Rashid Khalidi Headlines Taxpayer-funded Palestinian Fest

by Winfield Myers  •  Dec 17, 2009 at 11:27 am

http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2009/12/rashid-khalidi-headlines-taxpayer-funded

The taxpayer-supported Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) held a conference this fall at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Today at American Thinker, CW Adjunct Scholar Jonathan Schanzer and Madelein Morgenstern offer a first-hand report. Here's a taste:

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in particular raise (again) the question of whether PARC should be the recipient of taxpayer monies. Indeed, this is not the first time the public has been warned about PARC's questionable scholar-activism.

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