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7 Responses to “Barnard Alumni-Campus Watch Cabal Opposes Tenure for Abu El-Haj”

1. amir says:

   August 22, 2007 at 1:47 AM

   When you wrote a review for Dore Gold’s book at Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, did you add a disclaimer that you “had a clear ideological affiliation that prevented you from writing an objective academic analysis”? (This is not a rhetorical question since i did not see the review.)

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2. Richard Silverstein says:

   August 22, 2007 at 2:00 AM

   Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative

   No, it’s actually Ron Unz’s American Conservative. He’s the current owner. Though Pat Buchanan founded the magazine, he’s no longer affiliated with it in any way except that his name is on the masthead. Besides, I don’t believe that only conservatives should publish at conservative magazines or only progressives at progressive magazines. That sentences all of us to ideological ghettos in which we never see or read opinions that differ fr. our own.

   And I am not an academic nor is The American Conservative an academic magazine. It is a magazine about politics and I write about politics. Anyone who reads a review I write will not find me dissembling about my political affiliations or opinions as Joffe, Applebaum & Muir did in their reviews in academic periodicals.

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3. Beth Stuart says:

   August 22, 2007 at 11:22 AM

   I’ve seen tenure committees make some odd decisions but I’ve always been content to leave the decisions to the committees and not make those decisions vulnerable to outside pressure groups. I recall all too well when tenure decisions came under attack during the McCarthy era and I wouldn’t want to see that behavior repeated. The responsible parties at Barnard and Columbia should make their decision based on the merits of the case and not be subjected to political and financial blackmail.

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4. Anonymous says:

   August 24, 2007 at 6:12 AM

   [Comment deleted--this blog is not a promotion vehicle for Paula Stern's "journalism." Nor do guests at my blog get to call me a "moron" nor say "up yours." You can find plenty of other sites that will give you hugs and kisses for doing so.]

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5. Peter H says:

   August 24, 2007 at 11:07 AM

   Hugh Fitzgerald is a rabid Islam hater. He wrote a post last week in which he suggested expelling Muslims from Europe.
   http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/017779.php

   By the way, Campus Watch has a Hugh Fitzgerald essay on its front page. I’m curious to know if Campus Watch condones Fitzgerald’s views on Muslims and Islam. ,

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6. Sam Hardy says:

   September 10, 2007 at 10:20 AM

   To be fair to Fitzgerald, he does quote Abu el-Haj once: ‘El-Haj seems to think that the study of the Jewish past by Israeli archeologists… is an outrageous political act, an act of “Jewish settler-colonial nation state-building”‘. It’s out-of-context and untrue, but it is a quote.

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7. the greycat blog » Blog Archive » Nadia Abu El Haj: responses to tenure says:

   November 5, 2007 at 4:16 AM

   [...] Higher Ed has a report that strives for balance, although citing this hostile review, now discredited, does no-one any favours. Some positive comments from two former students of Nadia Abu El Haj can [...]

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