KENT STATE PROFESSOR JULIO CESAR PINO pens this nauseating tribute to a suicide bomber:

You are not a terrorist, Ayat. The real terrorists are those who some 100 years ago hijacked a beautiful religion and transformed it into a real estate venture. Glancing around the world, they saw in Palestine “a land without a people, for a people without a land,” as their spokesmen and women chant ad nauseaum. The Zion of the concertina wire, F-16 bomber death planes and tank crews collecting skulls and shedding martyrs’ blood. The birthplace of your ancestor, and mine, the Palestinian pacifist Joshua ben Josef, is now a battle zone — with Christians, Muslims and peace-loving Jews trapped inside Bethlehem.

Your last cry, by gesture rather than the spoken word, was “Stop, thief! This is not your land and we are a people.” I can assure you, Ayat, that the whole world stopped to listen. Even the numbskull who parades as president of the United States heard you, and, following the text written for him by his handlers, expressed astonishment at how a teenager could perpetrate such an act. Simply, it is pronounced “justice” and spelled C-O-U-R-A-G-E.

I don’t think that he should be fired, as another professor (whom the local paper is careful to characterize as Jewish) does. But I think he should be denounced as an idiot and a moral leper. Which he is. And perhaps even — if you agree with the analysis in the Slate item I linked to yesterday — an unwitting accomplice to the genocide of the Palestinian people.

UPDATE: Kent State alumnus and neighbor Eric Olsen weighs in on this.