Campus Speech and Antisemitism

UC Davis assistant professor Jemma DeCristo was suspended without pay for the Fall 2025 academic quarter and formally censured after an internal investigation concluded her October 2023 social media post telling 'Zionist journalists' and their children they 'should fear us more' violated the university’s faculty code of conduct and harmed the Jewish community. The investigative report, completed in June 2024 but only released last week under a public-records request, details how the post, which included knife and axe emojis, triggered safety complaints, hundreds of demands for her firing, and threats by at least one major donor to withhold six‑figure gifts unless she was terminated, though she remains employed and is not currently teaching.