Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian: “They [Jews] should be afraid because criminals are always afraid.”
While Jewish organizations are fighting for the safety of Jewish students on American campuses, Jerusalem’s Hebrew University reinstates Arab-Israeli professor who openly wants Jewish students to be frightened. Almost all of the material published regarding her suspension and reinstatement neglects to mention this most important point. On 28 March, 300 students signed a letter expressing […]
Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian: When affirmative action backfires
Other than affirmative action or reverse discrimination, it seems there can be no other explanation for how Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian kept getting promoted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I will outline why I think that and how that backfired on the university and the nation as a whole. If the presence of Prof Shalhoub-Kevorkian on […]
Historic Palestine: What you need to know!
I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader would know what this term means. Not being a historian myself, I asked the historian Prof Amatzia Baram to explain it to me. He responded […]
Black Lies about Israeli Pinkwashing
Jennifer Lynn Kelly is another scholar who seemingly knows little about that about which she writes. In her new article that was published in January 2020, she writes about pinkwashing. She titled it: “Israeli gay tourist initiatives and the (in)visibiity of state violence“. Pinkwashing was originally coined to label businesses that advertised their (carcinogenic) products […]
When the Israeli ‘Occupation’ is a Convenient Excuse
This is Part III of the critique of an article that seeks to glorify women’s resistance movements in the Middle East and in the process tells lies about Israel. The article is called Middle Eastern Women between Oppression and Resistance: Case Studies of Iraqi, Palestinian and Kurdish Women of Turkey; it was written by Khodary, […]
Academic Research: Equality Among Arab and Jewish Nurses in Israel?
Can you promote academic research promoting peace if you do not tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Even if aiding and abetting distortions is an inconvenient result of being ignorant of the context in which the research was conducted? This is a critique of the second article that I opened in the […]
Distorting Peace: Academic Journal as a Propaganda Bullhorn
When the first two articles you read in a particular academic journal have serious problems in them, you may start to wonder how much store to put in the journal as a whole. This is what happened to me regarding Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. The title aroused my interest. As a retired […]
International Academic Journal Turns Israel into Palestine
If you are a computer or electrical engineer, you may have come across the International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. It ranks about mid-range among journals in that field, meaning there are likely as many journals ranked below as above this one. That makes it a not totally unattractive journal to which to submit […]