Professor's e-mail raises concerns of intimidation,  Canadian Jewish News, February 13, 2003 "Trent University student Sara Berniker was astounded when she returned to school after winter vacation to find an e-mail titled 'Jew-baiting' waiting for her in her inbox. The message was sent to the Trent Jewish Students Association (TJSA) list by Prof. Michael Neumann, a Jewish philosophy professor at the university. Neumann was responding to another e-mail sent to the TJSA students the day before by B'nai Brith Canada's national campus co-ordinator, Arieh Rosenblum, about the organization's efforts to highlight possible anti-Israel and anti-Semitic writings and activities on campuses and to respond to them. In his message, Rosenblum expressed concern about an article by Neumann that was, in Rosenblum's opinion, 'anti-Israel and anti-Semitic' in its 'premises, tone and intent,' and asked the students if the professor expressed similar views in his classes. The article Rosenblum was referring to is called 'What is Anti-Semitism?' and was published in the June 4, 2002 edition of Counterpunch, a left-wing magazine. Neumann responded to Rosenblum's e-mail, which was forwarded to him, with the comment, 'It is people like you who endanger and corrupt the Jewish people' ... Prof. Derek Penslar, the director of University of Toronto's Jewish studies program, said Neumann's views are not new. His articles, he said, are part of a far-left, fringe discourse, but 'the Internet has made these views more accessible.' Technology has increased the availability of these kinds of views, Penslar said, and now the question is, 'How do we deal with it?' When asked about possible responses the university could take, Penslar said, 'There are situations when university administrators have