By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-14 03:13:21 | Updated at 2024-12-14 05:51:34
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University of Michigan fires diversity administrator who said Jews are 'wealthy and privileged'
The Jerusalem Post ^ | December 13, 2024 | By MATHILDA HELLER
Posted on 12/13/2024 7:08:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The University of Michigan has fired an administrator after she was accused of saying that Jewish students should not benefit from diversity programs as they are "wealthy and privileged," according to documents obtained by the New York Times on Thursday.
The administrator, Rachel Dawson, formerly worked as director of UoM's office of academic multicultural initiatives.
According to the documents and her lawyer, the firing comes on the back of alleged comments made at a conference in March, in which she claimed the university was "controlled by wealthy Jews."
Dawson also said that “Jewish people have no genetic DNA that would connect them to the land of Israel,” according to the documents, which formed part of a complaint from the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan.
At the March conference, two Jewish professors, including Naomi Yavneh Klos of Loyola University New Orleans, approached Dawson as they were curious about the university's approach to Jewish students.
The other professor asked Dawson if the DEI office works with Jewish students, to which Dawson reportedly said that it did not, as "Jewish students are all rich." The professors then filed a report with ADL.
ADL Michigan sent a letter to the university in August with the claims, and the university subsequently hired a law firm, Covington & Burling, to investigate.
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I guessed it would be a Black woman, and I was correct.
2 posted on 12/13/2024 7:10:34 PM PST by Parley Baer
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