Free speech for all or for none

I despise this professor, the tone of his remarks and wish him to lose his tenure. I also will defend his right to say what he did in all circumstances at all times. This is what free speech and the first amendment mean in their purest definition.

I do hope he is fired, there is no place for that kind of vitriol on campus, and you know his students take his class based, in part on his politics. Anyone can have any opinion they want, they can't have their own facts and pass them off to impressionable minds as the truth. He may hate Israel, he may hate Jews, he may even hate himself but the point is he is allowed to say what he wants, he doesn't have the right to teach that to kids. Not in a public school venue, anyway.

From The Blaze October 26 by Christopher Santarelli

KENT ST. PROF. REPORTEDLY YELLS ‘DEATH TO ISRAEL’ AT EVENT WITH ISRAELI DIPLOMAT

A Kent State history professor, who has allegedly been linked to elements of Muslim extremism, reportedly lashed out at a former Israeli diplomat speaking at the university Tuesday night.

The event was co-sponsored by the undergraduate student government and entitled “An Evening with Ishmael Khaldi.” Khaldi spoke in regards to his book, A Shepherd’s Journey, which details his life journey from a small tent in a Bedouin village to the inner-circles of the Israel Foreign Service. When his speech ended, Khaldi opened the floor to a Q&A, where History Professor Julio Pino rushed to be the first to question Khaldi.

John Milligan of KentWired, an independent student publication,reports that Pino began to question how Khaldi could justify speaking of foreign aid given from Israel to countries like Turkey, when that aid was financed by “blood money that came from the deaths of Palestinian children and babies.” Milligan, a senior majoring in magazine journalism, then captured the the most shocking part of the exchange:

“The crowd fell into an awkward silence as the two continued to exchange words from across the auditorium.

‘It is not respectful to me here,’ Khaldi said.

Pino responded by saying ‘your government killed people’ and claimed Khaldi was not being respectful to him.

‘I do respect you, but you are wrong,’ Khaldi said. ‘It’s a lie.’

The exchange ended as Pino stormed out of the auditorium shouting ‘Death to Israel!’”

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