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April 21, 2023

A Campus Expert on Equity and Social Justice Labeled a “Dirty Zionist” for Hosting a Talk about Anti-Semitism

A DEI director’s path to cancelation and firing.

Tabia Lee describes herself as “a black woman with decades of experience teaching in public schools and leading workshops on diversity, equity, inclusion, and antiracism”—exactly the sort of person whom De Anza Community College would hire for the position of faculty director for the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education. But after merely two years, Lee was fired for not holding to a sufficiently extreme and uncompromising view of what social justice entails. Among the many accusations leveled against her, and taken seriously by her employers, was excessive sympathy with Jews:

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