Using the 'Arab Uprisings' to Bash America and Israel

Using the ‘Arab Uprisings’ to Bash America and Israel

James Gelvin

Judith Greblya, writing for Campus Watch, reports on a recent lecture at UCLA on the “Arab uprisings” that devolved into a forum for America and Israel bashing. Her article appears today at Frontpage Magazine and it begins like so:

On Thursday November 10, 2011, approximately sixty people gathered for a lecture hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. The event was titled, “Taking Stock: The Arab Uprising on the Eve of Their First Anniversary” and it featured two history professors, James Gelvin of ULCA and Juan Cole of the University of Michigan.

Though the two-hour event promised to illuminate the various particulars and multi-layered realities of the Arab uprisings, it quickly dwindled into a platform for the type of postcolonial, anti-American, and anti-Israel rhetoric typical to the field of Middle East studies, and certainly to the notoriously biased Gelvin and Cole.

To read the entire article, please click here.

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Cinnamon Stillwell

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.