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Some extremists, leftists, and Islamists and NYU have begun a petition asking the board of NYU to divest all funds invested in Israel. This is a bigoted piece of anti-Semitism, IMHO. Friends and faculty have established a website where people can sign a counter-petition. I believe Freepers who read the petition will find it completely unobjectionable. The website for the petition may be found at the link above. The wording of the petition follows, FYI. Signers of the petition already include members of the "community," Yeshiva students from New York, NYU students and faculty (not many of those yet, but...

The Arabists Among Us By James M. Hutchens ________________________________________ In 1995, a New York Times “Notable Book of the Year,” was Robert D. Kaplan’s The Arabists. It is a fascinating and insightful account of how the State Department of the United States government became, and remains, pro-Arab. Basically, it is a story of how, over the last two centuries, the children of missionaries to the Muslim world of the Middle East, have been pipelined through Ivy League schools into the State Department. Once embedded there, in the Office of Near Eastern Affairs, their love for the Arab peoples and culture...

The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite by Robert D. Kaplan New York: Free Press, 1993. 336 pp. $24.95 Wall Street Journal September 16, 1993 Reviewed by Daniel Pipes By the time the Reverend Benjamin Weir was taken hostage on the streets of Beirut in April 1984, he had lived thirty-one years in Lebanon, where he had taught theology, done charitable work, and spread the gospel. Over the decades, he and his wife Carol came totally to identify themselves with the Muslim Lebanese while at the same time disassociating themselves completely from the U.S. government (so much so, they...

Since news of my NR story called "Catching the Visa Express" hit the airwaves last Thursday, Consular Affairs — which oversees visa issuance and implemented the open-door policy for Saudi terrorists — has come under fire from both the public and Capitol Hill for the Visa Express program, which is how three of the Sept. 11 hijackers got in this country. Despite mounting criticism, Consular Affairs (CA) took fully one week to respond to the charges leveled at it about Visa Express. On The Big Story with John Gibson on Fox News yesterday, the new PR flack for CA, Ed...