schoolers, students will soon be indoctrinated in a radical ideology across the state. Katherine Kersten details how Minnesota's K-12 education is about to undergo a big transformation. 🧵 1/12
- Replying to @NAVIvaluesThis kind of academic jargon may sound impressive to a layperson, but it is actually intellectually bankrupt. Jargon is often a hallmark of pseudoscience. Charlatans frequently use jargon to deceive people into buying their snake oil - a term used to describe a scam.
- 🧵 WHAT IS ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP? It refers to various fields in academia that have evolved over time from critiquing power structures to academic coursework aimed explicitly at driving social change.
- A Quick Explainer on Woke Antisemitism 🧵 Woke antisemitism is a progressive dogma that portrays Jews as white, privileged, and complicit in white supremacy, thus viewing them as oppressors. Initially a set of academic concepts, it has gained widespread acceptance on the left.
- Watch social psychologist @JonHaidt explain in one minute the problem within certain university departments and their shift towards a “totalizing perspective” that has led students to view Palestinians as victims and Israelis as their oppressors. (2017)
00:00 - Replying to @NAVIvaluesJohannah’s academic focus belongs to a family of identity and culture-focused studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We call it activist scholarship. It is a form of snake oil. Influenced by Marxist Critical Theory and postmodern thought, activist scholarship focuses
- Replying to @NAVIvaluesAcademic hoaxes such as the Grievance studies affair and the Sokal affair have helped to expose the unrigorous practices in activist scholarship. In the 2018 Grievance studies hoax, three academics — @peterboghossian, @hpluckrose, and @ConceptualJames — submitted deliberately
- Replying to @NAVIvaluesCollege students across the West are learning to view the war between Israel and Hamas through the lens of an overly simplistic ideology that divides people into either “oppressors” or “oppressed” categories. Visit jilv.org for more educational materials.
- 🚨 A new framework is being introduced in K-12 education called “anti-Palestinian racism.” This framework relies on a radical, anti-Israel perspective and treats any disagreement with this stance as racist. The Toronto District School Board recently adopted this framework 🧵
