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“Gaza = Auschwitz”
Holocaust inversion, casting Israelis as Nazis and Palestinians as their Jewish victims, finds advocates on the faculty of Columbia University.
New York Times: soft spot for Rashid Khalidi?
The New York Times: "Critics have accused Rashid Khalidi of having had ties to the PLO." No, leading journalists reported it as a fact.
Exodus, myth and malpractice
Did an ad man named Edward Gottlieb commission Leon Uris to write his famous book Exodus? Rashid Khalidi says so. He's wrong.
Start with two Palestinians
Columbia's new Center for Palestine Studies makes it Bir Zeit-on-Hudson.
Sweeping Khalidi under Obama’s rug
The Washington Post runs an article today, exploring the origins of President Obama's heels-dug-in stance on Israeli settlements. White House officials described Obama's position to the Post as "years old and not the product of recent events or discussions." The Post then traces it way back to some of Obama's Jewish friends from Chicago days. …
Gaza errors (or lies)
Henry Siegman, who must spend every waking hour hating Israel, has a piece in the London Review of Books, which is never complete without an Israel-bashing tirade. This one is called simply "Israel's Lies." Siegman spends a lot of time faulting Israel for the breakdown of the previous six-month cease-fire with Hamas, reached through Egyptian …
Shrinking Gaza
Last week, I was listening to a podcast of an interview with Professor Rashid Khalidi on a Chicago public radio station. I had downloaded it in great anticipation, and it got off to a great start. Khalidi, a Palestinian-American, is the Edward Said Professor at Columbia, editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, author of a …
Khalidi: former PLO official
A reader sends me yet another piece of contemporary evidence from the mainstream U.S. media for Rashid Khalidi's PLO connection, to add to the collection I assembled at the end of October. This one appears in the Los Angeles Times of February 20, 1984, in an article by Doyle McManus under the headline: "Account of …
Settlers from Brooklyn
Question for Christopher Hitchens: Were Rashid Khalidi to forgo the familiar pleasures and privileges of Columbia University for the rigors of Jerusalem, wouldn't he also be a settler from Brooklyn?
Khalidi-PLO, for email subscribers
This short post is to alert rss and email subscribers (via Feedburner) that there are several important updates to my earlier post, "Khalidi of the PLO." One brings a passage from a 1978 New York Times report from Beirut, noting that Rashid Khalidi "works for the P.L.O." Another uncovers a passage from a 1976 Los …
In praise of the LA Times
The Los Angeles Times sticks by its characterization of Rashid Khalidi as a PLO spokesman.
Khalidi and Obama: kindred spirits
The Los Angeles Times has a tape of Barack Obama offering an encomium to Rashid Khalidi. Martin Kramer explains why he'd really like to see it.
Khalidi of the PLO
Evidence that Rashid Khalidi worked for the PLO in Beirut is amassed by Martin Kramer from contemporary press sources.
The Middle East: Primer for a New President
Martin Kramer delivered this address to the Shalem Center’s Manhattan Seminar on October 28, 2008. Good evening. It's a pleasure to return to the Manhattan Seminar—this is my third appearance here, and it's always one of the highlights of my autumn stay in the United States. When the date of this meeting was set, back …
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Rashid Khalidi, Obama’s Palestinian pal
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia University, is much in the news these days, for his connection with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. The Los Angeles Times did some digging around the story last spring, and most of the facts are there. I don't know anything about the connection that I haven't read …
Are Columbia’s Palestinians… Palestinian?
You will remember the case of Nadia Abu El-Haj, the anthropologist who last year received tenure at Barnard after a furious controversy over her book, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Jane Kramer has written a panegyric to her for The New Yorker, simply brushing off serious-minded criticisms of …
Rashid Khalidi: Gaza blame-thrower
Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor at Columbia University, garners all sorts of kudos for his supposed willingness to accord Palestinians at least some responsibility for their own predicament. He's often cast as a courageous "new historian," particularly in reviews of his last book, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Khalidi, …
Case of the missing Stiglitz
I ordered my copy of Rashid Khalidi's new book, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood, from Amazon.com. At Amazon, the image of the book cover features the obligatory photo of Israel's separation barrier (or "apartheid wall" as its critics call it), and an endorsment that goes like this: "Rashid Khalidi's …
Khalidi file at Princeton
Last year, Rashid Khalidi came to Princeton to deliver a job talk. His aim: to win the newly-established Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professorship of Near Eastern Studies and Religion. He didn't get it. Last month, Princeton announced the appointment of Muhammad Qasim Zaman, a McGill-schooled specialist on Islam from Brown University. But Khalidi, it turns …
Philistine at Columbia
In my last Sandstorm column, I criticized Rashid Khalidi's fact-free assertion that the universities are dominated by conservatives. In an interview, he had focused on schools of law and international affairs. But in a remarkable speech last spring, he issued a blanket indictment of many more academic fields. It happened at a Columbia rally in …
Radical Rashid
A journal called the Radical History Review, published by the Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. (!), has just published an interview with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor at Columbia University. I can't possibly tackle this remarkable document in a single go—the dishonest elisions, the bombastic flourishes, the pompous posturing. It's 200-proof Khalidi; you don't drink it, …
Unreal Rashid
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia, gave an interview to the Radical History Journal, and it's a gem. The interviewers wanted his take on Title VI reform, but they got a lot more: a rambling compendium of excessive statements on a wide range of issues. In a new Sandstorm column, I look at …
Will Princeton Intercept the Palestine Football?
On March 31, Rashid Khalidi, Columbia's Edward Said Professor, will deliver what the New York Sun has called a "job talk" at Princeton. Earlier this month, the paper reported that "Khalidi has thrown his hat into the ring for the Niehaus chair in contemporary Muslim studies at Princeton and to take charge of that university's …
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The Transregional Institute, ever so diverse
Today's New York Sun reports that Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor at Columbia, who's only just sat down in the chair, has tossed his name in the hopper for a chair at Princeton. This one would put him in the driver's seat of something called the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary …
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