[deschutes]

I'm not familiar with the controversy, so I went looking for actual views of said professors. Wikipedia states 'Massad has characterized Israel as "a racist Jewish state."'

There might be more to this story than Glenn Greenwald frothing at the mouth.

[some-guy]

And yet, if I'm reading Weiss's resignation letter correctly, you would think that Massad should not be fired for that characterization.

[jimbokun]

Was he fired? Tried scanning Greenwald’s article, but didn’t see that mentioned.

[some-guy]

Meant to say *should, edited for clarity.

[ebg13]

Can you clarify whether (and if so why) you have a problem with that characterization?

> Wikipedia states 'Massad has characterized Israel as "a racist Jewish state."'

Israel's own definition of self calls itself a "Jewish state" and says that the right to exercise national self-determination there is "unique to the Jewish people", so that "Jewish state" part is correct by definition.

And it defines that Judaism is a race by birthright and not a religion, and it grants special privileges to jews that aren't granted to others and it metes special discriminations against its non-jewish resident minorities, so, without even getting into any discussion of the history of arab-israeli conflict, it's hard to argue seriously with the other part as well.

[kps]

> And it defines that Judaism is a race by birthright and not a religion

That is factually incorrect. Conversions apply, in both directions.