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Times Minimizes Anti-Jewish Attacks By Academics

Today's New York Times has a long article by Patrick D. Healy about Hamilton College's belated cancellation of a lecture by Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who wrote that the victims of 9/11 deserved their fate.

The piece refers to other campus controversies, including the current Columbia investigation into its Middle East department, as well as Harvard's 2002 invitation (later rescinded) to Tom Paulin, an anti-Semitic "poet."

The Times' description of both the Columbia situation and the invitation to Paulin minimizes both situations to an absurd extent.

With respect to Columbia, Healy writes: "a Columbia University faculty panel is now investigating remarks by some pro-Palestinian professors that offended some Jewish students." As for Paulin, he states that "in 2002, Harvard College's English Department canceled a campus reading by a poet who had once referred in verse to the Israeli Army as a "Zionist SS." and had criticized American-born Jewish settlers."

In fact, Paulin told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, that American-born settlers "should be shot dead." Needless to say, even by Times standards, this is quite different from mere criticism.

At Columbia, the issue is not that "some Jewish students" were "offended" by "remarks" of professors. Rather, the charges are that several professors verbally attacked and intimidated pro-Israel students, including, an alleged incident in which instead of responding to a student's question, a professor asked the student, who had stated that he served in the IDF, "How many Palestinians have you killed?" Another student alleges that her questions were ridiculed and she was directed to leave the class, while in another incident, a student defending Israel against a professor's charges that it committed a massacre in Jenin was shouted down by the professor, who stated, "I will not have anyone sit through this class and deny Israeli atrocities."
posted on 2/02/2005