| Topic: |
Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"can_o_worms" |
| Date: |
23 Nov 2006 01:38:02 PM |
| Object: |
McCarthyite anti Arab campaign by Zionide neoCONs in academia |
This blog excerpt is from Juan Cole's excellent
website : Informed Comment at www.juancole.com
partial excerpt from Juan Cole's site:
There is also a McCarthyite and frankly racist campaign
being waged by far rightwing Zionist groups in the
United States to corrupt the academic hiring and
tenuring process.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/21/disputes
Yellowbellied or corrupt academic administrators who
bow to it should be thrown out by their outraged
faculties.
Pennsylvania's legislature was conned by the Neocon
master of Disinformation and the Big Lie, David
Horowitz, into wasting taxpayer money to investigate
if professors mistreat their students because of the
latter's politics.
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/16067641.htm
The commission found that such instances are "rare"
and that nothing further need be done. D'oh. There is
not any way to know how students vote, and why would
you bring that in to grading their paper on Moliere's
plays? Pennsylvania voters should consider whether
Rep. Gibson C. Armstrong, R-Lancaster, deserves to sit
in their legislature if he is going to waste their
hard-earned money on these silly wild goose chases.
Isn't there a Pennsylvania (or better, Lancaster)
bloggers' network that can bring Armstrong's record in
this regard before the public? [Ooops, see the
comments. The good people of Pennsylvania have
already dumped him in favor of someone who can think
straight!].
Mark Lynch discusses issues in academic blogging (the
rightwing reaction to which has often threatened
academic careers and freedom of speech), in the course
of commenting on a blogging panel at the Middle East
Studies Association this weekend in Boston.
http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/11/mesa_blogging_p.html
Participants included Lynch, Josh Landis of Syria
Comment,
http://www.joshualandis.com/blog/
and Helena Cobban of Just World News,
http://justworldnews.org/
as well as As'ad AbuKhalil,
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
Leila Hudson (no longer blogging?) and myself(Juan Cole)
http://www.juancole.com/
The general tone of the participants' comments
suggested that academic blogging has severe drawbacks
and, with regard to Middle East bloggers, has not
produced a 'second generation' after the crop of 2002.
One reason in my view is that academics who blog on the
Middle East are relentlessly harassed and cyberstalked
by Likudnik crazies and other sorts of wingnut. You
have to have very thick skin and, I think, you have to
just not care about the career ladder or social
climbing of other sorts to risk it. In my case, I think
it helped to have been an army brat. You're always
being transferred to another base and you can't count
on friendships lasting very long, so you just become
self-reliant. And, of course, the ethos of the army
encourages you to stand up to bullies. But I take Mark
Lynch's point that it isn't everyone's cup of tea.
There is something wrong with our society if simply
sharing one's expertise for free is actually punished.
We should do something about that.
(end of excerpt)
http://www.juancole.com/
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Juan cole suggest that one way to fight the Right's
stifling of free speech in academia is to contribute
to MESA:
The Middle East Studies Association
Since the association's founding in 1966, MESA has
promoted scholarship on and teaching about the Middle
East. A contribution to the general fund helps
guarantee that the association will continue these
activities into the future. General fund support
strengthens MESA's ability to advocate for our
profession and our fields; it permits us to undertake
new projects, increase our outreach efforts and improve
service to our members and to the public. A
financially strong MESA is vital to the field of
Middle East studies.
http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/Forms/support.htm
--
Did you know ?...Juan Cole's appointment as head
of Yale's department of Middle Eastern studies
was recently nixed by the Israel Lobby.
War for hearts and minds in academia rages on.
Juan Cole's website :
http://www.juancole.com/
.
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