Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | 24 November 2004 ADC expresses its deep concern over increased attempts to silence free speech and academic freedom at Columbia University. Professor Joseph Massad, an untenured junior faculty member in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) has been the target of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ADC Press Release (Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Commitee) | Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | 26 September 2002 WASHINGTON, DC – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) expressed deep concerns over emerging efforts designed to chill any criticism of Israel in American colleges and universities by labeling it as “anti-Semitism.” In particular ADC cited a new website for monitoring

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Ha’aretz | 26 November 2004 NEW YORK – Columbia University president Lee Bollinger plans “specific steps” soon in response to allegations that professors and lecturers at the Ivy League university made vitriolic and malicious comments against Israel in classes. Bollinger made the pledge in a Wednesday phone call to Anti-Defamation League

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Israel Academia Monitor | November 2004 It is with great pleasure that we announce the official opening of the web site for Israel Academia Monitor, at the web address: http://israel-academia-monitor.com/ Israel Academia Monitor is an Israeli watchdog group that monitors abuses of academic freedom and politicalization of Israeli campuses by extremists and radicals in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DOUGLAS FEIDEN | New York Daily News | 21 November 2004 Special Report: Columbia is at risk of becoming a poison Ivy, some critics claim, and tensions are high. In classrooms, teach-ins, interviews and published works, dozens of academics are said to be promoting an I-hate-Israel agenda, embracing the ugliest of Arab propaganda, and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Collins Piper | AmericanFreePress net | 19 March 2004 The Israeli lobby has launched an all-out drive to ensure congressional passage of a bill, approved by the House and now before a Senate committee that would set up a federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses. Ten

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ASSOCIATED PRESS | ASSOCIATED PRESS | 14 November 2004 TAMPA – A federal judge has granted a request to delay the trial of a former professor suspected of terrorist ties, in part because of the publicity over Sami Al-Arian during the U.S. Senate race, as well as the amount of evidence in the case.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Professor Andrew Rubin, Georgetown University | Email circular | 9 November 2004 An Open Letter to Congressman Weiner, I met you in the Spring of 1988 when you were the friend of a classmate of mine in college. Years have passed since then. You are no longer Senator Charles Schumer’s Legislative Aid, but a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Monique Dols | Electronic Intifada | 5 November 2004 Over the past several weeks, claims of intimidation in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) of Columbia University have hit newspapers around the world. Accusations of one-sidedness and anti-Americanism abound. It is all based on a previously unreleased film Columbia

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed | 28 March 2005 Both Ward Churchill and one of his legislative critics compared the University of Colorado to an asylum this weekend — showing that the debate over the controversial professor has not been put to rest by a university review released Thursday. Churchill says that the