UC Santa Barbara Professor Who Sent An E-Mail To Students Holocaust Images Alongside Images Of Palestinian Completely Cleared By The University

Haaretz reports that "a committee 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 letter Wednesday to sociology professor William I. Robinson saying the committee had closed the matter. In January, Robinson offended some students and others with an e-mail to his 'Sociology of Globalization' class that juxtaposed grisly photos from the Nazi era with a recent Gaza offensive." The L.A. based pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs blasted the move, saying the the university "has blurred the lines between education and peddling of propaganda."

"It is unfortunate that students will continue to be victims of partisan indoctrination and misinformation," said Roz Rothstein, director and founder of StandWithUs, which filed the original complaint against Robinson.

Robinson has even had the arrogance of demanding an apology from the University. This professor of sociology is trying to push his extremist anti-Israel views on his students. Comparing the Holocaust to Israeli actions in Gaza is both a trivialization of the horrors that were the Holocaust and a complete distortion of both the historical and current reality. And the response of UC Santa Barbara is that they could not care less.
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