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On the Web site of an unofficial alumni organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are profiles "exposing" the university's "most radical professors" who "actively proselytize their extreme views in the classroom." These professors are described as "brainless" and are berated for never having left the "fantasy world of college." [snip] There are other disturbing examples today and throughout history. In Colorado and Indiana, as a result of widely publicized student allegations of left-wing bias in the classroom, several professors have received hate mail and at least one received a death threat. The number of organizations across America...

Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

http://www.donfeder.com/ A PURPLE HEART FOR JOHNNY JIHAD? By Don Feder Last week, John Walker Lindh petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002. It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for Afghanistan’s former rulers. Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp...

IF YOU CALL Columbia University's main switch- board and ask for Nicholas De Genova,you will not be connected to his office. Instead,you will hear a recording of a statement by the university's president, Lee C. Bollinger, saying he is "appalled" by the anthropology professor's "outrageous comments." When a reporter calls back and says he wants to speak to the professor rather than lodge a complaint, the operator replies, "So you're not going to call me a bastard or a whore?" "No. Have other people called you that?" "Oh, yeah," she says. "They need to understand that he's the one who...

NICHOLAS DE GENOVA, Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Chicago Telephone: (212) 854-0199 office: 416 Hamilton email: npd18@columbia.edu The central concerns of my research and teaching include: labor and class formation, racialization, the production of urban space, nationalism, the politics of citizenship, and transnational social processes, especially migration. My ethnographic research explores the social productions of racialized and spatialized difference in the experiences of transnational Mexican migrant workers within the space of the U.S. nation-state. More specifically, I examine transnational urban conjunctural spaces that link the U.S. and Latin America as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate U.S. nationalism,...

Bollinger: No Plan to Reprimand De Genova Bollinger issued a statement in response to a letter from the U.S. Congress. By Megan Greenwell Spectator Associate News Editor Two days after Professor Nicholas De Genova returned to class for the first time in a week, the controversy surrounding his name continues. On Tuesday, in his fourth public statement since De Genova's comments at an anti-war teach-in two weeks ago, University President Lee Bollinger said, unequivocally and for the first time in an official capacity, that he would not consider punishing De Genova for his statements. Bollinger released the announcement to CNN...

The now infamous remarks of Assistant Professor Nicholas De Genova of Columbia University calling for "a million Mogadishus" are appalling enough in their own right. Even some of the leftist faculty with whom De Genova shared the stage in this anti-war teach-in, such as historian Eric Foner, have prudently distanced themselves from his comments. What his sentiments reveal about higher education in this country, where professors at Ivy League institutions come from and what they are doing when war does not offer the occasion to publicly denounce America, is far more alarming. Now in a tenure-track position in anthropology at...

Columbia University Professor Nicholas De Genova makes me sick. He personifies the ideal of the extremist. But that in itself isn’t what makes me ill. Although I disagree with him on his stance regarding the military action in Iraq I still would fight for his right to espouse his poisonous thoughts, which as it would seem, is a hell of a lot more than he would do for me. No, the reason this man makes me nauseous is because he is calling for the slaughter of those in our armed forces. If this isn’t teetering on the borderline of treason...

According to National Review Online, "Last Wednesday, Columbia University assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova told the audience at a faculty-led antiwar teach-in that he wished 'for a million Mogadishus' to visit U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq." According to the Columbia University biography of DeGenova, his teaching focuses on "transnational urban conjunctural spaces that link the U.S. and Latin America as a standpoint of critique from which to interrogate U.S. nationalism, political economy, racialized citizenship, and immigration law." DeGenova has appeared at several open-borders conferences as a panelist and his writing has been highly critical of immigration enforcement. He is also scheduled...

No matter how many times we hear of Americans doing or saying things that display their contempt and disdain for America it never ceases to fascinate and disgust true Americans. On March 28, 2003, the New Jersey newspaper the Trentonian reported on an interesting story entitled "Town Bans Yellow Ribbons."

Lots of folks, well some anyway, have a tendency to distrust their government. In democracies they elect people they like, or the "lesser of the evils," then spend the rest of the election term, being skeptical. People who are skeptical by nature, those who voted for the other candidate, speak the loudest, but even the ones who elected the government have a tendency to give credence to the idea that if they trust their government, they are somehow leaving a door open to disaster. For about three decades now, the trend has been increasing......

Bashing America and giving the benefit of the doubt to ruthless dictators and totalitarian regimes rather than your own government in times of crisis and war, is far from patriotic. Looking for American military mistakes, when massive military victories are blatantly clear, is not patriotic. It is unpatriotic to emphasize or fabricate mistakes while minimizing or ignoring military successes.

<p>I am not sure you remember me, but we met back in 1988 after the FBI conducted a "sweep" on returned Tecnica volunteers, claiming that we were part of an espionage network running high technology out of Nicaragua through Cuba into the USSR. As you will probably recall, things died down after protests were heard from mainstream publications including the NY Times. They asked quite sensibly why somebody repairing a tractor in Nicaragua should be the subject of an espionage investigation.</p>

Assistant Professor Nicholas De Genova, a glittering diamond in the intellectual crown that is Columbia University in the City Of New York is too scared to show up to teach his classes. He's received threats of violence, reports the New York Sun, and so have other professors who participated in the Saddam pep rally held last Wednesday in Low Memorial Library on the Columbia campus. I'm glad De Genova is scared. He probably didn't realize that declaring war on America isn't without risk. From all the evidence, besides being vicious, De Genova is enormously stupid. It's a wonder that he...

Old Glory drapes Columbia University freshman Alexandra Draggett, from Basking Ridge, N.J., and Greg Jones, a sophomore from Englewood, N.J., yesterday at demonstration in front of school's Low LibraryStudents at Columbia University rallied yesterday to support U.S. soldiers in Iraq and blasted a controversial professor who called for the slaughter of coalition troops. Speakers addressing about 250 people, who wore yellow ribbons and waved flags, ripped assistant professor Nicholas De Genova at the rally, at the school's Low Library. De Genova, at an anti-war "teach-in" last week, said he "would like to see a million Mogadishus" - a reference to...

Some alumni donors are pressuring the president's office and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations to fire Professor Nicholas De Genova for statements he made in last week's anti-war teach-in. In the past few days, donors have barraged the offices with emails and phone calls, informing the University that they feel that De Genova overstepped the limits of academic free speech. In mass-mailed email messages circulated among each other, alumni have urged each other to issue an ultimatum to the University: Fire De Genova or lose our donations. "We've gotten a lot of calls," said Thomas Gray, who is...

They were the usual chatty bunch of teens, catching the last train back to the western 'burbs that would get them home in time for dinner with the family. On any other Saturday in springtime they might have been coming from the mall. But on this day their Abercrombie and Fitch outfits were adorned with buttons and peace stickers. A couple of them had cameras slung around their necks. ``I mean it was a little disappointing,'' chirped one young woman. ``You know in the middle of this die-in, people were on their cell phones. It just didn't seem right, you...

"It's on statements like this one attributed to Nicholas DeGenova, a professor of Latino studies at Columbia University, in the April 18 edition of the Columbia Spectator: "The heritage of the victims of the Holocaust belongs to the Palestinian people. The state of Israel has no claim to the heritage of the Holocaust."Posted Tuesday, July 9, 2002, at 12:35 PM PT chatterbox An "anti-Semitism index" that's less than scientific. How the ADL Counts Anti-Semites By Samantha M. Shapiro THE Anti-Defamation League last month released a survey stating that fully 17 percent of the U.S. population holds beliefs that are "strongly...

<p>NEW YORK — The controversy over a Columbia University assistant professor who called for the bloody defeat of U.S. troops in Iraq refuses to die, with critics heaping scorn and supporters saying he has gone into hiding after receiving numerous death threats.</p>

Published on April 02, 2003 Students Wage Silent Protest for De Genova Tensions ran high as the professor's students debated his statements. By Margaret Hunt Gram Spectator News Editor Students of Professor Nicholas De Genova staged a silent, motionless protest on Low Plaza yesterday in support of their absent teacher. Seated cross-legged on folded cardboard boxes, they formed a rain-drenched circle of two dozen people. One place was empty--"Nick's seat," one student said through the red, white, and blue handkerchief tied around her head. The students stared into the center of the circle, where a sign was posted explaining their...