For Stockton University Professor Nazia Kazi, President Barack Obama in his announcement of Osama bin Laden's May 2, 2011, killing was "easily washing the bloodstained hands of U.S. global dominance." Such America-hating... 
Modern Zionism "is a self-described colonial-settler project," stated Columbia University Rashid Khalidi last month at Washington, DC's Politics and Prose bookstore before a standing-room-only audience of about 120. This Edward... 
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action." By contemporary Washington standards, James Bond's nemesis Goldfinger was naïve. He was only scheming to corner the world's gold supply by using a... 
Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) has called on the Department of Education to investigate Georgetown's use of Title VI federal funds to promote the boycott of Israel. 
Now that Qasem Soleimani's mortal coil has reached room temperature, and he is enjoying the fruits of his martyrdom, sympathizers everywhere are mourning him and praising him. His postmortem fan-club members are all denizens of... 
Academics today are obsessed with colonization, empire, and cultural hegemony, along with postcolonialism, ethnic studies, and intersectionality. Scholarship in many fields has come to be dominated by hegemony-fighting... 
No sooner had President Donald Trump signed an executive order applying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism to college campuses than the Middle East Studies Association... 
Sarah Ihmoud is an up and coming cultural anthropologist and currently a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program. BU is reportedly close to hiring her for a full-time teaching... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"To call [Israel] a settler colonial project is not to deny the legitimacy of Judaism or of Jewish people in the region. Settler colonialism is not just controlling the territory in the land, but it's actually moving people onto that land and replacing the indigenous people of the land." Marc Lamont Hill, Steve Charles Professor of Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University, explaining "Why Black People Should Care About Palestine"; The Root, March 11, 2020. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"[T]he particular funding program at issue provides funding for Mideast studies to promote knowledge of the Middle East to serve U.S. foreign policy objectives. As a result of this mandate, the relevant funding law requires universities to pledge that their programs will be balanced. In other words, monitoring balance is not some bizarre or aggressive anti-academic freedom initiative, but just enforcing the law, –a law, admittedly, that previous administrations failed to enforce." David Bernstein, a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, responding to criticism of President Trump's executive order that could impact Title VI funding for Middle East studies programs; Reason Magazine, December 12, 2019. (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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