Academia

George Bisharat’s Kangaroo Court

George BisharatGeorge Bisharat, a law professor at UC Hastings, has the very unfortunate habit of leveling blatantly false charges in his anti-Israel op-eds, which just as unfortunately sometimes get published in major newspapers.

WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: The Post Looks at Islam, and Blinks

Islam's relationship with the United States — as American as hot dogs, apple pie and shish kabob? That was general view offered in The Washington Post's July 22 Sunday "Outlook" section, which begged one difficult question after another.

PRI Uses Tax Dollars to Promote Anti-Israel Book List

Undeterred by a federal statute calling for "objectivity and balance," Public Radio International encourages its listeners to turn to partisan resources — including Jimmy Carter's error-filled, anti-Israel polemic — for information about the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Washington Post Ignores the Facts on Pappé

The Washington Post's profile of lecturer Ilan Pappe did not provide key context about why he is so reviled in Israel. The feature negligently omitted to mention Pappe's very open rejection of historical facts.

Norman Finkelstein, Benny Morris and Peace not Apartheid

Norman Finkelstein cites Israeli historian Benny Morris as an example of someone who agrees with Jimmy Carter's apartheid analogy. Morris makes clear that this is not true, describing Finkelstein as "a notorious distorter of facts."

UPDATED: Another Emory Professor Denounces Carter

The professor of anthropology cites Carter's "numerous and serious errors of commission and omission," and points to a passage in Palestine: Peace not Apartheid that "makes President Carter an apologist for terrorists."