Posted by David Bernstein: Outrageous, If True: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_23-2007_09_29.shtml#1190687554
[1]According to the Columbia Spectator, Barnard religion professor Alan Segal was asked by the university to provide a list of archeology experts to comment on the controversial tenure case of Nadia Abu El-Haj's tenure--archeologists who "preferably" were not Jewish. Segal quite properly refused, noting that religion "has nothing to do with what you say as a professional." El-Haj's "scholarly" work is premised on the idea that Jewish Israeli archeologists invented evidence of ancient Jewish settlement of the Land of Israel to justify Zionist claims to the land. Besides the issue of discrimination, which would be unthinkable in any other context related to any other group, the request to Segal seems like an implicit endorsement of her thesis, that Jewish archeologists cannot be trusted to be objective in their work related to Israel. [2]Thanks to Solomania for the link. References 1. http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:DjJ2rn5svfQJ:www.columbiaspectator.com/node/26749+%22Prof+Contests+Abu+El-Haj%E2%80%99s+Claims%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us 2. http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/09/columbia-spectator-on-the-abu-el-haj-con/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
