Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was former President George W. Bush's "teacher at Yale," stated Erdoan A. Shipoli at an April 27 Georgetown University webinar. While Rice was indeed a child prodigy on the piano, her... 
Andrew E. Harrod: "The hard realities of Israel's self-defense deserve critical analysis, not skewed polemics" on display at a recent Foundation for Middle East Peace webinar. 
When pondering the Iranian regime, Americans probably imagine fiery speeches by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map," or Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei bragging that the... 
"Palestinians have basically said . . . that Zionism is a bedfellow of Nazism and antisemitism," claimed Rutgers University assistant professor Noura Erakat during an April 13 webinar. Sponsored by the University of Illinois's... 
"If you are supporting our prisoners, you are supporting some of the best people on the planet," stated Coalition for Civil Freedoms (CCF) prisoner and family support coordinator Nada Dibas during a recent webinar on "Ramadan... 
"We are ambassadors for a historical legacy that we identify as Sharia law," proclaimed Khaled Abou El Fadl to his fellow Muslims during a March 26 keynote speech for the National Muslim Law Students Association 2022 conference... 
What does the "Palestinian feminist call for love" sound like? According to University of California, Santa Barbara history professor Sherene Seikaly and her co-panelists at the March 28 webinar on "Land, Life, Love, and... 
Last year I asked if scientists were more valuable to the anti-Israel BDS movement than Middle East studies and English professors. Judging by the emergence of one prominent scientist to a leadership position in the movement... 
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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