THERE’VE BEEN SOME developments over the past few days in the case of Professor Mona Baker, director of the Center for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in England. Turns out she’s a native Egyptian, for one thing.

Which by itself would be an altogether unremarkable detail–had Professor Baker not recently made herself internationally notorious for a particularly outlandish expression of hostility to . . . um . . . Jewish people.