Campus Watch Fellow Mitchell Bard reports on a University of Pennsylvania panel that celebrated the launch of professor Amy Kaplan's book, Our American Israel: The Story of An Entangled Alliance. The panel was comprised exclusively of anti-Israel academics, who, in true echo chamber fashion, praised the book, while bashing Israel and the U.S. Bard's article appears at the American Spectator.
To read the entire article, please click here.A graduate student recorded and took notes at the event, which was held in a small room and attended by a crowd of approximately fifty people, mostly older faculty. The good news was that only about a half dozen students bothered to sit through the lunchtime recitation of anti-Israel tropes.
Leading off the discussion was Columbia's Rashid Khalidi, a well-known Israel hater and former PLO spokesman, who lavished praise on Kaplan's book.