Saturday, January 26, 2008
Captain Underpants Flies Again: Academic Freedom Conference at DePaul
Marathon Pundit brings news of a gathering of the persecuted at DePaul University (former digs of Norman Finkelstein): Ignorance is strength: Free speech at DePaul University. It'll be an all-star lineup of poor, persecuted wretches (thanks to MP for many of the links):
Sara Roy ('Gone native' in Gaza with Hamas)
As'ad Abukhalil (the 'Angry Arab!')
Bill Ayers (former Weather Underground leader)
Ken Butigan (Apparently boring)
Juan Cole (You know who)
Marc Ellis (on the board of both the anti-Semitic Deir Yassin Remembered and Tikkun. Exploring a Jewish version of Liberation Theology. 'nuff said)
Scott Hibbard (Who?)
Robert Jensen ("God condemn America, so the world might live.")
Joel Kovel (Zionism? He's so over it.)
Marcy Newman ('Former Jew' winging in from Lebanon. Captain Underpants!)
Peter Novick (Finkelstein defender)
Quite an invitation list! What's the matter? Wasn't Arthur Butz available? And, more seriously, what about DePaul's own Thomas Klocek? Marathon Pundit notes that it is, in fact, DePaul itself that booted its only conservative member of its "Free Speech and Expression Task Force." Seriously. (Much more on that at MP.)
Enjoy the show. Be sure to pick up a program on the way in.
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