Professor Tells Students She’s Canceling Class ‘In Solidarity’ With Anti-Israel Movement

A professor at the University of Virginia (UVA) told her students she was canceling classes Monday in support of an anti-Israel boycott at the school, according to an email obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

UVA Apartheid Divest, a coalition of UVA student groups, is supporting a referendum calling on the school to divest endowment funds from companies profiting from Israel. The group held a “Yes on Divest Walkout” Monday; Christa Robbins, an associate professor of art history at UVA, told students she was canceling class “in solidarity” with the walkout.

“I’m writing to let you know that I am canceling class today in solidarity with the ‘Yes on Divest Walkout’ that the UVA Apartheid Divest Coalition organized. I realize this issue is polarizing right now, so I want to take a moment to let you know why I made this choice,” Robbins wrote in a Monday email to students.

Robbins then explained that she had the class watch several pro-Palestinian videos and that her sympathies were with the “people of Palestine.”