Professor from Akron held as spy by Israelis

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 7/27/2006 | David Hammer

[markomalley]

Gotta love these college profs nowadays/sarc

[RoadTest]

"Gotta love these college profs nowadays/sarc"

Yeah. And they can have the rest of them, too - especially the 101 of them in the book by David Horowitz, "The Professors".

I'm glad at least one of them is put away. Our college students are better off by that little increment, at least until another traitor replaces him.

[Obadiah]

Why does this NOT surprise me?

[johnny7]

Ghazi Falah
From Wikipedia

Dr Ghazi Falah is a geographer, who is currently a tenured professor at the University of Akron. His research is interesting and unusual in that is spans fields of both physical and human geography, and focuses on the geography of the Islamic world.

Falah gained his PhD from Durham University, England - his doctoral thesis was 'The Processes and Patterns of Sedentarization of the Galilee Bedouin, 1880-1982' . Since then, however, he has published works with titles including 'No longer 'Lost in the Desert': Human Geography from within the Arab World since 1985' (2001) and 'Bridging the gap: Palestinian and Israeli discourses on autonomy and statehood' (1997), as well as editing 'Some Geographical Aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict' (1990)

He has held academic posts at the University of Wales, Lampeter in the United Kingdom, the University of Hebron in Palestine, the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Akron in the US.

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Falah’s joint Israeli-Canadian citizenship --Good, he won't serve much time if convicted, but at least he won't be coming back to the US.

[Ready4Freddy]

Visits Iran, Lebanon, and Israel.... plausible deniability will take you only so far...

[squarebarb]

Hmmm. If he was spying he has been spying for a long time. I wonder if they have known about this guy for years.

[doug from upland]

How will taking photos of Israeli installations apply to a geography lesson?

[kittymyrib]

Just doing the espionage that college professors do. It's "research", you know.
Lock him up and throw away the key.

[MarineDad]

"One of the photographs he took included a military antenna, Husein said, but Falah denies spying."

So what's the big whoop about this?

Every geography book I've ever seen is chock-full of pictures of military equipment.

Hope they cap his a$$...

[StuLongIsland]

Hope some moron from the State Department ask that an "Aamerican Citizen" be sent back home to the US. Lose the bastard in an Israeli Prison.

[VRWCtaz]

If this man is guilty of spying, I am confident that the Israelis are more than competent to investigate and deal with the matter. However, he has been detained - not indited - and it very well could be that the professor is more stupid than sinister. One of the main characteristics of DUmmie Land is their knack for jumping to conclusions before the facts are in... FR is better than that!

[sgtbono2002]

Mount him as a hood ornament on the front of an Israeli tank.

[Alexander Rubin]

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[GMMAC]

A University of Toronto connection !?!?

That's all I need to hear.

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[1rudeboy]

Some of those books actually sound interesting.

[Alouette]

Falah’s joint Israeli-Canadian citizenship allows him to travel easily in the Islamic world.

I would think that holding Israeli citizenship, even accompanied by a dual nationality, would make travel extremely difficult in the Islamic world. Maybe they meant to say, in the Infidel world.

He was in Tehran, Iran’s capital, three years ago on an academic trip, Husein said.

It was Jihad training so therefore it's academic.

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[1rudeboy]

I would think that holding Israeli citizenship, even accompanied by a dual nationality, would make travel extremely difficult in the Islamic world. Maybe they meant to say, in the Infidel world.

He might be a Canadian citizen by birth, and an Israeli citizen by law. If he is traveling on the Canadian passport, then his Israeli citizenship would remain "submerged," unless he's picked-up by Israeli authorities. No extradition for you, Professor.

[johnny7]

Do a Google on him... they get more interesting.