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In yet another sign of how far academia has sunk, Syracuse University put chemistry prof Jon Zubieta on administrative leave last week for the horrific sin of . . . including the terms “Wuhan Flu” and “Chinese Communist Party Virus” on his course syllabus.

It’d be one thing if his colleagues noted he was going off-topic for a chemistry class, but in fact the Daily Orange reports that some 300 faculty and staff have signed an open letter denouncing his “hateful statements that feed into the recent wave of Sinophobia.” And: “We strongly condemn any speech that aims to marginalize and demean the Chinese community on and off campus.”

Come on: Blaming China’s government — specifically, the genocide-committing, organ-harvesting, freedom-crushing Chinese Communist Party — for the coronavirus isn’t slamming any “Chinese community” except the CCP itself, any more than denouncing Nazi atrocities is anti-German.

And if that embarrasses any Syracuse students whose families are CCP officials — well, tough. Welcome to America.

Unless Syracuse is going to start treating statements condemning Israel’s government as anti-Semitic, it needs to reinstate Zubieta pronto. Better yet: Can every administrator who went along with this idiocy.