Tag: Arab Spring

Professors Whitewash Islamist Roots of ‘Arab Spring,’ Endanger America’s National Security

Commentary “Social Change and the Global Middle East,” a Jan. 20 webinar sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, made clear that the discredited talking points that ensnared the West in the “Arab Spring” uprisings continue to proliferate at elite academic institutions. Participants failed to note either the…


Emboldening the Enemy

Commentary Once again, a Democrat is in the White House, and once again, the Middle East is on fire. This might seem like an odd, even tendentious, statement. But it’s supported by the past half-century of history. Granted, the region has long simmered with ethnic and religious hatreds. And certainly there has been periodic flare-ups…