Bir Zeit on the Hudson and taqiyyah

Martin Kramer notes that when he first coined the phrase Bir Zeit on the Hudson in 2003, Edward Said's response was that there were only two 'Palestinians' among the 8,000 faculty members at Columbia and that Kramer was a McCarthyite. And yet, as I reported earlier this week, there is now a Center for 'Palestine' Studies at my alma mater. What happened since? Kramer explains.So how did Columbia