Columbia Abuzz Over Underground Film (faculty bigotry exposed)

The New York Sun ^ | 10/20/2004 | Jacob Gershwin

[Mount Athos]

At a history class, a professor mockingly tells a female Jewish student she cannot possibly have ancestral ties to Israel because her eyes are green.

During a lecture, a professor of Arab politics refuses to answer a question from an Israeli student and military veteran but instead asks the student, "How many Palestinians have you killed?"

At a student meeting on the topic of divestment from Israel, a Jewish student is singled out as responsible for death of Palestinian Arabs.

Those scenes are described by current and former students interviewed for an underground documentary that is causing a frisson of concern to ripple through the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University, where the incidents took place.

The film, about anti-Israel sentiment at the school, has not yet been released to the public, but it has been screened for a number of top officials of Columbia, and talk of its impact is spreading rapidly on a campus where some students have complained of anti-Israel bias among faculty members.

"The movie is shocking," one Columbia senior, Ariel Beery, said.

"It is shocking to see blatant use of racial stereotypes by professors and intimidation tactics by professors in order to push a distinct ideological line on the curriculum," Mr. Beery, who was interviewed for the film, said......[snip]

[pointsal]

Well, he should have answered: "regrettably, not enough". But the good comebacks always come too late.

What a great reply!

[Caesar Soze]

Bollinger. Didn't he get sued for racist preferences when he was at Michigan? I recall that was when I was filling out college applications, and Michigan didn't get one.

[Poohbah]

During a lecture, a professor of Arab politics refuses to answer a question from an Israeli student and military veteran but instead asks the student, "How many Palestinians have you killed?"

My answer: "Since you're still breathing, obviously not enough."

[eagle11]

They always say, if you want to see America's future, look to the universities.

[Fatalis]

The Columbia students do not charge that they are facing anti-Semitism on campus. They attach an importance to what they see as a distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments.

"They teach everything in the context of one special, small struggle, when there are 23 countries out there where minorities are being oppressed, where women are bound to their homes, where homosexuals are being put in jail. They're ignoring the rest of the Middle East in favor of a small dimension of it," Mr. Beery said.

Sigh.

But Mr. Beery, they revile you and Israel for your Jewishness.

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

...a professor mockingly tells a female Jewish student she cannot possibly have ancestral ties to Israel because her eyes are green.

And they have the nerve to say that Conservatives/Republicans are Nazis???

[OKIEDOC]

Arabs! We need to tighten our immigration laws before it is to late.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I would have retorted, "How many Israelis have you killed by preaching they should not be allowed to defend themselves?"

[dennisw]

Way to go!!! This is the way to expose these rotters!

[reg45]

a professor of Arab politics refuses to answer a question from an Israeli student and military veteran but instead asks the student, "How many Palestinians have you killed?"

I would have answered "Obviously, not enough!"

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Or, "not nearly as many as the Americans killed by Islamofascists on 9/11."

But the real retort would be to just deck the ahole. Who do these professors think they are? Remember the old, "Question Authority" stance? How conveniently this professor of ignorance has cast that stance aside now that he is the authority.

[Oblongata]

"During a lecture, a professor of Arab politics refuses to answer a question from an Israeli student and military veteran but instead asks the student, "How many Palestinians have you killed?"

Not enough, obviously.

[Dont Mention the War]

Unfortunately, without being allowed to view the film, there is nothing any of us can do to spread the word about this with any legitimacy.

I wonder though: What's the makeup of the faculty and students at Columbia by race, religion, etc? Harvard's undergrad class is something like 25% Jewish, so I can't imagine this sort of faculty-sponsored hate would be tolerated there for very long.

Is there some sort of weird Ivy League caste system going on?

[Oblongata]

"I would have answered "Obviously, not enough!"

Oops, that's what I get for not reading to the end. Great minds must think alike.

[Nightshift]

should have asked Mr Massad how many car bombings he was involved in. LOL

[Cicero]

I have a friend who retired from the Columbia English department a couple of years ago. He was not really a conservative by our lights, but he was certainly a conservative by the current standards of the academic elite. There's hardly anybody left at Columbia who is a real scholar. They are almost all a bunch of left-wing ideologues.

Edward Said is dead, but I'm sure they'll replace him with someone even worse.

[pitinkie]

Unfortunately my son is applying there. I am trying to talk him out of it!!

[Neophyte]

And I bet the whole faculty is voting for Kerry.

Sure they do. What is worse, the isolated, intimidated and bitter Jewish egg-heads from the campus are voting for Kerry too.

[Stellar Dendrite]

I want to see it!!!!! Please ping me when it's released :)

[ELS]

ping!