Defend our universities!

Update: Campus wars, US & Australia

In late 2006 SBS-TV's Dateline program reported that US group Campus Watch, backed by the powerful Zionist lobby, has professors of Middle East Studies under surveillance and promotes termination of their careers for non-conformist views. This followed revelations of payment to students to spy on Left professors at UCLA, vilified as the Dirty Thirty: see http://www.swans.com. Now Norman Finkelstein, outstanding Middle East scholar, faces non-tenure after Zionist Alan Dershowitz intervened: see Chomsky at http://www.zmag.org and http://www.petitiononline.com. Are there Australian parallels? See http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline

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Springtime for Sycophants

Undeterred by the facts, Murdoch's academic propaganda arm has refused to publish a letter which corrects serious errors in an article late last year, and hints at its own complicity in the RMIT dismissal. See attached comments, and http://melbourne.indymedia.org.

posted by Defend Our Universities committee @ 4:40 PM 1 comments links to this post