Exclusive | University of Arizona professor who told MAGA and Zionists to Fk Off faces termination calls

An American Sign Language lecturer at the University of Arizona is facing calls to step down after posting “F—k Israel” on social media, and telling his followers to “F—k off” if they are “MAGA” or “Zionists.”  “If you are MAGA, if you are a Zionist, or you are anti-human rights, this is not your space,” Jason Gervase said in a video on Dec.18, 2025 to his more than 100,000 followers on TikTok.Liora Rez, the founder and executive director of StopAntisemitism — a US based advocacy group — said jewish members and influencers of the ASL community flagged Gervase’s comments, prompting her to send a letter to the university Tuesday morning demanding his termination. “As a parent myself, I thought to myself, if I had a deaf child, what would happen if he or she was in their classroom with these kind of biases and this hatred and this rhetoric,” Rez told The California Post.

“I wouldn’t want my child there.I wouldn’t want to be paying tuition for my child to be in these kinds of situations.” In separate social media posts, Gervase told followers to “F—k Israel,” and appeared to agree with another comment that claimed the terror attack on Bondi Beach in December was a “false flag operation” conducted by the Mossad. “I know.

This was posted before that information came to light,” Gervase replied.In the letter sent to the university and obtained by The Post, Rez called Gervase’s conduct “deeply disturbing and fundamentally incompatible with the responsibilities of a university educator.” “StopAntisemitism is respectfully calling for the termination of Jason Gervase from his position at the University of Arizona and for a clear public reaffirmation of your institution’s commitment to protecting Jewish students and staff from discrimination and hate,” the letter reads. Mitch Mieczyslaw, a spokesperson for UofA, told The Post that Gervase’s comments “do not represent the university’s position.” ...