The Get Iran Club
In April 2006 Michael Rubin, along with other prominent neoconservatives, participated in a smear campaign against respected blogger and University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, who was being considered for a tenured position at Yale, Rubin's alma mater.Writing in the Yale Daily News, Rubin hinted that Cole's analysis of the Middle East might be skewed by anti-Semitism. “While Cole condemns anti-Semitism,” wrote Rubin, “he accuses prominent Jewish-American officials of having dual loyalties, a frequent anti-Semitic refrain. That he accuses Jewish Americans of using ‘the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment' is unfortunate” (Yale Daily News, April 18, 2006).
On June 1, 2006, Yale's Senior Appointments Committee announced that it had rejected Cole's nomination, despite three other committees having already accepted it. Several observers were convinced that the rejection was a direct result of the accusations against Cole. “I'm saddened and distressed by the news,” said John Merriman, a Yale history professor. “I love this place. But I haven't seen something like this happen at Yale before. In this case, academic integrity clearly has been trumped by politics” (The Nation, July 3, 2006).http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1345
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