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1. Manning Marable, director of the African-American studies program and professor of history. In theory a revolutionary socialist, in practice a cultivator of resentments and fanner of racial hostility. He is a friend and defender of some of the most disreputable elements in black politics, such as Sharpton and Farrakhan.
2. Edward Said, professor of comparative literature. A member of the Palestinian National Council, he is the PLO's ranking Jane Austen expert. He has apparently lied for years about his life story, claiming a background of oppression and displacement at the hands of the Israelis when he actually grew up in the lap of luxury among Cairo's elite. He is unable to decide whether he hates America or Israel more. He recently quit the PLO for being too moderate. As a homosexual, it is unlikely he will find a happy home in Hamas.
3. Eric Foner, professor of American History, is that rare antique, an unrepentant Stalinist. In his head, the Berlin Wall never fell and socialism's 80 million victims died for a good cause. He helped run the union organizing drive against Columbia from his office in the History Department. When not furthering the cause of proleterian revolution, he summers on Martha's Vineyard.
4. David Dinkins, professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, was the failed mayor who preceeded Giuliani. Under his administration, crime and welfare were up, economic growth was down, and people questioned whether New York had a future. Now he teaches the same old liberal nostrums to a new generation of gullible students, proving the truth of the old saying: Them that can't do, teach.
5. Anders Stephanson of the History Department, who once claimed that "democracy is debauched consumerism," that Pres. Reagan's foreign policy was guided by the Book of Revelations, that the PLO never engaged in terrorism, that America was guided by the Scriptures during the era of Manifest Destiny to engage in massive genocide and ethnic cleansing, and that America shouldn't fight terrorism b/c it does not know the meaning of the word (the truth being known only to the august prof). And Prof. Stephanson teaches "History of US Foreign Relations" at SIPA.
6. Joseph Massad of the Middle Eastern department. According to reliable source, Prof. Massad has openly supported Islamist terrorism against Israel, including suicide bombings of civilians. In his class on Israeli-Palestinian politics, Massad openly engages in conspiracy theories, teaching students about the connections between Nazis, Rothchilds, international bankers, and a host of other nefarious characters (such as the Freemasons or the Knights Templars) to dispossess Palestinians of their land and make them permanent victims of Western colonialism and imperialism. From what I hear, his behavior behooves that of a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and not that of a published academic. Massad has also come close to belittling, if not denying the Holocaust outright.
7. Hamid Dabashi, a specialist on Iran, compared Israel's military maneuvers in Jenin (to prevent future suicide bombings) with the Nazi Holocaust. When one student protested his canceling class to attend a rabidly anti-Israel sit-in, he sneeringly replied, "I apologize if canceling our class in solidarity with [Palestinian] victims of a genocide . . . inconvenienced you."
8. Nicholas De Genova, an assistant professor of anthropology, called at a pro-Saddam "peace" rally on Columbia's campus for "a million Mogadishus" and the slaughter of American soldiers. His further statements were so outrageous that Columbia president Lee Bollinger had to make not one but two public statements distancing the university from his ideas.
