After Israeli boycott, Columbia U. cancels meet on Mideast

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Haaretz Daily | 26 January 2005 Columbia University President Lee Bollinger informed Israel’s consul general in New York, Arie Meckel, on Wednesday that a university-sponsored conference, “Revisiting the Middle East Peace Process,” scheduled to have taken place on Thursday, was postponed indefinitely. The conference was postponed due to heavy pressure by

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Mideast Tensions Are Getting Personal on Campus at Columbia

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) N. R. KLEINFIELD | The New York Times | 18 January 2005 As students resume classes at Columbia University today after their winter break, they will face the telltale summonses of college life: Go to class, surf the Internet, sleep, pursue romance, sleep. And a new one: Testify about the alleged misconduct of their

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Columbia’s Own Middle East War

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jennifer Senior | New York Metro | 17 January 2005 A new documentary accusing Arab professors of intimidating Jewish students has touched off a fierce war—of words—on the Upper West Side. Where does free speech end and bullying begin? Of all the political documentaries that have ignited controversy in the past year,Columbia Unbecoming is

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'Genocide' big word at London anti-Israel academic conference

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ATARAH HABER | The Jerusalem Post | 7 December 2004 An international conference entitled “Resisting Israeli Apartheid,” held at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London on Sunday, was predictably nothing more than a “one-sided rant against Israel,” Gavin Gross, chairman of the SOAS Jewish Society told The Jerusalem

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Students Speak Up to Defend MEALAC

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liz Fink | Columbia Spectator | 8 December 2004 Press Conference Yesterday Offered First Highly Visible Student Response to Attacks in Columbia Unbecoming One month after the controversial release of Columbia Unbecoming, pro-Israel students aren’t the only ones claiming they are being harassed and intimidated. A group of approximately 50 students, faculty, community members,

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What is…'proactive translatology?'

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Oliver Kamm | The Times Online | 4 December 2004 ALL SCHOLARLY disciplines have jargon. Specialist terms are mocked by populists, but they can be a useful shorthand. They are not a target of this series on buzzwords. Deliberate obscurity cultivated for the appearance of profundity is another matter. The attractions of obscurity are

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Defend Academic Freedom at Columbia University – Press Release

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee | 24 November 2004 ADC expresses its deep concern over increased attempts to silence free speech and academic freedom at Columbia University. Professor Joseph Massad, an untenured junior faculty member in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) has been the target of

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