UC Barbara Middle East Studies Prof ‘Brainwashed’ Students ‘to Hate Israel’

Sarah Tagger, a campus strategist for StandWithUs, recounts the anti-Israel hostility she encountered as a student at UC Santa Barbara, including from the professor of “Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies,” who, as she put it, “assigned anti-Israel articles; he assigned anti-Israel books; he had anti-Israel speakers, and I sat there and I watched as all my peers were brainwashed to hate Israel.”

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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