Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) DOUGLAS FEIDEN | New York Daily News | 21 November 2004 Special Report: Columbia is at risk of becoming a poison Ivy, some critics claim, and tensions are high. In classrooms, teach-ins, interviews and published works, dozens of academics are said to be promoting an I-hate-Israel agenda, embracing the ugliest of Arab propaganda, and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Collins Piper | AmericanFreePress net | 19 March 2004 The Israeli lobby has launched an all-out drive to ensure congressional passage of a bill, approved by the House and now before a Senate committee that would set up a federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses. Ten

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ASSOCIATED PRESS | ASSOCIATED PRESS | 14 November 2004 TAMPA – A federal judge has granted a request to delay the trial of a former professor suspected of terrorist ties, in part because of the publicity over Sami Al-Arian during the U.S. Senate race, as well as the amount of evidence in the case.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Professor Andrew Rubin, Georgetown University | Email circular | 9 November 2004 An Open Letter to Congressman Weiner, I met you in the Spring of 1988 when you were the friend of a classmate of mine in college. Years have passed since then. You are no longer Senator Charles Schumer’s Legislative Aid, but a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Monique Dols | Electronic Intifada | 5 November 2004 Over the past several weeks, claims of intimidation in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) of Columbia University have hit newspapers around the world. Accusations of one-sidedness and anti-Americanism abound. It is all based on a previously unreleased film Columbia

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed | 28 March 2005 Both Ward Churchill and one of his legislative critics compared the University of Colorado to an asylum this weekend — showing that the debate over the controversial professor has not been put to rest by a university review released Thursday. Churchill says that the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) KAREN W. ARENSON | The New York Times | 31 March 2005 An ad hoc faculty committee charged with investigating complaints that pro-Israel Jewish students were harassed by pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia University said it had found one instance in which a professor “exceeded commonly accepted bounds” of behavior when he became angry at

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) KAREN W. ARENSON | New York Times | 24 March 2005 Faced with complaints that Columbia University has tolerated anti-Semitism and intimidation in its Middle East studies classes, Columbia’s president said last night that academic freedom has some limits when it comes to the classroom and the broader educational experience. “We should not elevate

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Toby Muse | Times Higher Education Supplement | 25 March 2005 The experience of a history professor refused entry to the US under new anti-terror laws is a blow to all those who support the free exchange of ideas, says Toby Muse Early in 2004, Dora Maria Tellez, a heroine of Nicaragua’s Sandinista revolution

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) CNN | CNN.COM | 18 March 2005 BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — Stacks of papers sit on a sun-drenched table in the home of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, some full of praise and others full of dark threats and unprintable insults. In one message, liberal scholar Noam Chomsky calls Churchill’s achievements of inestimable