Posted on 04/08/2004 10:15:40 AM PDT by yonif
Update: Prof. Fired Over Pro-Israel Views "I intend to fight this all the way to the Supreme Court if need be," says University of Pennsylvania Professor Francisco Gil-White. "College officials must not be allowed to silence those who defend Israel!"
After two months of suspense, the University of Pennsylvania Dean of Arts and Sciences Samuel H. Preston has informed Prof. Francisco Gil-White that his three year contract will not be renewed. In effect, Prof. Gil-White was fired from his job teaching about culture, ethnicity, ethnic conflict and racism. As reported previously by IsraelNN (http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=58314), Gil-White feared he was to be fired for espousing pro-Israel and pro-Serbia views.
Gil-White says his case involves an obvious effort to suppress constitutionally protected speech and he will sue: "Even if we get one dollar. I rebuked U of Penn for paying professional anti-Semite Bill Baker to speak for the Muslim Student Association, and I defended Serbia and then Israel." (See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2943)
Gil-White says the firing culminates two years of harassment: "When the Directors of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict recruited me to teach at Penn, I was OK because I blamed the Serbs and Israeli Jews for these conflicts. Prof. Douglas Massey described the attempt to silence me when I made public my finding that we were sold misinformation about Kosovo." (See http://www.psych.upenn.edu/%7Efjgil/massey.htm)
"And when I about-faced on Israel," Prof. Gil-White explains, "I was told in writing by Asch Center Director Paul Rozin that I would be 'committing academic suicide' unless I met with him and Prof. Ian Lustick, a top US Intelligence strategist and apologist for the PLO, and changed my views." (See http://www.psych.upenn.edu/%7Efjgil/threat1.htm)
Gil-White says that his website, www.tenc.net, will shortly publish a confidential letter of evaluation instrumental to his firing. According to Gil White, this letter, from Prof. Ian Lustick, "makes it clear as day: I must be suppressed because I have unacceptable positions on Israel, Serbia and Sri Lanka. Please understand, I have published negative research findings about the terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army, the terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization and the terrorist Tamil Tigers!" (See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=2322)
Gil-White says he has received strong support from many Jews and some Jewish organizations and media, but he also notes that the key players in this firing - Ian Lustick, Paul Rozin and Dean Preston - are Jewish. Preston, and especially Lustick, have publicly attacked Israel: "Lustick boasts of having helped force Israel to accept a Palestinian terrorist state. U of Penn is backing his attack on me. This illustrates my charge that the current wave of anti-Semitism is condoned in high places." (See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=57416)
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"
But it's impossible for Jews to be accused of anti-Semitism! I know this, because Sam Francis told me so in his column just yesterday, when he quoted a Jew named Philip Zelikow as saying that we're fighting in Iraq for the sake of Israel, and used Zelikow's statement to support his claim (yet again) that U.S. foreign policy has been hijacked by a Jewish conspiracy that is loyal to Israel First.
As this Jew knows all too well, many of America's leading anti-Semites are Jews. Hell, I've got some big-time (if not famous) anti-Semites right in my own family!
Paleocons -- including Francis -- like to say that they'd be much more influential in this country, if it weren't for the 'damned Jews' (the neocon conspiracy that continually keeps them from getting foundation money), but I think they do a pretty good job on their own of curbing their influence.
Pro-Jewish and pro-Christian? Completely unacceptable in academia. Now if he espoused pro-Palestinian and pro-Azltan views he'd be promoted.
I quit paying any attention to Francis years ago when I realized he was a total nut case. Maybe I should have held out for some Neocon money before writing the fool off. ;~))
Pro Israel and pro Serbia, a double foul.
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