Nathalie Edmond presented slides that some attendees thought were antisemitic. She has since faced physical threats online.
Villanova faces blowback after director of counseling center associates Zionism with fascism in presentation
Two slides from her session about dismantling oppression prompted outrage among some attendees: One showed a spectrum of “acceptable discourse,” with “cultural freedoms” on one end and “Zionism and fascism” on the other.The second depicted “The Colonized Mind,” labeled with various ideologies, including “internalized racism,” “homophobia,” “rape culture,” and “Zionism.”avoided the protests and criticism over Israel and Gaza that have embroiled other campuses since Oct. 7, 2023.
Some see criticism of Zionism, the belief that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, as inherently antisemitic. Others, including some Jewish activists, say Zionism is a political ideology and opposition to it should not be conflated with prejudice against Jewish people. The International Society for Improvement and Teaching of Dialectical Behavior Therapy hosts the annual daylong conference in connection with the far bigger Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies conference. Each year, several hundred people attend presentations on new research and workshops where therapists can earn continuing education credits.
As clips from the exchange traveled online in the week after the conference, Edmond, who declined to comment for this article,
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