The webinar "9/11: American Muslims Twenty Years Later" does not concern "who did it, was it Mossad, the CIA, and how did bin Laden get operatives in the building to orchestrate a controlled demolition," stated Zaytuna College... 
America's recent military withdrawal from Afghanistan "is a fantastic defeat for U.S. imperialism," crowed Rutgers University professor of media studies Deepa Kumar during the Sept. 10 webinar "Twenty Years after 9/11... 
It is (dis)comforting to know that as college students return to classes this fall, after a tumultuous year filled with uncertainty, some familiar qualities of academe remain: skyrocketing tuition, meddlesome administrators, and... 
When then-President Trump ordered a strike that killed two leaders of two terrorist organizations with zero collateral damage, many in the media, academia, and Hollywood immediately condemned it as impulsive and dangerous. When... 
Juan Cole—an academic who excels at cherry-picking when not completely distorting the Koran—recently published an article that opens by, irony of ironies, accusing jihadists of "cherry picking" Koran verses to justify their... 
For some years, select historians have bemoaned the direction of their discipline. They regret the turn away from war, diplomacy, economics, and ideas in favor of gender, environment, race, and sexuality, as they bemoan the... 
Hamas is "represented in a hysterical way," stated Fordham University associate professor of modern Islam Sarah Eltantawi, during an August 20 webinar on "The Nexus of Anti-Palestine Campaigns and Islamophobia." Her apologetics... 
In May, as Israel defended itself from yet another onslaught of missiles fired from Gaza, thousands of academics wrote and signed statements of solidarity with Palestinians. Along with the usual professions of contempt for the... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"Our singular backing of ever-evolving Israeli racism and illegal territorial expansion (I value international law over the Old Testament) earned us our enemies." Lawrence Davidson, professor emeritus of history at West Chester University, on how America has made enemies in the Middle East, and why the U.S. was attacked on 9/11. "Biden's Middle East Withdrawals Do not Portend a Strategic Shift"; The National Interest, August 18, 2021. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"The academic boycott of Israel is actually meant to isolate and stigmatize Jewish academics in America. It serves the aim of pushing Jewish academics out of shrinking disciplines, where Jews are believed to be 'over-represented.' That is how diehard supporters of the Palestinians find academic allies who have little interest in Palestine, in fields like American studies or English literature." Martin Kramer, professor of Middle Eastern history and founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, on the real motivations for the spread of the academic boycott against Israel. "The Unspoken Purpose of the Academic Boycott," Israel Affairs 27, no. 1 (January 2021): 27-33. (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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