University campuses are notorious for promoting ‘safe spaces’ where dissenting opinions are labeled as ‘violence.’ Yet within the cushioned walls of the Ivory Tower, professors gleefully celebrate aggression and bloodshed that furthers their leftist narratives including the ‘liberation’ of Gaza, the defeat of capitalism, the abolition of the police, and the ‘decolonization’ of America.
This promotion of savagery occurs at a time when our nation is experiencing a surge in political violence from the left, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk and three heinous attempts to assassinate President Donald Trump.
The following series, “Academic Assault: The Far-Left Professors Promoting Political Violence,” will expose both the barbarism and hypocrisy of these radical faculty, these academic assailants, who claim to promote safety and inclusion while encouraging violence as a political tool to spur revolution.
Jemma DeCristo, University of California—Davis
In the frightening days after Hamas’s October 7 massacre of innocent Israeli Jews, many college professors attempted to justify Hamas’s brutality. For Jemma DeCristo—an assistant professor at the University of California-Davis—such comments didn’t go nearly far enough.
DeCristo, a male professor of American Studies at the state-funded university, identifies as a black trans woman. In a post made to X on October 10, just three days after Hamas’s brutal massacre, the professor threatened Jewish journalists and their families who he suggested were spreading “misinformation.”
The professor’s post read:
one group of ppl we have easy access to in the US is all these zionist journalists who spread propaganda and misinformation
they have houses w addresses, kids in school
they can fear their bosses but they should fear us more
This concluding sentence was followed by emojis depicting a knife, an ax, and three droplets of blood.
Jason Bedrick, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, helped DeCristo’s post go viral by reposting it to X with the admonition: “Hey @ucdavis, do you think it’s appropriate that one of your faculty advisors, @jemmaisOKeh, is publicly threatening to murder Jews at their homes and their children at their schools?”
After numerous public complaints from Jewish students and their parents, UC Davis launched two-year investigation of DeCristo (during which time he remained employed by the university). The university’s investigation concluded that the trans professor’s post threatening harm to Jewish journalists had wide-reaching consequences for the university and its extended community. Two members of the university faculty tendered their resignations citing the “impact” of DeCristo’s post and a donor refused to honor an anticipated six-figure gift unless he was fired. Another university employee contacted the police to report DeCristo for making threats on social media.
“In the course of our interviews, we were struck by the amount of pain people experienced in response to the October 10 post,” the investigative report published by UC-Davis concluded.
That report also noted that DeCristo did not express any contrition for his actions and the pain and fear his post targeting Jews engendered. Instead, he considered himself to be the “sole victim in this situation” and “failed to reckon with the suffering of others that the post caused.” The professor also denied that his post was anti-Semitic. He instead claimed it was “overt satire” that used “intentionally hyperbolic and satirical language” that was “intended to broadly mimic and parody the tone of multiple October 10 posts, articles and statements by senior Israeli officials and journalists which (she) had seen dehumanizing Palestinian children in particular.”
Despite the absurdity of these claims, UC-Davis chose to accept DeCristo’s self-declared rationale, concluding that the professor “did not intend” to provoke fear of a genuine threat when he made his post on X. Instead of firing the unrepentant Jew-hater, the university merely gave him a temporary suspension and added a letter of censure to his file. During the lengthy investigation mounted by the university, which stretched for almost two years, DeCristo continued to receive his salary from the university for all but two months of that time, despite not teaching any classes.
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