Shocker.

(INN) — An American professor who shouted “death to Israel” during an Israeli Bedouin speaker’s lecture, defended his statement by saying it was for Allah.

Associate history professor Julio Pino of Kent University in Ohio made the remark after asking a question of Ishmael Khaldi, who was speaking of his experiences working on behalf of Israel as told in his book “A Shepherd’s Journey”. Khaldi, former deputy consul general at the Israeli consulate in San Francisco and now a deputy minister, describes the book as “one man’s story of Israel’s culture, society and politics from the perspective of a Bedouin minority in a Jewish state.”

Pino stalked out of the lecture hall after he shouted at the guest speaker.

He wrote in a-mail to HigherEd.com, “What I spoke was for the sake of the children of Palestine, and no other reason. The only politics I have are ‘There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Messenger.’ ”

He rounded out his logic by quoting the Koran, “They try to put out the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will allow nothing but the perfection of that light, though the disbelievers dislike it.”

University president Lester Lefton denounced the “death to Israel’ statement, but no disciplinary action has been announced against Pino, who has a long history of anti-Israel rants.