Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Brady Dennis | The Hillsborough County Times | 3 May 2005 His lawyers, citing constant news coverage and bias among potential jurors, want the trial moved out of state. TAMPA – Attorneys for Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor accused of raising money for a Palestinian terrorist group, have asked a
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Chanakya Sethi | Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The potential appointment of a professor embroiled in the recent controversy over Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University has polarized some members of Princeton’s Jewish community. Last month, Wilson School professor and Center for Jewish Life (CJL) board member Stanley Katz wrote a sharply critical
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Daily Princetonian | 28 April 2005 The following email messages were sent between Stanley Katz, former CJL board president and Wilson School professor; Arlene Pedovitch ’80, interim CJL director; and Henry Farber, current CJL board president and economics professor; regarding comments made by Pedovitch to The Daily Princetonian. Copies of the messages were obtained
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Tamara Traubman | Haaretz | 26 April 2005 Haifa University President Aharon Ben-Ze’ev called on Dr. Ilan Pappe, a staff member who supports the academic boycott on Israeli universities, to tender his resignation. “It is fitting for someone who calls for a boycott of his university to apply the boycott himself,” Ben-Ze’ev said yesterday.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Jaschik | Inside Higher Ed News | 25 April 2005 A prominent professor of Middle Eastern studies at Columbia University is up for a professorship at Princeton University — and the controversy over his work and his views could follow him. Rashid Khalidi is currently the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and
» Read moreBy Eric Cheyfitz 17 December 2013, Forward Posted on www.monabaker.com Dec 19, 13 | 8:23 am On Sunday, the American Studies Association, of which I am a member, voted to support the academic boycott of Israel called for by Palestinian civil society. Included in their announcement of the vote are the statements of 13 scholars in support of the vote, among
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