Columbia’s Hamid Dabashi Employing Anti-Semitic Tropes, Again

Columbia University Iranian studies professor Hamid Dabashi employs classic anti-Semitic tropes in his latest Israel-bashing rant, which has been denounced by campus groups like Aryeh, whose president, Adele Stolovitz, made the disturbing admission that “Many Zionist students at Columbia have become desensitized to hearing anti-Israel rhetoric in our classrooms.”

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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