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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.

Not even Jews facing a recent organized pogrom in Amsterdam received his complete sympathy.
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.
Their anti-Israel vitriol exposes the financial waste and harm to U.S. national security wrought by modern Middle East studies.
The panelists’ extremist views made grotesque a professor’s fundraising appeals in order to produce additional terrorist-whitewashing webinars.
Practical governments are seeking mutually beneficial relations with Israel.