According to students present that day, Gould opened class talking about free speech and decorum, before Yousef, thinking it was targeted at his crewneck, rebuked. After several minutes of conversation, in which Gould likened the symbols on the crewneck to the confederate flag, the professor left the classroom. Co-instructor professor Christopher Kutz will continue teaching the class as the sole instructor. Weeks before this incident, Kutz asked Yousef to keep his phone out of sight in class, because Gould was frustrated by a pro-Palestinian sticker on Yousef’s case, according to Yousef. “There needs to be a different category that’s looked at, which is now specifically anti-Palestinian racism, in which a professor feels comfortable implying that a flag of national origin is a hate symbol,” Yousef said. “I think this would be completely unacceptable if, for example, someone were to imply the Mexican flag or the Pakistani flag, or any flag besides Palestine is a hate symbol, that a s...