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Bias at Columbia

Washington Times Editorial:

Many critics have already denounced Columbia University's "ad hoc" committee report investigating professor intimidation as a whitewash. It is clearly that. For the most part, the professors in the Ivy League university's Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures department (MEALAC) get off scot free. Even the New York Times had to concede that the report, commissioned by Columbia President Lee Bollinger, was "deeply unsatisfactory." We say this: The report exhibits a decay in academic freedom that surpasses even our already low opinion of the modern American university.
The central problem is bias, which the committee doesn't even pretend to address. Some might recall the Columbia professor who, in the lead-up to Iraq war, called for "a million Mogadishus" -- a reference to the 1993 massacre of U.S. troops in Somalia. As it turns out, this was just the beginning of a series of revelations of a deep-seated anti-American/anti-Israeli sentiment within the Columbia faculty, especially by members of MEALAC. As the New York Sun reported, MEALAC's chairman, Hamid Dabashi, wrote last fall that Israelis suffer from "a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture." A MEALAC professor who would later be accused of intimidation, Joseph Massad, allegedly had once told a class that it was the Israelis themselves who had killed the Israeli athletes held hostage in Munich in the 1972 Olympic Games.

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Columbia seemingly has no sympathy for "academic freedom," as it has been understood by Western Civilization for centuries. Whatever concern it does have about its own institutional bias extends only as far as to keep inquisitive alumni and journalists off its back. With apologies to Israelis, Mr. Bollinger's Columbia suffers from a radicalism that is "bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture."