September 22, 2003	Monday	Rajab 24, 1424

WASHINGTON, Sept 21: A University of Oregon sociology professor is claiming defamation and seeking $1.1 million from the authors of a column published in the New York Post last year that labelled him as anti-Semitic and listed him among six “left-wing extremists” who “indoctrinate students” through their teaching.

Adjunct Professor Douglas Card names as defendants Daniel Pipes, a controversial Bush administration appointee to the US Institute of Peace, and Pipes’ research assistant, Jonathan Schanzer.

The June 25, 2002, op-ed piece remains in publication on the website of Campus Watch, a group Pipes formed through his Philadelphia think tank, Middle East Forum, to monitor and critique the teaching of Middle East issues.

The column, titled “Extremists on Campus,” accuses Card of describing Israel as “a terrorist state” and Israelis as “baby killers” in his course. The column also claims that Card insists that his students agree in a final exam with his view that Israel “stole land.”

The column claims that “leftist activism that too often passes for Middle East scholarship” creates a wave of “verbal and physical attacks” on campuses.