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September 27, 2002 [feather]
Daniel Pipes' watchdog website, Campus

Daniel Pipes' watchdog website, Campus Watch, has so outraged anti-Israel academics that many are asking to be added to its list of professors and universities that have, in Pipes' opinion, crossed the line between reasoned dissent and rabidly ideological fulmination. Celebrated Berkeley queer theorist Judith Butler has led the radical way. Quoth Professor Butler in a letter to Pipes (reprinted in part in today's New York Times): "I have recently learned that your organization is compiling dossiers on professors at U.S. academic institutions who oppose the Israeli occupation and its brutality, actively support Palestinian rights of self-determination as well as a more informed and intelligent view of Islam than is currently represented in the U.S. media. I would be enormously honored to be counted among those who actively hold these positions and would like to be included in the list of those who are struggling for justice." As of this posting, Pipes has not honored the good professor's request. He has, however, posted a link to a recent New York Post piece on how "Hating Israel Is Part of Campus Culture."

posted on September 27, 2002 3:07 PM