Monday, August 20, 2007
Forwarded to me, circulated by Rashid Khalidi's assistant in the Middle East Institute:
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 4:11 PM
To: amb49@columbia.edu
Subject: CAIR-NY NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR INTERNSHIPS
Importance: Low
ACTION ALERT--FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--
CAIR-NY NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR INTERNSHIPS
(New York, N.Y. 8/17/07) – The New York Chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-NY) today announced that it is accepting applications for its Fall 2007 internship program.
CAIR-NY interns receive practical training in civil rights, public and media relations, community outreach, and research and leadership training. Interns work with skilled and dedicated mentors to gain first-hand experiences in these fields...
Etc...
A big deal? They circulate a lot of these things, but then again, you may remember that two years ago they refused to circulate a similar announcement from the Middle East Forum: Columbia University Refuses to Send Middle East Forum Announcement (see original for links)
The Middle East Forum requested that it be sent out on April 22, 2005. Noting the announcement had not gone out, the Forum sent a follow-up inquiry on May 5. In reply, Astrid Benedek, MEI's associate administrator, explained that she would not do so until the Forum made changes on its Campus Watch website. She also indicated she would not reply again to the MEF ("I think we best end our communication right here").
This refusal contradicts an earlier statement by Benedek about the institute's policy of semi-automatically forwarding information for "countless other … outside organizations."
The Middle East Institute is directed by former PLO advisor Rashid Khalidi...
More.
So Hamas front CAIR is OK, but anything attached to Daniel Pipes? Oh, now that's going too far.
I cannot help but be unsurprised that Columbia would refuse to send out an employment announcement from an organization that puts a lot of effort into attacking Columbia. As I remember, not only does Joffe serve with the Middle East Forum, but he also wears a hat at The David Project, which has a record of defaming Columbia.
I doubt that Brandeis would circulate a notice for a Summer Intern Program from David Duke, but it would be an interesting experiment.
Why don't you contact him, Martin? And don't give me the apples and oranges argument. Pipes believes that Arabs and Muslims have too much influence in the world while Duke believes that Jews have too much influence in the world. They are comparable intellectual figures except that Duke does not have the support of hordes of main stream media facilitators and gatekeepers boosting him as an important pundit.
"Pipes believes that Arabs and Muslims have too much influence in the world while Duke believes that Jews have too much influence in the world."
That would be the same as saying in 1933 "Jews think that Germans have too much influence in the world, while Dr Goebels thinks that Jews have too much influence in the world". Perfect simmetry is not it?
Islamists are the Nazis of today and Muslims are the Germans of today.