[R-G] The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built

[Anthony Fenton]

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  The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built:
The Cases of Margo Ramlal Nankoe, William Robinson, Nagesh Rao, and  
Loretta Capeheart
by Dana Cloud

Earlier this month, the jury in Ward Churchill's civil trial against  
the University of Colorado found, in his favor, that the university  
had fired him because of critical remarks he made after the terrorist  
attacks of September 11, 2001.  While Churchill awaits a hearing on  
his ongoing employment at the university, this victory is something to  
celebrate and replicate.

At the same time, however, the noxious weeds of the new McCarthyism  
have begun to bear bitter fruit around the country.  Reports are  
coming in, not just about the better-known cases of harassment and  
firing of Norman Finkelstein (denied tenure at DePaul and banned from  
a speaking engagement at Clark College) or Joel Kovel (recently fired  
from his position as the Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies at Bard  
College).  Many readers will know the horrific case of Sami al-Arian,  
the University of South Florida professor jailed for five years  
without basis or charges for the suspicion of ties to terrorism.

Fewer people will know the names of four other targets of the Right's  
attack: Margo Ramlal-Nankoe, William Robinson, Nagesh Rao, and Loretta  
Capeheart.  All four face harassment, threats, or potential removal  
from their jobs at their universities because they have criticized  
Israel, defended multiculturalism, and stood up as organized employees  
in defense of their rights as workers.

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