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Students at Cal State Long Beach are launching a campaign against a faculty member known for his anti-Semitic writings and, most recently, for his leadership of a white supremacist political party.

Aiming to force 鈥檚 departure from the university, student activists this week began urging their peers to boycott classes taught by the longtime psychology professor. 鈥淲e feel that Professor MacDonald brings a very racist ideology into his teaching,鈥� said Marylou Cabral, a senior art education major at Cal State Long Beach who鈥檚 helping spearhead the anti-MacDonald efforts. 鈥淲e believe that his personal biases are going to affect his teaching no matter what he鈥檚 teaching, and we believe that he brings a political force to our campus that we need to counter. 鈥� He鈥檚 not just an individual with hateful beliefs. He鈥檚 someone who鈥檚 making an effort to organize and promote those beliefs, and we feel that鈥檚 dangerous.鈥�

The impetus for mobilizing students was MacDonald鈥檚 (ATP), whose stated mission is 鈥渢o represent the political interests of White Americans.鈥� According to by O.C. Weekly, ATP is partnering with Freedom 14, a local neo-Nazi group, to establish itself as a party dedicated to the deportation of non-whites. ATP鈥檚 chairman is hard-line racist William D. Johnson, a Los Angeles-based lawyer who once proposed repealing the 14th and 15th Amendments, which made freed slaves U.S. citizens, granted equal protection under the law, and prohibited race-based denial of voting rights. Instead, Johnson proposed the Pace Amendment, which would essentially allow only non-Hispanic whites to become U.S. citizens. The group is , and the Southern California branch has handed out hundreds of anti-immigrant flyers and other materials, according to ATP鈥檚 blog.

Until ATP鈥檚 founding last October, MacDonald鈥檚 bigotry found expression mainly through academia rather than activism. His widely discredited research purportedly shows that Jews are driven by a genetically programmed group evolutionary strategy to undermine and harm Western civilization. In his academic works, MacDonald has suggested taxing Jews or restricting their access to universities as ways of protecting white society.

The student-led campaign against MacDonald began on Tuesday, the first day of his spring semester classes. Student activists affiliated with the groups Students Fight Back and the Party for Socialism and Liberation attempted to get those who鈥檇 signed up for MacDonald鈥檚 upper-level psychology courses 鈥� child & adolescent development, developmental psychopathology and social personality development 鈥� to drop them and join the boycott. The activists entered MacDonald鈥檚 three classes before the professor had arrived and distributed flyers detailing MacDonald鈥檚 bogus research and far-right political affiliations, along with a supplemental sheet listing alternative courses students could take. When MacDonald got to class, the activists confronted him about his white supremacist views, which he tried to deny, according to Douglas Kauffman, a senior English literature major who鈥檚 involved in the effort. But MacDonald did not disavow his association with ATP. 鈥淗e was completely silent and tried to evade the topic each time by claiming he only wanted to talk about school issues,鈥� Kauffman said.

MacDonald did not address his views or far-right advocacy in a brief E-mail to Hatewatch. 鈥淪tudents have disrupted my classes and encouraged students to drop my courses,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淚 suppose these are exactly the sorts of thuggish behavior advocated by the 人兽性交. Disrupting classes is illegal and it is unfair to students who are simply trying to get an education in difficult times.鈥�

Department chairman Kenneth Green also took issue with the students鈥� tactics. 鈥淭hose students were not registered for his class, and they had no legal right to be there,鈥� he said. 鈥淭here are more appropriate ways to protest.鈥�

But the students defended their methods. 鈥淭hat was the most direct, efficient way to reach those students who are encountering him twice, three times a week,鈥� Cabral said. And most students were receptive to their message, Kauffman said; despite a budget crisis that has limited their enrollment options, about half a dozen students immediately walked out in the three classes combined.

Provoked in part by an 人兽性交 investigation, controversy has dogged MacDonald since at least 2006, when faculty members began expressing serious concerns about his research methods and the use of his writings by extremists to justify a racist agenda. In April 2008, the psychology department approved a statement disassociating itself from MacDonald鈥檚 work. 鈥淲e respect and defend his right to express his views,鈥� it stated in part, 鈥渂ut we affirm that they are his alone and are in no way endorsed by the Department of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach.鈥� Other academic departments have issued similar statements. While defending his academic freedom, the Cal State Long Beach Academic Senate also voted in October 2008 to disassociate itself from MacDonald鈥檚 writings.

University Assistant Vice President Toni Beron said she hadn鈥檛 heard about the student campaign against MacDonald and didn鈥檛 immediately have any comment.

The students will circulate a petition next week calling for MacDonald鈥檚 removal from the faculty and for students to stop taking his classes, Kauffman said. (They plan to present a copy, along with a letter explaining why students want him dismissed, to a psychology department committee conducting senior faculty reviews.) They鈥檙e also planning a campus meeting to discuss MacDonald and their efforts to get him ousted. They hope to work with faculty members who have pressured MacDonald in the past and would like to get the unions on campus to join their cause, including the California Faculty Association.

鈥淥ur campus is one of the most diverse in the country, and that really flies in the face of having a Nazi as a professor,鈥� Kauffman said.