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Once again, Columbia University is at odds with Jewish groups. Campus Watch notes that the university’s Middle East Institute is honoring Amiri Baraka (pictured), New Jersey’s one-time poet laureate. State legislators abolished the position after…

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April 20, 2005
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Once again, Columbia University is at odds with Jewish groups. Campus Watch notes that the university’s Middle East Institute is honoring Amiri Baraka (pictured), New Jersey’s one-time poet laureate. State legislators abolished the position after he wrote a poem implying Israeli culpability for 9/11. (Hat tip: LGF)