Martin Kramer notes that Stanford U. Press’s blog is running a “10-part series, featuring essays from noteworthy scholars on the ongoing crisis in Gaza,” and that every single essay featured is virulently anti-Israel. The naked bias at SUP is another example of the malaise infecting the field of Middle East studies. Featured scholars include Joel Beinin of Stanford, Amahl Bishara of Tufts, and Orit Bashkin of Chicago, who pays CW a back-handed compliment by inviting readers to learn about radical leftist scholars in Israel (her kind of folk) by visiting “the Israeli version of Campus Watch, the Israel Academia Monitor.” Let’s hope they stop by CW while they’re at it.
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.
