Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonah Birch | Left Hook | January 2005 As the new year begins, the attacks by the right-wing media and mainstream politicians against professors at Columbia University who are critical of Israel and the United States have continued unabated. The current round of assaults began in November of last year following the release of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Haaretz Daily | 26 January 2005 Columbia University President Lee Bollinger informed Israel’s consul general in New York, Arie Meckel, on Wednesday that a university-sponsored conference, “Revisiting the Middle East Peace Process,” scheduled to have taken place on Thursday, was postponed indefinitely. The conference was postponed due to heavy pressure by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Saliba | The Columbia Spectator | 3 November 2004 As one of the faculty members of MILACA who has been recently slandered in a film that was screened behind closed doors, I feel a statement rebutting those slanderous charges is in order. After receiving the transcript of the film through the courtesy of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) N. R. KLEINFIELD | The New York Times | 18 January 2005 As students resume classes at Columbia University today after their winter break, they will face the telltale summonses of college life: Go to class, surf the Internet, sleep, pursue romance, sleep. And a new one: Testify about the alleged misconduct of their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jennifer Senior | New York Metro | 17 January 2005 A new documentary accusing Arab professors of intimidating Jewish students has touched off a fierce war—of words—on the Upper West Side. Where does free speech end and bullying begin? Of all the political documentaries that have ignited controversy in the past year,Columbia Unbecoming is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stevenson Swanson | Chicago Tribune | 1 January 2005 NEW YORK — The Upper West Side of Manhattan may be half a world away from the Middle East, but a bitter war of words has turned the narrow campus of Columbia University into a miniature Gaza Strip, riven by divisions between supporters of the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ATARAH HABER | The Jerusalem Post | 7 December 2004 An international conference entitled “Resisting Israeli Apartheid,” held at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London on Sunday, was predictably nothing more than a “one-sided rant against Israel,” Gavin Gross, chairman of the SOAS Jewish Society told The Jerusalem

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liz Fink | Columbia Spectator | 8 December 2004 Press Conference Yesterday Offered First Highly Visible Student Response to Attacks in Columbia Unbecoming One month after the controversial release of Columbia Unbecoming, pro-Israel students aren’t the only ones claiming they are being harassed and intimidated. A group of approximately 50 students, faculty, community members,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Bill Bishop | Juan Cole Website | 4 December 2004 Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card. They had accused Card of being anti-semitic (i.e. a racist) and of being a leftwing extremist. Pipes has a history of levelling wild charges against

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oliver Kamm | The Times Online | 4 December 2004 ALL SCHOLARLY disciplines have jargon. Specialist terms are mocked by populists, but they can be a useful shorthand. They are not a target of this series on buzzwords. Deliberate obscurity cultivated for the appearance of profundity is another matter. The attractions of obscurity are