Professor Kevin McDonald in his own Words

The ADL has compiled some very telling quotes by California State University Long Beach professor, Kevin McDonald.

For McDonald's role in my trial see History on Trial, Chapter 10.

Professor at Cal State Long Beach [who testified for David Irving] : Profiled by LA Jewish Journal

I have posted on Professor Kevin McDonald, who testified [voluntarily and poorly] for David Irving previously. An in depth profile of him by Brad Geenberg appears in the LA Jewish Journal. Greenberg also discusses his experience interviewing McDonald on his blog.

To read McDonald's testimony brief testimony at my trial see www.hdot.org [ pages 6-24. ] He clearly had no idea what the trial was about. I discuss his ludicrous performance in History on Trial, Chapter 10.

[The photo at the right shows Kevin MacDonald being honored in 2004 for his work on the Jews by The Occidental Quarterly, a white supremacist publication. He was accompanied by Virginia Abernethy, a self-described "white separatist."]

McDonald has discussed the clannish behavior and negative influence of Jews on the show of Hesham Tillawi. It's long, tedious, and pretty sobering when one thinks that this kook -- and I could use words far worse than that -- is a professor at an American university.

I am a firm believer in academic freedom but it seems that Cal State Long Beach is really pushing the matter by continuing to award him with merit leaves -- a hard fought privilege at that school -- and the like. I just wonder what would happen if he were saying these things about other minorities....

Finally, I am reminded of what Professor Dan Jacobson of the University of London had to say about McDonald after his testimony: "That witness had a small dull mind possessed by a large dud idea."

Avowed Antisemitic and White Supremacist Professor [Kevin McDonald] Back in the News*

Inside Higher Education has a long article on Kevin McDonald, the California State University Long Beach professor who testified for David Irving [of his own volition and not because of a subpoena] and made such a pathetic impression on the judge and just about everyone else in the courtroom [with the exception of Irving's supporters] is back in the news.

McDonald's performance was so ridiculous that my wonderful and very wise barrister, Richard Rampton, did not even bother to cross examine him.

McDonald's views which are unquestionably antisemitic and racist are an anathema to his colleagues. Yet the university has never condemned them or expressed any criticism of them. For previous posts on McDonald see here. It documented his long association with virulently racist and antisemitic entities.

Last year McDonald was the subject of an in-depth report by the Southern Poverty Law Center under the title Promoting Hate

Ironically the university is hosting a group of scholars, documentary producers, and genocide survivors for the President’s Forum on International Human Rights, which is focused on modern genocides and society’s responsibility to prevent them.

I wonder if McDonald is going to show up. He could be a prime piece of evidence of how hate can be dressed up in academic garb.

*I put McDonald's name in brackets because that is how I think of him, i.e. as a sort of cipher.

Professor at Cal State Long Beach [who testified for David Irving] exposed by Southern Poverty Law Center for his antisemitism and white supremacism

The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report has issued a long analysis of Kevin McDonald, Professor at the Cal State Long Beach. The SPLC, which spent over a year reserach the professor, calls McDonald a "a tried and true anti-Semite and white supremacist."

[The photo at the right shows Kevin MacDonald being honored in 2004 for his work on the Jews by The Occidental Quarterly, a white supremacist publication. He was accompanied by Virginia Abernethy, a self-described "white separatist."]

His research argues that "Jews are genetically driven to destroy Western societies" and that in order to establish "parity" between Jews and gentiles at universities, discrimination against Jews should be reestablished and special taxes established to reduce "the Jewish advantage" in wealth.

MacDonald’s three-volume set of books on Jews and their destructive tactics is "devoured by anti-Semites the world over. Not since Hitler’s Mein Kampf have anti-Semites had such a comprehensive reference guide to what’s wrong with "the Jews."

The SPLC points out that his work is widely advertised and touted on white supremacist websites and sold by neo-Nazi outfits like National Vanguard Books, which considers them "the most important books of the last 100 years."

I know McDonald because he appeared voluntarily as a witness for David Irving at my trial. His performance was such an embarrassment that my lawyers did not even cross examine him. It seemed to me that even the judge was appalled at McDonald's rather pathetic performance.

SPLC correctly asks how can CSULB keep him on its professorial staff. Racists and antisemites have, of course, long been employed in such capacity, e.g. Arthur Butz of Northwestern. [I don't know about Butz's views on race -- though I have some strong suspicions -- but that he is an antisemite is incontrovertible.]

What makes MacDonald’s case unique, according to the SPLC, is that he has reached powerful positions at the University and has had his work published in scholarly journals.

Most importantly MacDonald uses his university website and his classroom to disseminate his racist and anti-Semitic materials.

Despite receiving $10,000 by one racist group for his anti-Semitic research and serving as an adviser to another, CSULB has said nothing. Instead it has given him grants and appointed him to powerful committees.

According to the SPLC:

MacDonald uses the work of notorious race scientists — including that of J. Philippe Rushton, a Canadian academic who argues that penis and brain size (and thus intelligence) are inversely related — as course material. (Rushton argues that blacks, on average, have larger genitalia and smaller brains than whites.)

In History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, I write:

"I found it hard to fathom that this man had been teaching at an American university for over fifteen years and had published what could arguably be described as anti-Semitic tomes without anyone — his colleagues in particular — taking notice… . [N]ot only had his colleagues not taken notice, his fellow evolutionary psychologists elected him secretary of the association of evolutionary psychologists."

CSULB supports his "academic freedom and free speech." The administration seems to fail to understand that academic freedom is one thing. Teaching pseudo-science, racism, and antisemitism are not part of academic freedom especially when one brings that into the classroom.

CSULB lives in between the shadows of UCLA and UC Irvine. At long last it has emerged in the daylight.... but for all the wrong reasons.

This story has been widely covered by Inside Higher Ed, the Los Angeles Times, and the Long Beach Press Telegram.