UCSB teacher who sent Gaza e-mail cleared by panel
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
(06-24)AP 19:55 PDT Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP) --
An academic committee at University of California, Santa Barbara has found no reason to discipline a professor who sent an e-mail that compared Israel's offensive in Gaza to the Holocaust.
University officials sent a letter to Sociology professor William I. Robinson Wednesday, saying the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee has closed the matter.
In January, Robinson offended students at UCSB with an e-mail to his "Sociology of Globalization" class that juxtaposed grisly photos from the Nazi era and the Gaza offensive.
Jewish groups called the e-mail "hate spam" and claimed Robinson violated university policy that bars professors from intimidating students and using campus resources for political reasons unrelated to teaching.
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