November 5, 2004

U.S. Lawmaker Urges Columbia U. to Fire Professor Who Criticizes Israel

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

A U.S. congressman has demanded that Columbia University fire a nontenured professor of Arab politics who has been an outspoken critic of Israel. The congressman, Anthony D. Weiner, a New York Democrat up for re-election on Tuesday, said that Joseph A. Massad had crossed a line "between vigorous debate and discussion, and hate."

Fellow academics have come to the professor's defense and have circulated a petition calling on Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia's president, to "issue a categorical

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