Campus Watch in the Media

Mine that Vein: Analytic, Predictive Failure in Academe [on Middle East studies]

by Candace de Russy
Phi Beta Cons
March 12, 2008

http://phibetacons.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGM1MjU4OTM1YWI3MTMwYTRkMTZkZjhiNDQ5Yzk4ZmE=

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4910

Despite years of signs of an internecine showdown in Palestine, writes Johathan Schanzer, only a handful of U.S. professors of Middle Eastern studies honestly examined the PLO-terrorist Hamas conflict that led to the latter's taking of control - in a region fraught with the potential for a horrific regional conflict with worldwide consequences.

Schanzer's assessment stands out as a model for exposing this and other kinds of cavernous gaps in academics' oversight of life-and-death topics.

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