Bruin Alumni Association Exposes UCLA’s Radical and Anti-Semitic Professors

The Bruin Alumni Association announced today the launch of UCLAProfs.com, a website dedicated to exposing UCLA’s most radical and anti-Semitic professors. The site debuts with over thirty in-depth profiles, including examinations of such notable radicals and anti-Semite professors as:

Saree Makdisi, the nephew of late Palestinian irredentist Edward Said. Makdisi is a predictably shrill voice, and is well-known for his viciously anti-Israel op-eds

Gabriel Piterberg, who says that Israel was founded on “ethnic cleansing” and that “If a suicide bomber is a terrorist, then so is the Israeli pilot who flies an F-16.”

Sondra Hale, the one-time president of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, has been such an ardent anti-Zionist and anti-Israel advocate that she was considered seriously for president of the radical Middle East Studies Association

James Gelvin, a history professor who pushes a pro-Palestinian agenda so strident that dozens of students entered detailed complaints about his biased teaching

UCLA professors have also been relentless in signing and circulating anti-Israel petitions. Preliminary UCLAProfs.com investigations find 17 petitions signed 70 times by a total of 44 different professors. Notable among those petitions:

– The infamous 2002 University of California divestment petition that urged liquidation of all investments with companies doing business in Israel (signed by 12 UCLA faculty members)

– 2002 “Jews for Peace” ad that called for an Israeli retreat to “pre-1967 borders” (signed by 13)

– A “Professors of Conscience” statement that warned of imminent Israeli “ethnic cleansing” to be carried out under a “fog of war” raised by the U.S. invasion of Iraq (signed by 21)

As the website expands, UCLAProfs will present bi-monthly updates to a “Dirty Thirty” ranking of extremist UCLA academics. The professor who finishes the year with the most weeks at the top spot (currently occupied by Peter McLaren) will win an “Indoctrinator of the Year” prize and will be invited to a special award ceremony.

Bruin Alumni Association President Andrew Jones stated, “UCLAProfs has uncovered a widespread problem of indoctrination, anti-Semitism and one-sided teaching. We call on outgoing UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale to dedicate his last year to addressing this critical problem.”