Like father, like daughter: Dima Khalidi, quoted by Inside Higher Education (IHE) attacking Kenneth Marcus’s appointment to head the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, is as viciously anti-Israel as her father, former PLO spokesman and Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. IHE mentions neither the relation nor Marcus’s refusal a year ago to share a Bard College podium with her because of her extremism.
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.
