s the piece that raises the possibility that Hubbard's recent op-ed was in part taken from another person's work. While this site was threatened with a libel suit for publishing this piece, the piece remains up as does a response to many who argue against the right of this site to publish the piece below. There is, of course, no case for libel, and the threat has since been retracted.
Hubbard's response to the piece below is also available.
Ward Churchill, Morgan Hubbard, and Plagiarism
by L. Information
Plagiarism n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own.
Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University
Morgan's Hubbard recent column on Ward Churchill was a disgrace to the Diamondback and Hubbard himself. I do not say this because of the jokes about violence against Churchill. Violence is rarely funny, and even less so when such bad jokes are aimed at an individual whose career is suffering because "credible" death threats have led multiple universities to cancel his speaking engagements.
Neither should Hubbard simply be chastised for simply repeating the "talking points" of Fox News, the Free Republic and other attack media. No, Hubbard disgraced himself because he repeated the words of another columnist without citing them or fully understanding where they came from. In journalism as in college there is a word for that: plagiarism.
In comparing one paragraph of Hubbard's work to an editorial by Edward Alexander that appeared in Front Page Magazine, it becomes clear that Hubbard simply reproduced Alexander's argument, including the quotes. This is often called "borrowing language" and could be grounds for referral to student judicial board or a threat of an "XF" grade for academic dishonesty in any university English class. Though an actual grade of "XF" for the class would be highly unlikely considering the particularities of this case.
Compare this paragraph of Hubbard
"He’s also shaky on the significance of the Holocaust, of all things. Extermination of Europe’s Jews, he says, was probably never a “fixed policy objective of the Nazis.” Regardless, he accuses “Jewish exclusivists” of seeking to capitalize on Holocaust suffering for contemporary political gain and to deflect attention from “Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.”" >
with these of Alexander
In "A Little Matter of Genocide (1997), ...(Churchill) argues that the murder of European Jews was not at all a "fixed policy objective of the Nazis," and accuses Jews of seeking to monopolize for themselves ... Holocaust suffering .
He also argues that Jewish "exclusivism" ... stressed the Holocaust in order to "construct a conceptual screen behind which to hide the realities of Israel's ongoing genocide against the Palestinian population."">
When asked about this similarity, Hubbard admitted that his work was a "paraphrase of Alexander's" words, though he also argued (perhaps paradoxically) that they were also "an articulation of my own (Hubbard's) ideas about Churchill."
While some of the quotes that both men attribute to Churchill have been changed, and may not actually be quotes as such in Hubbard's piece, the quote that really draws attention is the quote that Hubbard's and Alexander's works have in common. Hubbard's original op-ed seems to suggest the line comes from "Some People Push Back." When asked where he quoted the words "fixed policy objective of the Nazis," Hubbard attributed it to a book review that Churchill wrote called "Assaults on Truth and Memory: Holocaust Denial in Context," (available here ). Notice that Alexander attributes this quote to a book called A Little Matter of Genocide (1987). However, while this quote does appear in the article by Alexander, they do not appear word for word in the Churchill piece. The closest line is the following
"Indeed, there is considerable ambiguity in the record as to whether the total physical annihilation of European Jewry itself was actually a fixed policy objective."
Considering that Hubbard does admit to a "paraphrase" of Alexander's work, it seems he also carelessly lifted a quote from him word for word. Since a similar argument appears in different language in the book review, he must have confused this citation and forgotten to look it up carefully.
While the Diamondback newspaper (Hubbard's employer) does not believe that this constitutes a violation of their plagiarism policy (appearantly after consultation with a Journalism professor), this does appear to fit the dictionary definition of plagiarism. A University of Maryland English professor has concurred and his input will be published here once he has given permission.
While this may appear to be nothing short of harmless short-cutting, it is clear that Hubbard joined in a national attack campaign on Churchill by simply restating another columnist's ideas as his own. He does not even seem to have traced his source's quotes back correctly. Hubbard's work, therefore, has little to no journalistic value. It reflects badly on him and on the Diamondback and on the University as a whole, especially considering the recent fraud of Diamondback alumni Jayson Blair and Jack Kelley.
Editor's note
Hubbard's use of violent imagery is important because of how violence and threats of violence have been encouraged by this nation-wide attack campaign. Below is a response to Hubbard's letter published on the Diamondback website that demonstrates how these attack pieces against Churchill have been recieved by readers who share Hubbards over-zealous nationalism.
this letter is by
Ben Willcher
Class of 2003
Carlisle, PA
"Mr. Hubbard's position is not hypocritical, but actually nuanced and to the point. The 1st Amendment prevents the government (including Mr. Churchill's employer) from taking action to curtail his freedom of speech. Private citizens opposed to Mr. Churchill's position can take any action they want, including physical violence if they are also prepared for the consequences. >
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