The New York Daily News reports that Columbia College would neither confirm nor deny reports that Joseph Massad, a ‘Palestinian’ professor who terrorized students in his classroom, has been granted tenure by the university.
Columbia would not confirm or deny AbuKhalil’s report.
How? By threatening to banish a student who had asked a question that challenged Massad’s Israel-is-evil point of view. “If you’re going to deny the atrocities being committed against Palestinians, then you can get out of my classroom,” he said.
On another occasion, Massad demanded that a student, a former Israeli soldier, tell him how many Palestinians he had killed.
Said to be a scholar of contemporary Arab politics and culture, Massad crosses into lunacy regarding Jews. In one article, he proclaimed that Jews are infected by a mass psychosis that drives them to persecute Palestinians, put Israel’s record on a par with Nazi mass murders and said Palestinians are the “real Jews” while Jews are the real anti-Semites.
For those of who wonder why Khaled Abu Toameh writes that American college campuses are more pro-Hamas than the ‘Palestinians’ themselves, mentors like Massad are a reason why.
As many of you know already, I am an alumnus of Columbia College. If Massad has been granted tenure, it’s disgraceful. Yesterday, I had an email from a college classmate who lives in Israel bemoaning the fact that for the second year in a row, no Israelis (or ‘Palestinians’ from the ‘Palestinian Authority’) were accepted to Columbia College.
Nevertheless, the steep descent of educational quality in Israel, measured in terms of acceptances at the primary Ivy League institutions, need sound an alarm for all concerned with prospects for the next generation. Japan, Korea, India, the UK, France, Italy, Argentina, Brasil, Canada, Australia and Switzerland all maintained prior levels of candidate acceptances or rose slightly.
