If so, then pity the end of academic standards at Yale. Cole is a pseudo-scholar who teaches at the University of Michigan. He used to be the chief jihadnik at the pro-terror anti-American and anti-Jewish Middle East Studies Association, a propaganda group pretending to be a scholarly association. Cole, who led the lobby to clear Saddam of any ties with terrorism, believes that a group of Jewish neo-conservatives largely runs U.S. policy toward the Middle East. His recurrent theory is that a nebulous .pro-Likud cabal controls the U.S. government from a small number of key positions in the Executive Branch. Jonathan Calt Harrishas declared: “He (Cole) is blindly anti-Israel to the point of being an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist, an apologist for radical Islam, and someone who despises American public opinion.” Cole has also pushed the Israel divestment campaign by campus anti-Semites, supposedly because Arabs are “mistreated” by Israel. Never mind that Arabs in Israel are treated a thousand times better than are Arabs in Arab countries. Cole is notoriously dishonest, and is a close comrade of Justin Raimondo, whom Cole regards as a reliable source. The Yale Heraldreveals the imminent threat to Yale students blowing in with the hot air from Michigan. One Yalie expressed her fears:
We here at Chronwatch recently revealed that Cole still links his personal web site to that of an unemployed Holocaust Denier and neo-nazi, Kurt Nimmo, whom Cole considers to be “progressive” and “academic”, even though Nimmo himself (who writes poems about his own hemorrhoids) was even fired by Counterpunch for his dopey conspiracism and anti-Semitism. I guess Counterpunch now has higher standards than Yale....
