WHO IS MARC H. ELLIS A SPEAKER AT HARVARD’S FORTHCOMING “DESTROY ISRAEL” CONFERENCE AND WHO ARE HIS SUPPORTERS: STEVEN PLAUT PLEASE READ THIS
Earlier in the week I posted an item about the “Destroy Israel”conference in Harvard, where one of the speakers there is to be Marc H. Ellis, a pseudo-academic from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Ellis has pretensions of being a “Jewish theologian,” but is not recognized as such by any Jews. He is in fact a full time basher of Israel, who churns out “liberation theology” mixes of Marxism with anti-Semitism and calls for Israel’s extermination.
It turns out that there is now a move afoot at Baylor to sack Ellis.Evidently the heads of the school have figured out that their”professor” of “Jewish Studies” knows nothing at all about Judaism and is nothing more than a clone of Norman Finkelstein, who has already been fired from HIS school for being a fraud and bigot.
The radical Left is up in arms about this. A pro-Ellis petition was organized by the anti-Jewish Cornell West and is being promoted by such luminaries as Noam Chomsky. The very first endorsement of the petition is by Ilan Pappe. It accuses Baylor of trying to fire Ellis because of Ellis’ vile anti-Israel and pro-terror opinions (and just what would be so bad about that if it were true?). In reality, the initiative against him is because he misrepresents himself as a Jewish theologian and holds a university slot reserved for someone who knows something about Judaism. Ellis is on the board of Tikkun magazine and everything he knows about Judaism and the Bible seems to be things that Mikey Lerner, publisher of Tikkun, has taught him. In other words, neither has ever read the Bible, let alone studied the Talmud.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8889
Baylor University’s Anti-Jewish Liberation “Theologian” By: Steven Plaut
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, May 05, 2005
Marc H. Ellis is university professor and director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University, a Baptist University in Waco, Texas, not ordinarily on anyone’s radar map as a particularly notable institution when it comes to the field of Jewish scholarship. Indeed, theologically Waco is best known for serving as home of the Branch Davidians and the abortive FBI raid on its headquarters. Thus fringe “theologians” seem to feel right at home there. Maybe it has something to do with being home to singer Willie Nelson.
Unlike Norman Finkelstein, who has never managed to hold any sort of real academic position for very long and is these days an untenured assistant professor at DePaul University, Ellis pretends to have serious academic credentials. He claims to have written actual scholarly books, unlike Finkelstein’s low-brow obscene Jew-baiting propaganda. But, in fact, there are surprisingly few differences between Finkelstein’s anti-Semitism and Ellis’ “scholarly work”. Indeed, the two have a long history of collaboration with one another. They appear at one another’s conferences and on one another’s web sites, endorsing one another with true brotherly comradeship.
Like Norman Finkelstein, Ellis is commonly honored and cited as a Jewish anti-Jewish and anti-Israel authority by neonazis and by Holocaust Deniers, including on the web site of recently deported Canadian nazi Ernst Zundel, by the neonazi “Institute for Historical Review” or as an authority who helps debunk the “myth” that there ever was a Holocaust of Jews by the nazis. Unlike Finkelstein, Ellis apparently has never outright endorsed open Holocaust Deniers, denied that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis, nor has he “justified” Holocaust Denial as “understandable”.
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