Wednesday, January 26th 2005
Setting a good example
Interesting news from Front Page Magazine:
Over the past few days, the media in Israel have reported a scandal at the Hebrew University involving a radical feminist professor who was forced to resign because of alleged gross fabrication and distortion of research results….
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Meira Weiss was Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University, and also was Director of the Leifer Center for Women’s Studies.
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At Weiss’ initiative, it was decided to allow her to resign in the middle of the academic year, rather than face “prosecution” or probable dismissal in disgrace. She hopped the first plane to California and is now a visiting professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.
Radical feminist? Sounds redundant to me. You can always trust this university to pick the winners. At least she’ll fit right in:
She has some wacky theories about the “Jewish body” and these seem to be comparable to certain discredited ideas about the “German body”.
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This racialist nonsense, it goes without saying, has already been picked up by anti-Semitic and neonazi web sites as “evidence” of the depravity and racism of Jews.
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ANTHROPOLOGY 119: (SPECIAL TOPIC): THE STATE, MEDICINE, and THE MIDDLE-EASTERN BODYM. Weiss, TuTh 3:30-5, 105 Dwinelle
According to the online schedule, there’s still some spots open. But don’t all go signing up at once, I hear the required reading is a killer.
