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June 25, 2009 | 9:42 am

Professor Robinson gets a passing grade in Israeli-Nazi comparison

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Remember the recent controversy surrounding a UC Santa Barbara sociology professor who in January sent students in one of his classes an email containing 42 “parallel images of Nazis and Israelis?”

The uproar from prominent Jewish organizations led to the university launching an academic investigation into William I. Robinson’s conduct. Some of these organizations were, in turn, criticized for trying to intimidate the Jewish sociology professor.

Well, yesterday Robinson’s case drew to a close.

In a letter to Robinson, Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas wrote:

I have received the report of the Charges Committee regarding charges brought against you. The Committee did not find probable cause to undertake disciplinary action in this matter.

I have accepted the findings of the Charges Committee. Accordingly, this matter is now terminated.

It will be interesting to see if that last sentence is accurate.

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Horray, and f—k the ADL, which has done far more to further anti-semitism than to fight it.

Comment by Marcel Kincaid on 6/25/09 at 3:43 pm

Professor Robinson may have gotten a pass for his transgressions, but he is not getting a “passing grade” from colleagues. As a tenured professor, he is entitled to be as irresponsible and low standard as he cares to be, but in his discipline and the academic community, he will known for his low level of scholarship. Whatever respect he may have earned in his career, he will be forever known as the Professor who got a pass from with low level instructional material and not for having been a good scholar, excellent teacher or respected colleague. He will die on the vine at UCSB because no one will have him after this. Students, colleagues and the community have every right to be outraged and demand excellence and accountability.

Comment by A Concerned Faculty Member on 6/25/09 at 3:55 pm

The matter is certainly not terminated. It is simply a reminder that hate and anti-Semitism are alive and well in the hallowed halls of academia.

Comment by Alice Rage on 6/26/09 at 12:40 am

I want to see the report of the Charges Committee. I want to see a test case for distribution of a uninhibited truthful treatment of anti-Zionist and anti-Israel activities by faculty members. How about the formation of a new think tank named Academic Hell with Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ward Churchill and Robinson on the board, along with a few traitorous Israeli professors.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 6/26/09 at 7:06 am

I dont see how this is anti-semitism when hes just comparing the two… not knocking down the Jewish people…. I though education was about being equal to both sides no matter how offended you are by it, and making your own judgement from the information presented….. I think he should be praised for asking questions and making comparisons that no one else will… who cares if it makes a few people squirm in their seats and even a few more unfomfortable…. education isnt for making you feel better about yourself… its to help you see all sides of a story… to find a truth…. Get over yourselves and stop being so politically correct…. he didnt personally hurt ANYONE. Case closed.

Comment by Joaquin Sierra on 9/30/10 at 10:01 am

No Joaquin, education is not about being equal to both sides no matter how offended you are by it, unless you are an antisemite in the first place. Education is about presenting truth and not bringing your antisemitic hangups to the table. It is about not mixing up truth and lies, right and wrong, or good and evil. Similarly is about not mixing up male and female, pain and pleasure, sx and food or excretion, or any of the numberless sources of political, social, economic or moral confusion.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 10/02/10 at 8:24 pm

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