Columbia University professor Hamid Dabashi tweeted “every dirty treacherous ugly and pernicious act happening in the world just wait for a few days and the ugly name of ‘Israel’ will pup….” Will pup? Another indication of a heretic is an inability to string sentences together. Let’s take a look.

The professor has cancelled class to fulfill his “moral duty” of going to a pro-Palestinian rally. One thing that’s really insidious about Dabashi’s anti-Israel rants are the very visceral language he uses:

“Half a century of systematic maiming and murdering of another people has left its deep marks on the faces of [Israelis],” says the professor. “The way they talk, the way they walk, the way they handle objects, the way they greet each other, the way they look at the world. There is an endemic prevarication to this machinery, a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture.”

That sounds an awful lot like something certain doctors from a certain historical dictatorship would say, doesn’t it? And it doesn’t seem like Dabashi has a lot of tolerance for disagreement with his ideas, either. The professor wrote an essay alleging racism in the Israeli military and when a Columbia grad student who had served in the Israeli military dared to object via email, Dabashi forwarded the message to Columbia admins, saying “Given the military record of this person, I also feel physically threatened” and asking for security to “protect [his] person from a potential attack by a militant slanderer.” His request was denied.