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Andrew E. Harrod

Andrew E. Harrod is a Middle East Forum Campus Watch fellow, freelance researcher, and writer, as well as a fellow at The Lawfare Project. He has authored over 100 articles on international relations and politics, with his work appearing in American Thinker, Family Security Matters, FrontPage Magazine, Gatestone Institute, and the Investigative Project on Terrorism, among others. His print articles have been featured in the Middle East Quarterly and the Austrian History Yearbook. His research focuses on international relations, history, and security issues.

America should stop lavishing alms and oblations on apologists.
The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at UCLA interlaced biographical narrative with Islamist-tinged political commentary that was both illuminating and disturbing.
Disciplinary competence is no longer required for professional advancement.
She and her allies’ hate-filled, distorted views make a mockery not just of coexistence but of academe.
The decades-long trumpeting of bigotry against Judaism and Israel by professors of Middle East studies undermines the West’s security by maleducating its youth, misleading its publics and misadvising its leaders.
Chronologically, the “laying of the intellectual architecture of jihadism” occurred in the 1960s and early 1970s, argued professor Glenn E. Robinson. “We are not talking about the traditional jihad dating back to the dawn of time.”
Her pop Marxist dreams of a revolution overthrowing Israel’s “settler-colony” might thrill woke academic audiences in America, but it also can fuel more anarchy.
If American intellectuals still embrace such views, solace comes from the Middle East’s forward-thinking leaders who know to ignore them.
Panelists prefer corrupt, authoritarian Islamist regimes over a willingness to adopt pro-Israel, pro-Western, anti-Islamist policies.
Panelists twist the sacred memory of the terrorists’ nearly 3,000 victims to portray them, and by extension, all Americans as deserving of the attacks.
David Myers, who holds a chair in Jewish history, unintentionally justified past denunciations for his anti-Israel radicalism in his discussion with the Islamist president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.
In lieu of objective intellectual inquiry that would be expected, some academics are waging a propaganda campaign for Israel’s destruction.