Juan Cole denied position at Yale -- rightwing pressure

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Posted at Daily Kos

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=12578

Middle East Wars Flare Up At Yale
Controversial academic shot down for appointment; was campaign against him politically motivated?
Liel Leibovitz - Staff Writer

Juan Cole, one of the country’s top Middle East scholars, was poised for the biggest step of his career.

A tenured professor at the University of Michigan, Cole was tapped earlier this year by a Yale University search committee to teach about the modern Middle East. In two separate votes in May, Cole was approved by both the sociology and history departments, the latter the university’s largest.

The only remaining hurdle was the senior appointments committee, also known as the tenure committee, a group consisting of about a half-dozen professors from various disciplines across the university.

Last week, however, in what is shaping up as the latest in a series of heated battles over the political affiliations of Middle Eastern studies professors, the tenure committee voted down Cole’s nomination. Several Yale faculty members described the decision to overrule the votes of the individual departments as “highly unusual.”

The reasons behind the rejection remain unknown; several calls to a Yale spokeswoman went unreturned.

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[Jacobin]

1. Probably not 'even handed' enough

about Israel issues.

That's my guess.

He's got a great blog, but will call out Israel's policies when he thinks they are wrong.

[MADem]

2. Well, YALE has turned out some real prizewinners, haven't they?

It's gone from a top-drawer, academically challenging, expensive old school to a place where "history majors" like Monkeyboy can graduate. It's almost as though he led the charge.

It would appear that the GOP has one hand on Yale's endowment throat, and another on their wallet.

[RethugAssKicker]

3. Is Horrowitz making inroads at Yale ?

[The Stranger]

7. Good question.

Google found a number of articles smearing Cole.

Here's one: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/joelmowbray/2006/05/25/198694.html

[Doctor_J]

16. He's everywhere

the Reich Wing controls academia, as they have for years.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. with the same false mantra of librul press, librul skules

Big money started screwing with med schools and research grants. Big Pharma BOUGHT themselves control.
The military and the military industrial complex saw how easy that was, and with the pressure of fundraising ever present, the schools caved. It isn't the first or the last time. Heck, look what college sports have done to academia in so many places. Florida, Texas, Arizona, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and a few others lead the nation in the numbers of illiterates that attend their colleges, and never learn to read. Many even graduate.

[brentspeak]

4. Sounds like politics were involved, but not exactly a tragedy

Cole still has a prestigious position at UMich.

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Give me a "Y", Give me a "A-L-E"

<George Bush in the Oval Office upon his latest Alumni NewsFlash>

[LisaM]

6. So Michigan is better and braver than Yale. No surprise there.

Go Blue!

[Kostafarian]

8. Isn't Yale where theTaliban

spokesman is now studying?

[Exultant Democracy]

9. Rahmatullah Hashemi

is his name.

[htuttle]

11. Yes

[rucky]

10. Their loss.

His intellect is wasted on those elitists, anyways.

[acmavm]

12. But creepy Dougie Feith is at Georgetown, isn't he? The guy

Tommy Franks called the stupidest mother f***er on earth is teaching at Georgetown and Juan Cole was turned down for a position at Yale?

We are truly living in Bizarro World.

[Malikshah]

13. The key is that Feith doesn't take the forbidden position on the

I/P Conflict.

Go to Campus Watch www.campus-watch.org or www.juancole.com

A relatively quick perusal will explain quite a bit as to why he was denied the position.

[Zhade]

14. He criticizes the Israeli government and doesn't parrot lies about Muslims

Of COURSE he was denied - he's too frigging honest.

I admire his analysis. He's very knowledgeable. This is YALE'S loss, not his.

[Doctor_J]

15. "The reasons behind the rejection remain unknown"

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I guess, if you're really stupid, or really, really stupid, or a Limpballs listener.

[Pierre.Suave]

18. It is ok...

As I see it, we here at U of Michigan still like him.

Michigan is better than yale anyway...;-)

[EFerrari]

19. So, who took the call that was pulling the endowment?

:puke: