Tuesday, December 7, 2004
I love Lee Kaplan's investigative reports. Here he travels to the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference in San Francisco and reports on the goings-on. Shocking to the uninitiated, bear in mind that your tax dollars are either subsidizing these people and their politics directly, or through the tax-exempt status of their institutions.
I wonder if he went in disguise this time.
FrontPage magazine.com: Scholars For Terror by Lee Kaplan
Weir has also distorted history in the past. She once called a massacre of 60 yeshiva students in Hebron in 1929 by Arabs an “Arab uprising” against Jewish oppression – even before Israel existed. Manipulation of statistics to advance political goals for foreign dictatorships should not be welcome at an academic conference.
At the same table, free copies of a glossy newsmagazine called the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs were being distributed to the academics in attendance. Most people, upon seeing the publication, might assume it was similar to Newsweek or Time; the inside cover claims the report has been “telling the Truth for more than 20 years. … Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans.” What most people don’t know is that the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs magazine and Web site – indeed, the entire organization behind it – are funded by Saudi Arabia, a despotic regime that has been quietly buying its way onto every campus in America, particularly through Middle East Studies centers in the U.S...
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