RE: [Marxism] Rashid Khalidi banned from teacher training program

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Would an academic critic of South Africa's apartheid system in the 1980s
have been treated so shabbily in the US? American and liberal academia's
silence in the face of the Israeli occupiers' all too obvious systematic
violence is a disgrace and amounts to complicity in my view.

> Chronicle of Higher Education, Tuesday, February 22, 2005

> Columbia U. Professor, Criticized for Views on Israel, Is Banned From
> Teacher-Training Program
> By BROCK READ

> The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab
> studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training
> program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of
> Israel.

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