An aspiring academic teaching a “race, writing and power” course at Cornell University has brought her opposition to the Jewish state into the classroom, suspending the first day on Jan. 22 as part of a “Global Strike for Palestine.”
Alyiah Gonzales is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the school in Ithaca, N.Y., where she teaches a writing course with an activist focus. The Free Beacon obtained an email she sent canceling the class and assigning a two- to three-page essay on “the relationship between writing, power and systems of oppression.”
She wrote, “In Gaza, students like us, who hold a passion for learning and engaging in community knowledge production, have had their institutional resources ripped away from them one bomb at a time.”
Gonzales has previously expressed her anti-Israel animus, sharing on Instagram after the Hamas terrorist attacks on Oct. 7 that “freedom has only ever been achieved through resistance. Stand with the Palestinian resistance.”
In another post, she declared: “Me, personally, I think the f***ass settler State of Israel and all those complicit in genocide and occupation can rot in the deepest darkest pits of hell.”