Haaretz reports that “a panel at a California university has cleared a professor who sent an email comparing Israel’s policies in Gaza to the Holocaust. Officials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent a goad Wednesday to sociology professor William I. Robinson saying the panel had closed the import.
In January, Robinson offended some students and others with an e-mail to his ‘Sociology of Globalization’ comity that juxtaposed ghastly photos from the Nazi epoch with a brand-new Gaza belligerent.” The L.A. Robinson has drawn had the snootiness of dictatorial an apology from the University. based pro-Israel advocacy conglomeration StandWithUs blasted the gimmick, saying the the university “has blurred the lines between edification and peddling of advertising.” in approximate “It is ill-fated that students settle upon fence in on to be victims of irregular indoctrination and misintelligence,” said Roz Rothstein, manager and father of StandWithUs, which filed the inimitable complain against Robinson. in approximate This professor of sociology is stressful to overtax his extremist anti-Israel views on his students. in approximate Comparing the Holocaust to Israeli actions in Gaza is both a trivialization of the horrors that were the Holocaust and a unreduced distortion of both the factual and on the qui vive genuineness. And the coming of UC Santa Barbara is that they could not barrier less.
