MIT Professor Noam Chomsky Champions Hezbollah
The famed liguist defended the terrorist group's refusal to disarm, contradicting U.N. Resolution 1559
Academia
Discredited Qumsiyeh at Center of Davos Fracas
Mazin Qumsiyeh, a former Yale University associate professor of genetics, frequently publishes Op-Eds relying on misinformation to make his case for the replacement of Israel with a "binational state." According to today's New York Times, Qumsiyeh is now at the center of an uproar at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos for penning a magazine article calling for an international boycott of Israel and accusing Israel of "apartheid" practices.
Key Context Missing in Globe article about Saudi donor to Harvard and Georgetown
On December 13th, the Boston Globe reported that Saudi Arabian prince Alwaleed bin Talal is giving $20 million to Harvard University to establish a university-wide program in Islamic studies. He is also donating another $20 million gift to Georgetown University for a similar program. What the Globe failed to mention, however, is that the prince had previously pledged $27 million during a 2002 telethon for the Support of the al-Quds Intifada.
UPDATED: Student Editors Apologize for Anti-Semitic Column
Editors at Portland State University's campus paper have apologized for an Oct. 18 column by staff member Caelan MacTavish which blamed the Jews themselves for anti-Semitism, disparaged the Jewish people, and included a number of absurd factual errors about Judaism and Israel.
Faculty in the Trenches
An Interview with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East President Ed Beck
Lessons Learned at Columbia
Two students who led the campaign for academic freedom share strategies for effective activism
BACKGROUNDER on Professor Ilan Pappé: When Ideology Trumps Scholarship
Openly disdainful of factual accuracy, University of Haifa professor Ilan Pappé campaigns for the dismantlement of the Jewish State.
Norman Finkelstein’s Fraudulent Scholarship
Campus anti-Israel activists copy many of their arguments from Norman Finkelstein, a DePaul University political science professor who never forgets to mention that his parents were Holocaust survivors. Despite his trappings of scholarshop, Finkelstein's work has been marred by grave factual inaccuracies, omissions, and extreme bias.
The Times’ Compromised Coverage of the Columbia Controversy
Since the release last fall of the documentary film
Columbia Unbecoming in which students accused professors in the Middle
East studies department of academic intimidation, Columbia University has been
embroiled in a controversy which garnered international headlines.
San Diego Professor Gary Fields’ Orwellian Language
In an Op-Ed, Gary Fields condemns israel using the very propaganda techniques he criticizes