🇵🇸 Le Moyne College President Tells Genocide Survivor He Cannot Use the Word “Genocide.”
Le Moyne College, a Jesuit institution in Syracuse, New York, sent a letter to students this week condemning the language used by Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha during an April 15 guest lecture — specifically his use of the word “genocide” to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza.
President Linda LeMura, without naming him, wrote that the word caused “real hurt” to Jewish students and implied its use was incompatible with the college’s commitment to inclusion.
She then listed her commitments going forward: dialogue sessions, new guidelines for “deeply charged” campus programming, and a declaration that antisemitism has no place at Le Moyne — describing Abu Toha’s testimony, implicitly, as an example of bigotry requiring institutional guardrails.
Abu Toha, who survived Israeli strikes in Gaza, lost over 100 relatives—most of them children—and still carries physical wounds from a 2009 airstrike, called the letter “deeply shameful.”
“How dare you tell a person who survived a genocide that they cannot speak about it?” he wrote. “I never once used the word ‘Jewish’ during the entire event. I refuse to conflate the faith of Judaism with the actions of the state of Israel.”
“If anyone told you they felt ‘hurt’ because I used the word genocide,” he wrote, “then I ask you: how should I feel? How should my wife feel after losing her father? How should my three children feel after losing their grandfather?“
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