Lincoln University History Professor Kaukab Siddique is in the eye of a new storm in the United States, after several statements he made calling for the destruction of Israel prompted US senators to urge an investigation in the matter.
Speaking at a recent Labor Day rally, Siddique said: “We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Israel – if possible by peaceful means… For the Jews, I would say, ‘See what could happen to you if the Muslims wake up.’ And I say to the Muslims, Dear brothers and sisters – unite and rise up against this hydra-headed monster which calls itself Zionism.'”
Siddique’s statements followed several articles in which he questions the validity of the Holocaust and calling it “a hoax.”
Originally from Pakistan, Siddique, 67, is a vocal critic of what he calls “Israel’s record of human-rights abuses in the Palestinian territories.” Nevertheless, he maintains that his Labor Day statements have been misunderstood.
The professor’s remarks sparked outrage among pro-Israeli groups and as Lincoln University is a Pennsylvania State-sponsored school, State Senator Daylin Leach – and numerous other members of the State Assembly – have urged Lincoln president Ivory Nelson to ensure the professor’s “anti-Semitic diatribes” had not made their way into the university’s classrooms.
“We support academic freedom and certainly a professor has the right to criticize Israel, or any other entity or policy he wishes,” they wrote. “However… the Holocaust is not a theory or opinion. It is historically documented fact, denied only by those with a hateful or anti-Semitic agenda.”
A Lincoln statement said it had “not been made aware of any instance in which Siddique’s views were taught in his classes or shared in any public forums on campus.”
Siddique said Thursday that he stands by his statements and “would not back down from detractors out to threaten academic freedom,” adding that he had the support of his faculty and students and that he would continue to speak his mind, despite pressure from those who have referred to him as an “anti-Semite.”
“I got a little fired and said a few things that were pretty strong,” said Siddique. “That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t say them again. I don’t believe in laying low.”
“When I refer critically to the ‘Jews’ I am referring to the current leadership of the ‘state of Israel’ and to their major supporters, not to the Jewish race as a whole,” he said in an email to CBN News.
“Most of my readers and listeners understand this; if it was taken to mean otherwise, then I offer my apologies to those I have offended.
“I am not anti-Semitic. . . . I am certainly not hostile to, nor do I discriminate against the Jewish people because of their lineage,” he maintained.
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I think we should call for someone to “destroy” him and when they get upset, we can just explain thatwe were misunderstood
He is really calling for the Jews to be killed. This is just the politically correct way to do it.
I guess Ynet is having a slowwwww news day after all this was posted other places such as A7 early last week.
I sent an email to the president of Lincoln and have not received a response, and after reading the above story, I wouldn’t be so sure that there is a lot more hate going on in the school than one may be led to believe.
BUT JUAN WILLIAMS GETS FIRED FOR SAYING HE FEELS NERVOUS WHEN MUSLIMS BOARD THE PLANE THAT HE IS ON….HMMMM
Yishmael – the all in one super cockroach – hatred, destruction AND stupidity PLUS an overwhelmingly unbearable stench, all rolled into one. Doesn’t Raid make a product for this?
We must stand united to defeat, to destroy, to dismantle Kaukab Siddique and Lincoln University.
Oh and by the way, I guess all those demonstrations in Europe denouncing Pakistan’s atrocities against minorities are all just a hoax too.
The college campuses are today a bedrock alliance with the PA/CHAMAS killing machines. The majority of professors and students are ANTI-Israel. Tremendous kiruv is needed on those campuses, honest reporting is starting seminars preparing young adults to be ambassadors of truth within the college society.
Email, call, write and let the president and board of directors know you are upset.
To Professor Dropenzedead Siddique from Pakistan .Hellow hows your family life -are you a happy camper or a Puts???????
University have always been a bed for the leftist. It was in the 60 where obama’s friend bill ayers and associates were, sds [students for a democratic society], in Germany in the late 30 [Adam Wade a ger tzaddick who lives in Eretz Yisrael investigated to see how could Germans not protest and he look into the universities at that time
and the record show the student body and professor were all anti-semites] SO nothing is new under the sun; however we must get rid of this maggot. Columiba also has another one of this maggots
He’s rather out of place. Lincoln is a black university. By his comments he seems to be trying to build up a resume to try to get hired by a Hamas or Teheran college. There he’d fit right in.
Lincoln University is a private “historically black” college of little importance. The guy is a Pakistani Muslim, so what’s the hiddush?