Said other students ‘concerned’ the Israeli student was in their class
A University of California San Francisco medical professor has been suspended for singling out a first-year Israeli student on social media, noting her students were “concerned” and wondered if he “participated in the genocide of Palestinians.”
Rupa Marya (pictured) made the post on her now-deleted X account back in mid-September; UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood responded on the platform by noting “targeting any member of our UCSF community — especially in a way that fosters hostility or discrimination — will not be tolerated.”
Marya since has written a long essay attributing her suspension to a “’coordinated’ campaign by powerful interests, Jewish pro-Israel donors, and a ‘repressive’ UCSF administration,” The Jewish News of Northern California reports.
“I have been a witness and support for countless faculty, staff, students and patients from marginalized backgrounds over the past 20 years at UCSF,” Marya says in the Substack essay. “Repression against us has never been as oppressive as over the past year. Instead of shifting the approach, the university continues to barrel down this path of harm.
“Many members of our community express a lack of safety in an institution that seeks to silence us, while characterizing our defense of Palestinian human rights and criticism of Israel’s violation of them, as racist, threatening, harassment and harmful.”
Marya’s “Deep Medicine” Substack account features “essays and poems about the health justice, radical solidarity and the critical work of decolonizing food and medicine.”
Early in the year, Marya courted social media controversy by declaring “the presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity.”
On Instagram two months before that she claimed “colonial capitalism drives inflammatory disease.”
Marya is a co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition, which believes “health is a human right” and that “systems of oppression” need to be “eradicated” to defend that right.
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