Bait, Switch and Dish — Harvard Style
Billed as simply, “Gaza In Context: Background and Prospects From the Current Crisis”, Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies recently presented its spin on the recent Gaza war. By the lecture’s title, a casual observer might be led to think that an objective, dispassionate analysis of the conflict was in the offing. Think again. At the end of the two hour session, Harvard had registered its candidacy for MIHU (Most Israel Hating University) to compete with Columbia, UC Irvine and Florida Atlantic University. Keep in mind that Harvard is home to one of the world’s most vicious Israel-critics, one Sara Roy, whose vitriol is made all the more effective by her claim to be a daughter of Holocaust survivors.
Ostensibly speaking on the human rights legal aspects of the Gaza war were Professor Duncan Kennedy and Naz K. Modirzadeh. Professor Kennedy is not primarily an expert in international law, his area of expertise being contract law, housing law, torts and (why are we not surprised?) “Left Wing Law and Economics.”…