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Khalidi has also been criticized for his ties to professors in Columbia’s Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department. In December, a committee at Columbia investigated allegations that MEALAC faculty members had intimidated students with pro-Palestinian comments at the university...
...MEALAC professor George Saliba, who was a subject of the Columbia investigation, said he thinks the complaints against Khalidi are part of a larger “campaign of silencing” that has spread across the country...
...only instance that the five-person committee deemed inappropriate involved MEALAC Professor Joseph Massad, who the committee said “exceeded commonly accepted bounds” in an altercation with student Deena Shanker...
Bollinger—a finalist for the presidency at Harvard in 2001—has remained largely silent on the Columbia crisis in recent months, soliciting criticism from both MEALAC opponents and supporters alike. In a speech before the Association of the Bar of the City of New York last month, Bollinger offered an ambiguous assessment of the current situation, saying only that transgressions in academic freedom should not be accepted “without consequences...
Bollinger and the committee he appointed have drawn criticism from professors outside of New York City. Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—a vocal critic of the MEALAC department and a pro-Israel advocate—took issue with the committee’s findings...