When the coronavirus restrictions prevented Middle East Studies academics from getting together in groups, they took their support for Palestine online. BDS organizations have been sucking up bandwidth for many months, pursuing... 
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled, the first female hijacker, will speak September 23 via Zoom to the "open classrooms" of San Francisco State University professors Rabab Abdulhadi and Tomomi Kinukawa. It is an outrage... 
New York University is no longer content to be the second most important anti-Zionist campus in New York City. Columbia University, with its Center for Palestine Studies, has first place locked up. But lately my alma mater has... 
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the largest academic organization for the field, has a long and ignominious record of defending apologists for Palestinian terrorism and BDS advocates, even as it opposes efforts to... 
"Ending capitalism, that is the ultimate solution," preached Rabab Abdulhadi, the radical, Israel-hating San Francisco State University associate professor of ethnic studies. Throughout the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and... 
Brown University, the Ivy League college founded in 1764, is the latest high-profile academic institution to go all in for Palestine, a country that does not exist. Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies, a Ramallah... 
"We are witnessing right now in the United States one of the most remarkable uprisings of black people against the structural regime of racial domination," exclaimed Rutgers University law professor Noura Erakat. In a June 3... 
Those concerned with the state of Middle East studies have a litany of common complaints: politicized professors that teach fringe academic theories, rampant anti-Semitism masking as criticism of Israel, instant capitulation to... 
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)"Some of us came into history precisely to escape the passions of the moment, to gain the breadth of outlook that comes with a deeper historical perspective. We understand, as many of our contemporaries seem not to, that importing modern agendas into the study of the past makes us worse historians, less able to understand the past in its own terms." James Hankins, Professor of History at Harvard University, on the difficulties faced by history graduate students who resist the trendy methodologies and political ideologies that dominate the discipline. In "How to Renew Traditional Historical Studies in Graduate School"; the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, August 19, 2020. (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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