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Editor’s note: American campuses are awash in a crisis of Jew hatred. Ineffectual college administrators have taken tentative steps to try and rein in the proponents of terror on their campuses, but they have yet to confront the most obvious source of this poisonous Jew hatred—their own radical faculty who have not only called for an end to Israel but have outright celebrated the barbaric bloodshed of the terror group Hamas.
The Freedom Center is exposing these radical, pro-terror faculty as the Top Ten Hamas Loyalist Professors. We will be publishing one school per day as a series on Frontpage. Jairo Fúnez-Flores, a professor at Texas Tech University’s College of Teacher Education, is #9 on our list.
#9: Jairo Fúnez-Flores, Texas Tech University
Jairo Fúnez-Flores is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education at Texas Tech University’s College of Teacher Education. According to the university’s website, “his research is situated at the intersections of sociocultural studies in education, curriculum studies, decolonial theory, and qualitative methodology”—but in recent months he has become better known for his rampant Jew hatred and seemingly unconditional support for the anti-Israel terror group Hamas.
On October 7, 2023, the date of Hamas’s barbaric slaughter of over 1200 innocent Israeli men, women, and children, Fúnez-Flores tweeted a quote from Palestinian poet Darren Tatour indicating his support for Hamas’s campaign of terror: “Resist, my people, resist them. In Jerusalem, I dressed my wounds and breathed my sorrows and carried the soul in my palm for an Arab Palestine. I will not succumb to the ‘peaceful solution,’ never lower my flags until I evict them from my land.”
He also shared another post that even more explicitly celebrated Hamas’s brutality as justified “resistance” and an act of “justice.” “Reclaiming your right to life is not terrorism—It’s self-determination. Resisting dehumanization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide—it’s justice,” stated the post. “Palestinians didn’t choose to take up arms, they were forced to do so by those who came and stole their land from them.” Naturally, Fúnez-Flores failed to mention that the Palestinians have repeatedly refused generous offers to provide them a state of their own, since it would mean co-existing with the Jewish state of Israel.
Lest his prior tweets were not clear enough, the Jew-hating professor added another message calling for the annihilation of the state of Israel: “PALESTINIAN MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND WITH DIGNITY IN THEIR OWN LAND. THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN AS LONG AS THE SETTLER COLONIAL STATE OF ISRAEL EXISTS,” he wrote (caps in original).
In the days and months following October 7th, as more and more horrific details emerged from the massacre were made public, Fúnez-Flores doubled down on his support for Hamas and his desire to see Israel wiped off the map.
In a November 2023 article posted to Substack, Fúnez-Flores condemned “Israel’s colonial project of death” and portrayed the world’s only Jewish state as emblematic of the entire apparatus of colonialism, writing, “I try to make visible the connections between the settler colonial state of Israel and the crucial role it has played and continues to play in reproducing coloniality not only in Palestine but across the world through the exportation of technologies of colonial violence.” He also praised “Palestinians and Indigenous peoples everywhere” for their “fight for, despite the incredible odds to build a world free of colonial domination, dispossession, and capitalist exploitation.”
In a profanity-laced and vitriolic tweet posted in January, Fúnez-Flores wrote, “F—k Israel & its supporters. F—k those who remain silent! F—k academia! F—k colonial apologists. F—k those who stop humanitarian aid! F—k the liberal “nuances”! F—k Biden! F—k everyone who says it’s not a genocide! F—k those who disregard the suffering of the Palestinians!”
The professor also joined 97 other academics in signing an open letter to the American Education Studies Association (AESA) which contained statements echoing ancient blood libel accusations against the Jews and Israel, a form of anti-Semitism going back to the Middle Ages. “Israel is a settler colonial project, whose explicit goal is the systematic killing and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians,” it claimed, painting the Jewish state and people as bloodthirsty psychopaths.
Fúnez-Flores also scolded other academics for failing to condemn Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as genocide, tweeting, “Every university and academic organization that stays silent about this is also complicit.”
Following months of anti-Semitic and pro-Hamas remarks, Texas Tech University briefly suspended Fúnez-Flores last spring, only to lift the suspension after concluding that his comments, while anti-Semitic and offensive, did not violate the university’s policy against discriminatory harassment. The professor was allowed to return to the classroom and instruct the next generation in the importance of “decolonization” and “resistance.”