Tuesday, April 18, 2006
History News Network has a couple of pieces on momentarily anonymous Georgia Tech History Professor Laura Bier (see below, An Inadvertent Endorsement of Campus Watch and Too Late For the Mask). First, there's The Travails of "Leah Bowman" by Robert KC Johnson in which I make an appearance in the comments, and the somewhat more snarkily written, Laura Bier, Ward Churchill Wannabe by, ironically enough, an anonymous author. From the second piece:
Update: Here's another utterly over-the-top petition Bier signed as a student: Urgent Palestinian Appeal to the World. It's remarkable how these radicals grow up to become part of the faculty and end up defining the mainstream.
Since the latest wave of unprecedented Israeli military aggression throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Israeli troops killed hundreds of Palestinians and wounded thousands (the majority of whom are civilians killed and wounded in cold blood inside their homes). Israeli troops have been terrorizing Palestinian civilians throughout the OPT, unleashing an unprecedented and uncompromising policy of brute military force against women, children, and men in every Palestinian city, town, village, and refugee camp...
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