Leading Israel lobbyists and at least one of their client politicians in Washington are mounting a renewed assault on Columbia University’s Professor Joseph Massad.
The pretext for the revived defamation campaign is the apparently bogus resignation of a Jewish adjunct faculty member supposedly outraged that Massad will be teaching a course on Zionism.
In fact, Massad has taught the course, titled “Palestinian and Israeli politics and societies,” since the year 2000.
“I hereby resign my position as a member of the Columbia University faculty, effective immediately,” Lawrence “Muzzy” Rosenblatt, wrote in a letter to university administrators that he posted on the social media site LinkedIn.
He added that he did so after learning that “a course on Zionism and the state of Israel will be taught this coming semester by Joseph A. Massad, who has advocated for the destruction of the state of Israel and celebrated the 7 October attacks.”……more
