Academia today is a radioactive wasteland of filth and Leftist indoctrination.
“Jewish student sues Leeds University ‘after being given fail in sociology assignment for not criticising Israel,'” by Eleanor Harding, Daily Mail, July 28, 2022:
Leeds University is being sued by a Jewish graduate who claims she was given a ‘fail’ in one of her sociology assignments because she did not criticise Israel.
Danielle Greyman said her essay about crimes committed by Hamas against Palestinians did not pass because it did not pin any blame on the Jewish state.
The 23-year-old student, who had never previously failed an essay at university, was forced to resit the module, which she passed. Despite this, Miss Greyman was unable to get her undergraduate degree certificate in time to take up a place on a master’s course at Glasgow University.
In her original essay, Miss Greyman referenced Hamas’s use of human shields, saying it was viewed as ‘a betrayal of the Palestinian people by their government’. The moderator’s note next to that part of the essay said: ‘This ignores the fact that the Israeli state commits acts of violence.’
In a review of her essay, an external examiner recommended that it should have been passed.
Miss Greyman’s lawyers have issued a legal claim against Leeds University for negligence, discrimination and victimisation.
Miss Greyman, from London, told the Jewish Chronicle: ‘It’s been massive emotional damage. I almost had a complete breakdown over this.’
One of the original markers of Miss Greyman’s failed essay was academic Claudia Radiven, who signed a petition defending scholar David Miller, who was fired by Bristol University following controversial comments about Jews….
Infidel says
Why would support or criticism of any country be a part of any sociology course?
gravenimage says
Only in the “woke” world.
Even at Berkeley if someone made a good argument they were apt to get a good grade, even if the instructor personally disagreed with them. Of course. this was forty years ago…
raja says
🤔
Jayell says
Leeds has been a main centre for the UK’s Jewish community since the 1880’s. Bradford, just 8 miles due west was formerly a dyed-in-the-wool Yorkshire industrial town but has gradually become an islamic cesspit over the last 50 or so years. I was a postgrad student at Leeds University in 1972, and nothing of this kind would ever have happened then; for the University to sully its reputation in this way now suggests to me that there’s been an ‘influence’ coming down the road.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, Jayell.
Andrew Blackadder says
Im not Jewish though I was married to a lovely Californian Jewish lady once upon a time, Ive had many close friends who were Jews both British and American, and I lived in Israel for almost a year back in the 1970s but if I was Jewish today I would start noticing similar actions like what was witnessed in the 1930s in Germany.
Scary shit going down.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Andrew.
VICTORMc. says
Absolutely, It’s a sick crazy world out there where certain ‘academics’ who should instantly be fired from their sinecures are in cahoots with the terrorists. If you find that a bit exaggerated look around you.
I always take France as the classic example where their Jewish citizens used to number around 750,000 (3rd. in the world after Israel and the US). Now down to around 500,000 the educated classes have left this appalling country in the hands of (mainly) Algerian Muslims. You don’t think the headline item and this is connected huh ??
Once a regular visitor, I will NEVER return.
tim gallagher says
These days, with so many left wing wankers teaching courses at the universities, after the march of the cultural marxist brigade through the universities, I can imagine that many students would have to pretend to go along with the prevailing bullshit these teachers inflict on their students, or they would be failed. I have vague memories of having heard about students in Australian universities, who were conservatives, pretending to believe the shit the left wing teachers want to hear, in order to pass a course. I hope that this young woman wins and is well compensated by the wankers at the university. Probably wan’t turn out that way though. Good for her for not going along with the prevailing orthodoxy..Freedom of opinion and speech used to be vital at universities, or so I have heard, but these days it seems that you aren’t allowed to deviate from the left wing bullshit.
raja says
Tim,
This kind of bullshit happens in India too. A colleague (when in media) of mine narrated about an incidence where candidates were lined up for interview for a job in press. One of the candidates noticed that the questions asked had nothing to do with journalism. When his turn for interview came he just praised Periyar a Marxist thug ( though he had hated Marxist ideology) and got the job, while others might have floundered and “failed” the interview.
tim gallagher says
Yes, raja, I can imagine that happening. The only problem that I can see with that tactic is that I wonder how things went for the man who got the job if it was in a left wing media set-up. Here in Australia, the government run, that is the taxpayers all pay for the foul thing, Australian Broadcasting Commission is very biased and very left wing, even though it is meant to be balanced (which it just ignores). It is our BBC and out here is called the ABC. It would be a miserable time for a non-left winger to work there as a journalist because all the left wing wankers there would treat the conservative appallingly for not sharing their leftist views on everything under the Sun (as in climate change, gender theory, islam and so on.).On the uni students, I have heard that some have pretended to be left wing to get a pass from the marxist teachers. But I suppose once you graduate, then you can give the finger to the marxist academics an get on with your life. Some of the academics are very far left. I actually knew a guy slightly and he was as far left as anyone could be and ‘lo and behold, he turned up teaching journalism at one of the unis out here. I can only imagine the bullshit he would have tried to indoctrinate students with..
TD says
Another example of Cancel Culture.
The markers didn’t like her point of view, and they failed her. even though what she wrote is true.
gravenimage says
UK: Jewish grad sues after failing assignment because she refused to vilify Israel
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This is *just appalling*. Kudos to Danielle Greyman for fighting back. I wish her the best.
James Lincoln says
Ironically, Jewish student Danielle Greyman definitely learned something about “sociology and cancel culture” from the despicable behavior of her sociology professor.
So how will this professor grade papers moving forward?
john smith says
I do hope this young lady is successful in suing the university. Had she vilified Israel in her essay she would of passed with flying colours, but because she wrote down the truth she failed.
We certainly are living in an upside down world, where black is white, and darkness is light, where truth are lies, and lies are truth.
Tom says
Good for Ms Greyman for standing up to the twisted left wing perspective of history. I hope she wins her case and Leeds University is forced to change its stance on the Israeli – Palestine conflicts to reflect the truth.