Taurean Webb, a longtime anti-Israel activist, was recently hired by Indiana University as Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Global Change. Webb has promoted vile antisemitism and repeatedly dismissed or minimized concerns regarding the hatred and discrimination Jews face.
Webb is the author of the infamous "Journey Toward Justice" an antisemitic training program which teaches that the creation of Israel was "evil" and a "structural sin" and claims that American Jews have exaggerated the evils of the Holocaust in order to harm African-Americans and Palestinians. Webb goes out of his way to minimize the importance of the Holocaust and attempts to normalize it. He intentionally refers to it as the "European Jewish Holocaust" and just one of many "Holocausts" that have happened in order to erase the enormity of the largest genocide in modern history.
He also falsely frames Israel as a state that was arbitrarily created in Palestine by the United Nations as a response to the Holocaust rather than Jews returning to their ancestral homeland in waves and building communities and institutions there since the 19th century.
Webb claims "It is instructive to consider the European Jewish Holocaust narration as a tactic of racial control … But Black bodies ... were not valuable enough to merit such attention." He continued stating "Palestinians epitomize that to whom access to these claims [of 'terror' or 'genocide' survivors] is aggressively barred," grotesquely insinuating Israel was committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Most frighteningly, Webb, in a now-removed Facebook post from November 2018, praised the "Holy Land Foundation Five" as heroes. He was referring to the five individuals who were convicted in a U.S. court for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hamas, which controls Gaza.
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