Professor fights portrayal as supporter of terrorism

[Newsjock]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14543692.htm

By Lisa M. Krieger
Mercury News

As one of Stanford University's most respected Middle East scholars, professor Joel Beinin knows what terrorism looks like.

So it was a shock when he saw his own face on the cover of a new book titled ``Campus Support for Terrorism,'' linking him to radical Islam.

He's suing the book's publishers in what is the first counteroffensive by a professor against a growing campaign by conservative groups targeting left-leaning college educators.

Conservative groups acknowledge they are watching scholars like Beinin in an effort to combat what they believe are inaccuracies perpetuated by liberal faculties on college campuses. But while many of the monitored faculty have stayed silent -- saying they lack the tenure or campus support necessary to protect their careers from outside critics -- Beinin hired an attorney.

``They have used my picture as part of their war on free expression,'' Beinin said. ``I have never, in any way, supported terrorism. I've spoken out against it. They're trying to intimidate people into silence.''

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[Selatius]

1. 50 years ago, he would've been branded as being "pro-communist"

The tactics are similar, but the settings have changed. Many people were cowed into silence back then as well.

[depakid]

2. I hope he takes Horowitz for all he's worth

and then some.

[struggle4progress]

3. Yet another slanderous broadside from yet another Scaife "think-tank"

Hope Beinin cleans their clock.

[AlamoDemoc]

4. K&R.....n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I'm gonna start a Complaint for him:

Count One: Libel
Count Two: Misappropriation of Image
Count Three: Invasion of Privacy

and ask for lots of punitive damages!

[ShockediSay]

6. I smell an army of AIPAC Abramoffs

in the works.