FARS News Agency published this broad-ranging interview, done while the recent Israeli massacre in Gaza was ungoing:
TEHRAN (FNA)- A Canadian scholar and academic, who
was fired from the university where he was teaching because of his
pro-Palestinian viewpoints, believes the US government is funding and
supporting Israel for its continued bloodletting in the Middle East.
According to Prof. Denis Rancourt, Israel's plan in the Middle East is
ethnic cleansing and the total obliteration of Palestine and its
citizens in order to realize a colonial, imperial agenda backed by the
US military, economic and finance empire.
"Israel’s program is to eradicate or neutralize all Palestinians who
make claim to a home in Palestine. This is exactly what Israel has been
doing since before its artificial creation," said Prof. Rancourt in an
exclusive interview with Fars News Agency.
"Israel’s program is planned incremental dispossession and an ongoing
attempted genocide. This has been repeatedly and explicitly expressed by
the Zionist architects and executioners," he noted.
Prof. Denis Rancourt has also praised the resistance movement in the
Gaza Strip for its steadfastness against the Israeli aggression during
the past two months, maintaining that it was awe-inspiring that Hamas
could kill some 70 invading Israeli soldiers.
Denis Rancourt is a former professor of physics at the University of
Ottawa. In the fall of 2008, he was removed from all teaching duties
under the pretext that he had granted A+ grades to 23 students in one
course during the winter 2008 semester; however, it's quite clear to
everybody that his outspoken criticism of Israel and his pro-Palestinian
activism had triggered his dismissal from the university. Prof.
Rancourt's classes were always attended by tens of students and he was
considered as one of the popular university professors at the Faculty of
Science.
Rancourt has published more than 100 academic papers. He was a member
of Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Physics and the Ottawa-Carleton
Geoscience Centre. He is the author of the book "Hierarchy and Free
Expression in the Fight Against Racism."
During the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that just ended on August 26
following the victory of Hamas and the declaration of ceasefire between
the Israeli regime and the resistance movement, FNA did an interview
with Prof. Denis Rancourt on the influence of the Israeli lobby over the
media, politicians and universities in the West, the history of
Israel-Canada relations and the international reactions to the recent
Israeli war on Gaza. The following is the text of this in-depth
interview. CONTINUE READING
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