Friday, July 11, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jonathan Schanzer: PARC's Anti-Israel Polemics, U.S. taxpayers fund grants for "Palestinian studies." - 'For more than a decade, the allocation of hundreds of thousands of dollars in U.S. funded doctoral and post-doctoral grants on Palestinian issues has been decided by a group of Middle Eastern-studies professors that includes some of the most polarizing and radical figures in the field...The list of PARC members includes Stanford’s Joel Beinin, who denounces American "imperialism" on al-Jazeera television; Columbia’s Rashid Khalidi, reportedly a former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesman; NYU’s Zachary Lockman, supporter of a proposed academic boycott of Israel; Penn’s Ian Lustick, who blames the U.S. for the war on terror, rather than those who carry out violence in the name of Islam; and Boston University’s Augustus Norton, an apologist for the Lebanese terrorist organization, Hezbollah...'
