Tufts U. Stands by Thomas Abowd’s Anti-Israel Course

Tufts University is standing by professor Thomas Abowd’s controversial course “Colonizing Palestine,” despite outcry from Tufts Friends of Israel and the Anti-Defamation League. Middle East Forum Fellow Asaf Romirowsky describes the course as an example of the “ongoing one-sided conversation regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict” and the “‘Palestinianization’ of the humanities.”

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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