Racist hate speech directed at Palestinians by Conn. College philosophy professor Andrew Pessin... (MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY, UPDATED)

...generates outrage on campus, but no national media attention, for obvious reasons.  From the linked story:

Professor Pessin compared Gazan Palestinians to “rabid pit bulls” who need to be caged.  He described the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as a cycle of letting the “snarling dogs” out of their “cage” and then beating them back into it.  One person named Nicole commented on the post suggesting the “dogs” be put down.  Professor Pessin responded, “I agree.”  Professor Pessin directly condoned the extermination of a people.  A member of our community has called for the systematic abuse, killing, and hate of another people. 

(Thanks to Lukas Slothuus for alerting me to this story.)

ADDENDUM:  Prof. Pessin offers an "apology" here, though, oddly, without clearly renouncing the view that Palestinians are "dogs."

UPDATE:  IHE now has an informative item on this affair.  Prof. Pessin thinks it is a defense of his slurs to report that they were only aimed at Hamas, the elected representative of the Palestinians in Gaza.  He also makes the ludicrous claim that this is all an attempt to silence him, an outspoken proponent of Israel (when has an outspoken proponent of Israel ever been silenced in the United States?).  On the other hand, students asking the Administration to denounce Prof. Pessin's remarks are wrong to do so:  it is not the job of a college administration to police or editorialize about faculty speech.