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On a New Trend webpage dedicated to three female suicide bombers, Zionism is equated with "systematic genocide" and readers are urged to support a boycott of "major supporters of Zionism," including McDonald's, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Home Depot and Disney.

The Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz is categorized as a "Jewish milk cow" by Siddique, which has "netted billions of dollars for Israel, owing to the pity it creates for Jews who run that terrorist entity."

While Siddique has publicly insisted that he does not oppose Jews "as a collective," a recent issue of New Trend warned that Jews today are the most powerful, the wealthiest and the most oppressive people in the world.

American Jews are among the "powerful negative forces" subverting freedom in the U.S., Siddique wrote. They control the media through a network of "communications experts and entertainers," such as Larry King, Ted Koppel, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Also listed were the Washington Post, the New York Times and producers for the CBS News program, "60 Minutes."

Jews are also in control of international banking as well as the Bush administration, according to New Trend.

Within the pages of New Trend, Siddique has offered support for scholars Ernst Zundel and David Irving, who are among the most prominent writers denying that the Jewish Holocaust occurred. New Trend contends there is no evidence Jews were gassed and credits Irving with being "able to help people see the REAL Hitler, rather than the devil incarnate the victors have made him out to be."

Cooper, from the Wiesenthal Center, admitted that Siddique is "honest, open and it's all here on his website for all to read." But he added that Siddique is "a bigot, an anti-Semite and a Holocaust denier. He shows more concern for the goals -- if not the operational aspects -- of Islamic terrorists rather than to the innocent victims of terror."

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) defended Siddique Monday when contacted by Cybercast News Service.

Jonathan Knight, director of academic freedom for the AAUP, argued that "however unpopular or distasteful the views of professors are, their freedom to express them is an essential condition of a truly free institution.

"What may be desirable is one thing. What is punishable is another," Knight said. He added that there was no evidence Siddique's views had entered his classroom at Lincoln University.

"If he had somewhat less radical ideas that gave someone offense, he would not be subject to admonishment either," Knight said.

Lincoln University, a historically black college 50 miles outside of Philadelphia, honors the "Great Emancipator," America's 16th president. Numerous African-American leaders, including the late Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall and the late poet and author Langston Hughes, were students at the school.

Neither Siddique, nor anyone at Lincoln University, responded to Cybercast News Service requests for comment for this article.

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