Middle East studies in the News

Anti-Israel Prof Loses Post at Bard [on Joel Kovel, Pluto Press, "Overcoming Zionism"]

by Scott Jaschik
Inside Higher Ed
February 19, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/19/kovel

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6937

Joel Kovel — one of the more outspoken professorial critics of Israel on American college campuses — is out of his job at Bard College. This week Kovel sent a letter to all Bard faculty members denouncing the way he has been treated and charging that his politics cost him the position.

Others suggest, however, that Kovel was treated the way many non-tenured professors are being treated these days as colleges retrench — and that mixed student reviews of his organizational skills in the classroom may have hurt him more than his politics.

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