Posted on 10/16/2023 12:43:41 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The faculty of Middle East Studies at Brown, like most universities in the country, is comprised of the usual suspects. Typically brandishing PhDs from Georgetown, Columbia, or Berkeley, they engage in nonstop caterwauling about Israel. Settler colonialism, apartheid, occupation, Jews have no connection to, or place in, the region and the always popular comparison of Israel to Nazis are a few of the mantras they chant by rote. All are are yawn-inducing for any educated adult, but all are poisoning the college students they purport to “educate”.
Brown, however, is entirely unlike, and far worse, than any other university in the country that traffics in this field. Brown president Christina Paxson’s condemnation of the ongoing Hamas barbarity: “horrific and devastating terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel” without any details and noting the impact on “civilians in both Israel and Gaza” was surprisingly lukewarm. But perhaps most troubling was her suggestion that “the issues that underpin the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are complex”, notwithstanding the fact that absolutely nothing about Hamas’ savagery was at all complex, and that Brown has academics able to deal expertly with those “complex” issues. Undoubtedly she was referring in part to Brown’s Middle East Studies faculty. Suggesting that the Middle East Studies faculty at Brown, particularly its leadership, could help anyone understand the barbarism of Hamas is akin to suggesting that expert advice on combatting anti-Semitism is available from Louis Farrakhan. Why is that the case? It is, among other reasons, because of the presence on the Brown faculty of Beshara Doumani, the Mahmoud Darwish Professor of Palestinian Studies, an endowed chair and about whom I have written previously. But the world is a very different place than it was at the time of my previous posts. The danger Doumani presents is no longer hypothetical - it is very real, can no longer be ignored and his embarrassing affiliation with Brown has to end.
In 2021, Brown made the incomprehensible decision to grant Doumani a two-year leave to serve as president of terrorist haven Birzeit University in Israel’s West Bank and to return to Brown after his Birzeit term ended. Doumani has now returned to Brown. If Brown thought that some good might come from agreeing to let Doumani run Birzeit for two years, that naive notion was demolished on October 7.
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Students at so-called Ivy League colleges are no longer educated. They’re indoctrinated.
No surprise. Brown is maybe the most leftwing university, rivaling Harvard and Berzerkley. Brown pioneered the tactic of a “free speech zone,” restricting student dissenters to a tiny corner far from the center of campus, and only a few hours a day, iirc. Basically a neomarxist cesspool.
The Jews have been in that area for thousands of years.
Apparently, many *woke* people aren’t woke enough to know their history.
I would encourage any son or daughter to pursue a skill rather than degree these days. Especially if a student loan was needed to pay for it. There are some exceptions like an RN nursing degree but overall a young person should always have a skill in their back pocket just in case their primary job doesn't work out even if it doesn't pay as well. It will at least keep the lights on and a roof intact.
Most Brownies seem to get hired by the State Dept.
Brown ‘70 ... that was a different time, a different age ... still ...
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