[Marxism] the politics of the academy?

["george snedeker" <snedekerg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    From: Eyad Kishawi <ekishawi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 20, 2007 10:35:24 PM PDT
To: Eyad Kishawi <ekishawi@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Stand up to Zionist Censors- Support Nadia Abu El Haj


A group of Barnard alumni have drafted an online petition to deny professor Abu 
El-Haj tenure because of her work examining the relationship between the 
discipline of archeology and the construction of Israeli nationalism.  Attached 
is an article in the Chronicle For Higher Education about it as well as a 
petition in support of professor Abu El-Haj. please forward widely.

PLEASE SIGN PETITION UNDER THIS LINK:  
http://www.petitiononline.com/Barnard2/petition.html





August 15, 2007


Alumni Group Seeks to Deny Tenure to Middle Eastern Scholar at Barnard College


Controversial research on Israel and the Palestinian territories has become the 
basis of yet another campaign to prevent a professor from winning tenure. A 
group of Barnard College alumni has drafted an online petition asking their 
alma mater to deny tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of 
anthropology whose scholarship, they say, is flawed and skewed against Israel.


The group's criticisms of Ms. Abu El-Haj focus on her book Facts on the Ground: 
Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society 
(University of Chicago Press, 2001), which argues that Israeli archaeologists 
have produced biased research that bolsters the "origin myth" of the Jewish 
state.


The petition, which has drawn just over 1,000 signatures, accuses Ms. Abu 
El-Haj of ignoring or mischaracterizing large parts of the archaeological 
record, of not being able to speak Hebrew, and of treating Israeli 
archaeologists unfairly in her work. 

The peti
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