{"id":2612,"date":"2008-05-29T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2008-05-29T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T08:46:59","slug":"2008-5-29-about-the-mesh-blog-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2612","title":{"rendered":"About the MESH blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">When I first saw that Harvard had launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/05\/islams_war_doctrines_ignored\/\">blog<\/a> that allowed Middle East experts to debate the issues of the day, I thought, good for them. But after reading it for several months, I am finding that most of the time it&#8217;s full of the most right-wing drivel and venomous attacks on mainstream Middle East Studies academia you&#8217;ll see outside of Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes&#8217; sites. And on top of it, it is reliably ultra-Zionist and unquestioning of Israel. It also features some reasonable people, mostly middle-of-the-road think tankers from Washington, but mostly it really appears to be the sort of folk who attend JINSA and WINEP conferences. Just check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/05\/islams_war_doctrines_ignored\/\">this piece<\/a> for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know why this is so?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">When I first saw that Harvard had launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/05\/islams_war_doctrines_ignored\/\">blog<\/a> that allowed Middle East experts to debate the issues of the day, I thought, good for them. But after reading it for several months, I am finding that most of the time it&#8217;s full of the most right-wing drivel and venomous attacks on mainstream Middle East Studies academia you&#8217;ll see outside of Martin Kramer and Daniel Pipes&#8217; sites. And on top of it, it is reliably ultra-Zionist and unquestioning of Israel. It also features some reasonable people, mostly middle-of-the-road think tankers from Washington, but mostly it really appears to be the sort of folk who attend JINSA and WINEP conferences. Just check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/05\/islams_war_doctrines_ignored\/\">this piece<\/a> for instance.<br \/>\nDoes anyone know why this is so?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}