Why is this jihadi still at Oberlin? Because the left loves jihadis.
“Oberlin College faces federal antisemitism probe over ‘professor of peace who wanted Israel eliminated,’” by Isabel Vincent, New York Post, November 2, 2023:
One of the country’s most liberal colleges is being investigated over allegations it allowed antisemitism to breed on campus including having a professor of peace studies who has called for the elimination of Israel and the death of Salman Rushdie.
Oberlin College in Ohio could lose chunks of the millions in annual federal funding as a result of the probe, whose existence it has not yet disclosed to students, alumni and donors. Last year, the school took in more than $5 million in federal grants.
The private liberal arts college is being investigated for possible breaches of Title VI by in Ohio by the federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The title protects students from being harassed and discriminated against because of their religion.
The probe, which was opened on September 29, was prompted by a complaint filed in 2019 by Oberlin College graduate Melissa Landa, who founded the Alliance for Israel to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel and hostility toward Jewish students at the school. Landa, who graduated from Oberlin in 1986, is president of the Oberlin Chapter of Alums for Campus Fairness, a non-profit that works to end antisemitism.
She sent the department a dossier of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel incidents between 2014 and 2017— and four years later, it finally acted.
The dossier focuses on tenured peace studies and religion professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who has called himself “professor of peace” but who is accused of supporting Hamas and giving students credit for writing anti-Israel blogs.
It alleges Mahallati told his classes in 2016 that “Israel is a colonialist state” and “Israel is an apartheid state.”
Mahallati, 71, has also taught at Columbia, Georgetown and Princeton. Before becoming an Oberlin professor, he was Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations where he was accused of defending the fatwa, or Islamic decree, issued by Khomeini to murder novelist Salman Rushdie.
“I think all Islamic countries agree with Iran,” he told Reuters in 1989, Fox News reported. All Islamic nations and countries agree with Iran that any blasphemous statement against sacred figures should be condemned.”…
Wellington says
Many universities and colleges in America have become a cruel joke—institutions of indoctrination rather than centers of higher learning. Oberlin could easily be placed in the top ten most ridiculous and obscene, which this article at JW partially confirms.
Friends who have friends who are parents should do what they can to dissuade such friends from sending their children to an educational farce like Oberlin. Oh yeah.
bill says
Peace studies? from Iran and not a dissident? I have to smile. I am also constantly amazed at the types who are taken on as professors in US universities and he has been a four of them!
Did noone check his background?
bruce D Watt says
should be Obergroupinfuehrer College in the new Reich.
PRCS says
+1
Siddi Nasrani says
Quote, ” Oberlin College professor of ‘peace studies’ wants Israel destroyed, Rushdie dead”.
Don’t you think, he is in the wrong job ? With that statement he should be committed to an asylum for is own good and sanity of his students.
Kepha says
He was probably granted asylum to get here. hmmmph.
pfwag says
Killing all the Jews and wiping Israel off the map is “peace” for Muslim.
Victoria says
Uh huh… and then they’ll attack one another…
pfwag says
after they get rid of all the infidels…
RJ Katz says
Yup
Kepha says
As if we didn’t learn a thing from the Iran-Iraq War, the internal feuds of the Palestine Liberation groups, the factiousness of the Mooj in Afghanistan, and all the ferment everywhere else in this supposedly pacific Islamic world.
bagsgroove says
I discovered a secret weapon of the moslems. They will take over when they finally bore us to death !
bagsgroove says
Why are all muslim men named mohammed. Don’t the parents have any creativity to name their male children?
James Lincoln says
If a parent wants their child to become full commie, Oberlin College sounds like the place.
Paul Bunting says
Oberlin College had to pay Gibson’s Bakery $33 Million in damages for defamation in a shoplifting arrest,
remember that? Oberlin needs to be bankrupted and shut down! It’s a terrorist re-education camp!
Jim Harmon says
Looks as if Oberlin = Old Berlin.
tim gallagher says
Professor of “peace studies”, eh. Sounds like the usual, conventional Muslim idea of “peace”. The only concept the murderously violent muslims ever have of “peace” is that, once all the non-Muslims have caved in and had islam imposed on them, or have been slaughtered, then, when all people in the world have become Muslims, then there will be peace. I think that the best chance that we have of ever seeing peace in the world is if islam became extinct. it is such filthy, bloodthirsty religious ideology. Peace and islam cannot ever exist together. people only need to read a bit of the Koran to see why that is so. It is such an evil, hate-filled book, calling endlessly for non-believers to be murdered by the members of the evil cult, islam. The idea of a Muslim being a professor of Peace studies” is the very definition of absurdity.
libertyORdeath says
A jihadist in charge of peace studies is about as ridiculous as Iran being in charge of the UN human rights tribunal.
Oh, wait…
OLD GUY says
You are 100% CORRECT.