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Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12001029_1
Columbia and the Academic Intifada
(Commentary) Efraim Karsh - Anti-Israel bigotry is nourished by an entrenched deformation in the field of Middle Eastern studies. Not only is the academic intifada against the Jewish state thriving, the reigning terms of discussion it has introduced for understanding Middle Eastern reality have become perfectly normal, perfectly conventional, perfectly accepted in academic discourse. It will take more than a single student protest to undo the rot that has settled into the study of the Middle East and that is now quite comfortably at home in Western universities.