Martin Kramer on the Middle East

The flight from MESA

Institutions and individuals are leaving MESA in droves.

How can MESA members dissent from its boycott madness?

A celebrity journalist and the diplomacy of spectacle.

Aside from double standards, politicization, boycotts, and foreign money, Mideast studies are just fine.

MESA, now a boycott-Israel association, pretends to be academic.

Academe’s money machines are broken.

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I am a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, and also research it at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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