Academia

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."

Historian Severs Ties with Carter Center Over Distorted Book

Historian Kenneth Stein has resigned from the Carter Center over the former president's new book which, he charges, is "replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments."

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.