Members of the UCLA community have launched a petition to UC President Janet Napolitano and the UC Regents to dismiss UCLA Middle East history professor Gabriel Piterberg for sexually assaulting two graduate students, who claim he repeatedly harassed them over a period of years. Piterberg was made to forfeit one quarter’s pay and fined $3k, but, to the dismay of many, remains on the faculty. He has a long record of virulently anti-Israel commentary and scholarship and conspiracy mongering against his critics. The petition for dismissal may be found here.
Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
