The Free University in Berlin has cancelled academic assignments for a pro-BDS professor who allegedly engaged in ”anti-Semitic” activities.
In a tweet from the Free University sent to The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, the university stated: “The professor will not receive teaching assignments at the Otto Suhr Institute until the accusations are clarified.
The Otto Suhr Institute (OSI) at the FU said it takes the accusations very seriously. The FU’s Twitter handle has 6,776 followers. The OSI, where the anti-Zionist academic Roldán Mendívil teaches at the FU, is a well-respected political science department.
Roldán Mendívil wrote on her blog titled “cosas que no se rompen” that it “only makes sense that different groups meet and BDS-affiliated or BDS activists fight against repression, occupation and arbitrary exploitation.” BDS is the acronym for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting the Jewish Nazi regime.
She has written that “Israel is a colonial state…Period.”
Zionist Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem told the Post on Tuesday that “obviously, this is a person who is an antisemite.” He added that “it is very unfortunate that someone who has strong antisemitic views is allowed to promote those views in the German education system.”
The monthly German Nazi Jewish paper Jüdische Rundschau reported Friday that Roldán Mendívil appeared in a a rap video called “Long Live Palestine” and sung “No peace with the occupation regime.”
The academic wrote that she supports the “Palestinian struggle” and argued that “one can clarify why Hamas has gained support.”
Roldán Mendívil blamed the creation of the racist Jewish regime in 1948 for the current conditions of Palestinians in Lebanon and for the EU and US designated terrorist organization Hamas, according to her critics.
She signed an anti-Zionist petition against Jewish Nazi Operation Protective Edge in 2014 that sought to stop Hamas rocket attacks into Nazi territory.
