ENEMIES IN OUR UNIVERSITIES

The education one is exposed to is very important, particularly in an individual’s formative years. The seeds planted in the student form the person they become. Teachers can have a profound impact on a pupil’s opinions.


There are instructors in our universities who have exhibited strong opinions in favor of our mortal enemies, such as Hamas, Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated in its own words to "eliminating and destroying Western civilization.”


When teaching, these instructors are known to present their personal opinions even when it is clearly outside of the course’s venue. Some have been linked with Jihadists groups.


Columbia University seems to have a preponderance of instructors who seem highly biased toward the Arab world and/or against the USA, Israel and Jews. There is Hamid Dabash, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature, who was reported by a student as saying “If I was going to deny the atrocities' committed against the Palestinians, I could get out of his class." Then Joseph Massad allegedly asked one student, Tony Schoenfeld, an Israeli military veteran, "How many Palestinians have you killed? Students of George Saliba, have reported he rants against the west. Students say his class could be called "Why the West is Evil."

As far back as 1981 the “Christian Monitor” reported that Rashid Khalidi, professor of Arab Studies, at Columbia, served on the PLO "guidance committee." Rashid was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982. More recently he asserted that Israel's government "refused to negotiate" with the Palestinian Authority when, in reality, Israel has formally negotiated with the PA since 1993.

On September 24, 2009 “Front Page Magazine” noted that Norman Finkelstein has been a faculty member at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College and New York University. When he was recruited by DePaul University he had been fired from two teaching jobs (NYU and Hunter College) because of his lack of substantive scholarship and his obsessive rants against Jews and Israel. In June 2007, Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul.
In April 2006 Sami al-Arian, a former tenured associate professor at the University of South Florida, plead guilty to laundering money for a Palestinian Jihad group, as reported by Reuters News agency. Sami was also the North American head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and active in the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Wayne State University professor, Thomas Abowd, is known for his anti-Israeli ideology. Mr. Abowd was the only Wayne State professor to speak at a 2008 rally organized by the anti-Israel/anti-America group ARA, (whose members openly praised Hezbollah.

Gabriel Piterberg, a professor at UCLA, called an Israeli action into Gaza an "Israeli onslaught on Gaza Palestinians" and labeled IDF soldiers "war criminals.

Michael Rubin, editor of the’ Middle East Quarterly’ reported that Juan Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan, calls Israel "the most dangerous regime in the Middle East." Cole’s recurring theme is that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee effectively controls Congress.




There are other similarly inclined professors such Joel Beinen at Stanford University, John Esposito at Georgetown University and William O. Beenam at the University of Minnesota. Many such professors, at least verbally, support the Jihadist terrorists and their tactics which include suicide bombing.

What good is it that you learn what undue pressure non-Muslim students are subjected to? It is to give you a good reason to voice your opinion to our political leaders. If you are an alumnus of a university make sure you voice your concern to school authorities. It is our responsibility to be heard and protect our children’s future.