Thought Shrek 2 Was Controversial? Wait Til’ You See This
The Middle East dept. at Columbia University is once again at the spot light since the Boston based David Project came out with a movie that supposedly exposes its anti-Israeli bias. The Sun was the first to report on the film:
In the film, a former Columbia undergraduate, Tomy Schoenfeld, recalls attending a lecture about the Middle East conflict given by Mr. Massad in spring 2001. At the end of the lecture, Mr. Schoenfeld prefaced a question to the professor by informing Mr. Massad that he was Israeli, Mr. Schoenfeld told The New York Sun. “Before I could continue, he stopped me and said, ‘Did you serve in the military?’” Mr. Schoenfeld, who served in the Israeli Air Force between 1996 and 1999, recalled. He said that he told Mr. Massad he had served in the military and that Mr. Massad asked him how many Palestinians he had killed. When Mr. Schoenfeld refused to answer, Mr. Massad said he wouldn’t allow him to ask his question.
What is this, a Btselem testimony?
Mr. Schoenfeld told the Sun that his encounter with Mr. Massad was not representative of his dealings with Columbia professors and that the Middle East-Asian department is “usually balanced.”
Considering the fact that the Sun claims that the movie focuses a lot on Massad, I really hope it is not all about not representative, three-year old anecdotes.
