Call us anti-Semitic, but the last time we checked a map of the Middle East, it was overwhelmingly Arab and Muslim. And last we heard, the countries of the region, including the state of Israel, were still teeming with heated opinions about the Arab-Israeli conflict, many of them unkind to Tel Aviv. So we're always a little confused when Jewish student groups get upset that their Middle Eastern Studies professors aren't IDF-vets with leg shrapnel from '67 and the lectern demeanor of Yanni.- From a half-baked New York Press editorial giving a totally skewed and inaccurate picture of the Columbia academic harassment scandal, while also libeling Rachel Fish’s valuable David Project as “nutty.” Read Nat Hentoff for a much clearer picture of what’s going on a couple blocks up the road from me- when you have to rely on the Village Voice to correct misinformation in New York Press, you can tell it’s a pretty damn sad state of affairs.
Oh yea, and Jerusalem’s the capital, dumbass.
Posted by Stephen Silver at April 13, 2005 11:56 PM