Category: Legacy Site

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

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubmann, Haaretz Correspondent | Haaretz | 11 August 2007 The High Court of Justice on Tuesday rejected a petition by a group of Palestinian students from Gaza against Israel’s policy of barring students from the Gaza Strip from studying in the West Bank, even when there is no evidence that they pose a

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Rebecca Spence | Forward (Jewish Daily) | 1 June 2007 Britain’s largest teachers union voted this week to press forward with a proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions, setting the stage for a bitter struggle to reverse the decision. The University and College Union, representing more than 120,000 college-level educators, voted May 30 to

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) ANNIE SHUPPY | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 26 September 2006 The U.S. State Department has again denied a visa to Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss Muslim scholar who gave up a teaching appointment at the University of Notre Dame two years ago after he was first barred from residing and working in the