Berkeley Prof: Race in America Is Like 'Occupation' in Israel

Berkeley Prof: Race in America Is Like ‘Occupation’ in Israel

Keith Feldman

Can the history of race relations in America shed light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Or does such an approach simply provide a veneer of faux sophistication to the usual academic bashing of both America and Israel? In a piece appearing today at FrontPage Magazine, Campus Watch West Coast Representative Cinnamon Stillwell shows conclusively that it’s the latter, especially when the debate is led by UC-Berkeley’s Keith Feldman, who spoke recently for Berkeley’s notorious Center for Race and Gender, home to the highly politicized Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project:

Can an accurate analogy be drawn between American race relations and the Arab-Israeli conflict? UC Berkeley ethnic studies assistant professor Keith Feldman advocates this particular “special relationship” in his 2015 book, A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America, the subject of a recent lecture sponsored by the University’s Center for Race & Gender (CRG).

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.