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Letter of Russian Jews to Leadership of the Jewish Community of Massachusetts
In full from Jewish Russian Telegraph. Looks like the Rabbis are outnumbered: We, undersigned members and representatives of the Russian Jewish community of Massachusetts, are writing to you to express our deep concerns about the state of affairs in our... Edit
Posted on June 29, 2010 7:48 PM
Columbia University: Joseph Massad Gets Tenure
Bir Zeit-on-Hudson is continuing to earn its name if this report by the Angry Arab is to be believed: Joseph Massad has tenure I have a message to all the Zionist hoodlums out there: for all of you who campaigned... Edit
Posted on April 8, 2009 1:04 PM
Even the Intellectuals
Here's a revealing piece at the LA Times on the retribution some Egyptian intellectual and cultural figures have faced from their peers just for treating their Israeli neighbors as human -- and not just Israeli, but Jewish neighbors as well,... Edit
Posted on December 16, 2008 2:10 PM
NGO Monitor: HRW Hires Another pro-Palestinian Activist
NGO Monitor: Human Rights Watch Hires Another pro-Palestinian Activist... Edit
Posted on October 31, 2008 9:27 PM
Martin Kramer: Are Columbia's Palestinians... Palestinian?
Martin Kramer has been inspired to write a piece following a remarkable radio interview given by Jane Kramer following the publication of her New Yorker piece (now available in PDF here) on the Nadia Abu El-Haj controversy (see previous: The... Edit
Posted on April 22, 2008 4:56 PM
The New Yorker Dances to Nadia's Tune
The New Yorker has published a lengthy history [link to abstract] of the Nadia Abu El-Haj controversy by Jane Kramer. Kramer does the dirty work of savaging the critics and giving El-Haj a more fawning history of events than she... Edit
Posted on April 16, 2008 8:51 PM
Israel to ask PA to repair Joseph's Tomb
Yeah, good luck with that. It's someone else's money anyway. Israel will ask the Palestinian Authority to repair Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, it was announced Sunday. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that he had instructed Defense Minister Ehud Barak to... Edit
Posted on February 3, 2008 11:12 AM
First Temple Seal Found in Jerusalem
More proof of text: A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archeological excavation... Edit
Posted on January 17, 2008 3:36 PM
The New 'New McCarthyism': Are Left-Wing Academics Being Persecuted?
This is a re-post of the piece I did for Pajamas Media a few weeks back. First linked to here. PJM posted it here. This was my original submitted text. Not sure if they made any changes. Joe McCarthy's been... Edit
Posted on December 3, 2007 6:58 PM
Nadia Abu El Haj and the Collapse of Standards
Shulamit Reinharz has a good piece in this week's Jewish Advocate that, while focusing on the Nadia Abu El-Haj matter, now decided, poses some interesting commentary on the Academy and its tenure decisions: Freedom or excellence in academe ...To my... Edit
Posted on November 29, 2007 4:07 PM
Boker tov, Boulder!: Academic Freedom ... or Anarchy?
Boker tov, Boulder!: Academic Freedom ... or Anarchy?... Edit
Posted on November 19, 2007 1:59 PM
Three-Parter on Nadia Abu El Haj
It's a little late, considering she's gotten tenure already, but Columbia's The Current has a three-parter on Nadia -- nary a one positive. In fact they're all quite good. The intro is here. David Rosen: Searching for "Facts" on the... Edit
Posted on November 17, 2007 2:55 PM
The El-Haj Saga Continues
Nadia's got tenure, and is back to signing political petitions, but the discussion continues. Ralph Harrington has another good piece at History News Network: Was Nadia Abu El Haj Treated Fairly? Worth reading in full for those following the debate.... Edit
Posted on November 12, 2007 10:41 PM
Columbia Faculty Angry at Bollinger for Being Rude to Ahmadinejad (Updated, Bumped)
The American campus is beyond parody: Bollinger's Backbone It speaks well of the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, that a group of left-wing or anti-Israel faculty members is now petitioning against him. In a letter obtained by The New York Sun's... Edit
Posted on November 12, 2007 10:00 PM
Fact-Based McCarthyism
Ami Isseroff has a wonderful series of posts on Nadia Abu El-Haj, including an exchange with The Nation's Larry Cohler-Esses regarding the charge of "McCarthyism." I couldn't improve on a word. Start here: Nadia Abu El Haj versus written history... Edit
Posted on November 9, 2007 10:39 AM
Colonizing Barnard
The New York Sun editorializes on the Nadia Abu El-Haj tenure decision:The news, coming over the weekend, that Barnard College has granted tenure to an anti-Israel anthropologist, Nadia Abu El-Haj, is a setback to those who had hoped that the... Edit
Posted on November 6, 2007 11:12 AM
Sources: Joseph Massad Denied Tenure
It looks like the rumor of a back room deal was true. Nadia Abu El Haj has been granted tenure and Joseph Massad has been denied. Columbia's MEALAC (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures) Department is said to be... Edit
Posted on November 1, 2007 7:17 PM
Sources: Nadia Abu El Haj Receives Tenure
That's what I've heard. Looks like we're about to move from a scholar who uses post-colonial theory to delegitimize Jewish nationalism to a scholar-in-residence who uses Jewish genetic theory to do the same thing. Let the circus games begin.... Edit
Posted on November 1, 2007 3:55 PM
New Nadia Abu El Haj Rumour
At the Columbia Spectator: Tenure Troubles ContinuedAccording to an anonymous source within the anthropology department, chairman Dr. Brinkley Messick is playing favorites with troubled tenure candidate, professor Nadia Abu El-Haj. Messick named Abu El-Haj, the unreachable, aloof, and controversial "scholar,"... Edit
Posted on October 30, 2007 12:03 PM
Nadia Abu El Haj and 'pure political fabrication'
The blogger at Greycat has chimed in on the "pure political fabrication" mini-controversy with regard to El Haj's book. He's...shudder...actually read the whole thing and agrees that she clearly said exactly what she's been characterized to have said:...This one may... Edit
Posted on October 25, 2007 1:59 PM
Academics Demand Freedom From Criticism
No in-group enjoys external oversight and comment. Academics are no exception: Inside Higher Ed: A Call to Defend Academic FreedomSaying that they are fed up with “aggressive incursion of partisan politics into universities’ hiring and tenure practices,” five prominent academics... Edit
Posted on October 23, 2007 3:11 PM
Nadia Abu El Haj and Quotes Out of Context...Not
First, the Forward reports on the series of academic lectures taking place at Columbia which are, while not explicitly so, clearly aimed at Abu El Haj's thesis: Archaeologists Challenge Barnard Professor’s ClaimsSecond, there has been some controversy as to whether... Edit
Posted on October 22, 2007 3:31 PM
Martin Peretz Picks Up the Nadia Abu El-Haj Meme
Marty Peretz posts about Barnard's Nadia: Another Columbia ControversyPoor Lee Bollinger, if anybody can have pity on him. Now he is confronted with the tenure process of Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of archeology at Barnard College, Columbia University.... Edit
Posted on October 9, 2007 9:13 PM
An Academic Response to Nadia Abu El Haj: Columbia Lecture Series
If you're in the New York area, this sounds very interesting: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East presents a lecture series, What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel At Columbia University. New York - The Columbia University chapter of... Edit
Posted on October 8, 2007 6:37 PM
More on Nadia Abu El Haj's Genetics
Excellent post at the Anti-Racist Blog: More Bad Genetic Scholarship from Nadia Abu El Haj...Ethnicity is a matter of culture and identity, not genetic ancestry. Most people, of course, share both their genes and their ethnicity with their grandparents, but... Edit
Posted on October 7, 2007 8:47 PM
Nadia Abu El Haj's Absurd "Scholarship" on Roman Jerusalem
[The following was written by my anonymous academic in response to a posting at a blog called "Human Rights Archaeology" (who knew?).] A blog called Human Rights Archaeology has attempted to deconstruct an old post on Nadia Abu El Haj’s... Edit
Posted on October 7, 2007 10:29 AM
Jim Davila Reviews Facts on the Ground
Jim Davila at the always interesting PaleoJudaica blog has finally gotten to reviewing Nadia Abu El Haj's book. He finds some sections of interest, but on the whole I'd say he is "dispassionately" negative:While discussing the problem of looting in... Edit
Posted on October 1, 2007 4:03 PM
The Scholars Are Out in Force Today Over Abu El-Haj
Two good ones in today's Columbia Spectator. First, Barnard Professor Alan F. Segal does a dispassionate examination of Nadia Abu El Haj's work: Some Professional Observations on the Controversy about Nadia Abu El-Haj’s First Book. Lengthy, in-depth, measured in tone.... Edit
Posted on September 21, 2007 2:39 PM
Ahmadinejad to Columbia...and Columbia's Nazi Connection (Updates)
By now you're aware that Columbia U has honored the Iranian schmuck by inviting him to address the students because no view is too disreputable to be excluded. Does Columbia really need to see this in person: Iranian President Mahmoud... Edit
Posted on September 20, 2007 3:30 PM
Nadia in the News
Wow, Barnard's Nadia Abu El Haj has certainly been making a name for herself, all without saying a word. Here are a few new links. Judith has two good posts on the subject: The Times spins for Nadia al-Haj and... Edit
Posted on September 19, 2007 3:43 PM
Columbia Spectator on the Abu El Haj Controversy
The Columbia Spectator has a couple of good pieces on the El Haj controversy today. First, The Trouble With Tenure, by Chris Kulawik, which discusses both El Haj and Joseph Massad: ...Such abstraction in a discipline as evidentially and methodologically... Edit
Posted on September 18, 2007 11:25 AM
Nadia Abu El Haj - The Thesis is Not Like the Book by Emmet Trueman
Defenders of Nadia Abu El Haj’s qualifications to receive tenure at Columbia often argue that her book, Facts on the Ground, is based on her PhD thesis, and work that merited a PhD from Duke must be sound. What they... Edit
Posted on September 18, 2007 10:13 AM
What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel...and Barnard's Future Butz (2 Updates)
Here's an event that seems a good response to "scholarship" like Abu El Haj's: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East presents The Underground Lecture Series: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel I. What Biblical Archaeology Tells Us About... Edit
Posted on September 17, 2007 2:08 PM
Barnard Running Cover for Abu El Haj
Thought this was potentially interesting. Nadia Abu El Haj's email on her personal page at Barnard has been replaced with this message: To contact Professor Abu El-Haj, please call or email our faculty administrator, Scott Michener. Phone: 212-854-9389 Email: smichene@barnard.edu... Edit
Posted on September 12, 2007 5:37 PM
NY Times Picks up the El Haj Controversy (Updated)
The Times has picked up on the Nadia Abu El Haj controversy and the petition against her tenure: Fracas Erupts Over Book on Mideast by a Barnard Professor Seeking Tenure An emailer tells me that since the article appeared, the... Edit
Posted on September 10, 2007 1:48 PM
Sifting through the signatures
I was bored and started flipping through the signatures on the "Grant Nadia Abu El-Haj Tenure" petition. My comments are in the brackets. Affiliations noted if noted by the petition signatory (most don't): #1010 rula krikorian: "I am sure if... Edit
Posted on August 31, 2007 4:11 PM
JTA: Barnard prof's critics launch Web site
JTA: Barnard prof's critics launch Web site... Edit
Posted on August 31, 2007 9:37 AM
Nadia Abu El Haj: Facts about a Tenure Decision Gone Wrong
There is now a web site dedicated to the Nadia Abu El Haj tenure business at Barnard/Columbia: Facts about a Tenure Decision Gone Wrong. The petition to deny tenure to El Haj is here. Bloggers could perhaps consider linking them.... Edit
Posted on August 29, 2007 8:20 PM
You want our money and our respect, you have to take our opinions, too
Via the comment thread to David Meir-Levy's review of El Haj's book, I thought this comment by Norman Levitt at the Chronicle of Higher Ed's blog was so good I've lifted it in full (our own Noga's comment wasn't bad... Edit
Posted on August 22, 2007 9:28 PM
Does Nadia Speak Hebrew?
Seems to be the question of the moment. Paula Stern has a round-up of links and quotes on the question of Nadia Abu El-Haj's mastery (or lack thereof) of the language. Also, Candace de Russy mentions the rumor that Barnard... Edit
Posted on August 20, 2007 9:03 PM
Academics Have Their Interests, the Rest of Us Have Ours...
...they should overlap, one would think, but sometimes the light of day is difficult to deal with. When academia starts rewarding people who reject evidence-based scholarship, we all have an interest. Lynn has a good post on the El Haj... Edit
Posted on August 15, 2007 9:56 PM
Nadia Abu El Haj: Petition, donor threats on prof puts spotlight back on Columbia
The controversy has reached the JTA in an article by Ben Harris: NEW YORK (JTA) -- A brewing battle over tenure for a polarizing Barnard College professor is threatening to thrust Columbia University back into the center of a controversy... Edit
Posted on August 15, 2007 2:38 PM
David Meir-Levy: 'Facts on the Ground' - Nadia Abu el-Haj’s new salvo in the Arab propaganda war against Israel
The following review, written by David Meir-Levy, of Nadia Abu El Haj's book was forwarded to me. I present it here in full. “Facts on the Ground†- Nadia Abu el-Haj’s new salvo in the Arab propaganda war against Israel.... Edit
Posted on August 14, 2007 2:59 PM
El Haj in the News
Arutz 7 has picked up on the Nadia Abu El Haj petition: Barnard Grad Heads Protest against Anti-Semitic Prof. (IsraelNN.com) Israeli writer and Barnard College graduate Paula Stern has begun a petition against the permanent appointment of a Muslim anthropologist,... Edit
Posted on August 9, 2007 2:16 PM
Petition to Deny Nadia Abu El-Haj Tenure
Here. As concerned alumni and friends of Barnard and Columbia, we urge you to deny tenure to Nadia Abu El Haj, a professor of anthropology whose claim to scholarly recognition is based on a single, profoundly flawed book. In "Facts... Edit
Posted on August 7, 2007 3:18 PM
Joseph Massad and Nadia Abu El Haj at Columbia / Barnard
The Joseph Massad and Nadia Abu El Haj cases present an interesting question: Should alumni, donors, and taxpayers - in the case of public institutions - have a voice in university hiring decisions? Granted, the two cases are different. Joseph... Edit
Posted on July 27, 2007 4:26 PM
Truth, lies and tenure at Barnard
And here's more El Haj commentary, from this week's Jewish Advocate [there's an editing error here as Reinharz refers to the piece by Hugh Fitzgerald without introducing him first...you'll see -- article not blockquoted for readability]: Truth, lies and tenure... Edit
Posted on July 27, 2007 1:34 PM
Is Columbia Doing the Backroom Shuffle with Massad and El Haj?
What's going on in Lee Bollinger's office? Are they doing the calculations on who they can cut -- Joseph Massad and/or Nadia Abu El Haj? I hear El Haj comes from money, not sure about Massad. That could figure in... Edit
Posted on July 27, 2007 1:11 PM
Using Death Threats to Stifle Criticism – of Nadia Abu El Haj
The death threat is emerging as a popular weapon in the effort to silence defenders not only of Israel, but of evidence-based scholarship. Not actual death threats. No, the tactic... Edit
Posted on June 12, 2007 6:25 PM
Threats? Proof please.
On Monday, I linked to an email exchange between Phil Orenstein and Barnard President Judith Shapiro concerning the tenure bid of Barnard Wakademic, Nadia Abu El-Haj. There was a sentence... Edit
Posted on May 30, 2007 3:08 PM
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