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University Of Southern California Student Inclusion Leader Blasted For ‘Kill’ Zionists Tweet

By • December 18, 2021 10:55 am

A student at the University of Southern California has come under fire over a tweet she posted in May which said, “I want to kill every motherf–king zionist”, along with other potentially anti-semitic opinions. The student is a diversity and inclusion senator at the school.

The now-deleted tweet was published by Yasmeen Mashayekh who is the diversity and inclusion senator for the University of Southern California Viterbi Graduate Student Association.

The Viterbi Graduate Student Association’s website is currently “down for maintenance” but she was previously listed as a “DEI Senator.” DEI stands for “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Mashayekh has made several additional social media comments that students and teachers at the University of Southern California have been enraged by.

“Death to Israel and its b—ch the US,” Mashayekh wrote on Twitter in June.

“If you are not for the complete destruction of Israel and the occupation forces then you’re anti-Palestinian,” read another tweet from Mashayekh.

At one point in May, Mashayekh expressed her support for Hamas by tweeting: “Yes I f—king love hamas now stfu.”

“Zionists are going to f—king pay,” she declared in a tweet sent out on June 21.

On a webcast hosted by Palestine in America on December 2, Mashayekh reaffirmed her position on her tweets, stating that she does not feel obligated to apologize.

According to Mashayekh, “I still don’t feel any pressure to change any stances or apologize for anything at all,”

Fox News spoke with numerous University of Southern California students who felt it is disingenuous for a “diversity” senator in a student organization to make statements of this nature.

Molly Davis, a student at the University of Southern California, told Fox News that the incident demonstrates a “high level of hypocrisy.”

Davis said, “I don’t like speaking in absolutes, but it seems like it’s always the people who stand for ‘inclusion’ that harbor the most hate in their hearts.

If a DEI student leader tweeted that she intended to “kill every BLM supporter,” Davis speculated that greater action might follow.

“If a student senator in the DEI department tweeted that they wanted to ‘kill every BLM supporter,’ the LA Times and Daily Trojan would milk that headline for weeks, and USC’s campus would be swarmed with protesters — rightfully so. However, it’s a different story every time when the Jewish people — or anyone supporting the Jewish people — are attacked,” Davis said.

Another student, who asked to remain anonymous, said “I’d say it’s not really something that anyone should be saying, but especially not someone of that position.”

“It makes Jewish students uncomfortable, but we’re very used to it. If we do support Israel, we discuss it in private because we know it’s heavily associated with the right politically, and people don’t have a tolerance for that, especially at a liberal arts college.”

Sixty-six USC faculty members, current and former, wrote a letter to the university’s administration, urging it to “publicly and explicitly rebuke Yasmeen Mashayekh for her offensive behavior and to distance USC from her hateful statements.”

The letter says, “Repeated threats of murder and harm based on race, religion, ethnicity, country of origin, gender, sexual orientation, etc. are not acceptable discourse, even in the context of heated debates on difficult political issues. The absence of explicit condemnation amounts to tacit endorsement. This is a slap in the face to USC students, staff and faculty who are Jewish and to anyone who supports the right of the State of Israel to exist.”

According to a representative for the University of Southern California, the statements are “disturbing” yet legally protected.

A spokesperson said, “The individual is a member of a graduate student group that is self-organized, elects its own council members and does not set the university’s policies. Even though the statements at issue are legally protected, we understand they are disturbing. USC rejects and condemns hatred in all its forms.”

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