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To: LindyBill who wrote (99156)	2/7/2005 5:30:18 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793824

remember when he used to carry conservative flag... ?

To: LindyBill who wrote (99156)	2/7/2005 5:31:19 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793824

LGF - The Bias of Joseph Massad The pro-Palestinian activism of Columbia University assistant professor Joseph Massad is under scrutiny at the New York Sun: [$] Bias of Massad Is Being Noted in His Classes. In the fall semester, [sophomore Bari Weiss] was a student in Topics in Asian Civilization. Mr. Massad taught the second half and was responsible for covering a history of the Middle East from the beginnings of Islam to 20th-century Arab nationalism. “The course was supposed to be all about the Middle East,” Ms. Weiss said. “The amount of time he spent talking about Zionism or the Jewish nation or Jewish culture was inappropriate.” In previous semesters, Mr. Massad taught a seminar course on the Middle East conflict, but “under the duress of coercion and intimidation” he chose not to teach it this academic year, he wrote on his university Web site. One student who took the course in 2002, Deena Shanker, said Mr. Massad told her to leave the class if she persisted in denying that Israel committed atrocities against Palestinians. Mr. Massad, who refuses to speak to The New York Sun, has denied mistreating any students and has accused his critics of trying to censor his political views. According to three students’ course notes from Topics in Asian Civilization, including ones Ms. Weiss took, Mr. Massad in his lectures repeatedly likened Israel to apartheid South Africa, dismissed its legitimacy as a Jewish state, and almost never addressed human rights abuses in countries such as Iraq, Iran, and Syria. The other two students whose notes were obtained by the Sun did not want their names to be used in this article. “I was shocked knowing what was going on in the Middle East and the egregious human-rights violations that the professor either glossed over them or ignored them completely,” Ms. Weiss, 20, said. She is one of the students who have pressed Columbia to investigate the conduct of professors in the Middle East studies department. “In nearly all of his lectures, professor Massad found a way to denounce Israel and the West,” Ms. Weiss, who received an “A” for the course, said. “We were not presented with any material that argued that Zionism is not racist,” she said.