"Colonial Zionism has to end," concluded prominent University of California-Berkeley history professor Ussama Makdisi during an October 23 podcast on "Historicizing and Contextualizing the Palestinian Struggle," an episode of... 
Many Americans were surprised by the seemingly spontaneous protests on college campuses in support of "Palestine" after the Hamas assault on Israel. After all, how could anyone do anything other than condemn the Hamas pogrom, in... 
Israel is a "genocidal machine," stated Bard College Associate Professor of Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies Ziad Abu-Rish during an Oct. 20 Jadaliyya webinar. Such anti-Israel vitriol following the brutal Oct. 7 slaughter... 
After the mass terrorist atrocity along the Israel/Gaza border on October 7, we had the horrific sight of radicals on American campuses siding with Hamas. For example, some student organizations have overtly engaged in clear... 
Writing in his favorite online "resistance" propaganda outlet, The Electronic Intifada, Columbia University professor Joseph Massad is excited about what he calls "the Palestinian war of liberation." He is ecstatic over the... 
Just one day after the 50th anniversary of the surprise Arab attack on Israel that launched the 1973 Yom Kippur War, jihadists from Gaza's Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations unleashed another surprise attack on... 
Only a delusional, Israel-hating "progressive" could believe that academia is a too-conservative, too-Zionist "space," prone to censoring leftists. Nevertheless, that was the message on August 24 when four self-styled "Palestine... 
History, Lies, and the Islamic Republic: Georgetown Prof Distorts the Past to Absolve Iran's Despots
A 1953 "coup put an end to the best hope for democratic secular politics in Iran during the 20th century," stated Nader Hashemi during a recent Alternative Radio (AR) podcast titled "Iran: The Struggle for Democracy." Hashemi, an... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"We are seeing a horrifying attempt to shut down the space for freedom of speech in Western societies around Palestine. They are not just shutting down people who support Hamas. They are shutting down people who say anything positive about Palestine in American universities or in the media." Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, on the reaction to Hamas's murder of over 1,400 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023. From an interview with Daniel Finn: "We Are Seeing a Horrifying Attempt to Shut Down Speech Around Palestine"; Jacobin, Oct. 31, 2023. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Academics in U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries." William Jacobson, founder of the Legal Insurrection website and clinical professor of law at Cornell University, in a discussion with the Breitbart News Network about the impending vote by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on whether to adopt BDS as its official policy. Interview posted at SoundCloud, December 19, 2021. (link to source) CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds. |
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