Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

After Battle, Barnard Professor Al-Haj Given Tenure

http://www.nysun.com/article/65748 A Barnard College professor who argues in her scholarly work that archeological evidence has been manipulated to justify the existence of a modern Jewish state has been granted tenure following a heated battle, a source at the college said…

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News Analysis: What is a Hate Crime as 8 Swastikas Appear at George Washington University?

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/11/01/News/News-Analysis.What.Is.A.Hate.Crime-3071635.shtml Eight swastikas. Three locations. Eight days. For the second time in three weeks, Foggy Bottom is steeped in racial tension as the symbol of Nazism has appeared on two undergraduates’ doors and a fence near the GW Hospital. At…

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As George Washington University Debates Hate Crimes: Eighth Swastika Appears on Campus

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/11/01/News/An.Eighth.Swastika.Found.Overnight.In.Mitchell-3071634.shtml Media Credit: Ben Solomon University Police Department officers photograph a swastika on freshman Sarah Marshak’s Mitchell Hall door early Thursday morning. It was the sixth time the symbol has been found on her door. Media Credit: Ben Solomon More…

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Swastika Painted on Columbia Professor’s Door

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/education/01swastika.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print A swastika was found spray-painted on a Jewish professor’s office door yesterday morning at Teachers College at Columbia University, the second time in less than a month that one of the college’s professors has been the target of bias.…

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Middle Eastern Links: In Place of a Boycott…

http://student.independent.co.uk/university_life/article3113491.ece Last week, four British vice-chancellors visited Israel to strengthen ties with its universities and those in the Palestinian Territories. Could this win Britain new friends in the Middle East? Lucy Hodges reports When the university and college lecturers’ union,…

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“The Flagship of German-Israeli Research Cooperation”

http://www.dfg.de/en/news/press_releases/2007/press_release_2007_66.html Press Release No. 66 The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is increasing its commitment to cooperation between German and Israeli researchers. As of 1 January 2008, the DFG will be assuming responsibility for the German-Israeli Project Cooperation Programme…

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University: Seventh Swastika Not Yet Hate Crime

http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/29/News/University.Seventh.Swastika.Not.Yet.Hate.Crime-3066401.shtml The seventh swastika in one week appeared on campus Tuesday and the University is not classifying the spate of vandalism as a hate crime. Sarah Marshak, a Jewish freshman who also reports for The Hatchet, found the fifth swastika…

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Columbia: Two TC Professors Receive Anti-Semitic Materials

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/27744 Two Teachers College faculty members received “anti-Semitic materials” yesterday, according to an e-mail sent to TC students by Provost Tom James. In his message, James wrote that TC reported the incidents to the New York City Police Department and…

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