Pa. prof's anti-Israel remarks concern lawmakers
October 22, 2010
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OXFORD, Pa.—Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are questioning officials at a state-supported university after a professor publicly called for the destruction of Israel.
In a letter Wednesday to the president of Lincoln University, state Sens. Daily Leach and Anthony Williams ask if the professor is expressing anti-Semitic views on campus.
Video of a Sept. 3 rally in Washington, D.C., shows tenured literature professor Kaukab Siddique saying Israel must be destroyed, "if possible by peaceful means."
Siddique tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that "I am against Israel
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