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Columbia Abuzz Over Underground Film (faculty bigotry exposed)
The New York Sun ^ | 10/20/2004 | Jacob Gershwin

Posted on 10/20/2004 4:48:36 PM PDT by Mount Athos

Edited on 10/20/2004 8:35:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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]


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigotry; cccc; columbia; columbiau; columbiaunbecoming; columbiauniversity; stopquidnuncitis
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1 posted on 10/20/2004 4:48:38 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

One more paragraph, moderator delete if it is too much.

"At the end of the lecture, Mr. Schoenfeld prefaced a question to the professor by informing Mr. Massad that he was Israeli, Mr. Schoenfeld told The New York Sun. "Before I could continue, he stopped me and said, 'Did you serve in the military?'" Mr. Schoenfeld, who served in the Israeli Air Force between 1996 and 1999, recalled. He said that he told Mr. Massad he had served in the military and that Mr. Massad asked him how many Palestinians he had killed. When Mr. Schoenfeld refused to answer, Mr. Massad said he wouldn't allow him to ask his question."


2 posted on 10/20/2004 4:50:00 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Alouette

fyi


3 posted on 10/20/2004 4:50:37 PM PDT by jla
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To: Mount Athos

Those than can, co. Those that can't.......


4 posted on 10/20/2004 4:50:49 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Only dummies play poker with George W. Bush.)
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To: Mount Athos

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


5 posted on 10/20/2004 4:52:08 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: SJackson; Alouette; dennisw
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.
6 posted on 10/20/2004 4:52:48 PM PDT by Fatalis (The Libertarian Party is to politics as Esperanto is to linguistics.)
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To: isthisnickcool
Those than can, do. Those that can't.......

...suck?

Oh, you meant, "teach". Same thing in many cases, especially in "higher" education.

7 posted on 10/20/2004 4:53:35 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: Mount Athos

bump


8 posted on 10/20/2004 4:53:39 PM PDT by tje
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Yehuda; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.
9 posted on 10/20/2004 4:54:09 PM PDT by SJackson (They're not Americans. They're just journalists, Col George Connell, USMC)
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To: Mount Athos

what they need is more diversity....
of thought....
in their faculty.


10 posted on 10/20/2004 4:54:38 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the Piece:Charity is conservative;doing it with someone else's money is liberal.)
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To: Mount Athos
AWESOME!!!!

I would love to see this documentary of these delight liberal and IslamoFascist scum. Is it on iFilm or elsewhere on the Internet?

It is LONG past time to expose the evil liberal cesspools of higher indoctrination.

11 posted on 10/20/2004 4:54:44 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Mount Athos

This the guy who wanted our forces to suffer a million Somalias?


12 posted on 10/20/2004 4:55:17 PM PDT by KantianBurke (Am back but just for a short while)
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To: Fatalis

I'd sure like to see it. I'd sure like Columbia's donors to see it, too.


13 posted on 10/20/2004 4:55:45 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: Mount Athos
AWESOME!!!!

I would love to see this documentary of these delightful liberal and IslamoFascist scum. Is it on iFilm or elsewhere on the Internet?

It is LONG past time to expose the evil liberal cesspools of higher indoctrination.

14 posted on 10/20/2004 4:56:03 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Mount Athos

If only we could send out copies to every jewish voter in the US before the election. Then they will know where the bigotry is, LIBERALISM


15 posted on 10/20/2004 4:56:35 PM PDT by GeronL (John Kerry believes in a right to privacy and in gay rights............ ask "fair game" Mary Cheney)
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To: Mount Athos

And I bet the whole faculty is voting for Kerry.


16 posted on 10/20/2004 4:56:57 PM PDT by inkling
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To: Mount Athos

Big shock.


17 posted on 10/20/2004 4:58:04 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: Mount Athos

ping!


18 posted on 10/20/2004 4:58:34 PM PDT by sauropod (Hitlary: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
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To: Mount Athos

Sounds more like the "typical" university....


19 posted on 10/20/2004 4:58:51 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: KantianBurke
This the guy who wanted our forces to suffer a million Somalias?

No. You can add him to the stench at Columbia, as well.

20 posted on 10/20/2004 4:59:32 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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