UC Santa Barbara Professor Spams Class With Graphic “Jews Are Nazis” Email

Via Brad Greenberg, a typical example of the vicious rhetorical moves that would never be tolerated towards anyone but Jews. Can you imagine a professor accusing a black politician of “politically lynching” an opponent? Let alone sending an email about it to his enrolled students, which by the by is a violation of any number of “hostile environment” harassment policies:

I just received an e-mail, which included a link to the video seen after the jump, forwarding an e-mail from William I. Robinson, a USCB sociology professor. The contents of that e-mail, which Robinson reportedly sent to students on Martin Luther King Day and ran under the heading “Parallel images of Nazis and Israelis,” included 42 side-by-side photos…

“I am forwarding some horrific, parallel images of Nazi atrocities against the Jews and Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians. Perhaps the most frightening are not those providing a graphic depiction of the carnage but that which shows Israeli children writing “with love” on a bomb that will tear apart Palestinian children. Gaza is Israel’s Warsaw – a vast concentration camp that confined and blockaded Palestinians, subjecting them to the slow death of malnutrition, disease and despair, nearly two years before their subjection to the quick death of Israeli bombs. We are witness to a slow-motion process of genocide (Websters: “the systematic killing of, or a program of action intended to destroy, a whole national or ethnic group”), a process whose objective is not so much to physically eliminate each and every Palestinian than to eliminate the Palestinians as a people in any meaningful sense of the notion of people-hood.”

I like how he included the smear about Israeli children writing love notes on missiles, even though that incident (a) was staged by photojournalists and (b) happened during Lebanon II and has absolutely nothing to do with “Palestinian children.” You can also pick apart the rest of the email – mass starvation is the opposite of true, the genocide is so “slow-motion” that the Palestinian population is skyrocketing, etc.

But why bother? He’s got tenure. So blatant lying and anti-Jewish tropes – that’s the very definition of academic freedom. Besides, “Jews are Nazis” is exactly the line toed by the State Department’s flagship Arab public diplomacy outlet. So what’s the big deal?

Anyway, here’s a narration of the email, courtesy of one of the students victimized by his textbook harassment:

No word on when the Democratic left will rush to defend him. But it’s gotta be pretty soon right?

References:
* Santa Barbara professor compared Israelis to Nazis [God Blog]
* How to demonize Israel [Adloyada]
* Breathless HuffPo Headline About Gazans Eating Grass Contradicted By Rest Of Headline, Linked Picture, Reality (Plus: Anti-Semitic Comments Ensue Anyway) [MR]
* State Department’s Arab TV Station: Israel Conducting “Holocaust Against 1.5 million Palestinians” [MR]
* J-Street: You Know What American Campuses Need? More Left Wing Anti-Israel Activism. [MR]

Previously:
* Austrian Jews Too Terrified To List Their Children As Jewish (Plus: Europe Reaches An Anti-Jewish Tipping Point)
* As Far As Smirking Anti-Semitism Goes, UC Irvine Muslims Have Really Outdone Themselves
* Brown University Outrage: Anti-Israel Academics Organize Conference To Attack Pro-Israel Critics, Shut Out Pro-Israel Speakers and Students