Departments of State and Education fund anti-Semitic apologists of terrorism

Aftermath of Palestinian homicide bomber.

Since 2003, the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) has received almost $890,000  in international education funding (Title VI of the Higher Education Act) from the U.S. Departments of State and Education through a subgrant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC).  Some of the PARC-funded work defends Palestinian acts of terror such as an article by a grant recipient that defends homicide bombings as “resistance to occupation and sacrificing for that struggle.” (Click here and here for more info)  

• Joel Beinin, a professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, denounced American “imperialism” on al-Jazeera television and refers to jihadist homicide bombers as “martyrs.” (click here for more info)
  
• Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesman and refers to Israel as an “apartheid system” and “racist state.” (click here for more info) 
  
• Zachary Lockman, a professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, cosigned a public letter supporting an academic boycott of Israel. (click here for more info) 
  
• Ian Lustick, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, blames the U.S. for the war on terror rather than those who carry out violence in the name of Islam. (click here for more info)
  
• Augustus Norton, a professor in the Departments of International Relations and Anthropology at Boston University, is an apologist for the Lebanese terrorist organization, Hezbollah. (click here for more info)

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