How is the Middle East studies establishment reacting to the Trump administration's rejection of Obama's Iran deal and its new National Security Strategy? As Campus Watch Fellow Andrew Harrod demonstrates at the Algemeiner, the professors are unhinged.
President Donald Trump is a "fascist who ... might even lead us into a new war" with Iran, raged University of California-Riverside professor Reza Aslan in February 2017. Aslan's hyperbole illustrates the Middle East studies establishment's rejection of the Trump administration's policy changes to American involvement in the Middle East — especially its stance toward the Obama administration's Iran deal and its new National Security Strategy (NSS).