Campus Watch in the Media

On Campus at Vasser [on Joshua Schreier]

by Cinnamon Stillwell
Hudson New York (Hudson Institute)
December 26, 2008

http://www.hudsonny.org/2008/12/on-campus-at-vasser.php

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6853

Biased Middle East studies professors are nothing new, but what about a professor who actually states in his course syllabus that he has no intention of presenting a scholarly, balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict? This is how Vassar College history professor Joshua Schreier introduces the syllabus for his fall 2008 course, "The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict":

Students should keep in mind that this course is NOT designed to present "an objective" account of a "two-sided" conflict. The fact that there are supposedly two sides does not obligate us to portray each as equally right and/or equally wrong. The goal, rather, is to understand why the conflict arose, and what sorts of power inequalities have made it continue.

[Ed: The full text of "Vassar's Joshua Schreier Promises Zero Objectivity" follows]

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