Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Kay and Barry Grey | World Socialist Web Site | 9 April 2005 In its lead editorial on April 7 (“Intimidation at Columbia”), the New York Times issued an extraordinary attack on academic freedom, calling for Columbia University to crack down on professors who give “politicized courses.” The newspaper urged the university to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Liel Leibovitz | The Jewish Week | 8 April 2005 Columbia president says he’ll revamp procedures for student complaints; committee chair defends panel as Jewish students charge ‘whitewash.’ Reacting quickly to a Columbia University committee report which found little evidence that professors in the Middle East studies department had intimidated pro-Israel students but sharply

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Robin Finn | New York Times | 8 April 2005 IF intimidation, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, Joseph A. Massad, the Columbia University professor implicated last week by a faculty panel investigating charges of intimidation of students by pro-Palestinian professors, is apparently on his best behavior as he sits on

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Nathanial Popper | Forward | 1 April 2005 Urged on by conservative provocateur David Horowitz, lawmakers in several states are pushing legislation requiring unprecedented government oversight of teaching on college campuses. In Florida last week, a key legislative committee approved the so-called “Academic Bill of Rights” in an 8 to 2 vote. The decision

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Electronic Intifada | 5 April 2005 In late 2004, claims of intimidation in the department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) of Columbia University hit newspapers around the world after an unreleased documentary, “Columbia Unbecoming”, which purported to reveal incidences of intimidation and anti-Semitism in the classroom. The

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Russell Jacoby | The Nation | 16 March 2005 The Yale student did not like what he heard. Sociologists derided religion and economists damned corporations. One professor pre-emptively rejected the suggestion that “workers on public relief be denied the franchise.” “I propose, simply, to expose,” wrote the young author in a booklong denunciation, one

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Joseph Massad | Censoring Thought | 14 March 2005 I have prepared a statement to read to you. I would be happy to answer your questions afterwards. Before I begin, however, I want to ascertain that as Professor Katzneslson has informed me, the only complaints that your committee has heard about me are the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Baruch Kimmerling | Dissident Voice | 29 March 2005 In the American academy, there is currently an organized campaign by some public figures to vilify prominent researchers and departments that are regarded as “anti-American” or even as “anti-Semitic” because their research and teaching are not in accordance with the views of the recent American