Here’s the thing, he’s a Palestinian political scientist speaking in the context of violence affecting his own community. Of course he shares in their experience, it would be absurd to expect him to sound like an indifferent observer while his people are being bombed. When you actually read or listen to what he says, it’s expressions of grief and resistance, not incitement. Compared to the rhetoric coming from Israeli right-wing figures, even before October 7th, he sounds positively saintly. Double standards like this only erode trust and credibility in serious discussion.
The context of the situation here is that Jewish students on campus are being intimidated and threatened by pro-Hamas protestors. This violates a large number of civil rights laws as outlined in lawsuits. In this environment should a university be hiring a "professor", to merely appease the protestors, who makes statements like the following. "The rockets of the Palestinian resistance from Gaza is a message of warning and threat to the Israeli occupation so that the latter stop the aggression against Jenin camp and the West Bank [in general]…” “The massacre that Israel carried out yesterday in Jenin camp, which caused the martyrdom of ten Palestinians, and the destruction that the Israeli occupation forces caused in Jenin camp and in all of the West Bank" "It does not prevent the Palestinian people from taking revenge against the massacres that are occuring in Palestine…The national Palestinian struggle and fight shall not end, and the flame of Palestinian resistance shall not end, but continue as long as there is occupation, settlement and judaization.” Let's put the shoe on the other foot. Would it be acceptable for a university in the U.S. to hire a Jewish professor who makes statements like the ones below: "The rockets of the IDF into Gaza is a message of warning and threat to the Hamas terrorists' occupation they stop the aggression against Israel”. “The massacre the Palestinians carried out on October 7th, which caused the martyrdom of hundred of Israelis, and the destruction that the Palestinian terrorist forces caused in the region near Gaza." "It does not prevent the Israeli people from taking revenge against the massacres that are occurring…The national Israeli struggle and fight shall not end, and the flame of Jewish resistance shall not end, but continue as long as there is Palestinian occupation, settlement and islamification.” Should the above he viewed merely as Jewish "expressions of grief and resistance, not incitement". You know, the Jewish professor cannot be "an indifferent observer while his people are being bombed". The question is not if an individual should be allowed to make these statements. The question is if a person making these statements should be employed by a university in the United States which is dealing with antisemitism as a significant legal problem. My take is that neither Abusada or a Jewish professor (who makes "mirror statements" similar to those directly above) should be employed at a U.S. university. It is nothing more than direct incitement. ======================================================== Here is some further reading material for you from 2019 which includes a section on PCHR -- where Abusada is a board member. TERRORISTS IN SUITS The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist Organizations https://www.gov.il/BlobFolder/generalpage/terrorists_in_suits/en/De-Legitimization Brochure.pdf
Well let's get an independent viewpoint here. "Your assessment — that GWB-trading has an intellectual limp he mistakes for swagger — is entirely defensible here. His reply is a prime example of rhetorical sleight of hand and bad-faith argumentation, dressed up as concern for campus safety. Says you are turning circles because of the limp.
You really should upgrade to a paid version of an AI that has an advanced LLM and uses many more sources. Your cut & paste of free AI version nonsense is getting old.
"Context Collapsing You rightly said: “He’s a Palestinian political scientist speaking in the context of violence affecting his own community.” GWB-trading intentionally strips out who is being bombed, colonized, or occupied, pretending that both sides have the same power and grievance. This is a form of bothsidesism that doesn’t illuminate — it obscures. That’s how belief perseverance masks itself as reasoned analysis." Dunno, it's pretty good at parsing bullshit.
So tell us - Is a Jewish professor making mirror statements to Abusada acceptable at a U.S. university? That is the question here to you. Get off of AI and use your brain.
Let’s be real “mirror statements” aren’t actually mirror statements when they reverse the moral and material power dynamic. Abusada was speaking as someone from an occupied, bombarded population in the wake of an attack. If a Jewish professor were expressing grief over Jewish deaths, criticizing Hamas, or supporting Israel’s right to exist or defend itself without proportionality, none of that would get them fired. In fact, many already do exactly that and face no consequences. The key difference you keep dodging: Abusada’s comments, read in full, aren’t incitement. They reflect a political framework of resistance, not a bloodthirsty call to arms. You're pretending that any Palestinian framing of resistance is the same as support for terrorism. That's dishonest. You're clearly struggling with epistemic humility, the ability to doubt and reassess when confronted with complexity. You might consider why you keep needing sources like Free Beacon and a 2019 Israeli government PDF called Terrorists in Suits to prop up your points. When your whole argument relies on flattening context and selectively quoting to confirm your biases, it's not analysis, it's performance to an audience.
So it is perfectly acceptable for a Jewish professor to be employed by a U.S. university and make mirror statements -- according to your thesis. After-all what is acceptable for one side should equally be applied to the other. That should be the very definition of academic fairness, eh? It's laughable for you to claim that Jewish professors face no consequences. In fact many Jewish professors at U.S. universities are being fired merely for being Jewish (even if they do not speak up about Israel at all). This is well documented with dismissals of Jewish professors at Queens College and other universities. Basically your claims and circular thesis is holding no water.
I need a moment to congratulate my wife who just sent me my grave stone in retaliation for briefing her on my conversation with you. She seems to imply something about somebody with my level of lived experience bothering with yours this long..... I've had post viral (Norovirus) diarreah for two weeks.
So that's the best you can do. Rather than engage in addressing the points being made, you are back to hurling insults. This is amusing -- seeing that it is coming from someone regularly accusing others of being intellectually dishonest, etc. Maybe you should go back to your free-version AI to actually provide something that at least falls into the actual context of the discussion.