Columbia gives tenure to controversial Professor, Joseph Massad
by Jerry Gordon, The Iconoclast, June 29, 2009
controversial Columbia U. Prof. Joseph Massad
Massad’s appointment is not the first Columbia University tenure controversy. Last year we had another event, the tenure of Nadia Abu el Haj of the anthropology faculty at Barnard College. Abu El Haj had published a controversial book denying the ancient Jewish heritage and provenance of Israel. That was preceded by the appointment in 2005 of Rashid Khalidi to the Edward Said Chair of Middle East History endowed with significant Saudi money. Khalidi was a colleague of President Obama in his days as a junior Illinois Senator, when they were both on the faculty at the University of Chicago.
Massad, as the Gershman New York Post column points out, has bizarre views on Israel and gays. (Continue Reading this Article)
Interestingly such homophobic proclamations would ordinarily make one a pariah amongst leftist academia. But because Massad is an Arab who promotes the destuction of Israel, is anti-gay beliefs are just fine with them or to be ignored.