Columbia Unbecoming controversy

In 2004, during the Second Intifada, a group of pro-Israel students at Columbia University in New York City, along with the pro-Israel campus group The David Project, produced the 25-minute film Columbia Unbecoming presenting interviews with some students and the campus Jewish chaplain Rabbi Charles Sheer about professors in the department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC)—mainly George Saliba, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi—whom they described as biased against Israel and whom they accused of misconduct. Massad said the episodes concerning him did not take place and that none of the people in the film had been students of his, describing the film project as a "witch-hunt." Saliba too denied that the episode concerning him happened as described in the film.

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Columbia Unbecoming controversy

In 2004, during the Second Intifada, a group of pro-Israel students at Columbia University in New York City, along with the pro-Israel campus group The David Project, produced the 25-minute film Columbia Unbecoming presenting interviews with some students and the campus Jewish chaplain Rabbi Charles Sheer about professors in the department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC)—mainly George Saliba, Joseph Massad, and Hamid Dabashi—whom they described as biased against Israel and whom they accused of misconduct. Massad said the episodes concerning him did not take place and that none of the people in the film had been students of his, describing the film project as a "witch-hunt." Saliba too denied that the episode concerning him happened as described in the film.

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