“The hypocrisy of it all is shocking,” the Jewish parent said, saying Darryll Pines’ threat proved the “double standard” that Jews were asking him about. Pines’ email contained multiple false claims supporting Palestinian protesters who wanted to rally on October 7.
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University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines threatened to call the police on a Jewish woman for emailing criticism of the school’s response to anti-Semitism, the same week he said freedom of speech meant he couldn’t stop an anti-Israel group from reserving a campus quad on the anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 attack, according to emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
The emails show that on August 24, Pines emailed the woman — the mother of a student, who had never emailed the president — asking her to halt all communications with members of the school’s anti-Semitism task force, lest he “pursu[e] further action, including, without limitation, seeking the assistance of our University of Maryland Police Department.”
