On March 13, 2024, Jane Close Conoley, president of California State University, Long Beach, stated that it was “deeply upsetting” that flyers were created and posted around campus that week bearing the image of a professor and “characterizations purporting to represent his views related to the Hamas-Israel conflict.”

“I know these characterizations are false, and I experience them as antisemitic threats,” she stated at the time. “We have reached out to our faculty member to offer support, and I have also asked that the Office of Equity and Compliance review this matter.” She added that the school “must also reject Islamophobia and antisemitism.”

Jeffrey Blutinger, a history professor and director of Jewish studies at the public school, told JNS that he learned of the posters depicting

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