Comments on: Another tenure denial campaign by Israel activists? http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/another-tenure-denial-campaign-by-israel-activists/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:34:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Peter H http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/another-tenure-denial-campaign-by-israel-activists/#comment-388887 Peter H Fri, 17 Aug 2007 21:03:23 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/alumni-group-seeks-to-deny-tenure-to-middle-eastern-scholar-at-barnardcollege-chroniclecom/#comment-388887 There's a discussion of the charges against El-Haj <a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/08/17/rightist-jewish-campaign-to-deny-nadia-abu-el-haj-tenure/" rel="nofollow">here</a>: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/08/17/rightist-jewish-campaign-to-deny-nadia-abu-el-haj-tenure/ There’s a discussion of the charges against El-Haj here:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/08/17/rightist-jewish-campaign-to-deny-nadia-abu-el-haj-tenure/

]]> By: Sonali http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/another-tenure-denial-campaign-by-israel-activists/#comment-388876 Sonali Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:14:41 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/alumni-group-seeks-to-deny-tenure-to-middle-eastern-scholar-at-barnardcollege-chroniclecom/#comment-388876 Here's the academic riposte: note that she has the support of all the leading lights of Mideast studies, speaking of peer review. http://www.petitiononline.com/Barnard2/petition.html Here’s the academic riposte: note that she has the support of all the leading lights of Mideast studies, speaking of peer review.

http://www.petitiononline.com/Barnard2/petition.html

]]> By: SP http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/another-tenure-denial-campaign-by-israel-activists/#comment-388875 SP Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:46:51 +0000 http://arabist.net/archives/2007/08/17/alumni-group-seeks-to-deny-tenure-to-middle-eastern-scholar-at-barnardcollege-chroniclecom/#comment-388875 She's not even a controversial or terribly politically visible academic like Finkelstein. And apparently her peer and teaching reviews are good (I suppose Dershowitz wouldn't know what "peer review" means, as a lawyer he's probably just used to winning by shouting people down and smearing them). They haven't got a leg to stand on. There's a counter-petition circulating among academics, with some interesting comments. She’s not even a controversial or terribly politically visible academic like Finkelstein. And apparently her peer and teaching reviews are good (I suppose Dershowitz wouldn’t know what “peer review” means, as a lawyer he’s probably just used to winning by shouting people down and smearing them). They haven’t got a leg to stand on. There’s a counter-petition circulating among academics, with some interesting comments.

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