Bias Expected, Evidence Optional for NYU Professor

Zachary Lockman

A Campus Watch reporter attended a recent event at NYU at which Middle East studies professor Zachary Lockman displayed a shocking disregard for the need to approach historical evidence in an unbiased manner--or indeed, on the need for documentary sources in the writing of history. Alan Jacobs’s article appears today at American Thinker:

An audience of 40 journalism students and die-hard fans packed the TV studio at New York University’s Carter Journalism Institute on Wednesday, November 3. Visibly excited to meet cartoon journalist Joe Sacco after a discussion of his work with NYU’s Middle East professor Zachary Lockman, a number of students arrived early to get their copies of Sacco’s new graphic novel, Footnotes in Gaza, and his older work, Palestine, autographed. After thirty or so Starbucks espressos were discarded and most phones were silenced, the “conversation,” part of an NYU series entitled “Primary Sources: Coverage in Context,” began on schedule. The conversation focused mainly on Footnotes in Gaza, which employs comic strips to chronicle alleged Israeli abuses in Gaza in 1956.

To read the rest of this article, please click here.

Twitter
Telegram
LinkedIn
Email
Copy
Link copied
Print

New York University Zachary Lockman

Winfield Myers

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.