Middle East studies in the News

Obama's Friendship with Khalidi, Who Calls Israel a "Racist" State with an "Apartheid System" and Says America Has Been "Brainwashed" by Israel

by Robert Spencer
Jihad Watch
October 25, 2008

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023233.php

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5934

Rashid Khalidi is a supporter of the jihad against Israel. He is a Columbia University professor whom Hugh Fitzgerald terms a "long-time propagandist for the Arabs and quasi-academic engaged for decades in the 'construction-of-the-Palestinian-identity' project." He is also not always honest about his own statements about this -- and is apparently a close friend of Barack Obama.

The ever-vigilant Andrew McCarthy has details, via Stanley Kurtz, at The Corner.

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