Boycotts of Israel might explain falling membership.

A critic of the field reflects on the criticisms leveled in 1979.

How morally bankrupt activism displaced scholarship.

A survey reveals damning data.

The cost of politicization.

Scholars searching for evidence of their obtuse preconceptions demonstrate their inability to comprehend the region they are called to explain.

Ivory towers, still stuck in the sand.

An academic organization rallies together to defend anti-Semites.

Despite the fact that intense hatred of Israel is commonplace within the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), its members have so far refrained from endorsing. . .