"This is not a story about conflict and about two peoples breaking bread and getting along. This is a struggle against settler-colonialism" in Israel, stated Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies Noura... 
Unless the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill takes steps to correct "repeated anti-Semitic activity" in the classroom, it may be in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI CRA), according to a... 
Reinvigorated by the Biden administration's catastrophic foreign policy failures, the global Islamist movement is now emboldened to a degree not seen since the Soviet departure from Afghanistan in 1989. This new triumphalism was... 
Six Palestinian terrorists who recently escaped briefly from an Israeli prison "carved for the rest of us a portal, a portal of joy, of time and of possibility," gushed University of California, Santa Barbara history professor...
"What both American policy and Chinese Middle East policy have in common, rhetoric aside, is a shared focus on supporting authoritarian regimes in the Middle East," stated University of Denver Middle East studies professor Nader... 
"9/11, as we all know, does not begin on 9/11" when Al Qaeda waged jihad against the United States, but has an imperialist prehistory that goes "back really to the birth of the colonial order," stated UCLA history professor... 
The webinar "9/11: American Muslims Twenty Years Later" does not concern "who did it, was it Mossad, the CIA, and how did bin Laden get operatives in the building to orchestrate a controlled demolition," stated Zaytuna College... 
America's recent military withdrawal from Afghanistan "is a fantastic defeat for U.S. imperialism," crowed Rutgers University professor of media studies Deepa Kumar during the Sept. 10 webinar "Twenty Years after 9/11... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"We have only just begun to comprehend the homo-nationalist and ... homo-capitalist forces of a purported secular queerness that produces coming out as a technology of Christian theological confession ... and hypercritically demands reconciliation of Islam and sexuality through those very terms." Jasbir Puar, professor and graduate director of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, in her introduction as moderator of a webinar featuring professors and activists, "Twenty Years After 9/11: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire," September 10, 2021. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"The academic boycott of Israel is actually meant to isolate and stigmatize Jewish academics in America. It serves the aim of pushing Jewish academics out of shrinking disciplines, where Jews are believed to be 'over-represented.' That is how diehard supporters of the Palestinians find academic allies who have little interest in Palestine, in fields like American studies or English literature." Martin Kramer, professor of Middle Eastern history and founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, on the real motivations for the spread of the academic boycott against Israel. "The Unspoken Purpose of the Academic Boycott," Israel Affairs 27, no. 1 (January 2021): 27-33. (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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