Sunday, November 28, 2004
I'll be attending the showing of the David Project's film, "Columbia Unbecoming."
Here's the notice I got:
SUNDAY Nov 28th @ 7:00 PM at TI
The New England Premiere Screening
Columbia Unbecoming
A David Project film about the hostile learning environment at Columbia University
Columbia Unbecoming features interviews with Jewish students at Columbia University on how professors in the school’s Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Culture (MEALAC) department have created an atmosphere hostile to academic freedom inside and outside the classroom. The emotional testimony of Jewish students at Columbia shines a light on the growing anti-Israel atmosphere on American campuses. In the documentary, American Jews and Israelis studying at Columbia recount being silenced and intimidated by professors and classmates for holding views to sympathetic to Israel or simply for being Jewish.
Featured in the film is Columbia Univ. student NOAH LIBEN who will lead a discussion following the screening.
Previous post on the film is here: Are things so bad?
Also, see this NY Daily News article: Hate 101 - Climate of hate rocks Columbia University
Update after the event: Here's the report.
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I read about this in Friday's Jerusalem Post. Wish I could find a web site of Jewish students at Columbia. They should make use of the web site Caravan for Democracy (www.caravanfordemocracy.org) They shouldn't let those professors intimidate them so much. I know who they are - I marched with them back in the 60's against the War in Vietnam. They used academic studies as a deferment against going to Vietnam and they never left their Ivory Tower. They are knee-jerk liberals who don't know how to think for themselves. And how they can align themselves with people who stand diametricaly opposed to everything they stand for (rights for homosexuals, abortion, feminism, etc.) I do not understand! They have made a pact with the devil.
Thanks for your comment. Looks like an interesting site. Take a look at my report on the event and at the end you'll find a link to Columbia's Jewish Student PAC.