Columbia Profs Sign Petition Supporting Intifada-Glorifying Children’s Book

Over 200 Columbia University faculty--most affiliated with the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies--have signed a petition to boycott a local bookstore for apologizing to the Jewish community for selling P is for Palestine, a children’s book that glorifies the intifada. The book’s author, Pace University professor Goldbarg Bashi, is married to anti-Israel Columbia professor and petition signatory Hamid Dabashi.

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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