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… Campus-Watch encourages students to snitch on their professors. It has a whole section dedicated to student reports. Campus-Watch is essentially forming a paramilitary thought police, a private TIPS program for pro-Israeli advocates. …

http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans0922.html

http://www.campus-watch.org/about.php

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... Daniel Pipes has established a project called Campus-Watch, a website run by the Middle East Forum that monitors the work of Middle East scholars for pro-Arab bias. ...

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...President George W. Bush nominated Daniel Pipes to the board of directors of the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) in April, but the move has been stalled by concerns about Pipes' highly controversial views on the Muslim world and the Arab-Israeli conflict, among others.

Last week the president suggested he might use a "recess appointment" to place Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum …

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EH19Ak04.html
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Columbia U. Professor, Criticized for Views on Israel, Is Banned From Teacher-Training Program - Campus Watch: "by Brock Read | Chronicle of Higher Education | February 22, 2005

The New York City Department of Education will prohibit a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University from appearing in an occasional training program for secondary-school teachers, citing the professor's criticism of Israel.

Rashid Khalidi, director of Columbia's Middle East Institute, had spoken this month at one of a series of teacher-development workshops, paid for by the university, about Middle Eastern culture and politics. But last week, after The New York Sun published an article assailing Mr. Khalidi's involvement in the program, Joel I. Klein, the city's schools chancellor, announced that the professor would no longer be allowed to participate.

'Considering his past statements, Rashid Khalidi should not have been included in a program that provided professional development for DOE teachers, and he won't be participating in the future,' Jerry Russo, Mr. Klein's press secretary, wrote in an e-mail message to the Sun."
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George Wins Time-Travel Race in a Blur (washingtonpost.com): "By Dana Milbank | Sunday, February 20, 2005; Page A05

Now this is party loyalty: Nearly two out of three Republicans say they would support President Bush even if his political opponent were the father of our country.

In a theoretical matchup between George W. Bush and the other George W., George Washington, 62 percent of Republicans said they would vote for Bush and only 28 percent said they would back Gen. Washington. But because Democrats and independents went strongly for Washington, he held a healthy, 19-point advantage over Bush."
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The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Here They Go Again | Ari Berman: "
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According to an annual survey by the American Jewish Committee, two-thirds of American Jews oppose the war in Iraq. Fifty-seven percent favor the establishment of a Palestinian state. Sixty nine percent want Israel to dismantle some or all of the settlements in exchange for a permanent peace agreement. It is the RJC, not Dean, which lies squarely outside the mainstream of Jewish America."
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The Nation | Blog | The Daily Outrage | Here They Go Again | Ari Berman: "Here They Go Again | 02/16/2005 @ 10:08am permalink

As RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman praised the election of his new counterpart Howard Dean, influential Republican front groups were already planning a mendacious offensive against the new DNC chair.

The first attack came courtesy of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), a big money pro-Israel lobby group linking Jewish-American neoconservatives to the Christian Right and Israel's Likud government. On Monday the RJC began running full-page ads in major Jewish newspapers across the country featuring a large photo of militants strapped with explosives coddling a young Palestinian boy. Above that arresting image is a quote by Dean: "It's not our place to take sides." Below the photo are quotes by Democrats critical of Dean. The ad effectively equates Dean's election with the appeasement of suicide bombers.

Such smears are to be expected from a group whose board of directors includes members of the Project for a New American Century, top fundraisers for the Bush campaign and former Bush officials, including press secretary Ari Fleischer. The RJC took Bush on his first tour of Israel in 1998. Evidently, Republicans hope to peel off a few more Jewish votes by distorting Dean's record.

"Two issues stand in the way of Republicans gaining a significant percentage of the Jewish vote: abortion and the religious right," GOP pollster Frank Luntz told a RJC conference in 1998. "But we have an answer. The magic word is 'Israel.'"
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CFR Publications: Winning or Losing? An Inside Look at the War on Terror: "Speaker: Michael Scheuer, a.k.a. Anonymous, author, ' Imperial Hubris'" | Council on Foreign Relations | New York, N.Y. | February 3, 2005
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... Its author is Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit, who resigned in November 2004 after nearly two decades of experience in national security issues related to Afghanistan and South Asia. As Anonymous, he is also the author of "Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America." ...
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LEMANN: Do you think, from the American policy point of view, that spreading democracy in the Middle East is either desirable or possible?

SCHEUER: I don't think it's a case of Muslims not being able to be democrats, or not wanting to be, or not being talented enough. I think that's not the case. I think there's a basic logical problem of trying to establish a democracy without a separation of church and state. And that's one of the, I think, extreme problems we've had, not recognizing that. ...
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SCHEUER: I would certainly try to rearrange the relationship with Israel so it looked like we were the great power and they were the insignificant power, rather than the other way around. I would certainly think how far we can really succeed in supporting tyrannies across the Middle East for the sake of oil. I would think that at some point--and if we want to disengage from what really is going to be a war within Islamic civilization is, as well as some clash between us and Islam, we will have to move toward alternative energy supplies or further fossil fuel development in North America. I think they're intertwined. And I'm not really recommending it one way or another; I just think these policies have been in a status quo position for quite a while, and need to be looked at.

If you believe that we're being attacked because they hate our liberties and our society and our freedoms, then you don't have to do anything. You don't even have to do military stuff, because you can eventually arrest enough of them and put them in jail. If you think that's not the case, then you better be a little bit more creative. ...
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And you have particularly focused on the forbidden subject of whether the United States has any limits with the spoiled child of Western civilization, the state of Israel, which insists upon having its own way, to the extent we must read the Israeli press on the Internet and read [the Israeli newspaper] Haaretz so that we see real criticism of a policy that has gone too far. Now, you have taken some criticism for your approach. I'd like to hear what you feel about this subject.

SCHEUER: I always have thought that there's nothing too dangerous to talk about in America, that there shouldn't be anything. And it happens that Israel is the one thing that seems to be too dangerous to talk about. And I wrote in my book that I congratulate them. It's probably the most successful covert action program in the history of man to control--the important political debate in a country of 270 million people is an extraordinary accomplishment. I wish our clandestine service could do as well. The point I would make--the point I try to make basically in the book is we just cannot--we can no longer afford to be seen as the dog that's led by the tail. I've tried to be very clear in saying we have an alliance with the Israelis. We have a moral obligation to try to work through this issue, if we can. But I don't think we can afford to be led around, or at least appear to be led around by them. And I certainly, as an American, find it unbearable to think there's something in this country you can't talk about. That's really my spiel I guess on that, sir.

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