Rashid Khalidi - Plagiarist?

I think that we will never tire of laughing at the academic disgraces of Columbia University, the Madrassah of the Upper West Side. The latest matter of mortification for the home of Joseph Massad and the one-time playground for Edward Said is the plagiarism of Rashid Khalidi .

Khalidi, you may recall, is the pro-terror 'Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies' at Columbia University. Never mind that Edward Said knew nothing about Middle East Studies besides how to throw rocks at Jews and, instead, taught English at Columbia. Khalidi may be testifying on behalf of the Florida terrorist Sami al-Arian. Khalidi was a major player in the whitewash at Columbia of jihadnik professor Joseph Massad.

FPM's Stephen Schwartz recent told the NY Sun: "His (Khalidi's) rhetoric is intemperate and extreme. I think the very idea of an Edward Said chair speaks for itself." Khalidi makes no secret of his support for Palestinian violence and his desire to see Israel's existence end. Khalidi also dislikes free speech for critics of the academic Jihadniki. He described Pipes’ Campus Watch, which monitors and critiques Middle Eastern Studies, as “a McCarthyite attempt to silence the very few voices that speak out about the Middle East, and to impose by fear a uniformity of view on the campus debate.”

Khalidi's plagiarism has been exposed recently by our own Lee Kaplan and also by the wonderful folks over at Solomonia Blog. It involves an article that appears on the web site of the American Committee for Jerusalem, now renamed the American Task Force on Palestine. In 2001, the year the item was first posted, Khalidi was President of the ACJ.

Entitled, JERUSALEM, A CONCISE HISTORY, it bore Khalidi's by-line for about four years. But then suddenly a reporter who was researching a story discovered the dirt. The article was retitled and the byline changed to read "Compiled by ACJ from a variety of sources." In other words, it was never Khalidi's own work to begin with! Gotcha!

You can still see the original version as it existed from February 27, 2001 to October 23, 2004 -- complete with Khalidi's byline.

The change, with no remark, explanation or trail left of the change, would tend to indicate that there was something there over which Khalidi and/or ACJ were concerned or embarrassed.

The Moonbatmosphere has been barking at Alan Dershowitz over the discredited allegation that he had overused materials from another source, a book by Joan Peters. Moonbats, including neonazi Holocaust Denier Norman Finkelstein, have claimed that Dershowitz had "plagiarized" (this coming from someone like Finkelstein who routinely relies on David Irving as his source). So it will be interesting seeing the response of the Moonbatorie to the news of Khalidi's plagiarizing. Since Khalidi is on the Saudi payroll, someone should warn them that they may be getting recycled materials written by other people and so are not getting their money's worth from Khalidi!

Go to Solomonia to read the "Khalidi" piece in full!