[jaykay]

"... the institutionalized Pro anti-Arab bias, which prevails in much of what passes for scholarship or analysis on the Middle East today."

Anti-Arab bias in American academia?

[max_rpf]

The funny thing about this is that the largest question at his Alma Matter is going to be who gets the double, super-deluxe office that they gave him when he threatened to go elsewhere.

[RobbyS]

The Leninism-Stalinism/Trotskism that prevails in academia requires an anti-colonist/pro-Arab view. Yes, the Arabs were betayed by their British and French allies after WWI; yes, we can be sure that if they had gotten everything they wanted and the Jews had been translated to Paraguay, the Middle East would still be ruled by the same kind of corrupt governments that rule there today.