More crap from the palestiniast Juan Cole. From Front Page Magazine: When it comes to off-the-wall commentary on the Middle East conflict, University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole is the gift that keeps on giving. If there’s anti-Israel propaganda to be found, one can be sure Cole will be peddling it at his ironically named blog, Informed Comment. His labeling of Gaza in September, 2007 as “the worst outcome of Western colonialism anywhere in the world outside the Belgian Congo” is a case in point. As noted by Noah Pollack at Contentions, Cole’s latest blog ramblings ratchet up the
Read More +From Was Wiping Israel Off the Map a Misquote?: Some academics and policymakers bend over backwards to convince themselves and others that Iranian President Ahmadinejad does not mean what he says. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) argued that the proper translation of Ahmadinejad’s quotes is the subject of debate and that translations used were either misquoted or out of context. It’s a line which originated with Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor, who wrote: “This idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, ‘This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.’”
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Good news announced last month: Yale University has rejected the appointment of Israel-basher Juan Cole as a professor of Middle East studies at the Yale Center for International and Areas Studies. Juan Cole deserves nothing more to be written about him on Smooth Stone but if you want to read more about the palestiniast ( the opposite of Zionist), click here and here. Those articles should nauseate you enough.
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