Joey Tartakovsky, assistant editor of the Claremont Review of Books, graduated this year from UC Santa Barbara, where he was founding president of American Students for Israel. He has an article on Victor Davis Hanson’s website:
Compare the “free Palestine” movement with the “free Tibet” movement to illustrate the sheer campus brutality against Israel.
Professors do not offer lunchtime lectures “objectively” explaining how terrible China is. There is no divestment from China campaign. There is no academic boycott of China.
Casual anti-China brickbats aren’t hurled out by professors in the Environmental Studies or Dramatic Arts departments.
Even at Tibetan freedom concerts, rare would be the attendee that declared China a fundamentally illegitimate country and demanded its abolition.
The calls to abandon our only ally in the Middle East and the foul apologies for terrorism are testaments to the intellectual corruption of the academy.
Campus Watch monitors Middle East Studies departments on American campuses. Its reports on the University of California at Santa Barbara are here.