Posts Tagged: MESA
Middle East Professors Boycott Israel — Where’s the Moral Outrage?
Hours after the American Studies Association (ASA) announced its membership had voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel in 2013, the American Association of...
Middle East Studies Association Votes to Boycott Israel
The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) announced on Wednesday its endorsement of the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Members of the association, which...
MESA’s Troubling ‘Statement of Solidarity With the Palestinians’
Following the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after an intense 11 days of military activity, universities published statements of support. Surprisingly, however, this support was...
MESA Again Demonstrates Its Contempt for Israel
JNS.org - No sooner had President Donald Trump signed an executive order applying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s working definition of antisemitism to college...
In Criticizing Israel, MESA Ignores Terror Threats on Palestinian Campuses
Despite all the corrupt, tyrannical theocracies and dictatorships in the Middle East, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) -- the academic umbrella organization for the...
No Surprise That MESA Opposes the ‘Anti-Semitism Awareness Act’
Why does the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) -- a nonprofit academic organization that says it commends efforts to “combat discrimination and harassment against Jewish,...
Middle East Studies Association (as Usual) Singles Out Israel for Attack, Excuses Palestinian Perfidy
The Middle East Studies Association gave up all pretense of being a scholarly organization when it was taken over by the followers of Edward Said...
The Middle East Studies Association Is Fundamentally Anti-Zionist
The room at the Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, DC, was overflowing for a special session billed as “Thinking Palestine Intersectionally.” The audience filled the seats,...
Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel
Israel Studies are rarely centerstage at annual conferences of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA); but when they are, one can be certain that they’ll be the...
Scholars: Middle Eastern Studies Association’s Vote to Remove Self-Description as ‘Non-Political’ Indicates It’s Preparing to Pass Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution
A renowned American-Israel historian told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that the vote earlier this month by members of a US academic society to remove the term "non-political"...
Middle East Studies Professors Back Antisemitic BDS Campaign
The renowned Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis once observed that Middle East Studies programs have been distorted by “a degree of thought control and limitations...
Middle East Studies Group Once Again Demonstrates Anti-Israel Agenda
It's only to be expected. For more than two decades, my colleagues and I at the Middle East Forum (MEF) have criticized the decline of Middle East studies programs. Now,...
