Posts Tagged: Middle East Studies
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...
88 Groups Urge US Education Dept. to Prevent Misuse of Taxpayer Funds to Boycott Israel
Eighty-eight groups urged the US Department of Education on Wednesday to safeguard against the misuse of federal funds to promote boycotts of Israel in academia. In...
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...
Middle East Studies Meltdown on Jerusalem
Hackneyed predictions that the Middle East would “go up in flames” following President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -- and subsequent plans to...
Mideast Studies Departments Display Further Moral Rot in Lenient Treatment of Sexual Harassment
The famously self-righteous field of Middle East studies, which lambastes outside criticism as "censorship" and condemns America, Israel and the West while lauding Islamists, now...
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...
Academic Watchdog Lists Professors Who Have Called for Boycott of Israel
JNS.org - The AMCHA Initiative, an organization dedicated to investigating and combating anti-Semitism at academic institutions, has released a list of 218 professors identifying as...
Arabist Snobs
Is knowledge of Arabic necessary to write about Arabs or make policy toward them? Yes, sniff some of those who have learned the...
