A veteran professor, Seth Crosby, claims he was fired from Washington University for an anti-Hamas post on X (formerly Twitter) over the weekend that was decried by Muslim pro-Hamas groups – first and foremost, the Hamas-linked designated terrorist group CAIR. (FYI: Out of 6,400 undergraduates currently attending Washington University in St. Louis, it is estimated that approximately 24% (about 1,700) are Jewish)
NY Post In an exchange with another user, geneticist Seth Crosby referenced Israel’s retaliation for the group’s shocking terror incursions last week. Crosby, who worked in the St. Louis college’s school of medicine for several decades, called Israel’s strikes in the Gaza Strip “a much needed cleansing, yes, but not an ethnic one. Israel is not targeting humans.”
The sentiment immediately drew the ire of several Muslim advocacy groups – Hamas-linked designated terrorist group CAIR – who said Crosby was dehumanizing Palestinians as a whole.
“It is unconscionable that a professor at a Missouri institution of higher education would allegedly call for the ethnic cleansing of any population and would seek to dehumanize the target of that crime against humanity,” said CAIR-Missouri Board Chair Yasir Ali.
Crosby later posted he was referring only to Hamas and its membership, not Palestinians generally.
On Saturday, Crosby posted that he had been fired by the university, saying he had “destroyed himself” before deleting his account. While school officials distanced themselves from Crosby’s initial post, they denied that he had been formally terminated.
“The opinions he has expressed as an individual do not represent the university’s position,” spokesperson Julie Flory told Newsweek. “We are following up as appropriate, according to our policies and processes.”
As of Tuesday, Crosby’s name and title appeared on the school’s website, but his picture and bio had been removed.
According to his LinkedIn profile — which has since been deleted — Crosby spent almost 20 years at the university and most recently served as director of research collaborations for the department of genetics.
BLR says
hell what he said would barely get noticed here he hanging out with the wrong crowd