"Zionist greed knows no bounds: no matter what you give them, they want more," declared Yasir Qadhi on June 5 at the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas, where this prominent Muslim academic and cleric is a resident... 
Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi starred in a May 20 anti-Israel online "teach-in" named after his blatantly biased 2020 book, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance... 
The most infamous university in "Palestine" has a new president, and, surprisingly, he is an American professor at an Ivy League school. Starting in the Fall 2021 semester, Beshara Doumani, director of Brown University's Center... 
In what proved to be a snapshot of professional views of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the eve of war, Georgetown University adjunct professor and Middle East Institute (MEI) senior fellow Khaled Elgindy concluded that the "Arab... 
"Israel is a colonial, apartheid regime," an "international crime," said Lubnah Shomali, the advocacy manager for the Bethlehem-based Palestinian "refugee" organization BADIL during a May 10 Middle East Institute (MEI) webinar... 
Islamic scholars historically have placed "too much emphasis on jihad as basically a violent" rather than nonviolent doctrine, stated Mount Holyoke College international relations professor Sohail Hashmi in an April 11 webinar... 
Long Island University political science associate professor Dalia Fahmy stated her goal of "breaking the Islamophobia industry" in the April 24 webinar, "Islamophobia & the American Muslim Community." Her reiteration of... 
Concerning Palestinian Authority (PA) elections set to begin on May 22, George Washington University political science professor Nathan Brown wants "not to sound Pollyannaish" over "developments that will be not entirely... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"The attempts to transform the conversation on Israeli state violence to a series of stale talking points about Hamas rockets reflect the thorough dehumanization of Palestinians and the abject disregard for Israeli military aggression." From a vehemently anti-Israel petition defending Palestinian rocket attacks and calling on universities to implement BDS, encourage activism by students, and end military aid to Israel. Signed by over 4,000 professors, including many in Middle East studies. "Open Letter and Call to Action," Palestine and Praxis: Scholars for Palestinian Freedom; May 14, 2021. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"In the past decade, dhimmitude has become widespread. Normal kids at elite universities keep their heads down. Over the course of four years, this can become a subtle but real habit of obeisance, a condition of moral and spiritual surrender." R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, on why the widespread internalization of second-class status by non-activist students at elite universities makes them unattractive job candidates, and why he instead hires graduates of traditionally-oriented colleges or large state universities. "Why I Stopped Hiring Ivy League Graduates"; The Wall Street Journal, June 7, 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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