OHIO – The FBI has been investigating an Ohio professor for alleged involvement with Islamic State terrorists.

Students and colleagues of Kent State History academic Julio Pino have been interviewed after concerns that he could be recruiting students to join ISIS.

The associate professor has since stated he does not support Islamic State and has never discussed the group in his classes.

Pino, who is teaching two classes this semester, generally focuses on Latin America and is currently working on a study of African Muslim slaves in Brazil during the 19th century.

He said that he has not been contacted by either the authorities or Kent State about the investigation against him.

University spokesman Eric Mansfield said that the institution had been contacted and was fully cooperating with the feds.

A statement from Kent State added, “As this is an ongoing investigation, we will have no further comment. The FBI has assured Kent State that there is no threat to campus.”

Pino, who has been at Kent State since 1992 and has tenure, previously made headlines nationwide for controversial opinions on the Middle East.

The pro-Palestine professor yelled “Death to Israel” during a speech by former Israeli diplomat Ishmael Khaldi in 2011, which led to public criticism from then-university president Lester Lefton.

In 2002, he wrote a eulogy for a teenage Palestinian suicide bomber published in the student newspaper.