Campus Watch Fellows

Campus Watch Fellows are experienced writers and scholars who produce a steady stream of essays and reports on Middle East studies.

Mitchell Bard is the executive director of the nonprofit American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) and director of the Jewish Virtual Library. For three years he was the editor of the Near East Report, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) weekly newsletter on U.S. Middle East policy. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from UCLA and has written and edited 22 books, including Will Israel Survive?, Myths And Facts: A Guide to the Arab Israeli Conflict, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Middle East Conflict and 48 Hours of Kristallnacht. His latest books are The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East and Israel Matters: Understand the Past – Look to the Future.

A. J. Caschetta is a senior lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he teaches English and political science. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University, where he studied the effects of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror on British society. After 9/11, he began focusing on the rhetoric of radical Islamists and on Western academic narratives explaining Islamist terrorism. He writes frequently for the Middle East Quarterly and his writings have appeared in many outlets, including the Washington Examiner, the Hill, Inside Higher Education, and the Daily Caller.

Andrew E. Harrod is a freelance researcher and writer who holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar. Harrod’s work concerning various political and religious topics has appeared at the American Thinker, Breitbart, the Daily Caller, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, and World, among others. He is a fellow with the Lawfare Project, an organization combating the misuse of human rights law against Western societies.

Asaf Romirowsky is executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). He is also a fellow at the Middle East Forum and an adjunct professor at Haifa University. Trained as a Middle East historian, he holds a Ph.D. in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King’s College, London, and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict, American foreign policy in the Middle East, and Israeli and Zionist history. Romirowsky is co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief.

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