January 25, 2005

MADRASSA ON MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS

The distinct aroma of cowardice wafts over Low Library:

An Alumnus's Disgust With Columbia

By Robbie Majzner
January 24, 2005

"...I am disgusted with the Columbia community. I am not disgusted because of threats to academic freedom, or because students may feel harassed. What disgusts me is the silence of this community in response to a statement about Israelis made by MEALAC professor Hamid Dabashi in an article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram. The statement reads: “Half a century of systematic maiming and murdering of another people has left its deep marks on the faces of these people, the way they talk, the way they walk, the way they handle objects, the way they greet each other, the way they look at the world. There is an endemic prevarication to this machinery, a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture...”
See the rest here.