Posted on 11/28/2007 9:17:26 PM PST by captjanaway
A recent e-mail exchange with one faculty member of UCLA's Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES), Ra'anan Boustan, an Assistant Professor of Early Judaism and Ancient Mediterranean Religions, illuminates the wall of resistance that members of American academe, especially those engaged in Middle East or Near East Studies, erect to immunize themselves to any criticism of their work from those outside the Ivory Tower.
The other day I forwarded an excellent article concerning "UCLA's Politicized Middle East Studies Professors," to members of CNES. I had published a column on the same subject a few days earlier – "A Tarnished Golden Anniversary," referring to this year's 50th anniversary of CNES, where the politicized professors discussed in the FrontPage article and me are part of the faculty. One of those who responded to the forwarded article was Professor Boustan.
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