A Wake Forest University professor has resigned after claiming the private university did not give her enough support for her now-deleted pro-Hamas social media post that sympathized with the killing of Israeli civilians.
Laura Mullen, chair of the Humanities in Literature and Creative Writing department, posted to X on Oct. 12: “So it’s kind of a Duh but if you turn me out of my house plow my olive grove and confine what’s left of my family to the small impoverished state you run as an open air prison I could be tempted to shoot up your dance party yeah even knowing you will scorch the earth.”
The post came just a few days after Hamas killed about 1,200 Israeli civilians, including women and children, as well as 250 people attending the Supernova music festival.
Mullen, who is a poet, said in recent interviews with several media outlets the post was artistic in nature and meant to explain why the killings might have taken place as opposed to justifying them.
However, after intense backlash and scrutiny, she resigned Oct. 31, citing “personal reasons,” the Old Gold and Black student newspaper reported, adding it appears she is…
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