Columbia’s Rashid Khalidi: Pro-Israel People ‘Are Going to Infest Our Government’

Columbia University professor and Obama mentor Rashid Khalidi is warning that pro-Israel “people infest the Trump transition team” and “are going to infest our government as of January 20.” What’s worse, “they are hand in glove with a similar group of people in the Israeli government and Israeli political life who think that whatever they think can be imposed on reality.” Given the anti-Israel “infestation” of the past eight years, the latter sounds awfully familiar.

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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