Op-Ed in Washington Post Re: UCLA Center for Near East Studies

Hat tip JJ

Ellen Wald of Verity Educate and a professor of Middle East history at Jacksonville University has written a column in the Washington Post in which she takes a look at the events that UCLA's Center for Near East Studies has put on. They are uniformly anti-Israel.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/7/wald-a-range-of-perspectives-but-all-anti-israel/print/

"As a function of the Title VI funding that it receives from the U.S. government, the center must provide educational events for the public. Title IV also obligates the center to provide a range of perspectives on the subject matter through these public events. The AMCHA Initiative analyzed all of the public events held by the Center for Near Eastern Studies from 2010 through 2013, during which time the center received $557,180 for this outreach program and an additional $826,500 for its foreign-language and area-studies fellowships. Verity Educate, an independent, nonpartisan organization that examines educational materials for factual accuracy and objectivity, obtained an advance copy of the report. Our analysis of the evidence reveals that the center employs a technique we refer to as "shifting the spectrum."

Seems that someone in the US Government who is overseeing that funding needs to take a look at CNES.