Ethnic cleansing of universities is the new mantra in America

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From Gulf News.com


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Ethnic cleansing of universities is the new mantra in America
By Youssef M. Ibrahim, Special to Gulf News

Published: 25/1/2005, 06:47 (UAE)

American neo-conservatives and followers of President George W. Bush pride themselves on taking no prisoners in their ideological quests. Now they seem to have set their sights on a new target: the stifling of academic freedom in the United States. One of the most prominent American intellectual institutions in the world, Columbia University, New York, is now under such an assault.

The most hunted species on that campus consists of professors of Arab and Iranian origin, or anyone who dares to open a debate on Middle East policies that do not conform with the Bush neo-conservatives' thinking.

Since anyone can remember, Columbia University has been the headquarters of intellectual freedom and excellence. But that venerable institution now finds itself in the middle of a major investigation a witch-hunt really to examine complaints by delusional Jewish students, professors and administrators zealots, who are claiming they are being "intimidated" by the professors of Middle Eastern origin.

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