As law enforcement moved in to clear a tense pro-Palestinian protest Wednesday at the University of California in Irvine, a professor in the global studies department was among those arrested.
Videos of her arrest showed an ugly scene as she yelled about the students and their cause, identifying herself as a “tenured professor”
“Shame on them!” she exclaimed as she was being led away by police.
“We cannot have a genocidal foreign policy in a democracy,” she said. “These young people are going to be the ones that have to pay the price for these horrible decisions.”
“These police officers out here today, that’s thousands of student scholarships!” she yelled in a hoarse voice. “Thousands of students could have been able to go to school and have books, and have housing. But instead, our chancellor, who is a very cruel man, decided to send thousands of dollars worth of state funding paid for by the taxpayers into the trash!”
When asked by a reporter if she was concerned about jeopardizing her job, she railed, “What job do I have if the students don’t have a future?”
The school issued a “shelter in place” order after anti-Israel protesters occupied the science building at UC Irvine Wednesday.
“The building takeover was broadcast live on Instagram by several pro-Palestinian accounts,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “The videos showed a hectic scene as students clad in kaffiyehs ran to and from the area by the lecture hall, setting up a wooden fence barrier, tents, signs and other materials.”
Eventually labeled as a “violent protest,” the school called in law enforcement agencies who forcefully removed the students and cleared out a nearby two-week-old encampment.
Students told to ‘shelter in place’ as pro-Hamas mob storms campus https://t.co/WtEO9iG1DN via @BIZPACReview
— BPR based (@DumpstrFireNews) May 16, 2024
The professor’s unhinged performance set off a wave of criticism on social media where one user identified the professor as Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, an Associate Professor with a Ph.D. in Political Science.
Meet Tiffany Willoughby-Herard from the Department of Global and International Studies at @UCIrvine.
She’s an Associate Professor with a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
She specializes in “poor whites” and “decolonization theory.” pic.twitter.com/vQzdMe5FVd
— Paul A. Szypula (@Bubblebathgirl) May 16, 2024
Many X users expressed their alarm and anger at the type of ‘educators’ teaching the next generation.
The people teaching your children are actually brainwashing them
— One Bad Dude (@OneBadDude_) May 16, 2024
She is mentally unstable, this is what is teaching students in our Universities?
This is not a good look for academia and her career.
— floridanow1 (@floridanow1) May 16, 2024
Her actions show she has no business being around students regardless of their age
— Not Simo Häyhä (@h2av8tor) May 16, 2024
When your inner demon wants a moment in the spotlight
— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) May 16, 2024
Our Universities need major reform. This person should be no where near a classroom.
— Mark Thompson (@marktmt) May 16, 2024
$60k/year in tuition to pay for THIS?
The American education system is broken.
— Kenzie Marie (@KenzieMarie2024) May 16, 2024
And a vital part of our educational infrastructure. https://t.co/OxbnnbKQ1y
— mark (@rhapsodyboard) May 16, 2024
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