“A man cannot be secular and Muslim at a time…We are not in favor of democracy, democracy is for Jews and Christians”
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Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of the American Interest magazine, in “The Mead List: World’s Top Ten Gaddafi Toads;” Via Meadia, March 3, 2011. (link to source) |
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Seth J. Frantzman, a PhD researcher at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on the implications of study abroad programs in the Middle East; in “Terra Incognita: Deathly Silence,” the Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2011. (link to source) |
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Armin Rosen (L), a freelance writer, and Jordan Hirsch (R), assistant editor at Foreign Affairs–both recent Columbia University graduates–on Columbia University’s Center for Palestine Studies (CPS), The New Republic, December 16, 2010. (link to source) |
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Jay Nordlinger reflecting on Princeton Middle East studies scholar Bernard Lewis; in his National Review Online column “Impromptus,” November 23, 2010. (link to source) |
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Dom Giordano, Philadelphia talk radio host, on Kaukab Siddique, a Lincoln University of Pennsylvania professor and Holocaust denier; Philadelphia Daily News, November 2, 2010. (link to source) |
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Mitchell Bard, author of “The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interest in the Middle East,” in an interview with the Jewish Ledger, September 15, 2010. (link to source) |
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Josef Olmert, adjunct professor in American University’s School of International Service, writing at the Jewish Policy Center Blog, September 1, 2010. (link to source) |
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Newt Gingrich, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, speaking on “America at Risk: Camus, National Security and Afghanistan,” July 29, 2010, at AEI in Washington, D.C. (link to source) |
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Steven Plaut, associate professor of finance and economics at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Haifa, in his op-ed “A Tale of Two Professors,” Frontpage Magazine, July 19, 2010. (link to source) |
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Jay Nordlinger, senior editor for National Review, writing at The Corner (Blog of National Review Online), June 9, 2010. (link to source) |
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Joel Beinin, Stanford University history professor and former president of the Middle East Studies Association, speaking at Stanford University on June 2, 2010. (link to source) |
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Caroline Glick, writing for the Jerusalem Post, on the wider consequences of not defending Israel on moral grounds on U.S. college campuses, May 3, 2010. (link to source) |
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Seth J. Frantzman, a PhD researcher at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, on academic leftists who cry “McCarthyism” when they are criticized; in “Terra Incognita: McCarthyism!,” the Jerusalem Post, March 30, 2010. (link to source) |
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Jonathan Rosenblum, Jewish Media Resources Director and Jerusalem Post columnist, responding to a Jerusalem Post column by Ben-Gurion University political geography professor David Newman, February 19, 2010. (link to source) |
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Donna Robinson Divine, director of Middle East studies at Smith College, on “How to Teach All Sides of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Without Taking Sides,” History News Network, January 18, 2010. (link to source) |
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Virginia H. Aksan, McMaster University history professor and president of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), in the 2009 presidential address to MESA’s 43rd annual meeting, November 22, 2009. (link to source) |
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Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, on the revelation that the Iranian government-controlled Alavi Foundation has been funding Middle East and Persian studies at Columbia University and Rutgers University, including $100,000 to Columbia after it hosted Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2007, New York Post, November 22, 2009. (link to source) |
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Jytte Klausen, author of the forthcoming Yale University Press book “The Cartoons that Shook the World,” a study of 12 Danish cartoons of Muhammad; as reported by Fox News, August 13, 2009. Yale Press removed all illustrations of Muhammad after soliciting the opinion of experts, among which were professors, diplomats, and counterterrorism specialists. (link to source) |
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Don Emmerson, Director of the Southeast Asia Forum at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and an affiliated scholar with the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University, speaking to Georgetown University professor John Esposito about the film version of his co-authored book, “Who Speaks For Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think,” during the question and answer portion of a May 13, 2009 screening at Stanford University. (link to source) |
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Stanley Fish, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, in his book, “Save the World on Your Own Time,” Oxford, 2008, page 153. (link to source) |
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Gregory Gause, director of the University of Vermont’s Middle East Studies Program, commenting on Israel’s strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza to Fox News 44 of Burlington, Vermont, December 30, 2008. (link to source) |
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Jonathan Schanzer, adjunct scholar at Campus Watch and director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center, in an interview with FrontPage Magazine on his new book, “Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine.” (link to source) |
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Robert Irwin, writing for The Times Literary Supplement, on “Edward Said’s Shadowy Legacy,” May 7, 2008. (link to source) |
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Bernard Lewis, professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University, delivering the keynote address at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa. As reported in Congressional Quarterly, April 27, 2008. (link to source) |
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Thomas Hegghammer, postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton and research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment in Oslo, in “Jihadi Studies,” an essay in the Times Literary Supplement, April 2, 2008. (link to source) |
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Manfred Gerstenfeld, author of “Academics Against Israel and the Jews,” in an interview published in the Jerusalem Post, December 12, 2007. (link to source) |
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Richard Miniter of the Hudson Institute, writing in the New York Post, November 20, 2007. (link to source) |
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Richard Landes, professor of medieval history at Boston University and director and co-founder of the Center for Millennial Studies, writing about tenure in Middle Eastern studies in the comments section of the article “A Call to Defend Academic Freedom” at Inside Higher Education, October 23, 2007. (link to source) |
Travis Kavulla, in “Ignorance of Islam,” on the poor job that Harvard and other American universities do in educating undergraduates about Islam, writing in National Review Online September 13, 2007. (link to source) |
Sergeant First Class David Villarreal, chief military language instructor at the Defense Language Institute’s Middle East School III, comparing defense language training and academic instruction, August 25, 2005. (link to source) |
West Chester University Professor of History Lawrence Davidson, commenting on the late Georgetown professor and intellectual historian Hisham Sharabi, spring 2005. George Habash was the Marxist-Leninist founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Among the PFLP’s best known attacks was the hijacking of four airplanes in September 1970. (link to source) |
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Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz commenting on the state of Middle Eastern Studies, Feburary 27, 2005. (link to source) |
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Classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, commenting on changes in the Middle East brought about by changes in American policy, February 18, 2005. (link to source) |
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Gilles Kepel, professor and chair of Middle East studies at Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, commenting in a 2002 memoir on the American understanding of Islam and the Middle East. (link to source) |
Michael Young, opinion editor at the Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, commenting on Giles Kepel’s rebuke of Middle Eastern Studies in American universities, December 29, 2004. (link to source) |
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Gilles Kepel, professor and chair of Middle East studies at Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, on the abortive appointment of Tariq Ramadan to a visiting position at Notre Dame University, December 23, 2004. (link to source) |
Tim Cavanaugh, web editor of Reason commenting on the scholars who support Campus Watch in comparison to Middle East professors, October 28, 2002. (link to source) |