"At Northeastern University, professor Muhammad Shahid Alam demonizes Israel, delegitimizes Jewish history, and infringes on his students’ free speech by shutting down any differing views. A non-Jewish student that dropped his class stated that, “if someone does raise a counterpoint, he uses semantics to twist it around and try to tear whoever asked the question apart.”
There are few academic fields that have been corrupted more than Middle East studies. Many of the Middle East studies departments in universities around the country are funded by money from Saudi Arabia,.They are staffed mostly if not entirely by biased, agenda-driven professors who preach a steady stream of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, anti-West, post-colonial dogma. In the below piece in Algemeiner, Cinnamon Stillwell of Campus Watch describes what Jewish and pro-Israel students are confronted with in the classroom.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/07/26/student-voices-exposes-anti-semitism-in-the-college-classroom/#
It is bad enough that our campuses are crawling with groups like Students for Justice in Palestine and various Muslim Student Association chapters, who agitate against Israel. It is bad enough that Jewish students who support Israel find themselves being bullied on campus. It is even worse when they have to put up with it from radical professors in the classroom-professors who use their positions as bully-pulpits to push their view of the world. One wonders how the Saree Makdisis and Hatem Bazians of the world have time to teach their courses they spend so much time speaking at events attacking Israel.
And it's not just Middle East studies. At Cal State University at Northridge, they have a math professor (David Klein) who uses the school's web server to spread his anti-Israel venom. To make matters worse, CSUN and the CSU chancellor defend this practice even though it clearly puts their imprimatur on the bashing of Israel. They ignore any and all complaints. I could go on and on. It is impossible for me or Ms Stillwell to include every professor who fits into this category. In the humanities and social sciences, they make up the majority.
If such a one-sided view is what dominates in academia, perhaps, the universities might consider closing Middle East studies.
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If we really focused on reducing carbon footprint, we'd be sending less money to Saudi Arabia, and the dollars to fund middle eastern studies departments would be coming from elsewhere.
Amna Nawaz and Palestinian-Arab terrorists attack on any Israeli Jew
June 3, 2023.
Following weeks of attacks on Israelis civilians and on Israeli anti-terror enforcers...
On the day, IDF began 'Home & Garden' - an anti-Terror operation on Jenin (with highly precision guided weapon to minimize collateral damage), Amna Nawaz, outrageously uttered the following line:
"Raising fear of an uprising against the occupation, the settlers and the right wing Israeli government..."
(PBS News hour, July 3, 2023.
[youtube [dot] com/watch?app=desktop&v=FgIiDwsOEOc&t=4m20s]).
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Is she attempting to white wash Arab Palestinian targeting of civilians anywhere?
She also tried, very hard, to connect Palestinian terrorists - which she calls "uprising" - to newly planned settlements.
As if under Bennet administration -- the unity government which also included the Arab-Islamist representative Ra'am's Mansour Abbas in its coalition -- there were no massacres by the Arabs? --- Hadera, Beer Sheva, Elad (with axes), Bnei Brak (following swastikas with Mosque drawing seen at Arab workers site), etc.?
As (first Muslim presenter at PBS) Amna Nawaz, was so focused on what she terms "extremists", she couldn't find a word about the (days earlier) horrifying Arab-Islamic mob in Paris - trashing at Holocaust Memorial site and other anti-Jewish expressions there.
And the largest hole in her "reporting" - ignoring the moral amd financial support for attackers by the Palestinian Authority.
And hours ago, an Arab terrorist in Tel Aviv attacks people with his car, stabs another before being taken down by an armed citizen.
It is sad and outrageous at the same time how many people in the West allow themselves to be fooled by the Palestinian propaganda machine.
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