Are “Islamophobia” and anti-Semitism comparable? Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, senior lecturer in history at King’s College London, maintains that the answer is yes. Zia-Ebrahimi recently made this argument with a talk co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Saudi-funded Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and titled, “When the Elders of Zion Relocated to Eurabia: Conspiratorial Racialisation in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.” Speaking […]
‘Islamophobia Studies’ Are Coming To A College Near You, And There Won’t Be Any Debate About It
“Before I get started, I just wanted to say that we are meeting on stolen indigenous people’s land. That’s really important to acknowledge.” So declared San Francisco State University race and resistance studies professor Rabab Abdulhadi, at the University of California, Berkeley’s Seventh Annual International Islamophobia Conference in April. Abdulhadi’s seemingly disjointed declaration was typical […]
Assault on Academic Freedom? UCLA Conference Blames Israel
Assault on Academic Freedom? UCLA Conference Blames Israel By Cinnamon Stillwell and Adelle Nazarian In recent months, California campuses have been awash in conferences alleging an “assault on academic freedom” against those who “teach Palestine.” In October, the University of California, Riverside hosted “Palestine, Israel and the Assault on Academic Freedom,” while California State University […]
Global Jihad? Never Heard of It: Berkeley’s Bazian Still Hyping ‘Islamophobia’
With global jihad in its ascendancy, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian delivered a lecture at a private event in Dearborn, Michigan last Friday titled, “Islamaphobia: Muslim in the Public Square.” Given the multiple ISIS attacks on Paris only a week earlier and the fact that French and Belgian authorities continue to hunt down the accomplices, the […]
Georgetown’s John Esposito Shills for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
John Esposito, founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University, has signed an open letter to British Prime Minister David Cameron opposing his invitation to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to Britain this week for talks. The letter stipulates that: While not necessarily supporting deposed President [Mohamed] […]
UC Riverside Magazine Gushes Over Celebrity Prof Reza Aslan
UCR, the Magazine of UC Riverside, recently produced one of its periodic puff pieces on creative writing professor, self-declared Islam expert, and soon-to-be television host, Reza Aslan. The author, Vanessa Hua, is a former student and teaching assistant of Aslan’s who exhibits no objectivity whatsoever in lauding him as “a social media darling and a […]
Who’s Oppressing Palestinian Christians? Georgetown Lecture Blames Israel
Amid widespread and ongoing Islamist attacks against Christians in the Middle East, Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek, co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, informed an audience at Georgetown University that “the government of Israel” and Israeli “settlers” pose the greatest threat to Palestinian Christians. A Palestinian Anglican priest now living in the U.S, Ateek’s claims […]
Noura Erakat Wages Lawfare on Israel
Since the 2014 Gaza war, proponents of lawfare have sought to use the International Criminal Court to punish Israel for daring to respond militarily to Hamas’s unrelenting aggression. Noura Erakat, an assistant professor in legal and international studies at George Mason University and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, presented […]
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley
Legitimizing Censorship: ‘Islamophobia Studies’ at Berkeley By Cinnamon Stillwell and Rima Greene “Islamophobia studies” is the latest addition to the academic pantheon of politicized, esoteric, and divisive “studies” whose purpose is to censor criticism of differing views by stigmatizing critics as racist or clinically insane. The University of California, Berkeley’s recent Sixth Annual International Islamophobia […]
Reza Aslan hypes “Islamophobia”
At an April 13 lecture at the University of California, Riverside, UCR creative writing professor and self-styled expert on Islam and the Middle East Reza Aslan employed biased sources, isolated statistics, and ad hominem attacks to blame critics of radical Islam for the alleged rise in “Islamophobia” in post-9/11 America. “Islamophobia: The Real Enemy” was […]