"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... 
For Palestinians, the "major shift has to be to a politics of resistance; it has to be about alienating Israel," stated Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies Noura Erakat during a Nov. 17 Middle East... 
A new study that I compiled for the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise found that U.S. institutions received more than $10 billion in foreign gifts from Arab sources from 1981 to October 2020. While it is not surprising the... 
A recent governmental report exposes the "purchased" influence foreign nations have on America's most prestigious universities and, as a result, on what America's current and upcoming generations of analysts and policymakers... 
In the latest high-level effort to hold academia accountable for its potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for a "comprehensive... 
The university leaders listed below (seven in the U.S. and two in Canada) failed to object to, or take action to prevent, a scheduled October 23, 2020 "message from Leila Khaled," the unrepentant Palestinian terrorist. The series... 
Unrepentant Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled's September 23 virtual appearance at San Francisco State University couldn't have occurred without the steadfast support of Lynn Mahoney, SFSU's far-left virtue-signaling president... 
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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