In late May, however, Muhlenberg told Finkelstein that she was fired. The reason? She had shared, on her personal Instagram account, in a temporary story slide, a post written not by herself but by Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi calling for the shunning of Zionist ideology and its supporters.

“Do not cower to Zionists,” Kanazi wrote on January 16. “Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Why should these genocide loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat out racist.” At the time, Israel had already killed over 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority of whom were women and children.

For Finkelstein’s repost of Kanazi’s words, the college determined that their employee of nine years had violated its equal opportunity and nondiscrimination policies.

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    15 hours ago

    Deeply ironic that, in the process of defending Israel, multiple western countries have now initiated the largest-scale prosecution and censure of Jews since the 1930s and 40s.

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      Important to remember that the Nazis got second place in World War Two, so they had to get absorbed into the third place country as punishment. We are living in the Fourth Reich.