Christine Hong

Overview

Christine Hong is a university professor who has spread hatred of Israel, including as the lead writer of high school course criteria for ethnic studies in California.

As of February 2024, Hong was listed as a professor and a department chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

As of August 2023, Hong was serving as co-chair and spokesperson of the University of California (UC) working group responsible for developing the California high school ethnic studies requirement for admission into the UC system. Hong was also the “lead writer of the course criteria.”

As of the same date, Hong was also a principal member of the anti-Israel Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ).

Hong is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

As of February 11, 2024, Hong was listed online as a member of the founding collective of ICSZ. The organization’s “Points of Unity” state: “Zionism is a settler colonial racial project…We join in resistance to structures of racism, group supremacy, violence, militarism, colonialism, and capitalism…”

As of February 11, 2024, Hong was listed on the UCSC website as chair of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Department. UCSC is located in Santa Cruz, California.

As of the same date, Hong was also listed as a professor of CRES and literature at UCSC.

As of February 11, 2024, Hong was listed online as having received a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

On August 30, 2023, Hong was featured in an article that described her dual role as both the co-chair of the group responsible for drafting California’s high school ethnic studies course criteria and a founding member of ICSZ.

ICSZ’s stated goal is “to support the delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies, and to reclaim academia and public discourse for the study of Zionism as a political, ideological, and racial and gendered knowledge project, intersecting with Palestine and decolonial studies, critical terrorism studies, settler colonial studies…and activism…”

Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Zionism is a core part of the identity of most Jews.

In the article, Hong reportedly told the interviewer: “Is there a place within ethnic studies to discuss the extraordinary violence of Zionism, the settler-colonial violence, the militarism that is inflicted on Palestine and the Palestinian people? Absolutely!… A critique of Zionism is part and parcel of the field [of ethnic studies].”

The same article reported: “According to Hong and Gelman, an important goal of their Institute is ‘pushing back’ against American Zionist organizations, which they called the ‘antagonists’ in all of ethnic studies’ struggles against racism and colonialism. Hong asserted that Jewish groups’ attempts to keep antisemitism out of high school ethnic studies classrooms in California are examples of ‘US fascism.’”

Overview

Spreading Hatred of Israel and Writing Anti-Israel Curricula

BDS

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