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02/02/2005 Entry: "Colorado Professor's Future on the Line"

WHEN TENURE GOES WRONG: Ward Churchill, who made headlines over two years ago with an essay declaring some of the victims of 9/11 to be Nazis, was the target of death threats this week. The essay resurfaced after he was announced as part of a panel discussion.

In the scathing essay, Churchill called the traders and other businesspeople who worked at the World Trade Center in New York "Eichmanns" — a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews.

That's because he believes American foreign policy and the spread of capitalism around the world for U.S. profit are acts of genocide against Iraqi civilians and others in the same way as the Nazi movement was against the Jews during World War II.

"As to those in the World Trade Center ... true enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire," Churchill wrote.

Churchill resigned as head of ethnic studies at University of Colorado at Boulder and could lose his job tomorrow. No sympathy from me.

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