‘Black-Palestinian Solidarity’ Video Featured PLO-Connected Profs Rashid Khalidi and Noura Erakat

The convergence of anti-Israel and Black Lives Matter activists is all too visible in the field of Middle East studies. For instance, the 2015 “When I See Them, I See Us” video referenced in this Moment Magazine article on the subject featured two such professors, Columbia University’s Rashid Khalidi and George Mason University’s Noura Erakat. Interestingly, both happen to be connected to the PLO: Khalidi is a former PLO spokesman and Erakat is the niece of PLO leader Saeb Erakat. It’s a small world after all.

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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