Former DEI Director: DEI ‘Deliberately Stokes’ Anti-Semitism at Colleges

A former college Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) director is shedding light on the despicable anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian protests that erupted on U.S. campuses after Hamas’s recent heinous terrorist attacks on Israel. According to Tabia Lee, “toxic DEI ideology” on college campuses “deliberately stokes hatred toward Israel and the Jewish people.”

The “blatant” anti-Semitism that broke out after the latest Hamas-Israel conflict began did not shock her, Lee noted, because of her personal experience. Lee said that she saw anti-Semitism “on a weekly basis” during her two years at Silicon Valley’s De Anza College, where she was a faculty DEI director. When she was hired in 2021, as a black woman, she seemed the “perfect person for the job — on paper,” Lee explained.

Yet I made the mistake of trying to create an authentically inclusive learning environment for everyone, including Jewish students.

Turns out, a toxic form of DEI (which is more accurately called “critical social justice”) demanded I do the opposite.

”I tried to right this wrong,” Lee wrote. “First, I hosted Jewish speakers on campus, with the goal of promoting diversity and inclusion by sharing different perspectives.” What she got for her trouble was the school refusing to promote her events and the epithet of “dirty Zionist.”

Never has she experienced a “more hostile environment toward the members of any racial, ethnic or religious group” than she did against Jews at De Anza, Lee stated.