A private university teacher has resigned after saying she would be ‘tempted to organize’ dance parties like Hamas terrorists did it on October 7th — later complained that she was a victim because horrified school officials didn’t stand up for her.
Wake Forest University professor Laura Mullen sparked outrage with a now-deleted social media post just days after the surprise attack by Hamas killed an estimated 1,200 people. including hundreds at the Supernova Music Festival.
“So it’s kind of Duh, but if you kick me out of my house, plow up my olive fields, and confine what’s left of my family to the impoverished little state you run as an open-air prison, I might tempted to shoot. get your dance party going, yes, even knowing you’re going to burn the Earth,” he wrote. according to the Winston-Salem Journal.
The post prompted widespread condemnation, including angry letters from parents calling for the firing of the professor who was also the Kenan Chair in the Humanities in the English and Creative Writing Department.
“Both students and parents have expressed concern for their safety in reaction to his hateful words,” the North Carolina university’s Chabad chapter said.
“As Jewish students, we are alarmed and appalled that she would be willing to pull a prank massacre at the Supernova Music Festival which killed more than 250 Israeli civilians,” the student board said.
“His threatening language plays on anti-Semitic sentiment, an issue that poses a threat to Wake Forest students and has no place at our school.”
The university told the Journal that while it “claims[s] the right to individual freedom of expression,” the “posted comments caused great anxiety and fear to members of our community.”
“And to be clear: statements that diminish the value and dignity of human life or condone the use of violence are contrary to the values inherent in Wake Forest University’s Pro Humanitate ethos,” the university said .
Mullen eventually resigned, citing “personal reasons,” but made it clear that she felt victimized by the school’s refusal to stand by her.
she cried the student newspaper, the Wake Reportthat the university’s statement “is like if you watch animal movies and isolate a gazelle, that’s the one that gets eaten.
“I was kind of thrown to the wolves,” he complained.
Mullen said his initial post had to be “raw, direct, [and] poetic, since it involved imagery”.
Explaining his post, Mullen said, “When 9/11 happened, I was asking myself and others, ‘What did we do to make people want to come and do this to us?’ This is how my mind works.
“I don’t believe in clear lines between victims and perpetrators, that terrorism comes out of a vacuum,” he said, according to the Journal. “That doesn’t mean I condone terrorism.
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“I care deeply about what happens to innocent people everywhere. My tweet reflected my understanding of history and the results of oppression.”
He also claimed that he received no personal backlash from the students, and the mother of one Muslim student even offered him “any support you need.”
“I don’t have any students come up to me and say, ‘Hey, you increased my fear and anxiety,'” she told the Report, contrary to the school highlighting that fear.
The Chabad chapter also insisted that “Jewish students are now afraid to take their classes” after the post of “a professor in a position of authority and influence.”
“Any of us could have been one of those attendees, and many of us have family and friends who are in danger or have been killed in Israel in recent weeks,” the student group said of the massacre.
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