Phrases like “pro-Palestinian advocacy” and “anti-Palestinian racism” have become devoid of meaning. They are increasingly being used in the media, educational, and advocacy worlds to describe speech and conduct that have little, if anything, to do with the plain meaning of the words.
One can legitimately question the wisdom and even the motivations of government officials exerting financial pressure on universities over their handling of antisemitism. But the toxic culture that has burgeoned at Harvard, and the university’s failure to take meaningful steps to reverse it, discredit Alan Garber’s self-serving declarations that he can address the problem without external intervention. As the last year and a half illustrated, the same is true for many of the nation’s top universities.
CAMERA did not target a pair of Georgetown University "academics" for their speech; we targeted them for their conduct on behalf of and in support of a terrorist organization. It is this simple fact which the ACLU goes to such lengths to obfuscate. Working for and aiding terrorists is not a civil liberty. On the contrary, it is a very real threat to our freedoms.
At Brown’s Center for Middle East Studies, students are being fed a dogma in service of a sectional interest which makes no secret of its desire to control the pursuit of knowledge.
The arrest, detention, and pending deportation of Badar Khan Suri, an “academic” at Georgetown University, illuminate a disturbing reality about modern society. No, not about U.S. immigration policy. Rather, the situation is exposing the mainstream media’s extraordinary failure to perform basic journalism.
In an article on the arrest of the pro-terror husband of a Hamas-affiliated student at Georgetown, Politico sounds less like a news agency and more like a public relations firm. Unfortunately for Politico, that omitted context came from research produced by CAMERA.
The case of Mahmoud Khalil has been the talk of the nation’s media in recent days. Predictably, coverage has been short on context but tall on editorializing platitudes.
Mapheze Ahmad Yousef Saleh is as a graduate student at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). She also happens to be the daughter of Ahmed Yousef, who served as a top adviser for the terrorist organization Hamas under Ismail Haniyeh’s leadership. In fact, Mapheze herself has worked for the designated terrorist organization.
Napoleon Bonaparte, himself a giant of history, famously remarked that “history is a set of lies agreed upon.” Centuries later, the American Historical Association is on the precipice of taking the French revolutionary’s quip literally.
