Joseph Massad responds to fabrications and lies about him in Congress

(This coward, Shafik, doesn't want to be the next Ivy League president to lose their job over Israel's zionist genocide in Gaza so she throws her staff under the bus and loudly declares her allegiance to Nazis. Comfort doth make cowards of them all)

from Electronic Intifada

On 17 April, Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, appeared before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, the latest episode in efforts by members of Congress to shut down criticism of Israel on campuses by falsely accusing students, professors and administrators of anti-Semitism.

Three professors were singled out for vitriol and smears: Katherine Franke, Mohamed Abdou and world-renowned scholar Joseph Massad.

Instead of defending the academic freedom of her faculty from what the American Association of University Professors is calling “a new strain of McCarthyism in the US,” Shafik threw them under the bus.

A particular focus of the attacks on Massad, who teaches modern Arab politics and intellectual history, was an article he wrote for The Electronic Intifada on 8 October 2023, titled “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?”

For months, Israel supporters have misquoted and misrepresented the article in an attempt to smear Massad and by extension Columbia, and Wednesday’s hearing was no exception.

However, instead of defending Massad’s right to free speech and correcting lawmakers’ lies, Shafik joined the attacks.

“I do condemn his statement. I am appalled by what he said,” Shafik said in response to a question from Representative Tim Walberg. “He has been spoken to.”...

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