Steven Salaita, recently booted from the American Univ. of Beirut after its presidentfound “numerous significant violations” in a hiring process “that was not up to university standards of fairness and transparency,” is using the American Anthropological Association’snarrow defeat of a proposed BDS measure to claim moral victory and paint BDS supporters as victims. Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Salaita says BDS “affirms the ideals of equal access underlying” academic work and “offers an ethical way to respond to appeals for solidarity.” Just the kind of reasoning one would expect from a huckster fired from the U. of Illinois for rank anti-Semitism and from AUB for a stacked hiring committee.
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.
