So this is how Columbia University recompenses for its antisemetic, historically inaccurate, America hating MEALAC? Any jew that gives to this Israeli chair at Columbia deserves to be flogged in the public square..............sheesh
hat tip: campus watach
Searching for Israel in All the Wrong Places. Last month, Columbia University announced with much fanfare that it would establish a chair of
Israel studies. Four generous trustees threw in $3 million to make it happen—and
to help extricate the university from its crisis. Michael Stanislawski, a professor of Jewish history, will
conduct the search. The New York Sun reported
today that the search committee has been formed. When the reporter read me the
names, I burst out laughing.
by Martin
Kramer
MartinKramer.org
http://www.geocities.com/martinkramerorg/2005_04_29.htm
The committee includes Ira Katznelson, chair of the ad hoc (a.k.a. "whitewash") committee that investigated student grievances; Dan
Miron, a long-suffering Hebrew lit professor in the Middle East department;
and Karen Barkey, an authority on the Ottoman empire. So far,
reasonable.
But then add this to the mix: Rashid Khalidi, the ubiquitous Edward Said Professor; and
lesser-known Lila Abu-Lughod, a Palestinian American anthropologist and signer and supporter of Columbia's divestment petition. Abu-Lughod, who's
writing a book on the Palestinian experience in 1948, has just published a
longing letter to the departed Professor Said. "I sit here on the
earthen terrace with the sunset warming the pharaonic temple across the field,
wondering how to carry on your work. The first step, I know, is to keep talking
about Palestine."
The inclusion of Khalidi and Abu-Lughod on the search
committee is perverse. Edward Said used to complain that the Palestinians needed
"permission to narrate" their story. At Columbia, the situation is reversed:
Israel can't be narrated without the permission of the great Palestinian
mandarins. They must be appeased, satisfied, propitiated.
