Topic: Middle East Studies

Terror U: Who is Suppressing Academic Freedom in Palestinian Universities?

January 15, 2021, Richard Cravatts

Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. In January of…

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Georgetown’s Middle East Bridge to Nowhere

December 7, 2017, Malcolm A. Kline

Amid years of reports that Georgetown’s Middle East Studies program was being compromised by apologists for violent extremists, if not outright terrorists, the school has, if anything, doubled down on its approach.

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Federally Funded Anti-Semitism

September 16, 2016, Malcolm A. Kline

We’ve reported on the movement on college campuses to apply boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against entities that invest in the state of Israel. As well, we’ve shown the anti-Semitism in this campaign. Now, a…

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Feds Seek Diversity in Middle East Studies Programs

January 4, 2016, Anne Crowell

The Department of Education has started requiring universities that receive federal funding for Middle East Studies centers to report on how their programs are including diverse perspectives and a wide range of views.  This is…

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CAIR Meddling in Academia

February 23, 2015, Malcolm A. Kline

It’s not hard to find out who sets the terms of debate and parameters of discussion concerning the Middle East on American campuses today. As we have reported, our friend Tammi Rossman-Benjamin’s Amcha Initiative at…

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Where Area Studies Err

May 9, 2014, Spencer Irvine

There’s a very good chance that everything you’ve learned in your Middle East studies class is wrong. Haroon Ullah, currently on the policy planning staff of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s Policy Planning Staff…

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