Some time ago, a book entitled “The professors” (The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America) written by “David Horowitz” was published in the United States. The subject of this book is the introduction of one hundred and one university professors whose crime was to speak about the Holocaust and the Jews in their classrooms and books. In addition to publishing this book, professors at other universities have been warned not to use their work because these people have crossed the red line. In general, when freedom is unlimited, it creates problems that will ultimately limit it. The following text introduces “Professor Leighton Armitage”, one of the one hundred and one professors discussed by the author of the book
Professor Leighton Armitage
Foothill College
— Adjunct Lecturer in political science, Foothill College, California
— Believes that Jews control the U.S. government
— Believes Israelis are Nazis
Dr. Leighton Armitage is an adjunct lecturer in Political science in the Business and Social Sciences Department of Foothill College in Northern California. Foothill prepares more of its students to attend nearby Stanford and other major universities than any other two-year community college in California.
Dr. Armitage’s academic expertise is in Europe and Japan, but his classroom focus is on Israel, a nation he loathes. He teaches his classes that Jewish “Nazis” control the U.S. government. He declares that Israel’s security fence is illegal, immoral, and oppressive, and similar to the Ghetto Wall the Nazis erected in 1940 Warsaw to lock up the city’s Jews pending their extermination in Treblinka and Auschwitz. “Few people realize how much influence they [Jews] wield,” Dr. Armitage tells his students. America, he adds, is hated all around the world because of its close relationship with Israel.
With an even hand, Dr. Armitage denounces both the U.S. military’s destruction of the safe houses of Iraqi terrorists, and the Israeli army’s demolition of the safe houses of Palestinian terrorists. “Have you heard what we’re doing now to houses of suspected terrorists in Iraq?” the professor asks. “We’re blowing them up. If you’re suspected of being a terrorist, your house will be blown up. Now, the Israelis do it with a bulldozer and we do it with a Howitzer and Apache gunships, so it’s different. I guess we have more fun.”
According to Dr. Armitage, America’s ills can be attributed to the fact that Jews control the U.S. electoral system. “They’re good business people, you’ve got to respect them for that, if for nothing else,” he says. “Of course they’re buying our elections, which really pisses me off. And this stuff you learn over time, it’s not overt, no one tells you this and no one wants you to know it.” He says that when he was an intern in Congress many years ago, a congressional assistant warned him about the evils of the “Jewish lobby.”
The Nazi analogy is ever present in Dr. Armitage’s mind: “What are [the Israelis] doing with the Palestinians, every day? They’re killing them. They’re not taking their glasses and gold fillings, and everything else, as far as I know, but they are still slaughtering these people. It’s exactly what Hitler did to the Jews.”
Dr. Armitage’s remarks have been so public and so outrageous that Foothill College President Bernadine Fong apologized for them in a meeting with the Anti-Defamation League in March 2004. But even after he had revealed himself as an anti-Semite and had thoroughly embarrassed his college—and even though he is an adjunct instructor with no tenure and can be removed from the classroom if the administration simply chooses not to renew his contract—Dr. Armitage continues to be on the faculty of Foothill.
Research: Lee Kaplan
