The Klein Example
This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.
If the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, is still trying to figure out the right way to handle the crisis over the Middle East studies department there, one good move would be to give the New York City schools chancellor, Joel Klein, a call. When The New York Sun’s Julia Levy broke the news that one of Columbia’s notoriously anti-Israel professors, Rashid Khalidi, was going to be paid to train New York City schoolteachers on how to teach about the Middle East to impressionable school children, the city’s education department dropped Mr. Khalidi faster than one could say Yasser Arafat. “Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for DOE teachers and he won’t be participating in the future,” Mr. Klein’s press secretary, Jerry Russo, said in a statement.
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