Santa Ono was hoping to be appointed to the presidency of the University of Florida. I have sad news.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ono’s presidency was shot down in a 6-10 vote by the Florida Board of Governors, the governing board for the state’s university system. The move was made after prominent Florida conservatives questioned Ono’s past support of DEI and alleged inaction on combating antisemitism.
He was formerly the president of the University of Michigan. He wasn’t well liked there, either.
University leaders, faculty and alumni took aim at Ono for various reasons, from his decisions to curb DEI efforts on the Ann Arbor campus to his crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protesters to alleging he too easily changes his views on issues.
He seems to have been a wishy-washy Trumpian.
Ono oversaw cuts to the university’s long-standing diversity, equity and inclusion programs. This includes March moves to discontinue UM’s DEI 2.0 Strategic Plan and close its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Office for Health Equity and Inclusion.
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Ono also saw criticism from both sides on his handling of pro-Palestinian protests and antisemitism on the Ann Arbor campus. At least 50 people have been arrested in connection with pro-Palestine protesting at the Ann Arbor university since October 2023.
I’m a bit exasperated with this predictable rhetorical trick of claiming that protesting a genocide is “anti-semitic”. I don’t think murdering civilians is a standard Jewish value.
Santa Ono is named after a child’s Yuletide disappointment.
I was going to say that Santa Ono comes down the chimney at Xmas to leave the word “yes” written on the ceiling in very small letters.
The far-right Jewish leaders have made it standard practice to call anyone who says anything negative about Israel antisemitic. They have successfully weaponized antisemitism.
“I’m a bit exasperated with this predictable rhetorical trick of claiming that protesting a genocide is “anti-semitic”. I don’t think murdering civilians is a standard Jewish value.”
It evidently is a standard Israeli value, though.
“It evidently is a standard Israeli value, though.”
What he said. And the fact that the only Semites in this conflict are the Palestinians. The Zionists are mostly from Brooklyn and Florida, from UK, Argentina, Canada, wherever.
@ ^ rorschach : Dunno ’bout “Zionists” – many of whoem are Christians – but to be fair & in the intrests of accuracy; the population of Israel is highly diverse and includes many whose backgrounds are from South-Western Asia eg Sephardi and Mizrahi jews expeelled since 1948, Russians fleeing persecution there in the former Soviet Empire and any others including Ethiopian Jewish people and those who lived there since almost as long as the Diaspora following the Jewish wars written about by Josephus in his histories and the Roman empire era.
FWIW. Most Israelis living there now were born there even if their parents were not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
None of which justifies what Netanyahu and his govt is doing to the Palestinians currently wich is horrendous and indefensible.
Neither Jews, Palestinians, nor any other present-day population are referred to as “Semites” in academically respectable ethnology or kindred areas. “Semitic” is almost entirely limited to linguistics, referring to a group of languages. As for “anti-semitic”, since at least 1879, when Wilhelm Marr’s adherents founded the “League for Anti-Semitism”, which concerned itself entirely with anti-Jewish political action, it’s referred specifically and only to prejudice against Jews.