SwiftVets.com

[SBD]

The Kerry Campaign has no shame as is evident in their Lesson Plan they provided to teachers during the campaign. I know that the current situation at major universities is alarming to say the least, but to start indoctrination at the Elementary school level is too much.

I decided to download every PDF that is available from John Kerry's website to archive in case they are needed for comparison with Kerry's future seared memories. There are over 400 PDF's that I indexed so they can be searched. I stumbled upon "Lesson 1" doing a search for the word Vietnam which returned over 85 references including "Lesson 1".

If you would like to read it, you can download it at
http://66.135.39.97/lesson_i.pdf

Here's an excerpt with missing puncuation and a runon sentence to boot

While John Kerry was a student at Yale the United States was involved in the controversial Vietnam War. This was a war that divided the nation but as he was graduating from Yale, John Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, "it was the right thing to do." He believed that “to whom much is given, much is required.”

Try not to get too sick while trying to control your anger.

I wonder how many teachers gave this lesson??

They have no shame,

SBD

[LewWaters]

It's too bad that they don't include many of his other claims about Vietnam. Such as, he didn't want to get involved in it at all and protesting it was the better thing to do.

When you try to build a legend, even a false one, the first thing you need do is to deliver the same message, over and over, not change it every other day.
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[MSeeger]

However many teachers gave such a lesson, I sincerely hope that they also gave one on George W. Bush. I can see where this would come up, this being an election year.

I just hope that teachers who did use this lesson plan also did their research and fleshed it out. The problem that I have is that it would have been difficult for me to present this material in a fair and objective manner, knowing what I know about this man now.

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

[DLI78]

Kerry volunteered to serve in Vietnam, because, as he later said, "it was the right thing to do."

I think I just set some kind of record: laughing and hurling at the same time.

What a maroon! I can just picture him gazing into his mirror and saying, "my precioussssss."
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DLI 78
Army Linguist
1978-1986

[GIaunt]

Kerry volunteered for the Naval Reserves to avoid being drafted when he was denied a 5th (4th ??) deferment....

This is not volunteering to go to VietNam....

- you'd think he could keep that much straight....


Also, I believe that parents have more influence on what politics there children adhere to, than their teachers, if we talk to our kids about it....

Not that I'm a perfect parent... far from it.... just ask my teen agers...
but when they've had homework that includes opinion papers, debate preparation, or any civics classes, I have always tried to discuss both sides of the issues being discussed. I freely tell them my opinion, but I also want them to think for themselves and look at other points of view.


The death penalty has REALLY been beaten up at our house....

[scotty61]

It was the right thing to do. In Kerry's perspective it was if you needed it on your political resume'. That is why, in his mind, the VVAW and Winter Soldier were also the right thing to do.
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[Mother]

I'm moving portions of a post of mine to this subject, and adding to it, because I was able to find a link I was looking for to expand this discussion. Before you read this, you must know that two the the "boys" involved in my post- announced yesterday with smirks on their face, they're going to the inaguration..."Oh, you have tickets?" I asked. "No. "We're going to be a part of the righteous protest", they replied, with a fist in the air. I've allowed them to hang around just to find out how deep this goes, but my patience is done. I've been working on a volunteer basis for 13 years with NCLB principles, very deeply involved in the schools. Teachers, you may know, are heavily democratic.
Houston, we don't have a problem- we've had one for years. I'll stop. I feel a fit coming on. : ) I could write a book about this stuff.

http://www2.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=137562&highlight=#137562
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:07 pm
Post subject: MSM Exagerating and Lying about Marines AGAIN...

Also, I'm in a red state, but interestingly every male in our high school that I've spoken with thinks Kerry is wonderful and Bush is evil. Do you think it's could be that way because many of them are in history classes with a well documented Democrat or with a hippie turned Marine who didn't think we should go to Afghanistan? Gee. Let me guess.

One of them comes from a successful Afghani refugee family, who saw the Taliban writing on the wall. He might be seeing the light, though, as he appeared at our Veteran's Day service. Last night a couple of them were over and wanted to tell me all about the evil Karl Rove. I responded by asking them if they knew who George Soros is. They had no clue. I told them I was glad they hadn't been able to vote in this election because I considered it a crime to do so with that little bit of one sided information and then filled them in. It's usually a screaming debate when these boys come over. A few days after the election I told them no more political talk here. My oldest is three weeks and counting to Parris Island. It's not good for him or the younger one, a senior.

Interestingly, there's a movement out there somewhere to legally halt political grandstanding in colleges and high schools. Don't think that the red zones are secure.

Ok. Here's the link. Wonderful link.
http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/
Students for Academic Freedom
You can't get a god education if they're only telling you half the story

And then I found this to compliment your reading. By the way, anybody see the basketball brawl in Michigan on today's news? Hmmm. Looked like somebody told them there was a Republican in the crowd.

Michigan State University
The State News www.statenews.com
3/3/04
Site aims for political balance
Professors' views contested by some

By EMILY BINGHAM

The State News

A Web site launched by a student group at the University of Colorado at Boulder followed by proposed legislation are the most recent efforts in a growing trend to keep the personal political views of professors out of the classroom at public universities.

The Web site, set up by the CU-Boulder College Republicans, has a form for students to register complaints about incidents of political bias in classrooms. Only a few days after the site's launch, a Colorado lawmaker introduced legislation that would require public institutions to provide outlets for students to challenge discrimination because of their political beliefs.

While there haven't been any similar efforts yet at MSU, some still feel that it is an issue worth shedding light on.

"A lot of professors use their classes as a bully pulpit," said Tim Phelps, first vice chair for the MSU College Republicans. "You don't want to go to your (Integrative Studies in Biological Science) class and hear a half-hour lecture about how Bush is the next Hitler."

Sherman Garnett, dean of MSU's James Madison College, said politics can have a place in the classroom as long as they are discussed in a manner that makes everyone comfortable to voice opinions.

"I think the line between teaching and politics is sometimes blurred," he said. "There's an academic responsibility here; if you're going to teach controversial things, do it in a way that you're open to challenge."

Those close to the issue said that it's not an attack on personal beliefs.

"It's not necessarily the fact that some professors are excessively liberal," said Brett Johnson, former state chairman of the Colorado Federation of College Republicans. "The message is more the fact that there is a lack of views portrayed on the other side."

Students for Academic Freedom, a national organization started by conservative activist David Horowitz in an effort to protect students from discrimination based on political views, works with the CU-College Republicans.

"It's an issue a lot of students can identify with," said Sara Dogan, Students for Academic Freedom's national campus director. "Either they, personally, or friends of theirs have experienced this."

Students for Academic Freedom's popularity is growing through media coverage of issues such as the CU-College Republicans' Web site. Dogan said the organization already has 110 chapters on campuses across the country.

But some students, such as journalism freshman Leeann Thill, don't think political bias is a big problem on campus.

"I've never really run into that," she said. "I don't really have a problem with that as long as it doesn't distract from lessons."

[Mother]

Academy removes Christian banner
'I am a member of Team Jesus Christ'
Saturday, November 20, 2004 Posted: 9:18 PM EST (0218 GMT)
cnn.com

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado (AP) -- The Air Force Academy's longtime football coach has agreed to remove a Christian banner from the team's locker room after school administrators announced they would do more to fight religious intolerance.

Coach Fisher DeBerry agreed Friday to remove the banner, which displayed the "Competitor's Creed," including the lines "I am a Christian first and last ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ."

DeBerry put the banner up Wednesday to encourage the team, which has experienced one of its worst seasons in recent years, academy spokesman Lt. Col. Laurent Fox said.

A day earlier, academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa announced the school would do more religious tolerance training after some nonreligious cadets reported on a survey that they felt ostracized. Others reported hearing religious slurs or jokes.

Outgoing Air Force Secretary James Roche issued a statement Friday backing the academy's effort. "Our policy is clear. Tolerance of gender, racial, ethnic and religious diversity is required at our Air Force," Roche said.

In September, academy officials issued a memo explaining the government's e-mail policy after some staffers put biblical verses at the bottom of their e-mails. Some cadets were admonished in March for using academy e-mail accounts to encourage other people to see "The Passion of the Christ," Mel Gibson's movie about the crucifixion.

[MSeeger]

Why is it only the Christians who are being singled out here?

Religous tolerance my eye!

Maria
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Gal. 6:7

[SBD]

Jihad at San Francisco State
By Lee Kaplan
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 8, 2004

Chris Finarelli could barely believe his own eyes last Wednesday. As Vice President of the College Republican Club at San Francisco State University, Finarelli showed up at the student union building that morning to help table and distribute literature to solicit new club members after President Bush’s victory the previous election day. What he found was a noisy and menacing mob of over 300 Palestinian, Arab, Muslim and radical leftist students surrounding his club’s table being held back by 13 San Francisco State police officers. The police officers were forced to surround the CR’s table both in front and in back in order to protect the conservative students’ safety.

The previous Monday, the day before the election, the CR’s were physically attacked while handing out Bush/Cheney materials in the University’s Malcolm X Plaza. On that day, Victor Traycey, one of the members of the conservative club, was slapped by Nala Gardizi, an Arab woman student who was part of an entourage led by four Palestinian women who accused the conservative students of being responsible for the “murder of Palestinian babies” due to their support for President Bush. In addition, food was thrown at the Republican college students and drinks poured over the campaign materials on their table. Gardizi harangued Victor Traycey that day and even called him “a Nazi,” according to eye-witness reports.

Lee Wolf, another College Republicans member, described one of the women on Monday as shouting, “The only way we can defeat you is to kill as many as possible! I’d rather die a suicide bomber’s death than to call myself an American!” He continued, “In my opinion, these were terrorist threats.”

On Wednesday, Gardizi was back. “She was ranting that 9/11 was the fault of the United States,” according to Finarelli.

The General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) at S.F. State was staging this noisy demonstration on Wednesday as a follow-up to their Monday afternoon attack on the conservative students by calling for the complete removal of the Republican Club from the SFSU campus. Flyers were even distributed all over campus that bore inscriptions such as “Don’t Let the College Republicans Commit Racism and Bigotry Against Arab Women.”

Other flyers claimed that the College Republican Club was run by “bigots and racists.”

SFSU President Robert Corrigan took no action against the GUPS or individual students involved in Monday’s assault despite police eye-witnesses and even photographs of the perpetrators. Nor were the GUPS told not interfere with the ability of the College Republicans to exercise their rights of free speech. In fact, during the earlier attack on Monday, the police asked the College Republicans if they would leave rather than arresting their attackers.



“They were all around us wearing black and white keffiyahs like Arafat wears,” said Finarelli about Wednesday’s latest assault.

Derek Wray, another member of the CR’s, commented that people had been spying on meetings of the College Republicans for weeks prior to the election and questioned if what was happening had not been planned in advance to remove the conservative group from the campus. He mentioned that his chapter of the College Republicans was on one of the most radicalized campuses in America. Lee Wolfe commented that the demonstrators all had new PLO flags that were neatly folded and unused, as if they had just been brought for a specific purpose.

“We don’t even deal with the Israel/Palestinian dispute that much in our discussions and materials,” Wray said. “We don’t even have any Jewish members as far as I know, although we do promote a conservative political agenda.” Wray also told me how a female member of the College Republicans received a threat during the demonstration. “Watch what happens when the police aren’t around, b---h!” he said someone menaced.

“We’re going to the police again to ask for protection. They say they’re going to have another demonstration and drive us off campus.”

Another member of the SFSU College Republicans who was present at the demonstrations also told me he has received death threats since the incident and wished to remain anonymous out of fear.

Finarelli further described what happened: “At one point, one student jumped up on an adjacent table and shouted, ‘We’re going to gather thousands of people and show them what we’re all about!’ And then he directed a remark at a campus police officer by shouting, ‘Did you hear that, you f---ing pig!?’” Students were urged to strike by not attending classes and marched around campus seeking to increase their numbers. “But they never got into the thousands like they said they would. At least by marching they gave us a bit of a breather,” Wolf said.

Ellen Griffin, a media spokeswoman for SFSU, described Wednesday’s demonstration as an “unauthorized event” that occurred spontaneously on the campus. She also claimed the GUPS maintained they were not involved in Monday’s attack. A call by this reporter to the GUPS office on campus went unanswered. An additional call to Nala Gardizi only netted an answering machine.

Other descriptions of signs carried at the “spontaneous” event bore such inscriptions as

“Zionism is Hitler,” “Bush is Hitler,” “Racists and Murderers Off Campus,” “Republicans Off Campus,” and also “RepubliKKKans Off Campus.”

Although the GUPS were supposedly present at this demonstration and denied culpability for the earlier attacks on the CR’s, they offered no condemnation of such attacks. They were also joined by radical activists from groups like Students Against War and International Answer.



When I asked Ellen Griffin for a membership list of the GUPS to identify members by photos taken at the scene, she maintained the University does not have full membership lists of clubs on campus, only of officers. However, Finarelli maintains the University has such lists, that they are required to instate any clubs and that the GUPS have a permanent office in the student union that requires such a list to allow for entry.

Campus President Robert Corrigan has a lackluster reputation for meting out discipline to the GUPS despite an earlier attack on Jewish students during a pro-Israel rally at SFSU when the off campus city police needed to be called in to protect Jewish students and escort them to safety. Corrigan did suspend the GUPS for one year, but did not require them to relinquish their office on campus to other active campus student groups. In addition, a Jewish student, Tatiana Menaker, was equally “disciplined” by the administration for responding to her tormentors. Her punishment, as signed off on by Corrigan’s administration, was 40 hours of community service, but it stipulated that no such public service could be performed for Jewish organizations. Ellen Griffin told this reporter that Victor Traycey, one of the College Republicans, although he was slapped by Ms.Gardizi, would also be facing the same disciplinary hearing and potential punishment as his attacker despite his being the victim of a physical assault. Such disciplinary procedures can harm a student’s academic career.

Ms. Gardizi filed a police report in which she alleged she was attacked by Traycey; however, several witnesses at the scene say they saw Ms.Gardizi instigate the violence and the police report says she had to be restrained and removed by the other three Arab women who approached the table. Both Traycey and Gardizi declined to press any criminal charges.

Calls to President Corrigan and Campus Police Chief Kimberly Wible for comments were both referred to Ellen Griffin’s office.

Lee Kaplan

This is what Conservatives face on todays college campus!!

SBD

[Mother]

Found this yesterday in my eastern NC newspaper, then found the link to various articles reprinted everywhere on Google:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&tab=nn&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4626484,00.html

Here's one from England already. I have inserted portions from the article I found in my paper The Daily Reflector, Greenville NC:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4626484,00.html
Teacher Suspended for Showing Moore Film
Friday November 19, 2004 11:46 PM
By PAUL NOWELL
Associated Press Writer
SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) - A community college instructor who was suspended for showing ``Fahrenheit 9/11'' in class the week before the presidential election (*says he is unapologetic and believes he should be able to teach as he sees fit,) is offering no apologies and says he was unfairly punished. (*My paper)


Davis March showed the Michael Moore documentary critical of President Bush to his film class. Administrators pulled the plug on the movie with about 20 minutes left when March tried to show it to English composition students.
(My paper: "The Michael Moore documentary, which criticizes President Bush's actions regarding the Sept. 11 attacks, was shown in its entirety to March's film class, and administrators pulled the plug with about 20 minutes left when he tried to show it to an English composition class.")

``This story is now about academic freedom ... the movie is ancient history,'' said March, who served a four-day suspension and returned Nov. 2 to Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, about 45 miles northeast of Charlotte.

School officials said March disobeyed orders by refusing to meet with administrators before showing the film, but March said no edict to seek permission had been issued.

``If I'm wrong about this, I've been wrong my entire career,'' said March, 54, who has taught at the school for two decades. ``If I backed down, how could I go back into the classroom and face my students?''

(My paper: "The confrontation has become a major topic of discussion on this campus 45 miles northeast of Charlotte, where students are divided over the film and the school's response.")

('As a college instructor, I think he should be expected to know that he needs to show both sides of an issue,' said 29-year-old Christina Helm, who's husband is serving in the armed forces in Iraq.)

(But Bret Fernald, 24, said he believed March was well within his consitutional rights in showing the movie.)

('It's a freedom-of-speech issue,' he said. 'If you can't discuss this kind of thing on a college campus, then where can you talk about it?')

The school's executive vice president, Ann Hovey, said the board of trustees has a clear policy of nonpartisanship regarding political issues. She said college President Richard Brownell has issued several memos on the topic.

One dated Oct. 25 stated that college employees may not use ``the classroom or college environment as a platform to promote their own personal, religious or political views or to advocate for specific political candidates.''

Hovey said March asked school officials in August if he could send out fliers promoting a screening of Moore's movie. The school rejected that request.

``He was insistent about wanting to show it before the election, which implied some possible political intent,'' Hovey said. She said March erred by not also presenting an opposing view to the film.

``We are not about trying to suppress critical thinking or academic thought,'' she said. ``But if you are trying to promote critical thinking, then both sides need to be presented.''

Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education described the school's actions as deplorable.

``It's true the university cannot endorse a candidate, but the distinction of what a university professor can do is increasingly getting blurred,'' he said.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2004


The last paragraph of the article in my paper is also different:
"Every so often we see a new trend of censorship rearing its strange little head," he said. "This is been absolutely devastating to political free speech. It's true the university cannot endorese a candidate, but the distrinction of what a university professor can do is increasingly getting blurred."

Oh, and by the way, John Edwards is moving to a newly built house on land purchased in Chapel Hill. Hmmm. Wonder if he plans to teach?

[Anker-Klanker]

[JimRobson]

Excuse me, but isn't Berkeley the home of "Free Speech"

http://www.jofreeman.com/sixtiesprotest/berkeley.htm
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http://www.thewebplace.com/

[SBD]

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Hate 101
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/254925p-218295c.html
By DOUGLAS FEIDEN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, November 21st, 2004

It's a capital of "thuggery" - a "ghastly state of racism and apartheid" - and it "must be dismantled."
A voice from America's crackpot fringe? Actually, Dabashi is a tenured professor and department chairman at Columbia University. And his views have resonated and been echoed in other areas of the university.

Columbia is at risk of becoming a poison Ivy, some critics claim, and tensions are high.

In classrooms, teach-ins, interviews and published works, dozens of academics are said to be promoting an I-hate-Israel agenda, embracing the ugliest of Arab propaganda, and teaching that Zionism is the root of all evil in the Mideast.

In three weeks of interviews, numerous students told the Daily News they face harassment, threats and ridicule merely for defending the right of Israel to survive.

And the university itself is holding investigations into the alleged intimidation.

Dabashi has achieved academic stardom: professor of Iranian studies; chairman of the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department; past head of a panel that administers Columbia's core curriculum.

The 53-year-old, Iranian-born scholar has said CNN should be held accountable for "war crimes" for one-sided coverage of Sept. 11, 2001. He doubts the existence of Al Qaeda and questions the role of Osama Bin Laden in the attacks.

Dabashi did not return calls.

In September in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, he wrote, "What they call Israel is no mere military state. A subsumed militarism, a systemic mendacity with an ingrained violence constitutional to the very fusion of its fabric, has penetrated the deepest corners of what these people have to call their soul."

After the showing of a student-made documentary about faculty bias and bullying that targets Jewish students, six or seven swastikas were found carved in a Butler Library bathroom last month.

Then after a screening of the film, "Columbia Unbecoming," produced by the David Project, a pro-Israel group in Boston, one student denounced another as a "Zionist fascist scum," witnesses said.

On Oct. 27, Columbia announced it would probe alleged intimidation and improve procedures for students to file grievances.

"Is the climate hostile to free expression?" asked Alan Brinkley, the university provost. "I don't believe it is, but we're investigating to find out."

But one student on College Walk described the campus as a "republic of fear." Another branded the Middle East and Asian languages and cultures department the "department of dishonesty."

A third described how she was once "humiliated in front of an entire class."

Deena Shanker, a Mideast and Asian studies major, remains an admirer of the department. But she says she will never forget the day she asked Joseph Massad, a professor of modern Arab politics, if Israel gives warnings before bombing certain buildings so residents could flee.

"Instead of answering my question, Massad exploded," she said. "He told me if I was going to 'deny the atrocities' committed against the Palestinians, I could get out of his class."

"Professorial power is being abused," said Ariel Beery, a senior who is student president in the School of General Studies, but stresses he's speaking only for himself.

"Students are being bullied because of their identities, ideologies, religions and national origins," Beery said.

Added Noah Liben, another senior, "Debate is being stifled. Students are being silenced in their own classrooms."

Said Brinkley: If a professor taught the "Earth was flat or there was no Holocaust," Columbia might intervene in the classroom. "But we don't tell faculty they can't express strong, or even offensive opinions."

Yet even some faculty members say they fear social ostracism and career consequences if they're viewed as too pro-Israel, and that many have been cowed or shamed into silence.

One apparently unafraid is Dan Miron, a professor of Hebrew literature and holder of a prestigious endowed chair.

He said scores of Jewish students - about one a week - have trooped into his office to complain about bias in the classroom.

"Students tell me they've been browbeaten, humiliated and treated disrespectfully for daring to challenge the idea that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish nation," he said.

"They say they've been told Israeli soldiers routinely rape Palestinian women and commit other atrocities, and that Zionism is racism and the root of all evil."

One yardstick of the anti-Israel sentiment among professors, critics say, is the 106 faculty signatures on a petition last year that called for Columbia to sell its holdings in all firms that conduct business with Israel's military.

Noting that the divestment campaign compared Israel to South Africa during the apartheid era, Columbia President Lee Bollinger termed it "grotesque and offensive."

That didn't stop 12 Mideast and Asian studies professors - almost half the department - and 21 anthropology teachers from signing on, a review of the petition shows.

To identify the Columbia faculty with the most strongly anti-Israel views, The News spoke to numerous teachers and students, including some who took their courses; reviewed interviews and published works, and examined Web sites that report their public speeches and statements, including the online archives of the Columbia Spectator, the student newspaper.

Their views could be dismissed as academic fodder if they weren't so incendiary.


Columbia's firebrands

In the world of Hamid Dabashi, supporters of Israel are "warmongers" and "Gestapo apparatchiks."

The Jewish homeland is "nothing more than a military base for the rising predatory empire of the United States."


Nicholas De Genova, who teaches anthropology and Latino studies. The Chronicle of Higher Education calls him "the most hated professor in America."
At an anti-war teach-in last year, he said he wished for a "million Mogadishus," referring to the slaughter of U.S. troops in Somalia in 1993.

"U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white supremacy," he added.

De Genova has also said, "The heritage of the victims of the Holocaust belongs to the Palestinian people. ... Israel has no claim to the heritage of the Holocaust."

De Genova didn't return calls.


Bruce Robbins, a professor of English and comparative literature.
In a speech backing divestment, he said, "The Israeli government has no right to the sufferings of the Holocaust."

Elaborating, Robbins told The News he believes Israel has a right to exist, but he thinks the country has "betrayed the memory of the Holocaust."


Joseph Massad, who is a tenure-track professor of Arab politics. Students and faculty interviewed by The News consistently claimed that the Jordanian-born Palestinian is the most controversial, and vitriolic, professor on campus.
"How many Palestinians have you killed?" he allegedly asked one student, Tomy Schoenfeld, an Israeli military veteran, and then refused to answer his questions.

To Massad, CNN star Wolf Blitzer is "Ze'ev Blitzer," which is the byline Blitzer used in the 1980s, when he wrote for Hebrew papers but hasn't used since.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon can be likened to Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, he once declared.

"The Jews are not a nation," he said in one speech. "The Jewish state is a racist state that does not have a right to exist."

Massad didn't return several calls. On his Web site, he says he's a victim of a "witch hunt" by "pro-Israel groups" and their "propaganda machine."


George Saliba, a professor of Arabic and Islamic science. His classroom rants against the West are legendary, students have claimed.
One student says his "Islam & Western Science" class could be called "Why the West is Evil." Another writes that his "Intro to Islamic Civilization" often serves as a forum to "rail against evil America."

A recent graduate, Lindsay Shrier, said Saliba told her, "You have no claim to the land of Israel ... no voice in this debate. You have green eyes, you're not a true Semite. I have brown eyes, I'm a true Semite."

Saliba did not return calls.


Rashid Khalidi, who is the Edward Said professor of Arab studies. He's the academic heir to the late Said, a professor who famously threw a stone from Lebanon at an Israeli guard booth.
Columbia initially refused to say how the chair was funded. But The United Arab Emirates, which denies the Holocaust on state TV channels, is reported to have provided $200,000.

When Palestinians in a Ramallah police station lynched two Israeli reservists in 2000 - throwing one body out a window and proudly displaying bloodstained hands - the professor attacked the media, not the killers.

He complained about "inflammatory headlines" in a Chicago Sun-Times story and called the paper's then-owner, Conrad Black, who also owned the Jerusalem Post, "the most extreme Zionist in public life."

Reached at Columbia, Khalidi declined to comment on specifics.

"As somebody who has a body of work, written six books and won many awards, the only fair thing to do is look at the entire body of work, not take quotes out of context," he said.


Lila Abu-Lughod, a professor of anthropology, romanticizes Birzeit University in the West Bank as a "liberal arts college dedicated to teaching and research in the same spirit as U.S. colleges."
But it is well-established that Birzeit also is the campus where Hamas openly recruits suicide bombers, stone-throwers and gunmen.

As in her published works, Abu-Lughod gave a carefully nuanced response when reached Friday by The News:

"The CIA has historically recruited at Columbia, but that's not the mission of Columbia. The mission of Birzeit is to educate students, and they're working under very difficult circumstances to do that."

SBD

[d19thdoc]

Mother quoted: