The ‘Angry Arab’ Goes Mad

As’ad AbuKhalil

Writing for Campus Watch, Rima Greene and I report on a recent lecture from the self-described “Angry Arab,” California State University, Stanislaus professor As’ad AbuKhalil. Our article appears today at Frontpage Magazine:

As’ad AbuKahlil—a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus—spoke last month at a day-long “teach-in” at the University of California, Berkeley titled, “Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring.” It consisted of a number of “workshop sessions” at the Valley Life Sciences Building, followed by a “plenary session” at the Multicultural Center, and was co-sponsored by the Arab Resource Organizing Committee, the Berkeley Muslim Students Association PAC, the International Socialist Organization, and the Syrian American Council.

AbuKhalil’s workshop on “The U.S. and the Arab Uprising” was held in a tiny, hot, windowless room filled with students wearing hijabs and keffiyehs. . . . AbuKhalil, author of the “Angry Arab” blog, was introduced as “the most influential Arab blogger in English and Arabic.” Wasting no time living up to his self-caricature, he presented the demise of Israel as his life’s work, referred repeatedly to the “usurping Zionist entity,” and characterized the U.S. as the source of all that ails the Arab world.

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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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