Moonlighting: Non-Specialists in the News

Pennsylvania Professors Anti-Israel Remarks Concern Lawmakers [on Kaukab Siddique]

Associated Press
October 22, 2010

http://www.abc27.com/Global/story.asp?S=13373626

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10306

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are questioning officials at a state-supported university after a professor publicly called for the destruction of Israel.

In a letter Wednesday to the president of Lincoln University, state Sens. Daylin Leach and Anthony Williams ask if the professor is expressing anti-Semitic views on campus.

Video of a Sept. 3 rally in Washington, D.C., shows tenured literature professor Kaukab Siddique saying that Israel must be destroyed, "if possible by peaceful means."

Siddique tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that "I am against Israel - not against Jews."

A statement from Lincoln says officials are unaware of Siddique's "offensive views" being expressed on campus.

Lincoln is a historically black university about 45 miles southwest of Philadelphia. It serves approximately 2,000 students.

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