From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Censoring Thought | May 2005 Censoring Thought has obtained a letter, included below, signed by twenty former students of Professor Joseph Massad, stating that the claims made by Deena Shanker that Professor Massad told her to leave his class if she was going to deny Israeli atrocities are unequivocally false. The letter, sent to the Columbia administration, states in clear terms that the signers were in the class at the time, that the alleged incident never happened, and that the Ad Hoc Grievance Committee's findings regarding the event are incorrect.
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 federal judge to move the upcoming trial out of Florida. Citing the constant barrage of news coverage, the recent U.
From 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 email to Arlene Pedovitch ’80, the CJL interim director, about her previous public comments regarding Rashid Khalidi.
From 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 from The New York Sun. They are presented unedited, as received from the Sun.
From 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. Ben-Ze'ev said the university management would not boycott Pappe nor would it take disciplinary steps against him, because boycotts destroy academic freedom.
From 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 director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia. Many scholars in his field consider Khalidi an outstanding, influential scholar.