American universities are awash in foreign money, with at least $12 billion in gifts and contracts reported from 2013 through June 2019. Research by Congress and the Department of Education (DoE) demonstrates that no one knows... 
Last year, after chemistry professor Mindy Levine was invited to guest-edit a special issue of the journal Molecules, a group dedicated to the academic boycott of Israel briefly persuaded the journal to rescind the offer unless... 
"Islam is not a danger to democracy, but a source of strength for it," claimed University of Pennsylvania political science professor Anne Norton during an online conference hosted by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University (IZU)... 
In a future Palestinian state including what is now Israel, "Jewish Israelis can remain, they just can't remain as our masters," declared Palestinian-American Noura Erakat, an assistant professor of African Studies at Rutgers... 
For Palestinians, the "major shift has to be to a politics of resistance; it has to be about alienating Israel," stated Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies Noura Erakat during a Nov. 17 Middle East... 
A new study that I compiled for the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise found that U.S. institutions received more than $10 billion in foreign gifts from Arab sources from 1981 to October 2020. While it is not surprising the... 
A recent governmental report exposes the "purchased" influence foreign nations have on America's most prestigious universities and, as a result, on what America's current and upcoming generations of analysts and policymakers... 
In the latest high-level effort to hold academia accountable for its potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a "comprehensive... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"We really idolize somebody like Leila Khaled, somebody who actually stands up for herself, speaks for herself, actually goes to a plane and hijacks it." Rabab Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, commenting on convicted Palestinian terrorist/hijacker Leila Khaled. Quoted in "Zoom Denies Service for Controversial Panel Featuring Leila Khaled"; Goldengatexpress.org, September 22, 2020. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Nothing I'd learned during my years in the ivory towers of academia had prepared me for the reality I encountered in an Iranian prison." Wang Xiyue, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and doctoral candidate at Princeton University who spent 40 months in an Iranian prison on false espionage charges, on how the Middle East studies establishment's whitewashed view of Iran as a peace-seeking victim of American Orientalist imperialism allowed him to become a victim of Tehran's corrupt, vicious regime. (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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