UC-Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, who in 2004 said “it’s about time that we had an intifada in this country” and who required 100 students to create Twitter accounts and post comments about “Islamophobia,” wants to stop Bill Maher, the new bete noire of Islamists, from speaking at Berkeley. Typical Middle East studies tactic: vitriolic speech for me, silence for thee.
Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.
