This just in: In a 768-167 vote, members of the Middle East Studies Association have voted in favor of a resolution endorsing the Palestinian call for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions of Israel as a way to hold the government accountable for ongoing human rights violations. Imagine what a college student, interested in studying about the […]
MESA Nostra Contest
In 2005, a lot happened in the Middle East. The Israelis withdrew entirely from Gaza, pulling out 8,500 settlers, and handing over to the Palestinians the greenhouses in which those settlers had grown flowers and fruit for export to Europe, in the hope that the new owners would take over the turnkey operation and […]
The Middle East Studies Association: Why We Should Call It MESA Nostra
“MESA” is the acronym of the Middle East Studies Association, the professional group of those at American universities and colleges are who are charged with the responsibility of teaching the American young, those trusting, innocent, infinitely malleable young, about the Middle East, which mostly means the history of Islam, and the Islamicate world of […]
NYU prof admits MESA’s anti-Israel stance, rails against “Israel Lobby”
NYU prof admits MESA’s anti-Israel stance, rails against “Israel Lobby” by Mara Schiffren How does a detail-oriented lecture on research methodology and academic field building in Middle Eastern Studies (MES) descend into a one-sided and unprovoked salvo against Israel? Last month, Zachary Lockman, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University […]