University of Kentucky: Stop Persecuting Professor Woodcock for Speech Opposing Israel
Experts agree that Israel is a colonization project that practices apartheid and is currently committing a genocide of the Palestinian people. In July 2025, Israel had been systematically exterminating 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Ghetto for nearly 700 days. During all that time, University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto remained silent. However, when University of Kentucky Law Professor Ramsi Woodcock called for military action to stop the genocide, apartheid, and colonization, President Capilouto acted. He called Professor Woodcock's views "repugnant", accused him of wanting to destroy a people based on national origin, suspended him from teaching and banned him from campus. Evidently, it is President Capilouto and not Professor Woodcock who supports the destruction of a people based on national origin. Colonization, apartheid, and genocide are the three worst crimes known to humanity. No one who supports them should run a university, much less someone who abuses the power of his office to silence criticism of them in violation of the First Amendment and the principle of academic freedom. President Capilouto should restore Professor Woodcock to teaching and then resign.