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I’m wondering, OP, would you have the same concerns if R’ Meir Kahane z”l or PM Begin were teaching the same course? Are you honestly concerned with the fact that the school has appointed a biased professor, or that you disagree with the professor’s bias and would prefer your daughter not be subject to it?

Personally, the appointment doesn’t concern me at all. What concerns me is students that are not mature or intelligent enough to recognize the professor’s bias (assuming he will teach from his bias), and will therefore not do there own research to supplement any readings assigned by the teacher. Such students would concern me even if the course was being taught by a kippa sruga wearing Jew that had been recently expelled from some hiltop in the West Bank. Of course, then, I would be concerned about students named Avraham and Miriyam instead of those named Ibrahim and Maryan.