Right-Wing Ivy Leaguers Try to Derail Juan Cole Appointment

Posted on Apr. 19, 2006

The liberal U. of Michigan historian and outspoken Bush administration critic is reportedly close to receiving a tenured teaching position at Yale University. But a group of conservatives, led by a Yale and a Harvard student, are trying to queer the deal by painting Cole as anti-Semitic.

Glenn Greenwald has the goods.

Jane Hamsher has more.