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Andrew E. Harrod

Andrew E. Harrod is a Campus Watch Fellow, freelance researcher and writer who holds a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. He is a fellow with the Lawfare Project. Follow him on Twitter at: @AEHarrod.

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Andrew E. HarrodMay 24, 2022

Georgetown University whitewashes Islamism and smears the West (again)

America should stop lavishing alms and oblations on apologists.

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Andrew E. HarrodApril 12, 2022

Khaled Abou El Fadl: Ambassador for Sharia

The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law at UCLA interlaced biographical narrative with Islamist-tinged political commentary that was both illuminating and disturbing.

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Andrew E. HarrodFebruary 22, 2022

Rutgers’ Sahar Aziz and the (ongoing) rise of the know-nothing professor

Disciplinary competence is no longer required for professional advancement.

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Andrew E. HarrodJanuary 20, 2022

Noura Erakat’s advice to Israelis: Trust us not to kill you

She and her allies’ hate-filled, distorted views make a mockery not just of coexistence but of academe.

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Andrew E. HarrodDecember 20, 2021

Rutgers professor to Jews: Better dead than Zionist

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.

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Andrew E. HarrodNovember 18, 2021

New book offers shortsighted history of the long jihad

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.”

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Andrew E. HarrodOctober 28, 2021

Noura Erakat’s morgue of Palestinian resisters

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.

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Andrew E. HarrodOctober 6, 2021

Profs denounce Abraham Accords in the name of ‘democracy’ (Part II)

If American intellectuals still embrace such views, solace comes from the Middle East’s forward-thinking leaders who know to ignore them.

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Andrew E. HarrodOctober 5, 2021

Profs denounce Abraham Accords in the name of ‘democracy’ (Part 1)

Panelists prefer corrupt, authoritarian Islamist regimes over a willingness to adopt pro-Israel, pro-Western, anti-Islamist policies.

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Andrew E. HarrodSeptember 23, 2021

Rutgers academics mark 20th anniversary of 9/11 by assaulting America

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.

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Andrew E. HarrodAugust 1, 2021

UCLA’s shameful alliance with Israel’s enemies

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.

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Andrew E. HarrodJuly 13, 2021

Western professors pillory Israel via terrorist-run Turkish university center: Part II

In lieu of objective intellectual inquiry that would be expected, some academics are waging a propaganda campaign for Israel’s destruction.

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Part 1

Andrew E. HarrodJuly 12, 2021

Western professors pillory Israel via terrorist-run Turkish university center: Part I

Their anti-Israel vitriol exposes the financial waste and harm to U.S. national security wrought by modern Middle East studies.

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Andrew E. HarrodJune 3, 2021

Hamas apologists slander Israel at Rutgers ‘teach-in’

The panelists’ extremist views made grotesque a professor’s fundraising appeals in order to produce additional terrorist-whitewashing webinars.

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Andrew E. HarrodMay 24, 2021

Analysts: Arab states are ‘washing their hands’ of Palestinians

Practical governments are seeking mutually beneficial relations with Israel.

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