After death threats, Palestinian Prof at Al Quds Resigns for Class Trip to Auschwitz
“I put my job on the line to expose the double-talk we live.”
We noted that Brandies University severed its partnership with Al-Quds University after an astonishing display of hatred for Jews took place during an Al-Quds student demonstration.
Now a Palestinian professor from that institution is resigning after enduring months of harassment and intimidation.
His crime?
In a quest for real tolerance and understanding, he took his students on field trip to the most infamous Nazi concentration camp.
A Palestinian professor who took his students on a field trip to Auschwitz has resigned from his post following months-long campaign of death threats, campus riots and intimidation against him.
Prof Mohammed Dajani, head of the American Studies Department and director of the library at Al Quds University, was denounced as a “traitor” and “collaborator” by some of his colleagues, students and members of the public, after he organised the trip to the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. It was announced that Prof Dajani was also “fired” from the university staff union, despite never having joined the organisation in the first place.
27 Palestinian students attended the trip in March as part of a project to learn more about the Holocaust and teach tolerance and empathy. The programme, run in conjunction with an Israeli and a German university, also took Israeli students on trips to meet Palestinians living in refugee camps.
Prof Dajani condemned the campaign of “incitement” directed against him in an interview with Israeli daily Haaretz, saying that he submitted his resignation as “a litmus test to see whether the university administration supports academic freedom and freedom of action and of expression as they claim, or not”. He said he had hoped the university president would “take a stand” by refusing to accept his resignation.
“I put my job on the line to expose the double-talk we live”, Prof Dajani told Haaretz. “We say we are for democracy and we practice autocracy, we say we are for freedom of speech and academic freedom, yet we deny people to practice it”.
Palestinian professor resigns over students' trip to Auschwitz (The UK Telegraph)
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The Nazis, of whose atrocities the Muslims were participant and heir, taught their people to not have compassion for “untermenschen”. If Germans were the “übermenschen”, then by extension, everyone else was “untermenschen”. Thus, Nazis exhibited no sympathy for the sufferings of anyone else except perhaps their own German, people proven to be of “Aryan” stock. To this end, Reinhard Heydrich advised his men: “be ruthless where you have to be ruthless.” Muslims have the same attitude to everyone who is not Muslim: Muslims are the “übermenschen” and the rest “untermenschen” worthy of slaughter for refusing to convert or just because they are Jews.
This professor committed the grave “sin” of sympathizing with the Jews and attempting to teach his students to do the same. He did not realize that his action was a rejection of the Great Lie that the Holocaust did not happen. If the Holocaust happened to Jews for no good reason other than them being Jews, if Israel must be destroyed because it is Jewish, then the destroyers must be vile people lacking, like Heydrich, in humanity.
That is the nasty truth the professor exposed, hence the protests, hence his resignation. Al Quds will not stand up for free speech because Islam does not entertain any concept but submission. The prof refused to submit, so he must die as an academic; eventually, somebody will take his head.