Middle East studies in the News

Deny Massad Tenure

by Candace de Russy
Phi Beta Cons (Blog of National Review Online)
April 27, 2009

http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWVkYjcxNTJhYjMzNjY2ZTk2ODBkMGY3MzQyNjk3YWQ=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7332

Prof. Joseph Massad — perhaps best known for kicking a student out of class for questioning his anti-Israel tirades — has compared Jews to Nazis and holds that a form of psychosis compels them to persecute Palestinians. Moreover, in Desiring Arabs, he accuses homosexuals of being anti-Arab conspirators.

The Daily News calls his scholarship "lunacy." Will Columbia's trustees agree and deny Massad tenure, thus drawing a line against the growing perception that the university is allowing politcial advocacy to trump academics?

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