by Adam Sabes
A recent survey found that 3 in 10 college students or recent graduates had job offers rescinded as a result of their “pro-Palestine” activism.
Intelligent surveyed 672 students or recent college graduates who have engaged in anti-Israel activism and found that 29% of them had a job offer rescinded in the past six months and 55 percent believe there was bias against them in the hiring process because of their activism.
7 in 10 pro-Palestine activists said they were asked about their protest history during the interview process, according to the survey results.
Intelligent Chief Education and Career Development Advisor Huy Nguyen said that the results are consistent with other studies.
“It’s consistent with another study that we performed where employers expressed concerns that hiring protestors and strongly vocal activists might cause distractions and disruptions in the workplace and negatively impact their workplace,” Nguyen said.
21 percent of those surveyed also reported negative feedback from potential employers about their activism and 14 percent either had job offers withdrawn or not extended.
The survey was conducted from May 30 to June 7 and only recent or current college or graduate-level students participated.
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Adam Sabes is the Deputy Editor at Campus Reform.
Photo “Pro-Palestine Protesters” by Paul Becker. CC BY 2.0
It has been so disappointing hearing some of these supposed students as they decry not being allowed to collect their degrees in person, in short, denied participation in commencement exercises. Not sad they couldn’t participate, rather sad seeing how inarticulate they are in interview. Most would not have passed courses let alone being granted a degree. Many are functioning idiots at best. Many slid by in high school and were given passes due to COVID restrictions. They didn’t belong in college. Now for protesting something of which they know absolutely nothing about, which understand was encouraged by woke faculty, they were passed along in college. The degrees they are collecting are worthless. The only things these “students” learned were their actions have consequences. I have no pity nor compassion for those who had job offers rescinded. I will not hire anyone who felt protesting was a greater pursuit than attending class.
Ummm, so which is it, 29% or 14 % of activist students who believe that their activism resulted in having a job offer rescinded, or not being offered a job in the first place? Those figures are not exactly “consistent”, as Intelligent advisor Nguyen claims.
Personally, I wonder that the figure is not 100%.