I am stunned that Columbia is allowing Joseph Massad to teach a class on Jewish history and Zionism. Has anyone bothered to read his articles in Al Jezeera? They are filled with distortions and lies. His Nov 11, 2011 column is particularly egregious. Ironically titled, "Truth, facts, and facts on the ground: Much of the international sup…
I am stunned that Columbia is allowing Joseph Massad to teach a class on Jewish history and Zionism. Has anyone bothered to read his articles in Al Jezeera? They are filled with distortions and lies. His Nov 11, 2011 column is particularly egregious. Ironically titled, "Truth, facts, and facts on the ground: Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies that it tells and re-tells as facts," it contains obvious falsehoods such as
“The uncontroversial academic and historical facts that European Jews are descendants of European converts to Judaism from the centuries before Christianity was adopted as the religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century are unquestionable axioms in academic scholarship, including by Zionist historians. No respected historian of European Jewry has ever argued that European Jews, or for that matter Moroccan, or Iraqi, or Yemeni Jews, were descendants of the ancient Hebrews.”
I am stunned that Columbia is allowing Joseph Massad to teach a class on Jewish history and Zionism. Has anyone bothered to read his articles in Al Jezeera? They are filled with distortions and lies. His Nov 11, 2011 column is particularly egregious. Ironically titled, "Truth, facts, and facts on the ground: Much of the international support that Israel receives is based on several lies that it tells and re-tells as facts," it contains obvious falsehoods such as
“The uncontroversial academic and historical facts that European Jews are descendants of European converts to Judaism from the centuries before Christianity was adopted as the religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century are unquestionable axioms in academic scholarship, including by Zionist historians. No respected historian of European Jewry has ever argued that European Jews, or for that matter Moroccan, or Iraqi, or Yemeni Jews, were descendants of the ancient Hebrews.”
He absolutely should not be teaching.