[Piranha]

I don't know which is worse: the fact that Massad is a tenure-track professor at Columbia (who has not yet come up for tenure, however) or the fact that among the sponsors of this farce include the Human Rights program of SIPA (Columbia’s School of Public Affairs), the office of the University Chaplain, Student Services and the Student Senate.

Where are the advocates of the one-state solution in which Israel would maintain its sovereignty over the land west of the Jordan River while granting internal autonomy to Palestinian Arabs?

Why was there no discussion of relocating Israel's nearly 1.5 million Palestinian Arab "refugees" (who, as refugees, disclaim any right to permanent settlement in their current location) to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt or even Iraq?

When Columbia supports a program as tendentious as this one, it expends its intellectual capital. If it does this often enough, it will find that it has been diminished in formulating an academic approach to global political issues as much as CBS and The New York Times have in journalism.

[rmlew]

Yes, the situation is difficult at Columbia. Frontpagemag.com , Campus-watch.org, the NY Sun, and Columbians for Academic Freedom have been covering this.

On the other hands, Bat Ye'or spoke at Columbia yesterday without incident.

[American in Israel]

Why was there no discussion of relocating Israel's nearly 1.5 million Palestinian Arab "refugees" (who, as refugees, disclaim any right to permanent settlement in their current location) to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt or even Iraq?

For some reason, it is always simpler to relocate 6 million Jews to nowhere than 1.5 million Arabs back to where they came from in a bigots mind.