Tuesday, August 7, 2007
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As concerned alumni and friends of Barnard and Columbia, we urge you to deny tenure to Nadia Abu El Haj, a professor of anthropology whose claim to scholarly recognition is based on a single, profoundly flawed book.
In "Facts on the Ground. Archeological Practice and Territorial Self Fashioning in Israeli Society," Abu El Haj alleges that archaeologists have “created the fact of an ancient Israelite/Jewish nation,†where none actually existed. She asserts that the ancient Israelite kingdoms are a “pure political fabrication.â€
We are submitting this petition because the use of evidence in "Facts on the Ground" fails to meet the standards of scholarship that are expected of Columbia and Barnard undergraduates...
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madness
petition page is broken... when submitting it breaks on parsing email or something.
I just checked, it is working fine at present.
As an alumnus of Columbia University, GS '99, I would like to request that Columbia University deny tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj.
Eugene Epshteyn
Class of '99
Please take the time to sign the petition and almost as important - please forward to your friends and ask them to sign as well. Our goal is 5,000 signatures - we have just over 10% of that amount. Please help us!
Thanks,
Paula
this is an mob witch hunt. i can't imagine that any of you here condemning professor el haj actually read her book. i have and it's a first rate academic study that strives for balance, not polemic. she shows quite cogently how israeli nationalism and israeli archeology each shaped the development of the other. you can disagree with her conclusions or her politics, sure, but the scholarship is utterly sound. this witch hunt is the product, it seems, of blind political bias and probably a dose of prejudice fuled by her last name.