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[Herschel]

Two weeks after a newspaper interview with a professor prompted a furor over what some on campus believed were anti-Semitic comments, Foothill College administrators are investigating how the story came to be published and are scheduling a meeting with the Anti-Defamation League.

In a letter about the situation, college President Bernadine Chuck Fong called the interview with adjunct political science Professor Leighton Armitage ``regrettable.'' Neither she nor other administration officials could be reached for comment beyond her letter, and it was unclear whether Armitage would be subject to disciplinary action.

In the question-and-answer style interview, published Jan. 28 in the student-funded paper The Sentinel, Armitage said, of Israeli treatment of Palestinians: ``And what are they doing with Palestinians, every day? They're killing them. They're walling them in, they're essentially doing the same thing that was done to them. . . . It's exactly what Hitler did to the Jews.''

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Outrageous. This so called professor should be dismissed.