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Jay Sures, the news industry super agent and a University of California Board of Regents member, teed off on a faculty letter calling on the UC system to whitewash Hamas’s October 7 terrorist attack and condemn Israel.
The letter to which Sures was responding, from UC’s Ethnic Studies Faculty Council, condemned “recent UC administrative communications” for “irresponsibly” using the word “terrorism” to describe Hamas’ kidnapping, rape, and massacre of Israeli civilians.
It went on to denounce both “Zionist students” and “Zionist militarism” as well as ultimately “call on the UC administrative leadership to retract its charges of terrorism, to uplift the Palestinian freedom struggle, and to stand against Israel’s war crimes against and ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people.”
Sures was not sympathetic to this request, responding in a letter obtained by Mediaite.
“There are absolutely no words to describe how appalling and repugnant I found your October 16, 2023 letter from the UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council
“You asked for us as a body to retract our ‘charges of terrorism, to uplift the Palestinian freedom struggle, and to stand against Israel’s war crimes against and ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian people.’ Let me be clear, I will do everything in my power to never let that happen. Full stop,” he continued, before calling the administration’s previous communications “absolutely justified and necessary because terrorism has no place in our world.”
Sures, the vice chairman of UTA, represents news industry stars including Bret Baier, Margaret Brennan, Jake Tapper, David Muir, Jen Psaki, and Norah O’Donnell.
Sures continued his letter by reminding the Faculty Council that “babies, children of all ages, the elderly, the disabled, and people from all walks of life were shot, raped, tortured, maimed, mutilated, decapitated, and burned alive.”
“These the facts of behind this current conflict,” asserted Sures. “To whitewash them is a flagrant and willful abdication of your professional responsibility and indeed morality.”
He added that the Faculty Council and its signatories had “demonstrated no empathy for Jewish life” before charging the same group with choosing to be “surrogates and supporters for
Sures concluded by urging the group “to issue a public statement retracting the statements in your October 16th letter and clearly condemn Hamas’s horrific attack on innocent Israeli Civilians (as well as other nationalities) on October 7 as terrorism.”
Sures’s statement comes amidst a proliferation of anti-Semitic incidents on campuses around the country, that have seen Jewish students harassed and threats made against Jewish organizations — a phenomenon the prolific agent recognized in his letter.
“The UC Ethnic Studies Faculty Council letter does not come in a vacuum, but at a time when Jewish students across the country, including on all our UC campuses, are experiencing increasing antisemitic threats and intimidation,” he wrote.
Read the full letter here.