Make Every Word Count
The Ascent of Professor Abu El-Haj to a Lifetime Position at Barnard

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
November 6, 2007

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/232/make-every-word-count-the-ascent-of-professor-abu

Excerpt:

So, here I am, sipping my morning coffee and reading my first twenty (yes, twenty) hardcopy and online newspapers (I read double that amount by the end of the day–doesn't everyone?) when I read the brief New York Sun editorial titled "Colonizing Barnard". And HERE is the Columbia Spectator coverage.

Apparently, over the weekend, Barnard quietly (very quietly) granted tenure to Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj. There! Take that you Pushy Jews!

Abu El-Haj is the professor who allegedly claims that Jews and therefore Israel have no or little historical or archaeological ties to the land of Israel or to the Temple Mount. I am not familiar with her work. Perhaps she does not make this claim. Perhaps this false claim constitutes only a teensy weensy part of her work which members of the all-powerful Jewish Lobby have seized upon to defame an ideologically true daughter of the late but very far from great Professor Edward Said, also Columbia's own.

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