Middle East Studies Meltdown on Jerusalem

Israel’s Capital, Jerusalem

President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has Middle East studies professors in a frenzy. Campus Watch West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell chronicles the academic meltdown at the Algemeiner:

Hackneyed predictions that the Middle East will “go up in flames” following President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital—and subsequent plans to move the U.S. embassy—have yet to materialize. While there have been scattered protests, they haven’t amounted to the prophesied regional conflagration.

Rather, most of the hysteria is coming from professors of Middle East studies, who have taken their preexisting animosity towards Israel and the U.S. to new heights, while promoting divisive conspiracy theories about Jewish and Christian power.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.