The Justice Department recently indicted professor Kaveh Afrasiabi, charging that for decades his persona as a neutral, mild-mannered scholar was a cover and that, in reality, he was an agent of the Islamic Republic of Iran. If... 
The "historical reality" of blasphemy restrictions exists "across all schools of mainstream law, Sunni and Shia," admitted leading hardline Pakistani-American Islamist cleric Yasir Qadhi during a March 11 webinar, "The Question... 
"I respect him and I love him," gushed Rice University sociology lecturer Craig Considine about Islam's prophet Muhammad during a March 8 webinar for Islamabad, Pakistan's National University of Modern Languages. Such... 
Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana studies Noura Erakat demands that self-professed progressives share her Israel-hatred, lest they carry the taint of "Progressive Except for Palestine" (PEP). She made this point... 
American universities are awash in foreign money, with at least $12 billion in gifts and contracts reported from 2013 through June 2019. Research by Congress and the Department of Education (DoE) demonstrates that no one knows... 
Last year, after chemistry professor Mindy Levine was invited to guest-edit a special issue of the journal Molecules, a group dedicated to the academic boycott of Israel briefly persuaded the journal to rescind the offer unless... 
"Islam is not a danger to democracy, but a source of strength for it," claimed University of Pennsylvania political science professor Anne Norton during an online conference hosted by Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University (IZU)... 
In a future Palestinian state including what is now Israel, "Jewish Israelis can remain, they just can't remain as our masters," declared Palestinian-American Noura Erakat, an assistant professor of African Studies at Rutgers... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"It is certainly the case that using language like 'an ugly Israeli occupation of precious Palestinians' would be enough to keep someone from being hired at most American universities. This is because many pro-Israel professors and administrators (as well as those hoping for big donations from pro-Israel donors) are corrupt, and are entirely willing to misuse their positions to silence voices that are inconvenient for Israeli propaganda." Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the Univ. of Michigan, on Harvard's refusal to award a tenured position to Cornel West, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard; West (quoted by Cole) blamed the decision on his support for Palestinians. "Is Harvard Denying Tenure to Cornel West over His Views on Palestine?" Informed Comment, Feb. 24, 2021. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Nothing I'd learned during my years in the ivory towers of academia had prepared me for the reality I encountered in an Iranian prison." Wang Xiyue, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and doctoral candidate at Princeton University who spent 40 months in an Iranian prison on false espionage charges, on how the Middle East studies establishment's whitewashed view of Iran as a peace-seeking victim of American Orientalist imperialism allowed him to become a victim of Tehran's corrupt, vicious regime. "What I Learned in An Iranian Prison," The Wall Street Journal, February 24, 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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