Word: mealac
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...unreleased video of interviews with Jewish and Israeli students, produced by the advocacy group The David Project, which purportedly contains footage of several students describing verbal attacks and cases of in-class humiliation by pro-Palestinian professors in Columbia’s Middle East Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department. In one of the worst cases of abuse, an Israeli student alleges that a MEALAC professor refused to answer an in-class question until the student acknowledged how many Palestinians he had killed. After word about the video spread, some Columbia students and faculty said that the allegations were...
...would also suggest that Columbia’s MEALAC department work to achieve a greater diversity of political views among its faculty. Most everyone agrees that the MEALAC department as it stands is overwhelmingly biased toward pro-Palestinian viewpoints. While we would not like to see Columbia institute a quota system for pro-Israeli professors, working to improve the severe political imbalance of the department will benefit everyone. To be fair, we do not advocate a lowering of standards for the sake of a token pro-Israeli seat either, but having a greater diversity of political viewpoints in this area...