Professor that taught history of Israel and Palestine resigns from Columbia University

Professor Rashid Khalidi, who has taught the history of Israel and Palestine at Columbia University for many years, has resigned, saying that Columbia's surrender to the magat enforcement of the IHRA criterion for antisemitism makes it impossible to teach that subject (and many others) honestly.

His letter of resignation explains in detail the depths of Columbia's surrender. For instance, Columbia will compel students and faculty to attend "trainings" in the distorted IRHA criterion, so they can learn where the official line runs, and will bring censorship contractors to monitor classes so as to punish students and faculty who deviate from the official magat party line.

Professor Khalidi says:

Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of
free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an-anti
university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a
place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on
high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions.

I contend that Columbia would serve the United States better by shutting down entirely than by allowing itself to be corrupted.

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