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Report: Non-Jewish U of Sydney Student Linking Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism Interrupted During Presentation, Given Low GradeA University of Sydney student was prevented from completing a Holocaust-studies presentation highlighting links between modern antisemitism and anti-Zionism, the Australian Jewish News (AJN) reported on Thursday.
According to the report, halfway through the presentation by the non-Jewish student, the class tutor interrupted and said, We dont want people to get the wrong idea about you.
AJN reported that the student, who believes the low grade he received was the result of expressing his opinion, has since pulled out of the course.
Vic Alhadeff, CEO of NSW (New South Wales) Jewish Board of Deputies, told AJN, Its outrageous that a student would be warned against creating a link between modern antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment.
Not only is this a suppression of valid discourse, but its academically dishonest and denies the fundamental truth that such a link exists, he said.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/28/report-non-jewish-u-of-sydney-student-linking-antisemitism-anti-zionism-interrupted-during-presentation-given-low-grade/
still_one
(92,217 posts)canetoad
(17,167 posts)without knowing exactly what the student was saying. The article is vague and references The Institute of Public Affairs, which, in its own words says:
The IPA supports the free market of ideas, the free flow of capital, a limited and efficient government, evidence-based public policy, the rule of law, and representative democracy. Throughout human history, these ideas have proven themselves to be the most dynamic, liberating and exciting. Our researchers apply these ideas to the public policy questions which matter today.
In other words a right-wing think tank.
tritsofme
(17,379 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)I believe the sports euphemism is, "own goal."
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)after all, it's just one side of the story... I for one am interested to know why the alleged student in question didn't take his concerns to the department chair or the dean of academics...
And of course the AJN buries the lede Greenwald-style:
The university spokesperson told The AJN, Unfortunately the media queries from journalists have not identified a student or a lecturer, and we are not aware of a complaint of this nature, and so it is difficult to progress this matter further at this stage.
https://www.jewishnews.net.au/sydney-uni-concerned-student-claims/55510
hunter
(38,317 posts)The first time I was "asked" to take time off from school (the unspoken threat being permanent expulsion) it was for fighting with a teaching assistant. I wasn't doing any fighting at all, really, I just had strong opinions about certain things, and I was upsetting him. First he threw chalk at me, then an eraser, then a fat textbook. I should have taken that as a signal to shut up, but I can be an asshole. At last he charged me and tripped over the overhead projector cord and it crashed to the floor, shattering.
I got an "F" in that class.
I'd gotten into trouble over a few other things too.
About the argument itself, I'd called "bullshit" on what the teaching assistant was saying, and it really was bullshit, but that didn't matter. A couple of years later I got the highest score in the same class, a different professor with a different teaching assistant, and they seemed to like me. Or else I'd learned how to play the game.
Later I had another professor I didn't get along with, and he gave me an "F" as my final grade. I opened my report card (this was when you got report cards in the mail) and panicked, a near meltdown. I knew I'd done well on the final and that my term paper wasn't that bad.
I immediately hopped on my bicycle rode seven miles and confronted him in his office. I was drenched in sweat. My professor told me in the nicest way possible that he'd given me the "F" for being a pain in the ass, that my work was close enough to "B," and that he'd change my grade. I asked him what he would have done if I hadn't shown up to question him about the grade and he said he'd probably have left it an "F."
I never got another "F."
In science and math classes you either know something or you don't. I've always understood that.
But I'd always regarded other subjects as "squishy" and places where my own opinions might matter. It took me too damned long to realize that maybe I wouldn't get into so much trouble if I simply wrote what the professors and teaching assistants expected of me.
Duh.
FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)We don't know the quality of the work and logic just the topic.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and that this incident happened...
That's the problem with one-source, secondhand stories...