Category: Academics Under Attack

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daniel Freeman-Maloy | Defend Free Speech at York University | 3 May 2004 On April 30, 2004, I received a letter signed by York University President and Vice-Chancellor Lorna Marsden declaring that I “will have no purpose on campus” after May 1, 2004. If I set foot on York’s campus at any point in

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lorna R. Marsden | Defend Free Speech at York University | 30 April 2004 Daniel Freeman-Maloy received the following letter on April 30, 2004. The envelope that contained it was post-marked for April 26, the letter itself dated for April 21. Comments by Freeman-Maloy are in square brackets. Dear Mr. Maloy, In the past

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eyal Press | The Nation | April 22, 2004 [from the May 10, 2004 issue] Daniel Pipes was a busy man in the days following September 11, 2001. The Philadelphia-based foreign policy analyst and commentator on terrorism and Islam first learned that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center when a local television

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 23 April 2004 Israel’s minister of education, Limor Livnat, has announced that she will not participate in events at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev until the institution disciplines a member of its faculty who wrote that Israel is conducting a “symbolic genocide” of the Palestinian people.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz | 22 April 2004 Education Minister Limor Livnat is boycotting Ben-Gurion University of the Negev so long as it continues to employ political sociologist Prof. Lev Grinberg, she has told BGU President Prof. Avishai Braverman. Following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Grinberg wrote in an article that

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilil Shahar | Maariv | 7 April 2004 In an article published in a Belgian newspaper, Dr. Lev Greenberg of Ben-Gurion University labels Israel’s actions “criminal” and calls on the world to stop Sharon immediately. “The murder of Sheikh Yassin is part of an Israeli policy that can be described as symbolic genocide”. This

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Collins Piper 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 virtual federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses. Ten months ago the New York-based Jewish

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 11 March 2004 Academics at Birmingham University have condemned moves by the university authorities to ban 300 of their personal websites. The university’s decision to stop hosting staff websites on university computers follows a series of controversies over links to allegedly anti-semitic content. As at many other universities,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anders Strindberg | The American Conservative | 2 February 2004 Congress threatens to cut off funding to collegiate Mideast Studies departments that refuse to toe the neocon line. Universities are no strangers to disagreement and debate. In fact, the process of argumentation has always been an important way for academics to sharpen theories and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Dobbs | Washington Post | 13 January 2004 When Rashid Khalidi took over the newly established Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University last fall, the appointment was generally viewed as an academic coup for the school, which had succeeded in wooing away a prominent Middle East expert from the