“Children are being starved. Not complicated. Unsubscribe.”
I am lately sending a letter to professors at the various university campuses of my home state, California. Here is the content of the letter:
Dear Professor:
Compulsory “Ethnic Studies” are sometimes used to indoctrinate students in the binary “oppressor versus oppressed” ideology. In this narrative, Jews are placed by others (who self-elected themselves as “the enlightened”) as “oppressors”. In the minds of the proponents of this ideology, the classification of the Jews as “oppressors” cannot be contested, and since “oppressors” cannot have a seat at the table, their perspective – in this fallacious reasoning – should not be heard in the classroom. This totalitarian ideology should have no place neither in K12 schools nor at State Universities.
For the Jewish perspective, check my book “Ethnic Studies in K12 schools: The Jewish module” (September 2025 edition). The book can be downloaded for free from the ResearchGate website:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361800823_Ethnic_Studies_in_K12_schools_The_Jewish_module
You can also use the Spanish edition, titled “La raíz del conflicto árabe-israelí y el camino hacia la paz” (September 2025 edition), available for free download at the ResearchGate website:
Do not be an intellectual coward: If you present the Palestinian perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict, you should also present the Jewish perspective, and allow for a discussion of both perspectives in class.
Note: I recommend the free-downloadable digital books. If you prefer hard-copies, the paperback edition is available at Amazon at minimum price ($0 royalty to the author.)
[end of letter]
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I got the following response from a professor at the California State University of San Bernardino:
“Children are being starved. Not complicated. Unsubscribe.”
Usually a simple “unsubscribe” is respected. However, a remark followed by an unsubscribe, reserves sometimes a response first, followed by the unsubscribing. And here was my response to that professor, with copies sent to his/her colleagues:
“The children of Israel also deserve a better future.
Where were you when Hamas – an organization officially committed to the destruction of Israel – attacked Israel in October 7th 2023, killing more than 1,000 Israeli civilians, men, women and children, taking another 250 hostages to Gaza?
Where were you when Hezbollah – another organization committed to the destruction of Israel – began lobbying missiles on Northern Israel on October 8th 2023, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of Israeli civilians?
Where were you when Iran – whose regime is officially committed to the destruction of Israel – lobbied hundred missiles and drones onto Israel on April 2024?
The destruction of Gaza is their own making. And is also yours: for not raising your voice against these genocidal organizations and regimes. And staying silent, or even condoning or supporting their calls at the university campuses to wipe out Israel from the map, under the motto “from the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”
As President Biden said, in May 2021: “Let us get something straight here. Until the region says unequivocally that they acknowledge the right of Israel to exist as an independent Jewish state, there will be no peace.”
Not complicated.
