Posted on 08/09/2014 5:26:22 AM PDT by markomalley
A Kent State University associate professor of history is standing by his call for “jihad” and statement that Israel is “a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism.”
In an “open letter” to “academic friends of Israel,” Julio Pino accuses the pro-Israel academic community of being “directly responsible for the murder of over 1,400 Palestinian children, women and elderly civilians.”
In his statement that quotes former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and compares the academics to alleged Nazi collaborator and philosopher Martin Heidegger, Pino writes “Your names are scrawled on every bullet fired, bomb dropped, body buried and burnt forehead in Gaza. May your names become a curse word on the lips of every justice-loving person on earth, along with “Obama” and “Netanyahu.”
On Tuesday, the Simon Wiesenthal Center sent a letter to Kent State University, a public university that benefits from more than $137 million in state appropriations, asking that they denounce the professor:
“We urge you to condemn the recent, highly offensive and blatantly anti-Semitic remarks of Julio Pino – an Associate Professor of History at your university,” the organization wrote to Kent State University President Beverly Warren.
“Kent State is known for its proud legacy of Jewish studies, scholarship, and life; yet, when the state of Israel defends herself against thousands of rockets targeting Israel’s heartland launched by terrorist Hamas and a newly discovered underground of terrorist tunnels, Pino victimizes other academics with his vile propaganda, espousing terror and tarnishing Kent State’s good name while targeting Jewish and pro-Israel members of the campus community.
“We strongly urge you to unequivocally denounce and repudiate Pino’s anti-Semitic diatribe. Such hate speech left unchallenged will only serve to create a hostile environment for Jews and others at Kent State,” the Center wrote.
The university agreed with the Wiesenthal Center, releasing a statement that said, “We condemn the professor’s statement as reprehensible and irresponsible. At Kent State, we value collegiality and mutual respect. Assailing the public with broad statements of culpability violates these principles.”
But this is not the first time that Pino has not only expressed views critical of Israel but has gone to egregious lengths to express them.
A report by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America says Pinto interrupted a student-run event on campus in 2011 featuring Arab-Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi. According to the Kent State student paper:
Standing at the back of the auditorium, Pino asked Khaldi how he and his government could justify providing aid to countries like Turkey with blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies. The crowd fell into an awkward silence as the two continued to exchange words from across the auditorium.
“It is not respectful to me here,” Khaldi said.
Pino responded by saying “your government killed people” and claimed Khaldi was not being respectful to him.
“I do respect you, but you are wrong,” Khaldi said. “It’s a lie.”
The exchange ended as Pino stormed out of the auditorium shouting “Death to Israel!”
CAMERA also noted that “In 2002, Pino published a eulogy in the campus paper praising Palestinian terrorist Ayat al-Akras, who murdered two Israelis, Rachel Levy and Chaim Smadar,” and “Pino has been accused of having ties to terrorists and had his home raided in 2009 by the U.S. Secret Service.”
Pino told Watchdog.org in an email that he stands by “every word of my original statement.”
“Israeli racism and apartheid must be opposed by all those who treasure justice, but American academics have a special obligation to speak out, in my opinion, given that the U.S. government endorses and arms the Zionist regime and no politician dares to expose the ugly truth of the Gaza massacre,” he said. “As for “intimidating the students,’ truth is like the lance of Achilles; it cures the very wounds it causes.”
The university has not said if they intend to take further action against Pino.
He needs to be air dropped into Mosul.
That Israel heir to naziism might be the dumbest thing a wacko liberal has ever uttered…..
Isn’t it interesting how the extreme left like this jerk maintain the sanctimony of academic freedom, but a conservative will be silenced.
He wants his jihad?
Here it is. Send him to Irbil.
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Yazidi Member of Iraq Parliament Collapses
You Tube ^ | 5 Aug 2014 | KurdFromNL
Posted on 9/8/2014 08:31:49 by Candor7
Yazidi Member of Iraqi Parliament “Fiyan Dakheel” (of the Kurdistan Alliance) collapses in tears after calling upon Humanity to rescue the Yazidis from Genocide. The Iraqi Parliament came together on 5 August 2014 to discuss the latest developments inside Iraq.
(Video at link)
Obama has become a mouse that tried to roar and he barely even squeaked, he suffers from a horrid leftist ideological disease which threatens our nation and international order.
The West should be fighting ISIS with all we have got, and Obama is not even forming a coalition of states to stop these MSM hidden crimes against humanity.The MSM is just NOT covering this. Meanwhile WWIII looms over the world. Its 1925 all over again.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3190775/posts
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Obama is just paying lip service to stopping these barbarians. Obama needs to be pilloried.He should be organizing a coalition to stop them, but now he has no friends in the ME, except the Muslim Brotherhood. We cannot allow this to continue.
Meanwhile, not a word about the real genocide going on in the Middle East. And the Leftist stooges lap it up. Europe has the same disease. While hey are focused on imaginary Jewish crimes the Islamists will consume them.
Where’s the Ohio N.G. when you need them.
Didn't think my ironic meter could break...
ahhh. a muslime and black as well. Double whammy in the reasoning dept.
Without a parachute.
Another Leftist Mexican with a bad case of hatred. The Castro brothers of San Antonio have a mother like that. One brother is Obama’s new HHS Sec., with prospects of being Hilary’s Veep. The other brother is a congressman from San Antonio, so you can parlay your skin color and list of Leftist grievances into a very cushy living.
This is made possible because US taxpayers are the stupidest group on the planet.
I’ll second that!
They’re throwing a tantrum at the University of Michigan because the Ann Arbor city council refuses to vote on boycotting Israel.
Its kind of surprising because Ann Arbor is so liberal that they’re usually leading the leftist charge.
Julio Pino, acadumbic
Here’s a box, load your stuff. An officer will escort you from the premises.
And to think that taxpayers pay this insane lib “educator” to “teach”? Sheesh!
Julio Cesar Pino
http://www2.kent.edu/CAS/History/people/~pino1/
Pino’s Muslim name is Assad Jibril Pino (source: http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2141
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