UC Berkeley administrators are reviewing how an English course focusing on the plight of Palestinians received approval for next fall even though it discourages conservative students from enrolling.
The English R1A reading and comprehension course, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance," states in its course description that "conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections", a violation of the university's Faculty Code of Conduct.
According to the course description, the class "takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination."
"The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed and maimed millions of Palestinian people," the course description reads. "And yet from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance."
The class is taught by graduate student Snehal Shingavi, also a leader of the recently reinstated student group Students for Justice in Palestine. The group had been suspended last month for disrupting classes in their five-hour siege of a campus building.
But Shingavi denied the statement is meant to exclude anybody, saying that his definition of "conservative thinkers" referred to those that are "limited or narrow in scope."
"Students are encouraged to take my class irrespective of their political convictions," he said, although he declined to comment on what action he would take if a student in his course did not believe in Palestinian sovereignty.
I always find it strange that those on the left that scream for ?Diversity? the loudest also attempt to suppress any contradictory points of view.
The English R1A reading and comprehension course, titled "The Politics and Poetics of Palestinian Resistance," states in its course description that "conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections", a violation of the university's Faculty Code of Conduct.
According to the course description, the class "takes as its starting point the right of Palestinians to fight for their own self-determination."
"The brutal Israeli military occupation of Palestine, an occupation that has been ongoing since 1948, has systematically displaced, killed and maimed millions of Palestinian people," the course description reads. "And yet from under the brutal weight of the occupation, Palestinians have produced their own culture and poetry of resistance."
The class is taught by graduate student Snehal Shingavi, also a leader of the recently reinstated student group Students for Justice in Palestine. The group had been suspended last month for disrupting classes in their five-hour siege of a campus building.
But Shingavi denied the statement is meant to exclude anybody, saying that his definition of "conservative thinkers" referred to those that are "limited or narrow in scope."
"Students are encouraged to take my class irrespective of their political convictions," he said, although he declined to comment on what action he would take if a student in his course did not believe in Palestinian sovereignty.
I always find it strange that those on the left that scream for ?Diversity? the loudest also attempt to suppress any contradictory points of view.
Facebook
Twitter