Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D., F.A.C.P.

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December 11, 2018

Michael B. Gebhardt, Esq.

Vice President and University Counsel at Temple University
300 Sullivan Hall
1330 W. Polett Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19122- 6086
(215) 204-6542 re: Marc Lamont Hill, Ph.D. [D.O.B. 12/17/1978]

Dear Mr. Gebhardt:

This is a supplemental memo noting that the primary decision to be made at tomorrow’s Board meeting
is whether Temple’s reputation might be besmirched more were it to fire a professor who had exercised
his freedom-of-speech rights vs. to retain a racist, Jew-hating, anarchist who violates the TAUP contract
[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/magazine/marc-lamont-hill-is-your-friendly-neighborhood-
marxist.html] The key-issue is whether his repeated advocacy for violence poisons the institution.

During a speech to a Mosque [starting on minute 27, after he speaks Arabic], he interlaced an overtly
black-power theme with startling claims, such as the assertion that—after having attacked the history of
America for being cast in a positive light as “The Great Experiment” [starting at minute 33]—Obama was
the “front-man for an evil enterprise” [35:30] that must be changed to change its outcome for Blacks
[https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=marc+lamont+hill+is+a+muslim&view=detail&mid=0F1A0218
B2118DE2A6ED0F1A0218B2118DE2A6ED&FORM=VIRE]. During an interview last week with Touré
[starting @ 1:06:50], he advocated abolishing prisons & police [http://toure.com/?s=marc+lamont+hill]
as per his book “Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond”
[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/books/review/nobody-marc-lamont-hill.html].

While on CNN, he was bashed for saying a beheading by a Muslim in America is “not Islamic terrorism”
[http://barenakedislam.com/2014/09/30/marc-lamont-hill-gets-bashed-on-cnn-for-saying-a-beheading-
by-a-muslim-in-america-is-not-islamic-terrorism/] claiming, instead, it’s only a “mental health issue.” And
in this clip, from this past September, he says he wants to emulate a terrorist who had hijacked two
airplanes (Leila Khaled) on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist [@ the end
of this 2-minute rant]. (During the first part of this clip, he accuses Israel of poisoning "Palestinian"-Arab
water and perpetuates the myth of “hands up, don’t shoot”; this was widely circulated on social media
last week.) [https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1070785493246332933] He supports terrorism
[https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/KtbxLwgxDgKmkGqpQjRPghrJQZrbgKdFnV?projector=1&mes
sagePartId=0.1]: “Trump’s position on Israel/Palestine is repugnant. His call for Palestine to ‘reject hatred
and terrorism’ is offensive & counterproductive.” He is unabashedly peddling MORE than hate-speech.

Claiming Israel poisoned Palestinian Arab water is defamatory (slander & libel) and he is inflammatory
(true threat & fighting words) imminently inciting violence [https://www.americanthinker.com
/blog/2018/12/temple_u_hides_behind_constitution_to_defend_antisemitic_marc_lamont_hill.html].

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Lynne Lechter emphasized Hill meets these criteria in our essay supra (which I’d “inspired”), also recalling:

• Israel has neither poisoned water nor wantonly killed civilians; Hamas/Hezbollah target civilians.

• Israel offered Palestinian Arabs a state five times and they have refused without counter-offering.

• Arafat started an Intifada and diverted money to private Paris Bank Accounts, instead of
accepting the country he was offered.

• English, Arabic and Hebrew are languages in Israel.

• Arabs, especially second wives, have more rights in Israel than in any other Arab country.

• There are Arab members of the Knesset (Israeli Congress) that are allowed to address the
body in Arabic; no Arab country allows Jews or Christians to do likewise.

• There are 50 Muslim countries that could have absorbed the “refugees” which at most are
now 350K; some commit the most egregious of atrocities and the UN and world say nothing.
They are horrible to women and gays - Israel is not.

• Not only anti-Jewish, Hill’s comments are racist.

• You should be doing everything possible to penalize him and tell the world it is not
acceptable; there is no need for a study before acting expeditiously.

• Can you imagine the outcry if a white person had said the same about an African American?
A Christian against a Muslim?

• This kind of ugly/dangerous dialogue marginalized the Jews 70 years ago.

• Jews did more to help African Americans during the Civil Rights wars than did any other
group. And donated to African American schools and colleges. We don’t deserve this.

Hill’s 11/28/2018 speech triggered turmoil with local/national implications, for he violated the four
faculty-conduct criteria that supersede any claim of “academic-freedom” and satisfied the four legal
criteria that shed “speech-freedom” defense by showing moral turpitude when fomenting violence;
these are applicable regardless of whether an individual is tenured and regardless of the purported
credibility of the cause for which he/she is advocating. A “compromise” cannot be effectuated, for the
only method to protect defenseless students (of all ages) from his input is to ensure he has no classroom
contact (notwithstanding off-campus conduct); his reprehensible ideology is so thoroughly engrained—
particularly when videos are scrutinized—that the only reasonable remedy is to discharge him and then
to permit him to reapply after he has demonstrated a pattern of [1]—spreading accurate information,
[2]—showing restraint; [3]—viewing contrary postures without scorn; and [4]—providing an explicit
disclaimer which identifies him as speaking only for himself rather than for Temple. Hill is a Jew-hating
anarchist—a radical-racist rabble-rouser—who harbors values that neither reflect Temple’s reputation
nor the ethics of the local/regional/statewide/national community. After he has been promptly FIRED,

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the Board should investigate how he was hired without a meaningful background-check, given tenure
and a salary, and let-loose without evidence that oversight of his activities was effectuated by his Dean.