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... 
The George Washington University (GW) has an antisemitism problem. As GW alumnus Avi D. Gordon, executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, claims, his alma mater has long "fostered a hostile environment for Jews." He's not... 
The Bridge Initiative is a quasi-academic, quasi-activist organization based at the Washington, D.C., campus of Georgetown University and sponsored by the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. It... 
In a widely predicted move, the American Anthropological Association (AAA) has now joined the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in adopting a boycott of Israeli universities. It represents a turning point in the discipline... 
The BDS-supporting, Israel-hating Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which since 2019 has been headquartered at the Washington, D.C., campus of the George Washington University (GW), needs a new home. It just got the boot... 
Part 1 of this analysis focused on Georgetown University professor John Esposito's friendship with one particular terrorist, Sami al-Arian, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Shura Council and professor of computer... 
On July 7, Georgetown University announced that Nader Hashemi, former director of the University of Denver's Center for Middle East Studies, would replace John Esposito as director of the Prince Alwaleed Center for... 
Former University of Denver Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) director Nader Hashemi discussed the "Israel lobby's campaigns to purge critical scholars from U.S. universities" in a May 10 webinar. Although he tried to... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"The members of this association, now more than half a century old, have harnessed years of rigorous scholarship and intellectual output to conclude that solidarity with Palestinians must today deepen and expand." Noura Erakat, Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies, defending the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) adoption of an academic boycott of Israel as its official policy, in "Why Our Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Will Hurt the Apartheid Regime"; Middle East Eye, April 13, 2022. (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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