‘P for Palestine’ Author Has All the Wrong Middle East Studies Connections

Phyllis Chesler points out that Pace University professor Golbarg Bashi, author of the controversial children’s book P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book, is married to rabidly anti-Israel Columbia professor Hamid Dabashi, whose colleague, Lila Abu-Lughod, is among her “pro-Palestinian Jihad against Jewish Israel” mentors. Parents be warned.

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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