November 3, 2007
By ALAN FINDER
An assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard College whose scholarship on the use of archaeology in Israel has attracted both fierce criticism and scholarly support has been approved for tenure, Barnard officials said in a statement released yesterday.
The professor, Nadia Abu El-Haj, who was born in America and is of Palestinian descent, contended in her first book, “Facts on the Ground,” that Israeli archaeologists searched for an ancient Jewish presence to help build the case for a Jewish state. In their quest, she wrote, they sometimes used bulldozers, destroying the remains of Arab and other cultures.
Her bid for tenure set off petitions supporting and opposing her candidacy; some opponents accused her of shoddy scholarship, while some supporters said her opponents were engaged in an ideological witch hunt.
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The Islamic Workplace 
November 5th, 2007 → 3:16 am
[…] Inside Higher Ed has a report that strives for balance, although citing this hostile review, now discredited, does no-one any favours. Some positive comments from two former students of Nadia Abu El Haj can be found at Interprete. Some tired old anti-tenure canards are given the chance to flutter their wings by Marty Peretz, who proves how well-informed he is about Nadia Abu El Haj’s work by getting her subject wrong (anthropology, not archaeology). A site called The Islamic Workplace has decided that Nadia Abu El Haj is a Muslim. […]