[Binghamton_native]

...a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi

Very similar to the description the MSM gives to Bill Ayers, except he is a widely respected professor of education.

[lentulusgracchus]

....Bill Ayers, except he is a widely respected professor of education.

Yeah, I remember when Ayers's FBI poster, together with that of his bomb-throwing squeeze Bernadine Dohrn, was displayed in the Bahamian post office at Governor's Harbour on Eleuthera in 1971. Yeah, they were very widely respected as armed and dangerous.