The Middle East Studies Establishment Goes Full Warrior

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has attacked Campus Watch for its campaignto stop the implementation of a Memorandum of Understanding between San Francisco State U. and Hamas-loving An-Najah U. in the West Bank. Responding at the History News Network, MEF president Daniel Pipes ridicules MESA’s blatant hypocrisy, documents it numerous errors, and sets the record straight:

It’s only to be expected. My colleagues and I at the Middle East Forum have for over two decades criticized the decline of Middle East studies; so now, its syndicate, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), has for the first time in 14 years replied in kind. The fusillade takes the form of a letter to Leslie Wong, president of San Francisco State University (SFSU).

MEF’s Campus Watch has documented the disturbing ties between SFSU and An-Najah University, a radical institution in the West Bank lauded by Hamas as a “greenhouse for martyrs” and described by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as a hotbed of “terrorist recruitment, indoctrination, and [the] radicalization of students.” We believe that Najah’s long and sordid record should make it an academic pariah.

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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.