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WCFIA at Harvard: accusations are baseless
Weatherhead Center directors: Accusations against Martin Kramer are "baseless," and his critics are clueless about academic freedom.
Smear intifada
Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I "called for 'the West' to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide." According to the site, …
More Massad mystery at Harvard
In August 2006, I wrote a post entitled "Massad mystery at Harvard." There I asked why, for two years, Joseph Massad described his book Desiring Arabs as "forthcoming from Harvard University Press," only to announce that it would be published by the University of Chicago Press. I wrote the following: Last spring [2006], Columbia promoted …
Speaking truth to Power
Martin Kramer re-ups his account of how Samantha Power came to advocate a "massive protection force" for the Palestinians.
Massad mystery at Harvard
Joseph Massad, the student-abusing extremist who's left an indelible stain on Columbia, is back from leave to teach this semester. According to Massad, this is to be a banner year for him: in the spring, the University of Chicago Press will publish his new book, Desiring Arabs. Wait a minute... Just last year, Massad told …
Why Harvard isn’t Columbia
Today's Harvard Crimson runs an article on the crisis at Columbia. There isn't much new there, except at the end, where the reporter asks a Harvard professor of Middle Eastern history, Roger Owen, why Harvard isn't plagued with a similiar problem. Owen's reply: "Columbia, being in New York, gets invaded by the ideologies of the …
Lawrence of Academia?
Last month, academics who run a discussion log on Middle Eastern studies exchanged ideas on how to justify their Title VI federal subsidy. One of them posted this: The anecdote/argument that I find works best with gov't officals concerning the importance of Title VI funding is to note that Lawrence of Arabia was only in …
Ignatieff’s Empire
Michael Ignatieff has a meandering piece in today's New York Times Magazine on American empire. In it, he tells us that "leaving the Palestinians to face Israeli tanks and helicopter gunships is a virtual guarantee of unending Islamic wrath against the United States." The exit from the present situation is a "United Nations transitional administration …
Default analysis and the F-16 theory
From Martin Kramer, "Jihad 101," Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2002, pp. 87-95. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. "Why do they hate us?" The suicide hijackers did nor say, leaving Americans to ponder what drove so many men to commit such horrific acts and sacrifice their own lives in the process. As the evidence accumulated and the …
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