Julio Pino

Julio Cesar Pino
Native name Julio César Pino
Born Cuba
Occupation History professor
Religion Islam
Academic background
Education Van Nuys High School (1974-1978)[1]
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles (BA, 1984; MA, 1987; PhD, 1991)[2]
Thesis title “Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro"[1]
Thesis url http://www.jstor.org/stable/2518267
Academic work
Main interests Latin American History
Third World
History of Race

Julio Pino is a tenured professor of history at Kent State University specializing in Latin America who has repeatedly come to public attention for his political views on Islam and the Middle East, which are best summarized by the closing line of his email to Academic Friends of Israel: "Jihad until victory!".

Pino earned the PhD in history from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1991 and joined the Kent State faculty in 1992.[3]

Pino was born in Cuba and is a convert to Islam.[4][3]

Career

Pino has taught at El Camino Community College in California and Bowdoin College in Maine.[1] He began working at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio in 1992.[3]

Political controversies

Pino has been involved in a long series of controversies relating to American foreign policy, Islam, suicide bombing, jihad, and Israel.[3] These include a 2012 newspaper column praising the actions of the terrorist who carried out the Kiryat Yovel supermarket bombing,[5] and a letter critical of American policy that read, in part, "“You attack, and continue to attack, us everywhere... The ill done to the Muslim nations must be requited.[6] In 2011 he was investigated by the Secret Service after calling president Bush a "cocaine cowboy."[6] In November 2007, Kent State demoted the chair the history department for failing to follow procedure when it authorized a fully paid, mid-semester, 6-week trip to the United Arab Emirates where Pinto wished to study Arabic. Pino was recalled to his teaching post before completing the 6 weeks.[6]

2011 "Death to Israel" controversy

In 2011 a public controversy ensued after Pino shouted "Death to Israel" during a talk given at Kent State by Ishmael Khaldi, an Israeli diplomat. University President Lester Lefton condemned Pino's behavior as "reprehensible, and an embarrassment to our university," defending Pino's right to free speech but finding his behavior, "deplorable."[7][8][6][9][4]

2014 blood libel

Pino has been involved in a series of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic actions, writing an open letter in 2014 asserting of Israeli Jews that, "The Chosen drain the blood of innocents."[3][10]

2016 FBI investigation

Pino returned to the headlines in January 2016 when information surfaced that the FBI was interviewing students and professors for possible ties between Pino and ISIS.[3][11][12] He denies ISIS ties.[3]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Who is Julio Pino?". KentWired.com. Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  2. ↑ https://du1ux2871uqvu.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/profile-documents/Pino_CV.pdf
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 McPhate, Mike (21 January 2015). "Kent State Professor Investigated for Possible Ties to ISIS". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 Starnes, Todd (28 October 2011). "Professor's 'Death to Israel' Rant Sparks Controversy at Kent State University". Fos News. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Stoil, Rebecca Anna (30 October 2011). "Kent State president lambasts Israel bashing professor". Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  6. 1 2 3 4 Biliczky, Carol (27 October 2011). "Anti-Israel statement by Kent professor Julio Pino stokes anger". Akron Beacon Journal.
  7. ↑ Jaschik, Scott (31 October 2011). "When a Prof Shouts 'Death to Israel'". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  8. ↑ "President Lefton's Response to Recent Guest Lecturer". 27 October 2011. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Mozgovaya, Natasha (28 October 2011). "Kent State Professor Yells 'Death to Israel' at Israeli Diplomat". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  10. ↑ "Kent State history professor says "academic friends of Israel" are "directly responsible for the murder of over 1,400 Palestinian children, women and elderly civilians"". History News Network. 2 August 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  11. ↑ "Kent State Prof Probed for Possible Ties to ISIS". Inside Higher Ed. 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  12. ↑ Brennan, Christopher (20 January 2015). "Kent State University professor under FBI investigation for alleged ties to ISIS". New York Daily News. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Margolis, Maxine L.. 1999. Review of Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio De Janeiro.. The Hispanic American Historical Review 79 (1). Duke University Press: 174–76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2518267.

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