Has Columbia Prof Hamid Dabashi Finally Gone Too Far?

A coalition of alumni, students, faculty, and community members are calling on Columbia University to discipline Iranian studies professor Hamid Dabashi for his recent anti-Semitic Facebook posts, not to mention a history of “depicting Israelis as Nazis, comparing Israel to ISIS, [and] accusing Israel of genocide.”

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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