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Others may have sympathized on learning that Hamid Dabashi, a professor of
The incident began late on
I have rarely seen such a revolting excerpt of anti-semitism as your article in Al-Ahram. Your article implies no right of
I consider this slanderous harassment a conduct unbecoming of a student of
Underwhelmed, Brinkley wrote him back the same day,.
Dear Hamid,
I see nothing threatening in this message, however unfair its conclusions might be. I also see no grounds for alerting security, although you are certainly free to contact them if you feel otherwise.
I very much doubt the
I’m sorry this attack has occurred, but you are no stranger to controversy and have encountered such ad hominem criticism before. This is one of the unhappy prices of a public life, and I would recommend ignoring Mr. Luria (whom I do not know).
Yours,
Alan
Indeed, Dabashi is “no stranger to controversy” and some of it concerns me. I report his exchange with Luria (which was first reported in the New York Sun) because it helps explain Dabashi’s behavior two year earlier, when he claimed to be threatened by an article Jonathan Schanzer and I co-authored on June 25, 2002.
We mentioned Dabashi as one of six professors in a catalogue of academic radicalism regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict. The reference to Dabashi, replicated here in its entirety, merely noted two of his actions:
HAMID DABASHI: The hacking of our computers, and the fact that our e-mails are flooded with e-mails following his attack on us, and putting us on his Web site, is now documented that
PHIL DONAHUE: You mean documented with the police?
DABASHI: With the police. That is, we are being attacked by hackers and by those who, following his attack on me-his initial attack on me was in the New York Post on June 26 [sic]. Immediately after that, I received tons of death threats, racist, obscene and threatening voice mails. And immediately after that, the last week of August, tons of e-mails – hundreds, thousands of e-mails, to the point that Columbian security could not increase my quota enough.
DANIEL PIPES: You must send me this information. Would you prove it to me?
DABASHI: If I may just, the evidence of all this, Phil, is with
PIPES: Will you send to it me? Will you have them send it to me?
DABASHI: Mr. Ken Finnegan of
PIPES: Prove it to me. Just prove it, OK?
Two years later, despite this request on national television, Dabashi has yet to provide any proof.
Comments: (1) Dabashi’s neurotic response to Luria, which closely parallels the one to Schanzer and me, establishes that he habitually interprets criticism as intimidation.
(2) His quick indignation may also reflect his extensive power at
(3) This unacceptable pattern of behavior points to another failure of
Daniel Pipes (www.DanielPipes.org) is director of the Middle East Forum and author of Miniatures (Transaction Publishers).