Monday, September 17, 2007
Here's an event that seems a good response to "scholarship" like Abu El Haj's:
The Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel
I. What Biblical Archaeology Tells Us About the First Temple Period
Speaker: Alan F. Segal, PhD
Professor of Religion and Ingeborg Rennert Professor of Jewish Studies
Barnard College
Location: 304 Barnard Hall
Date: Monday, September 17, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm
Professor Segal's CV at the link. Sounds interesting if you're in the area.
Meanwhile, Anti-Racist Blog has a couple of good posts on Nadia's next scholarly pursuit: The Bad Genetics of Nadia Abu El Haj:
Zionists are engaged in a “desperate†search for Jewish genetic markers? Who knew?
Zionists like other Jews and, frankly, like most peoples of the world are intrigued by the new data genetics provides about the history of human populations. But “desperate†search undertaken to support an “investment in the racial separateness of the Jews.†I don’t think so.
There may be Jews who believe in “the racial separateness of the Jews,†though it’s hard to understand how. It’s pretty hard to believe in “the racial separateness of the Jews†when Israelis come in more colors than a Benetton commercial.
The person who actually is on a desperate search for Jewish genetic markers seems to be Nadia Abu El Haj. She has been working for the better part of a decade on her projected book about “Genetics, Jewish Origins and Historical Truths,†or, “Bearing the Mark of Israel? Genetics, Genealogy and the Quest for Jewish Origins,†as two of her lecture titles phrase it...
Nazi stuff. I'm telling you, Abu El Haj is destined to be Barnard/Columbia's Arthur Butz, but unlike Butz, who Northwestern prevents from discussing his theories in class (Butz teaches electrical engineering), El Haj will have free reign and an unassailable, paid platform.
Also: Nadia Abu el Haj and Junk DNA
Finally, here's a piece in the Columbia Spectator, discussing El Haj and Joseph Massad, written by a student who gets it: No More Tenure.
Update: Phil Orenstein has a thoughtful post on the issue, which ends with this challenge:
Update 2: An emailer writes in:
Interesting.
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She hates all the right people. She hates all the right movements. She's publishing all the right lies. Her shoddy scholarship is being used to discredit all the right groups. She's being criticized and challenged by all the right people and organizations (and she's being supported by all the right people and organizations).
Nor can Columbia use DePaul's lame excuse that her scholarly tone doesn't conform to the university's code of scholarly discourse, since for Columbia, the more strident, the more outrageous, the more hateful, the better.
She ought to be a shoo-in.
Fight the good fight dude, but don't get your hopes up.
Columbia U (of which Barnyard is a subsidiary) is run by jihadis, and the faculty is more worried about union type issues, such as making sure that their tenure committees are undisturbed by outside influences, than they are about the survival of western civilization. Of course, they are all LLLs in good standing on the Upper Left Side of Manhattan, and what they really want is to destroy bourgeois civilization through socialist revolution.
Before the long war is over we shall have to dismantle the universities like Henry VIII dismantled the monasteries. The useful pieces like the med schools and engine schools can be spun off. But the anthropologists, philosophers, and other parasites will have to learn about the really important questions in life, like: "Do you want fries with that?"
Further proof, as if any were needed, that Columbia U. is in the grips of jihadis:
On Monday, September 24th, 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will speak and participate in a question and answer session with university faculty and students at Columbia University's World Leaders Forum.
Read it and weep.
I hope some people raise the flag of the "Islamofascist Regime of iran",
and rip it to shreds (can't set it on fire due to FDNY regulations)
within view of the midget Sack of SHITler.