From the Columbia Spectator:

Controversial Barnard professor Nadia Abu El-Haj will receive tenure, according to an e-mail sent to the anthropology department list-serv by academic departmental administrator Xiomara Perez-Betances.

“Here is the good news: Professor Nadia Abu El-Haj is now a tenured member of the Barnard and Columbia Anthropology Departments,” the e-mail said, providing no further information.

Abu El-Haj has come under fire for her 2002 book, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, in which she allegedly denies the existence of the ancient Jewish state of Israel.

Though her bid for tenure drew wide criticism from alumni and organizations like Campus Watch, Abu El-Haj also received strong support…