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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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To: Endeavor

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

Bingo! Double bumpity-bump for that. Hit'em where it hurts, in the wallet.


42 posted on 10/20/2004 6:31:15 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (hoplophobia is a mental aberration rather than a mere attitude)
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To: Dont Mention the War

As a Columbia grad myself, I almost find this hard to believe. The school was known in my years there as the one Ivy League school with virtually no bias against admitting Jewish students--and as a result had a very high percentage of Jewish students.

However, the Mid East Institute has had some very controversial professors who are pro-Palestinian in recent years.

I have to believe this will be straightened out immediately if it is true.


43 posted on 10/20/2004 6:55:56 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: Mount Athos
I would like to congratulate Columbia College Conservative Club member Ariel Beery for his effort to expose faculty bias.

Leftists at Columbia beware. Your bias will be exposed.

44 posted on 10/20/2004 7:00:15 PM PDT by rmlew (Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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To: wildbill
This is the tip of the iceburg.
Remember, Jews are considered an oppressor class by leftists at Columbia, which is 25-30% Jewish.
PS. Perhaps a Columbia ping list is in order.
45 posted on 10/20/2004 7:04:08 PM PDT by rmlew (Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
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To: GSlob

LOL! :) That would have been a great comeback.


46 posted on 10/20/2004 7:13:03 PM PDT by Wolfhound777 (It's not our job to forgive them. Only God can do that. Our job is to arrange the meeting)
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To: Caesar Soze

Bollinger was formerly the pres of the U of Michigan and Michigan was the focal point of the affirmative action issue.


47 posted on 10/20/2004 7:20:35 PM PDT by Endeavor
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To: Mount Athos

It shouldn't come as a shock to any of us the fact that the liberal education elite is rampant with anti-semitic sentiments.


48 posted on 10/20/2004 7:24:01 PM PDT by midftfan
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To: inkling

As bad as this is, higher education is not the end of it. You have probably all read about several HS classes being shown Fahrenheit 911, but it has sifted down to the elementary.

Tonight, my daughter in NH, a hotly contested state, called me very upset about her sixth grader's Soc. Studies teacher. Her child has let it be known that his family is Republican. This man, at plymouth Elementary School, Plymouth, NH, has been telling his sixth graders that Bush is against education, has eliminated grants for higher education, and let the automatic weapons ban expire, among other things. Further, since he knows the family affiliation of my grandson, he sneeringly asks if the class Republican has anything to say. If there are other children of Republican families, I guess they are intimidated and don't let it be known.

I told my daughter to call the Supt. tomorrow--not the teacher or principal, but the Supt. and strongly protest. People had better wake up and find out how our children are being indoctrinated with lies from the left. Any suggestions? Should I call, too--I live in another state?

Paint me totally incensed.

vaudine


49 posted on 10/20/2004 7:37:29 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Poohbah

I noticed your tagline, were you a SAC command control weenie?


50 posted on 10/20/2004 7:42:20 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: SJackson

Thanks for the ping. If there is any chance of seeing this film/documentary, I'd like to do so.


51 posted on 10/20/2004 7:44:14 PM PDT by Bella_Bru (It's for the children = It takes a village)
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To: Mount Athos

Lots of self hating jews on the Upper West Side. Not enough of the pro-Israel porud jews in that hood.


52 posted on 10/20/2004 8:15:30 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: vaudine

Coach your daughter to stand up for herself in class and not be bullied by the teacher. Help her learn the facts to slam that teacher good and embarass him.


53 posted on 10/20/2004 8:17:43 PM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

It is my 10 year old grandson's class. My daughter is getting ready to "slam" the school system if they don't reign in this teacher--this is 6th grade! And she does tell him what is going on and that everyone has the right to stand up for what they believe. But a 10 year old ought not to have to "stand up" against a teacher pushing libereal views on sixth grade.

vaudine


54 posted on 10/20/2004 8:22:59 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Mount Athos
Shocking and shameful.

If we Americans don't attack such behavior
we are two-faced laughing stocks.
Brutes with podiums. Surely damnable.

55 posted on 10/20/2004 8:27:21 PM PDT by Taiwan Bocks
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To: isthisnickcool

Why don't you tell that to those professors who generate tremendous incomes through consulting work or whom run their own businesses. Say like those at MIT, Stanford etc.

Contempt is a weakness one should never afford those one believes themselve to be opposed to.


56 posted on 10/20/2004 8:28:14 PM PDT by justshutupandtakeit (RATmedia will no longer control American politics if patriots have their way.)
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To: Endeavor

I'd like Columbia donor's seeing it followed by a news microphone put up to their face.


57 posted on 10/20/2004 8:29:06 PM PDT by Taiwan Bocks
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To: Mount Athos

Progressive Tolerance BTTT!


58 posted on 10/20/2004 8:30:17 PM PDT by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: Mount Athos
"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.

I'm shocked, shocked to learn that there's bigotry among the elitist intellectual morons at Columbia....
59 posted on 10/20/2004 8:30:54 PM PDT by Antoninus (Abortion; Euthanasia; Fetal Stem Cell Research; Human Cloning; Homo Marriage - NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

They are exceptions to the norm and they are likely much too busy to be doing the kinds of things described here.


60 posted on 10/20/2004 8:34:02 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Only dummies play poker with George W. Bush.)
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