Moonlighting: Non-Specialists in the News

Academic Freedom and Holocaust Denial [on Kaukab Siddique]

by Dan Berrett
Inside Higher Ed
October 26, 2010

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/10/26/siddique

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/10319

A Pennsylvania English professor whose anti-Israel rhetoric and denial of the Holocaust as a historic certainty have ignited controversy is citing academic freedom as his defense.

Kaukab Siddique, associate professor of English and journalism at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, appeared last month at a pro-Palestinian rally in Washington, where he called the state of Israel illegitimate. "I say to the Muslims, 'Dear brothers and sisters, unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism,' " he said at a rally on Sept. 3. "Each one of us is their target and we must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel -- if possible by peaceful means," he added.

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