Ruling-Class Peace?

In an uninformed, conspiracy-mongering article worthy of Lyndon LaRouche, Michael Barker stretches credulity as he links a now-defunct non-profit I co-founded in 2003 to my work as director of Campus Watch. In doing so, he utterly misrepresents CW and its founder, Daniel Pipes:

Others may decide whether or not I am “infamous,” but that Barker misuses quotation marks to misrepresent CW is a tactic not open to debate, since the unattributed quotes falsely imply that they are taken from CW literature or media appearances. At no time has CW described itself as a “blacklisting organization": the statement is false. Nor has CW stated that it “targets [US-based] scholars with views perceived as not sufficiently sympathetic toward Israel.” CW challenges Barker to produce such quotes from CW’s description of any facet of its mission, activities, or accomplishments.

Nor is Campus Watch founder Daniel Pipes, who also founded the Middle East Forum of which CW is a project, a “pro-Israel propagandist.” It is in the nature of conspiracy mongers to label those with whom they disagree “propagandists,” as labeling is easier than debate. Pipes is a well-respected and heavily published scholar of the Middle East who has never hesitated to criticize Israel or American policies toward the region.

(Published by Winfield Myers)