A Soldier's Mother..
11 April '12..
A professor given tenure several years ago by Barnard College, despite a petition signed by thousands and many questions about her qualifications, maintains that the Jews do not necessarily have a well-documented history in the Holy Land and in fact, she claims, Israeli archaeologists were guiding their finds by their agenda...something one could easily say about Abu El-Haj.
In one review, University of Arizona Professor William Dever, the senior American archaeologist digging in the Middle East (cited in The New York Sun), called El-Haj’s scholarship “faulty, misleading and dangerous,” while Aren Maeir, the archaeologist heading the dig at Gath of the Philistines, deemed it “ludicrous.” Despite the protests, Columbia gave Abu El-Haj tenure - not something that surprised me from a place that welcome Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak.
So, every once in a while - actually, quite often, Israelis and visiting scientists and archaeologists discover more and more roots, facts on the ground, and truths of our ancient and eternal connection to this land. I thought of Nadia Abu El Haj when I saw this video. Nadia Abu El-Haj told a reporter, Jane Kramer of the New Yorker, that the next thing she expected was for me to want to have lunch with her - I"m not sure whether that shows her incredible self-centered ego or her very slim hold on reality - or both.
More, I wonder how she can continue to claim to be a scholar when she has no hold on history (or reality). So, this one is for the incredibly ignorant Nadia Abu El-Haj - yet another video showing our connection to this land.
Link: http://israelisoldiersmother.blogspot.com/2012/04/nadia-abu-el-hajs-ignorance.html
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By Emanuel Macabi
ReplyDeleteWhy we should care about those idiots ignorance,
What should be important for Jews that we knows our history better than any other nation and we know always our ignorance enemies have some nonsenses excuse to deny our history, and the most important that State of Israel is exist with undefeatable IDF and intelligent people,
Happy Passover and long life to State of Israel