In late March, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC) and my alma mater, Duke University, co-hosted a conference entitled, “Conflict over Gaza: People, Politics, and Possibilities.” Specifically, the conference was co-hosted by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, which received a whopping $235,000 Department of Education grant last year to defray costs and help host the event.
In a truly shocking and in no way whatsoever eminently predictable turn of events, the conference ended up being a vile Israel-bashing — and, indeed, Jew-bashing — imbroglio. The conference deserves universal condemnation.
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