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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (109652)4/16/2005 12:22:14 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793689
 
As for Said's influence on the department, I think that's terrific.


Even Columbia's report, where they got a few friends of the accused professors together in an inside job, whose scope was limited to classroom behavior and NOT questions of bias or academic freedom, had to admit that Joseph Massad had exceeded the bounds of classroom behavior in browbeating and intimidating students who questioned his "criticism" of Israel - that criticisim being that Israel has committed "atrocities" against the Palestinians and Israel is a "racist state" that should be destroyed.

Said's influence delegitimizes all who don't follow him as "Orientalists" and running dogs of colonialism, whose very act of studying the Mideast was patronizing. I'm glad you think this is wonderful legacy for academic freedom.

Naturally, only Said's critics can be called "political".
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