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... 
It turns out hosting a terrorist can have consequences, even when the event is a flop. Last week, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., referred for potential prosecution San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney, Profs. Rabab... 
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... 
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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