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Kent State Professor Causes Stir at Lecture on Israel

Julio Pino starts argument with former Israeli Deputy Consul General

 

A Kent State University professor started an argument with a former U.S. diplomat on campus Tuesday before storming out and shouting "Death to Israel," the Daily Kent Stater reported.

Julio Pino attended a speech given on campus Tuesday night by Ishmael Khaldi, Former Deputy Consul General at the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco and sparked an argument when he asked Khaldi why Israel was contributing to the deaths of Palestinian women and babies, the Stater reported.

Pino, 50, is a tenured history professor and specializes in Latin American history. It's not the first time he's drawn negative attention to himself.

In 2007, he was accused of contributing articles to an anti-American website that claimed to support global terrorism. In 2002, he wrote an opinion piece for the Stater in which he praised a suicide bomber.

In 2009, the Secret Service served a search warrant on his Kent home for what authorities said at the time was an on-going investigation of Pino.

See Pino's university profile here.

Related Topics: Israel, Julio Pino, Kent State University, and professor

Mark Kerpin

12:02 pm on Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Isn't it time that people who advocate violence and justify murder stop teaching our children?

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Andy Esparza

4:34 am on Thursday, October 27, 2011

governments who advocate violence and justify murder teach our children period.

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Michael rice

11:50 pm on Thursday, October 27, 2011

Pulled myself and my wife from the alumni and endowment list due to this potential threat to all of us. Wake up KSU - stop this guy before his words turn to action.

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Jim Williams

8:29 am on Friday, October 28, 2011

For pete's sake, people. It's a University. Diversity of opinion stimulates discussion and opens minds. So the guy's arguments don't hold water, and his outbursts are, well, childish at best...don't withhold support for the institution - make the better argument! Free Speech is a double edge sword, and the best defense is to out debate someone like this, not suppress his voice.

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