Hmmmmm! Alan Dershowitz has been tracking down precisely how anti-Semitic terrorism supporter Norman Finkelstein got hired at DePaul. Anybody recognize the name of the sponsor?

One detail of Dershowitz’s account of Finkelstein’s career stands out: After being “fired by ‘every school in New York,’” according to Finkelstein's own account, “radical Islamist Aminah McCloud – a follower of Louis Farrakhan – helped him land a job at DePaul.”

We know well that extremist academics have been systematically at work for decades hiring clones of themselves and replicating their ranks. But there has been little public naming and scrutiny of the backgrounds of exactly who has served on the committees responsible for the one-sided cloning and replication.

Learning more about the scholarship and activism of McCloud, for example, strikes me as a worthy enterprise. And, how about similarly checking into who exactly committed the dastardly deed of hiring the disgraced Ward Churchill?

I don’t know about you, but I sure do – she has been in the news quite recently, a key figure in stopping the presentation of a documentary on PBS.

• WETA appointed an advisory board that includes Aminah Beverly McCloud, director of World Islamic Studies at DePaul University. In an "unparalleled breach of ethics," Burke says, McCloud took rough-cut segments of the film and showed them to Nation of Islam officials, who are a subject of the documentary. They threatened to sue.

"This utterly undermines any journalistic independence," Burke wrote in an e-mail to WETA officials.

In an interview, McCloud said she showed a single video frame to a Muslim journalist who was not a Nation of Islam representative.

However, in a January e-mail, McCloud told Crossroads producers that she had spoken with Nation of Islam representatives and "invited them over to view this section." She also wrote that they were outraged "and will promptly pursue litigation."

Stewart, the WETA executive, said McCloud was admonished for "inappropriate" conduct.

So, not only is McCloud an advocate for pro-terrorist anti-Semites like Finkelstein, she was a leading figure in the censorship of a documentary critical of Islamist elements infiltrating American mosques. What is she doing teaching at an allegedly Catholic institution like DePaul?

Here is more information about the documentary and the campaign to get it shown.

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