The Hollow Cry of ‘McCarthyism’

Clemens Heni, director of the Berlin International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA), has observed of Rhodes College history professor Jonathan Judaken that “he is not at all upset, worried or scared about Islamist anti-Semitism, although he knows that it exists.” Instead, Heni writes, Judaken fears critics of Islamism, critics of left-wing anti-Zionism, and critics of mainstream anti-Israel propaganda. Perhaps these fears explain Judaken’s recent attack on me, published here at Inside Higher Ed.

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Second, Judaken erroneously attributes my article to Campus Watch and calls me “an appointed watchdog for Campus Watch.” In fact, the article appeared on Robert Spencer’s website Jihad Watch, and had nothing to do with Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, a separate organization.

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A.J. Caschetta is a principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University, where he studied the effects of the French Revolution and Reign of Terror on British society. After 9/11, he began focusing on the rhetoric of radical Islamists and on Western academic narratives explaining Islamist terrorism. He has written frequently for the Middle East Quarterly.
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