The professor was denounced by Cornell after he criticized Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, and now he is demanding an apology.
A Cornell Law School professor is demanding an apology from the university after one of his peers praised Hamas in a viral video.On October 7, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza. As of Tuesday, at least 2,778 people have been killed and 9,700 wounded in Gaza, the Associated Press reported, citing the Gaza Health Ministry. More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, according to the AP.
We are owed apologies and retractions.'In 2020, Jacobson wrote about the origin of Black Lives Matter and questioned the organization's narrative, as well as the activists who launched the movement, on his blog, Legal Insurrection.Many Cornell University staff denounced Jacobson's beliefs and students boycotted his classes.Jacobson told Newsweek that he hasn't had any communication with the university since Rickford's statements.
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