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Rantz: UW prof Megan Ybarra praised terrorist attack as ‘justice’
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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-7pm on KTTH
A Seattle professor praised the terrorist attacks against Israel as “justice” at an anti-Semitic event at the University of Washington (UW).
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BY JASON RANTZ
The Jason Rantz Show, 3pm-7pm on KTTH
The Northshore School District’s racial and educational justice
specialist reportedly co-founded a virulently anti-Israel group that’s helping organize Seattle’s pro-Hamas rallies. And while she’s been organizing against Jews and Israel, she has been teaching students how
to become left-wing activists.
Ranna Harb has been identified as the co-founder of Falastiniyat
Seattle. The group claims to be a “grassroots collective of diasporic Palestinian feminists in Seattle.” In reality, it’s an extremist group
that demonizes Jews and Israel. And the district doesn’t seem to mind if
Harb is still involved.
Most recently, Falastiniyat Seattle was listed as endorsing a University
of Washington (UW) hate rally. A speaker at the rally told the crowd,
“We don’t want Israel to exist. We don’t want these Zionist counter-protesters to exist.” Another speaker, UW professor Meghan
Ybarra, asked, “Why does our timeline for justice start on Oct. 7?”
Falastiniyat Seattle also helped organize local hate rallies denouncing
Israel, spreading antisemitic misinformation, and celebrating Hamas
terrorist attacks. At one recent Seattle rally, speakers and the crowd
praised Hamas and attacks on Jews, declaring, “There is only one
solution. Intifada revolution,” and “Long live the intifada.” An
intifada is a violent uprising. They waived signs claiming “resistance
is not terrorism.”
“Over the last few days, the people of Gaza have broken out of their
prison and have reminded us of their right to resist Zionist
colonization, occupation, and blockade, and their right to resist and
live in an occupied Palestine,” one speaker said, justifying the rapes, kidnapping, and murder. She went on to blame Jews for murdering Gazans
“in cold blood.”
Ranna Harb was organizing against Jews while teaching kids
It’s not clear if Harb is still organizing for Falastiniyat. But
according to radical Fight Back! News, she organized a group of 50 to
protest Israeli action in Jenin, which targeted a command and control
center for militants, in July. She was employed with the district at the
time.
After 50 attacks against Israelis, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) took
action to dismantle the terrorist safe haven in Jenin. During the
operation, the IDF said they found hundreds of explosives, weapons
caches and underground tunnels. They detained at least 120 militants,
killing at least 12. Harb defended the militants, calling them
“martyrs,” according to Fight Back!.
“All the martyrs – past, present and future – of the Palestinian people, and all revolutionary struggles against imperialism, are in our hearts
today. We will take up our own role in this ultimate global fight
against colonialism, exploitation, imperialism and patriarchy,” Harb is quoted as saying.
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Radical is guiding vulnerable students
As the district’s racial and educational justice department specialist,
Harb works closely with students, guiding them to become left-wing
activists.
Her role is supposed to be committed to creating an “inclusive, diverse
and equitable” environment for students. When one celebrates terrorists murdering Jews, it’s hard to imagine she’s truly committed to that goal.
According to the district’s website, Harb’s department also celebrates cultural months throughout the year. They include Arab Heritage Month
(April), which Harb spearheaded during a community panel for the school. Unsurprisingly, the district skips Jewish Heritage Month (May). And, unfortunately, the district doesn’t care.
Neither Harb nor Northshore School District spokesperson Carri Campbell (she/her/hers) responded to multiple emails seeking comment. Perhaps
being an outspoken Jew triggered Campbell. She responded to my
non-Jewish colleague asking the same questions.
“Our district doesn’t collect information about our employee’s association with external organizations. We only collect former
employment information,” Campbell claimed.
It seems hard to fathom the district being OK with an employee
organizing with the Proud Boys. They very clearly wouldn’t. This
district has not hidden the fact that its goal is to turn its students
into left-wing extremists.
Indoctrination by design
The Northshore School District, which serves portions of King and
Snohomish counties, used the Black Lives Matter protests and riots to
justify bringing radical left-wing politics into the classroom. As a
result, educators and even school board candidates have courted
controversies.
A Lockwood Elementary teacher offered a “veiled threat” to parents who pulled their kids from his music class when he turned into a seminar on
LGBT issues. One science teacher at Canyon Park Middle School was caught
using her classroom to shame kids for being “privileged.” She even instructed students to “dismantle the systems of oppression” as she sees them.
Currently, school board director candidate Han Tran is under fire for
social media posts allegedly calling for the genocide of Jews. After
apparently scrubbing her social media of past comments, Tran admitted to attending and speaking at an antisemitic rally in 2021. But, she now
says, she does not “promote hatred or discrimination.”
Most recently, Superintendent Michael Tolley was forced to apologize for
an Oct. 9 message to families where he warned students against
responding to the terrorist attack with Islamaphobia. He did not mention
the terrorists responsible, nor the Jewish victims. In a follow-up
message, Tolley said his “message fell short for some families and
didn’t convey what some needed to hear.” But in that same letter, Tolley conflated the Hamas terrorist attacks with Israel defending itself,
claiming the Jewish state is somehow guilty of “murder.” He would not
cite Hamas as responsible for the terrorist attack.
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Jewish group sounds the alarm
American Jewish Committee-Seattle has been monitoring local antisemitism
in the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Israel. The regional
director, Regina Sassoon Friedland, is alarmed that Harb has influence
over children.
“Ranna Harb’s involvement with Falistiniyat, a self-described collective
of Palestinian feminists, raises concerns,” Friedland told the Jason
Rantz Show on KTTH. “She recently led a public protest against Israel,
where she glorified violence against Jewish Israelis. This is especially troubling when considering her role as Racial and Educational Justice Specialist with the Northshore School District.”
It’s already problematic that Harb is the so-called “racial and
educational justice specialist.” Someone with such a radical background should obviously stay away from Jewish students. But she works for a
district that seems to disregard how those Jewish students may feel if
they knew Harb holds antisemitic views and organizes against Jews and
Israel.
Listen to the Jason Rantz Show on weekday afternoons from 3-7 p.m. on
KTTH 770 AM (HD Radio 97.3 FM HD-Channel 3). Subscribe to the podcast
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Megan Ybarra is an associate professor in the Department of Geography
and a radical. She spoke at last Wednesday’s event demanding UW sever
all ties with Israel, which include the study abroad program.
Referencing the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, she
asked, “Why does our timeline for justice start on October 7.”
Ybarra went on to complain that UW’s anti-Semitic hate rallies were criticized and that students who participated were outed for their hate.
She implied that pro-Israel and Jewish counter-protesters were violent
(they were not), and called out UW Police for shaking their hands. This elicited loud boos from the crowd.
Professor claims to be the real victim
The radical professor then launched into a tirade against X accounts, threatening to name faculty who participate in anti-Semitic rallies on campus. She wants the UW administration to step in to help.
Ybarra said the threats to be outed for her hateful views meant, “I have
an evacuation plan every day I go to teach.” Apparently, it’s the Jews who are the real threats, not those who are celebrating the murder,
rape, and kidnapping of Jews.
After I posted a video of her comments to X, she took her X profile
offline. It’s unclear why. Her speech was public, and she identified herself to get credit for the venom she spewed.
“UW: Your silence is complicit for the harassment of your students,
staff, and faculty because they call for peace. They call for life, and
they call for the defunding of the war machine that is killing people in
Gaza and beyond,” Ybarra claimed.
The notion that the rallies have been peaceful is, of course, a lie.
At this hate rally, and the preceding others, pro-Hamas protesters have called for the destruction of Israel, celebrated intifada, and justified
the terrorist attacks against Israel. Indeed, the original flyer
promoting the first hate rally included a symbol of paragliders, a nod
to the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered more than 200 people at a music festival near the Gaza border.
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Megan Ybarra has a history of anti-Israel hate
Ybarra isn’t newly anti-Israel. She has a history.
The geography professor is listed as a signatory to a letter criticizing Israel defending itself against Hamas. The letter calls Israel’s land “historical Palestine,” indicating a general ignorance of history. But the letter from May 2021 matches much of the rhetoric today to justify terrorism against Israel and criticism of Jews defending themselves.
“We also refuse the ‘both sides’ narrative that ignores and conceals the
meaningful differences and asymmetry of power between Israel—one of the most heavily militarized states in the world that receives $3.8 billion
of military aid annually from the United States—and a Palestinian population resisting continuous dispossession, denationalization, and erasure,” the letter states.
Ybarra and dozens of other radical educators contend that “Israel is engaged in apartheid, a brutal system of territorial theft, Jewish supremacism, violence, and Palestinian political marginalization that
affects Palestinians all over the world.” Though the letter doesn’t cite Hamas, while talking about the terrorist group, it does state that the educators are “inspired by the bravery and perseverance” of Palestinians who fight back against Israel.
She also appeared to support the virulently anti-Semitic Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement.
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