Tufts Prof Thomas Abowd: Jews Colonial Usurpers in Jerusalem

Thomas Abowd

The work of Thomas Abowd of Tufts is part of a broad effort by Middle East studies specialists to delegitimize Israel as a Jewish state by falsely denying or downplaying the ancient and enduring Hebrew history of Jerusalem. In a recent lecture in Washington, Abowd asserted that Israel “has built a whole national mythology out of the City of David,” including even the Western Wall, whose significance he called an “invention of relatively recent construction.” Writing for Campus Watch, Andrew Harrod reports on Abowd’s absurd claims today at FrontPage Magazine:

Israel “has built a whole national mythology out of the City of David” in a “weaponization of myth,” stated Israel-hating Tufts University professor Thomas Abowd on March 17 at Washington, DC’s anti-Israel Jerusalem Fund think tank. Condemnation of “Israeli Colonial Racism” described in a Powerpoint presentation formed his lecture’s central theme, which incongruously presented Jews as colonial usurpers in their own ancestral national homeland before an audience of about twenty.

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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.