Appeasement Finds a Home in the Academy

I have a new Campus Watch column up at The American Thinker on the support for appeasement-based foreign policy among Middle East studies academics. Three in particular exemplify this trend. Read on:

Instead of providing moral clarity in a time of war, too many academics busy themselves inventing strategies to get along peaceably with genocidal terrorist groups and the governments that aid and abet them. Among the appeasers, three professors of Middle East studies stand out: the University of Minnesota’s William O. Beeman; Boston University’s Augustus Richard Norton; and Harvard University’s Sara Roy.

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Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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