Hatem Bazian: Berkeley's Israel Boycott Advocate

Hatem Bazian: Berkeley’s Israel Boycott Advocate

Hatem Bazian

In a Campus Watch-sponsored article posted today at Frontpage Magazine, Berkeley resident Rima Greene and I write about a Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) event held recently at UC Berkeley, which featured radical academic Hatem Bazian. It begins like so:

Hatem Bazian, a senior lecturer in the department of Near Eastern studies at the University of California at Berkeley, provided the introduction at a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) event at Berkeley on October 26, 2010, called “What Can American Academia Do to Realize Justice for Palestinians?” Bazian is an endorser of the Israel Divestment Campaign and a signatory to the U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. He is a committed anti-Israel propagandist and activist.

In his introduction, Bazian was unabashed about promoting a politically active role for academia . . .

To read the entire article, please click here.

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University of California, Berkeley Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)

Cinnamon Stillwell

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.