Hatred of balance again. If it had been pro-Palestinian that would have been fine. Most U.S. universities are one big pro-Palestinian center:
"The establishment of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies on campus has received mixed reviews from the Brandeis faculty. While some professors fear that the center will promote a biased and narrow view of the country due to the pro-Israel ideology of the foundation that endowed it, others argue that the center is academically sound......
"The principle that concerns me is that these centers are openly centers for advocacy, that is they are not there to study the country of Israel," Professor Mary Baine Campbell (ENG) said. She said the worries the center will promote the view of the Israeli government, instead of the broader interests of the worldwide Jewish population. "To establish a $15 million center to promote one view of the situation [is] a very unusual academic thing to do," Campbell said.....
Brandeis, however, could better use $15 million to provide for more classroom spaces and similar university needs, Campbell said, adding that many institutions on campus already fill the same ideological niche that the Israel Studies Center will....
Campbell suggested that Brandeis' donors receive more guidance, and that alumni who wish to make a donation should ask the University how they could best benefit their alma mater. "I'm not sure who at Brandeis would have solicited a center for Israeli Studies," she said....
Prof Gordon Fellman (SOC), however, expressed concern over the center's academic aims. "My concern is that it may be yet another effort to do positive PR for Israel," he said. [But PR for the Muslims is fine, of course]
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The shame is that the relentless pro-Muslim and even pro-terrorist bias on American campuses makes specialist centers like this needed.
