By Charles Jacobs and Avi Goldwasser
The David Project recently issued an important “white paper” that identifies the campus as the “primary path by which anti-Israelism enters the American public debate.” The report does a good job of describing the institutional and intellectual factors that are contributing to demonization of Israel on campus and that result — at some universities — in significant hostility toward Jewish students and faculty who support Israel.
These factors include an overwhelming percentage of professors who are ideological and promote leftist politics in the classroom; the influence and growth of Middle Eastern studies — a field that we believe is biased against Israel and whitewashes Islamist radicalism — and the significant impact of postmodernism and cultural relativism on framing the Middle East conflict.
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