Anger Grows at Brandeis University

Brandeis University's refusal to address concerns about possible ties between a prominent Palestinian Arab scholar, Khalil Shikaki, and the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad is prompting outrage in the Jewish community and among some Brandeis alumni.

Calls are mounting for an investigation into Mr. Shikaki's documented associations with known terrorists. Mr. Shikaki was named last year as a scholar at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. One of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's more notorious acts was an April 1995 bombing in Israel that killed a Brandeis student, Alisa Flatow.

As The New York Sun reported last month, government wiretaps of conversations between Mr. Shikaki and the current leader of PIJ, Ramadan Abdul lah Shallah, and between other alleged terrorists, show that Mr. Shikaki distributed money in the West Bank for associates of a Florida professor accused of operating the American wing of PIJ, Sami Al-Arian, who raised the funds in America.

Is this someone who we want teaching in college, let alone anywhere else?

This follows episodes at other colleges around the country where terrorist sympathizers, or even former terrorists themselves, have managed to become tenured professors in a wide range of disciplines.

Students for Academic Freedom and Campus Watch both track these incidents.