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Yes, he was an anti-Semitic crackpot at the University of Ottawa who regularly invited Holocaust Denier Michel Chossudovsky to lecture to his classes. So now he blames the Jewish cabal for his getting fired.

Denis Rancourt was fired recently from the University of Ottawa in physics. He had tenure. He describes himself as an "anarchist" and a "true communist," whatever that is. He would rant at length in his classes against the "Zionist Lobby" and against capitalism and against the United States. He had long turned his courses into exercises in one-sided indoctrination and politicization. Hmmm, where on earth have we heard about such things before?

He was removed from teaching this past December and officially fired a few days ago. He first got into legal trouble when he refused to allow a student mother to attend his course, and he was accused of age discrimination. Then the immediate cause of his firing was that he granted every single student in his course an A+ with no basis.

Then the Anti-Israel Lobby, always struggling to preserve the jobs of leftist pseudo-academics and propagandists, kicked in. One third of Rancourt's fellow professors at the university had signed a petition demanding that he be dismissed. So naturally, the Anti-Israel Lobby insists that the Jewish cabal and the Elders of Zion are behind it!

In fact, Rancourt's anti-Semitism had nothing to do with his getting fired. He got fired because he refused to do his job and to carry out his duties as a professor, displaying gross insubordination and defiance of university rules about grades.

Here is a typical Rancourt rant from one of his classes - notice how he cheers terrorism and denounces the United States as the real terrorist. This is NOT a speech from some soap box but rather what he says IN CLASS!

Rancourt is also in the so-called "911 Truth" cult of conspiracy nuts who claim that the 9-11 attacks were an "inside job" of the US or the Jews.

Naturally, Rancourt has been hailed as a martyr by Neo-Nazi Norman Finkelstein, Neve Gordon's guru, who was fired for being a pseudo-academic fraud by DePaul University two years ago. He and his groupie Gordon also blamed the Zionist bogeyman. Finkelstein had never published a single bona fide academic journal article.

But the REAL story here is that a courageous university took a principled decision and fired a tenured crackpot bigot and pseudo-academic. DePaul did the same with Finkelstein. A growing number of universities around the world are cracking down on the pseudo-academic propagandists the anti-Semitic Left adores and that is what has the anti-Israel Lobby soiling itself in outrage.

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