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conduct:'
Jonathan Schwartz, a third-year law
student from Farmington Hills who
has been vocal in his opposition to
Said's candidacy, called the decision
not to hire him as "intelligent:' Noting
that he had read Said's writings and
met with him, he said he was "dis-
tressed by the numerous errors of law
and fact in his anti-Israel scholarship"
Schwartz has been concerned that
the campus environment has been
hostile to Jewish and pro-Israel stu-
dents, and was concerned that Said's
presence would exacerbate tensions.
adie Said, a controversial
candidate for the faculty,
has not been offered a
position at the Wayne State University
Law School in Detroit.
Said, son of the late Columbia
University professor Edward Said, had
garnered opposition from some stu-
dents, alumni and the pro-Israel advo-
cacy group, StandWithUs. Opponents
charged that Said was unqualified and
a supporter of terrorism. They charged
that he would be a divisive presence
on campus.
StandWithUs Reaction
More than 600 Said supporters
Last November, Dr. Roberta P. Seid,
signed an online petition providing
a historical/education consultant
a rebuttal to several of StandWithUs'
with StandWithUs, together with the
charges, labeling it "a smear cam-
national director, Roz Rothstein, and
paign."
Michigan chapter president, Linda
In an e-mail response to a Detroit
Stulberg, came out against Said's
Jewish News inquiry, Waid stated, "I
candidacy, with Seid authoring a criti-
have no comment on this matter."
cal analysis of Said's scholarship and
Said's candidacy came to a vote
activities.
after it was passed through the five-
Stulberg gave credit to the network
member faculty search committee.
of StandWithUs volunteer activists
The committee has the option of
who mobilized the community on this
sending a candidate forward for a vote issue.
with a variety of recommendations, or
Writing in an e-mail from Israel, Seid
with no recommendation at all, and it
said, "We are glad to see that WSU has
is not known how
Said's candidacy
matter."
was presented to "I have no comment on
faculty. All ten-
Wadie Said
ured and tenure-
track faculty vote
on such matters by secret ballot.
chosen to uphold academic standards
Citing confidentiality, neither the
that demand distinguishing fact from
dean of the law school, Frank Wu, nor
non-fact and objective, not polemical,
the head of the faculty search commit- inquiry into controversial issues."
tee, Jonathan Weinberg, would share
She stressed that her group does
the results of the vote.
not oppose the teaching of what she
termed the "Palestine narrative but
WSU Response
not by "delegitimizing and denying
Dean Wu responded in an e-mail, "I
the existence of a large body of seri-
understand entirely that the public
ous scholarship or by falsifying the
is interested in these subjects, as well
documented records that dispute that
they should be. Yet just as judges do
narrative's claims, which is what Mr.
not discuss their opinions, so, too,
Said has done. The Palestinian narra-
there are important ethical rules that
tive should be studied — but taught
compel discretion. I find that frustrat- by responsible, probing scholars, not
ing myself from time to time, and I
by polemicists:'
only hope any observer, whatever their
WSU's Weinberg says he hopes to be
views about Mr. Said, would under-
able to announce new faculty appoint-
stand the limitations that govern our
ments later in the year.
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