Dying to learn more about "Rural-Urban Womanscapes" or "Space, Materiality, and Biopolitics" in the Mideast while hobnobbing with anti-Israel extremists? The Middle East Studies Association annual conference is this week. From A.J. Caschetta. 
A.J. Caschetta laments the establishment of yet "another grievance narrative–peddling cog in the Middle East Studies academic complex, biased against Israel and working hand in glove with the other elements of the Islamophobia industry." 
Columbia professor Joseph Massad says that the Jews are imposters, lying about their claim of descent from the ancient Hebrews, who he says abandoned their religion and traditions to become today's Palestinians. From Andrew E. Harrod. 
Many of "Middle East studies' leading oracles" persist in the belief that Iran's theocracy is stable and trustworthy, few more than Shireen Hunter. From Andrew E. Harrod. 
The prejudice against Israel in higher education institutions has been so widespread and pervasive that hardly a week goes by without news reports about anti-Israel and antisemitic incidents on campuses. What is less known... 
Two U.S. Representatives have opened a Congressional inquiry into an Oberlin College professor after an FWI investigation revealed his ties to Iran and Hezbollah. In a September 28 letter, U.S. Representatives Jim Banks (R-IN)... 
University of Denver Middle East studies professor Nader Hashemi provoked widespread shock recently by speculating that Israel orchestrated the August 12 attempted assassination of writer Salman Rushdie in upstate New York. Yet... 
The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is an organization with the stated goal to "represent American institutions of higher education and research in the field of Iranian Studies." It has an impressive list of... 
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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