[Alouette]

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[Campion]

Depaul University is a large, if not particularly academically renowned, Catholic college in Chicago.

Alouette, I hate to break the news to you, but Depaul is not particularly Catholic, either. Their theology department employs one John Dominick Crossan, of the "Jesus Seminar," whose contribution to Christian theology is to assert that Jesus was not resurrected, but probably eaten by wild dogs.

Given that they're openly blasphemous to their own faith, I wouldn't expect them to treat the ancestor of that faith any better. In a perverse way, I'd have to say honestly that for Depaul to be anti-Semitic is a high compliment to Jews everywhere.

Congratulations. :-)

[Campion]

the university's record regarding Norman Finkelstein, the most openly anti-Semitic Jew on the planet. Depaul employs Finkelstein as an assistant professor in political science

Look! It's a pattern! Depaul has anti-Catholic Catholics on the theology department, an anti-Semitic Jew in the political science department ... if they can get Salman Rushdie, an anti-Muslim ex-Muslim, to teach literature ... they'll go three for three!!!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The New York Times compared Finkelstein's book to the old czarist forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Why do I have the depressing feeling that the NYT meant that as a compliment...? :)

[Zionist Conspirator]

This is an important article and Steven Plaut is a good man (and btw, does Finkelstein claim that his own parents were the only Holocaust survivors in the world?). However (I know . . . I'm always popping up with a "however!"), I am somewhat mystified by his need to frame the whole issue in such a way as to make the pro-Israel position the radical, leftwing, unorthodox heresy which is under attack by reactionaries. He does this by referring to the business as a "witch hunt" (as in rightwing persecution of Communists)and an auto da fe, to his opponents as "inquisitors," and even manages to dredge the image of Galileo (who taught us that the Bible doesn't necessarily mean what it says, thus throwing the whole Zionist project into disrepute) under attack by the staid, conservative old fogies who enforced piety and orthodoxy.

If G-d spoke at Sinai, then the Jewish/Israeli position is the staid, orthodox, fogey position from which everyone else has deviated. Why then this continuing need of so many to present the Jewish claim to Israel as something radical, daring, "dangerous," and inherently opposed by . . . well, for the lack of a better word . . . the sane?

You're a good man, Mr. Plaut, but please . . . enough with constant invocation of the Jews as "the Canaanites of chr*stendom." It's time for the Jews to be the Israelites of Israel!!!

[Paleo Conservative]

Until recently, the main cause of controversy surrounding Depaul was its insistence on employing notorious anti-Semite Norman Finkelstein as an assistant professor in its political science department.

I wonder what causes Jews like Finkelstein and Bobby Fischer to become antisemites?

[Nachum]

Depaul has a decent basketball team though. (or at least they used to)

[jscd3]

We seem to recall that Galileo was also persecuted by Church institutions for daring to tell the truth

This article would be better if it did not include historical boners like this one.

[secretagent]

...Norman Finkelstein, the most openly anti-Semitic Jew on the planet.

I always wonder why I see the term anti-Semitic, when the author refers to anti-Jewish people and ideas.

'Semitic' also describes Arab muslims, while some Jews don't fall into that category.

[12 Gauge Mossberg]

If DePaul's Catholic, then why is their mascot the Blue Demons?

I used to enjoy watching their basketball teams from the 80s.

[American in Israel]

...the main cause of controversy surrounding Depaul was its insistence on employing notorious anti-Semite Norman Finkelstein... The immediate target of Depaul's campaign against political incorrectness was Thomas Klocek...

Evil is so predictable, it dresses in sheeps clothing, demanding freedom of speech, and as soon as it is allowed, it attacks the freedom of others, every time.

Homosexuals complained, wanting to "come out of the closet", because practicing sodomy in their own homes privatly was not "fair". Now they send activists into church home groups and congregations to hunt down "homo-fobia" where ever it can be found. I guess Christians are not even allowed the closet...

[NYer]

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[OPS4]

Ehat one must remember is that DePaul was influenced by the most anti-semitic order of priests, (Jesuits, since 1950).

They allowed the infiltration of Hegels and Marx types in the 60's.
Ops4 God Bless America!