From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Lorna R. Marsden | Defend Free Speech at York University | 30 April 2004 Daniel Freeman-Maloy received the following letter on April 30, 2004. The envelope that contained it was post-marked for April 26, the letter itself dated for April 21. Comments by Freeman-Maloy are in square brackets. Dear Mr. Maloy, In the past year you have been involved in conduct that is unacceptable according to the standards of York University.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Eyal Press | The Nation | April 22, 2004 [from the May 10, 2004 issue] Daniel Pipes was a busy man in the days following September 11, 2001. The Philadelphia-based foreign policy analyst and commentator on terrorism and Islam first learned that planes had crashed into the World Trade Center when a local television producer called to invite him to the station for an interview.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) HAIM WATZMAN | Chronicle of Higher Education | 23 April 2004 Israel's minister of education, Limor Livnat, has announced that she will not participate in events at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev until the institution disciplines a member of its faculty who wrote that Israel is conducting a "symbolic genocide" of the Palestinian people. Lev Grinberg, a sociologist who is a senior lecturer in the behavioral-sciences department, wrote last month in La Libre Belgique, a Belgian daily newspaper, that "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anshel Pfeffer | Haaretz | 22 April 2004 Education Minister Limor Livnat is boycotting Ben-Gurion University of the Negev so long as it continues to employ political sociologist Prof. Lev Grinberg, she has told BGU President Prof. Avishai Braverman. Following the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, Grinberg wrote in an article that Israel was carrying out the "symbolic genocide of the Palestinian people.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ilil Shahar | Maariv | 7 April 2004 In an article published in a Belgian newspaper, Dr. Lev Greenberg of Ben-Gurion University labels Israel's actions "criminal" and calls on the world to stop Sharon immediately. "The murder of Sheikh Yassin is part of an Israeli policy that can be described as symbolic genocide". This claim was made by Ben-Gurion University professor Lev Greenberg in a recent article published in the Belgian daily 'La Libre Belgique'.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Collins Piper The Israeli lobby has launched an all-out drive to ensure congressional passage of a bill (approved by the House and now before a Senate committee) that would set up a virtual federal tribunal to investigate and monitor criticism of Israel on American college campuses. Ten months ago the New York-based Jewish Week newspaper claimed that the report by American Free Press that Republican members of the Senate were planning to crack down on college and university professors who were critical of Israel was "
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Polly Curtis | The Guardian | 11 March 2004 Academics at Birmingham University have condemned moves by the university authorities to ban 300 of their personal websites. The university's decision to stop hosting staff websites on university computers follows a series of controversies over links to allegedly anti-semitic content. As at many other universities, staff have been able to set up sites on a university server on any subject they like.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Anders Strindberg |The American Conservative | 2 February 2004 Congress threatens to cut off funding to collegiate Mideast Studies departments that refuse to toe the neocon line. Universities are no strangers to disagreement and debate. In fact, the process of argumentation has always been an important way for academics to sharpen theories and refine analyses—be it in biology, economics, or political science. Not so in the field of international studies, claim the intellectual cadres of the neoconservative movement, who have long been bitter about the under-representation of their worldview within academia.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michael Dobbs | Washington Post | 13 January 2004 When Rashid Khalidi took over the newly established Edward Said Chair of Middle East Studies at Columbia University last fall, the appointment was generally viewed as an academic coup for the school, which had succeeded in wooing away a prominent Middle East expert from the University of Chicago, a longtime rival. But Khalidi soon became the target of an Internet campaign that questioned his patriotism.
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Laurie King-Irani | In These Times | 11 December 2003 Already-strapped institutions of higher learning are facing an ideologically driven effort to limit funding for the study of cultures outside the United States. For nearly four decades, American universities have benefited from the U.S. Department of Education programs funded under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Title VI provides grants to nurture area and international studies centers and aims to create national resources for teaching foreign language and supporting research and training in international studies and world affairs.