Salman Rushdie and the Western Apologists for Those Who Wish Him Dead
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
August 17, 2022
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
Among the reasons for the emergence of Israel studies as a distinct academic field has been the intense hostility toward the Jewish state that dominates so many departments of Middle East studies. Sadly, Ari Blaff writes, the practitioners of the field themselves have hardly proved immune to the malicious currents pervading universities:
Jimmy Carter and Team To Be Sure.
Instead of serving as a bulwark against (or at least a shelter from) vulgar ignorance, it is becoming an adjunct to it.
“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?”
“A sign of my appreciation towards . . . the poet and fighter for our people’s human rights.”
A revival or a dying gasp?
Among the reasons for the emergence of Israel studies as a distinct academic field has been the intense hostility toward the Jewish state that dominates so many departments of Middle East studies. Sadly, Ari Blaff writes, the practitioners of the field themselves have hardly proved immune to the malicious currents pervading universities:
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