Meet Columbia and Barnard's Anthropology Department

Nadia Abu El Haj received the recommendation of her Anthropolgy Department, as part of her quest for tenure. There's no surprise there, given the widespread anti-Israel feeling rampant in the department. What is interesting is that Barnard ignored this clear anti-Israel feelings when considering her tenure. They want to focus on her academic standing in the community, her scholarly achievements. But when those come up short, they ignore them and condemn those who dare to "interfere" -  the outsiders who only spent 4 years of our lives at Barnard and have recommended, represented, and praised Barnard for the decades since we graduated.

So, how do we prove the Anthropology Department is notorious for its hatred of Israel? Simple enough - simply ask them...or better yet, use their track record:

According to Solomonia:

In 2003, anti-Israel activists mounted a divestment campaign at Columbia. The petition sought to deny the right of self-defense to the Jewish State. Columbia has literally thousands of professors. To their credit, a piddling 106 signed the petition. But of those, no fewer then 21 were from the Anthropology department, one of the smallest departments in the university. A department that includes Nicholas De Genova, the man who wished that American soldiers in Iraq would be slaughtered in "a million Mogadishus."

1. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Anthropology, Barnard
2. Lila Abu-Lughod, Anthropology & Women's Studies, Columbia
6. Alexander Alland, Emeritus, Anthropology, Columbia
23. Partha Chatterjee, Anthropology, Columbia
27. Elaine Combs-Schilling, Anthropology, Columbia
32. Valentine Daniel, Anthropology, Columbia
33. Nicholas De Genova, Anthropology & Latino/a Studies, Columbia
40. Steven Gregory, Anthropology & African-American Studies, Columbia
57. Brian Larkin, Anthropology, Barnard
60. Mahmood Mamdani, SIPA & Anthropology, Columbia
67. Lynn Meskell, Anthropology, Columbia
68. Brinkley Messick, Anthropology, Columbia
70. Rosalind Morris, Anthropology, Columbia
77. Neni Panourgia, Anthropology, Columbia
78. John Pemberton, Anthropology, Columbia
90. David Scott, Anthropology, Columbia
91. Karen Seeley, Anthropology, Columbia
92. Lesley Sharp, Anthropology, Barnard
93. Sandhya Shukla, Anthropology & Asian-American Studies, Columbia
96. Michael Taussig, Anthropology, Columbia
104. Paige West, Anthropology, Barnard