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Non-academic debate: COLUMBIA'S MIDDLE
EAST WAR [long]
Jerusalem Post ^
| 12-23-04
| URIEL HEILMAN
Posted on 12/24/2004 6:31:54 AM PST by SJackson
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:31:54 AM PST
by
SJackson
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.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:38:45 AM PST
by
SJackson
( Bush is as free as a bird, He is only accountable to history and God, Ra'anan Gissin)
To: SJackson
I'm glad I skipped college.
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posted on
12/24/2004 6:55:13 AM PST
by
SirLurkedalot
(Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!!!)
To: SJackson
But Pipes and others say that misses the point: It's not the number of professors studying Israel versus other areas, but the political orientation the professors bring to the classroom that matters.
"I'm not interested in having Israel studies; I'm interested in having balance in Israel studies," Pipes says. "Where it counts - diversity of opinion - it's locked down and it's one outlook."
Bingo, we have a winner.
Deena Shanker Gets an attaboy
ATTABOY!
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:05:23 AM PST
by
Valin
(Out Of My Mind; Back In Five Minutes)
To: SirLurkedalot
I went to college. Walked all over the campus and everything.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:06:48 AM PST
by
Valin
(Out Of My Mind; Back In Five Minutes)
To: Valin
As well as who pays them. In many cases these departments are Saudi funded.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:08:11 AM PST
by
SJackson
( Bush is as free as a bird, He is only accountable to history and God, Ra'anan Gissin)
To: SJackson
Muslim moonbat bullies of academia.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:08:25 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Help put the "Ch" back in Chanukah)
To: Valin
Back when I was a doper, UCSC had killer weed connections. Most likely still does.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:11:20 AM PST
by
SirLurkedalot
(Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!!!)
To: SJackson
Two Words:
Hidden Cameras
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:17:26 AM PST
by
Malsua
To: SJackson
In many cases these departments are Saudi funded.
Shocking news! But then I am so easily shocked.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:18:24 AM PST
by
Valin
(Out Of My Mind; Back In Five Minutes)
To: SJackson
"The Middle East is an area of enormous ignorance in American public life, an area of great misinformation," says Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia. "People in essence are trying to shut down the flow of information about an important part of the world. This ignorance only reinforces the status quo."
Same old sh!t. Once again it is the Americans that are ignorant. It is the Americans that have to "reach out" and understand these miserable Arabs scum and their American hating advocates, like Rashid Khalidi.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:20:19 AM PST
by
ghitma
(MeClaudius)
To: Malsua
Two more
Tape Recorder
The problem is so many of these professors have tenure. And it's so it's darn near impossible to get them fired.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:22:32 AM PST
by
Valin
(Out Of My Mind; Back In Five Minutes)
To: Valin
The problem is so many of these professors have tenure. And it's so it's darn near impossible to get them fired. Certainly is. However, video tape on the 6 o'clock news of a professor going apeshiznit on Jews/Isreal will send him packing inside of 72 hours.
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posted on
12/24/2004 7:26:39 AM PST
by
Malsua
To: SJackson
Parents should not send their kids to Columbia or similar universitites that discriminate against Jews, conservatives, Republicans, or anyone else. If you're a parent, make sure your child doesn't go there. If you're one of the alumni, don't contribute one dime. Write to your Congressmen and insist that Federal funding to Columbia and similar schools be stopped immediately. They preach "affirmative action" and "diversity", but they really want uniformity of political thought and behavior, just like Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, the terrorists, and the Neo-Commie DemoRats.
To: SlowBoat407; cyborg; Rodney King; Piranha; Pitiricus; Seeing More Clearly Now; lancer; Ohioan; ...
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posted on
12/24/2004 10:39:35 AM PST
by
rmlew
(Copperheads and Peaceniks beware! Sedition is a crime.)
To: rmlew
Thanks for the ping. Bolinger will only act in proportion to the intensity of public outcry. Hopefully they can pry these hateful anti-Israel bigots out of the system, but I won't hold my breath.
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posted on
12/24/2004 11:42:05 AM PST
by
rj45mis
To: rmlew
I was going to ping you, but it appears you're already here.
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posted on
12/24/2004 1:18:54 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
To: SJackson
And while the committee the university administration has appointed is charged with investigating only the latter charge, critics say the issue of anti-Israel bias at Columbia is the more important one. It's also the one more easily ascertained, given that eyewitness accounts of specific classroom incidents are subject to interpretation, sketchy recollections and lack of verifiable evidence.
I m not sure that is true. I think student and faculty intimidation, and bias in hiring in the first instance, may be the larger problems.
Massad agrees that the MEALAC department is unbalanced, but he believes it actually favors studying Israel. MEALAC, he says, is charged with covering one billion south Asians, 300 million Arabs, tens of millions of Turks, Iranians, Kurds and Armenians, and six million Israelis. To that end, MEALAC has devoted three full-time professors to cover Israel and Hebrew, four full-time professors to cover the Arab world, and two full-time professors to cover South Asia. The proportions hardly seem fair.
Thats like saying Israel is favored at the UN because most of the resolutions condemning countries are about them.
Two other organizations working on Academic Freedom are Students For Academic Freedom (David Horowitz)
FIRE
Both are pushing for something called the Academic Bill of Rights which would guarantee student academic rights at school. They have had a number of successes.
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posted on
12/24/2004 1:19:37 PM PST
by
dervish
(Europe can go to Islam)
To: foofoopowder
Parents should not send their kids to Columbia or similar universitites that discriminate against Jews, conservatives, Republicans, or anyone else. If you're a parent, make sure your child doesn't go there. If you're one of the alumni, don't contribute one dime. You are so right. Alumni should be focusing on that instead of donating to football programs. (nothing against the sport just priorities)
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posted on
12/24/2004 1:22:00 PM PST
by
dervish
(Europe can go to Islam)
To: Malsua; Valin
Hidden Cameras; Tape Recorders Laptops with webcams cover them both. Virtually undetectable if computers are allowed in the lecture.
Record them. Upload them. Expose them. Destroy them.
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posted on
12/24/2004 1:28:14 PM PST
by
10mm
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