The leading defender of Hatemonger Norman Finkelstein in his battle to get tenure at DePaul University, a battle lost, has been one Peter Kirstein, an anti-Semitic leftist professor of history at St. Xavier University in Chicago.

Not exactly a surpise, it seems that Kirstein has in the past lobbied, shilled for, and praised Neo-Nazi David Irving. See this. 

Note these quotes from Kirstein there:

'I accepted a speaking invitation from a historian who has been castigated as anti-Semitic.a charge that Mr. Irving has consistently denied.and denounced for a falsified revisionism of Nazi Germany and the destruction of European Jewry. My mission, since my egregious suspension on Veterans Day, November 11, 2002, for an act of conscience through a harshly worded antiwar e-mail, is to demand academic freedom for university historians and no censorship of any historian for antiwar or historiographical incorrectness

'As an outspoken peace activist, pacifist and war resister, which were the underlying reasons for my suspension in the twelfth week of a semester, I commend Mr. Irving's courageous and febrile opposition to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. I was not unmindful of this when I agreed to speak at his conference. If antiwar advocates can build coalitions across the ideological divide, then future degradations of the Palestinians, future Holocausts, future illegal walls of separation, future attacks on Jewish interests and future neoconservative crusades against nonthreatening Islamic nations may be averted....'

 

Kirstein is one of the rogues featured in the book "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America," a volume to which I proudly contributed a couple of chapters!

 

Want to tell the heads of St. Xavier University what you think of them having such a person on its faculty?  The President of the university is:

Judith A. Dwyer, Ph.D., President
Phone: (773) 298-3309
Fax: (773) 779-4763
E-mail: jadwyer@sxu.edu

The list of their other officers is here.