Campus anti-Israel activists copy many of their arguments from Norman Finkelstein, a DePaul University political science professor who never forgets to mention that his parents were Holocaust survivors. Despite his trappings of scholarshop, Finkelstein's work has been marred by grave factual inaccuracies, omissions, and extreme bias.
Since the release last fall of the documentary film
Columbia Unbecoming in which students accused professors in the Middle
East studies department of academic intimidation, Columbia University has been
embroiled in a controversy which garnered international headlines.
In the wake of student allegations against Joseph Massad and the grave criticisms of him by Columbia's Ad Hoc Committee, the New York Times publishes a puff piece calling Massad "a fan of free speech."
