Cinnamon Stillwell
ARTICLES BY: Cinnamon Stillwell
CAIR in the Classroom: Islamist Group Partnering with Public Schools
In 1993, Ibrahim Hooper, director of strategic communications for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said that, “I wouldn’t want to create the impression that...
Why Are San Francisco Schools Partnering with a Radical Anti-Israel Organization?
When a school district with a non-discrimination policy and guidelines that stipulate “non-engagement of political activities” partners with a self-described “social justice” organization that’s blatantly...
Zionists Need Not Apply to San Francisco State University?
How long does it take to remove a Facebook post -- 30 seconds? But if doing so falls under the auspices of California State University...
Professor Claims Antisemitism and ‘Islamophobia’ Are Equal Threats
Are “Islamophobia” and antisemitism comparable? Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, a senior lecturer in history at King’s College London, maintains that the answer is yes. Zia-Ebrahimi recently made this...
Middle East Studies Meltdown on Jerusalem
Hackneyed predictions that the Middle East would “go up in flames” following President Donald Trump’s official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -- and subsequent plans to...
The Zionists Are Coming: Panic at San Francisco State University
In the fevered imagination of the academic left, these are dark days at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Speakers at a two-day conference -- "Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution...
David N. Myers: The Wrong Choice for the Center for Jewish History
When a respected and apolitical institution like the New York-based Center for Jewish History (CJH) hires an individual that some call an anti-Israel academic to be its...
Is San Francisco State University Stoking Antisemitism?
At a time of rising concern about antisemitism on American college campuses, should a California state university maintain an official partnership with a Palestinian institution where hatred...
Lawsuit Brings Day of Reckoning to Leading BDS Professor
Rabab Abdulhadi, the director of San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diaspora Initiative (AMED) -- and a founding member of the US Campaign...
California State College Defends Partnership With Radical Palestinian University
In 2016, the Middle East Forum (MEF) launched a campaign calling on San Francisco State University (SFSU) President Leslie Wong to end the school’s 2014 memorandum of understanding...
Mideast Studies Departments Display Further Moral Rot in Lenient Treatment of Sexual Harassment
The famously self-righteous field of Middle East studies, which lambastes outside criticism as "censorship" and condemns America, Israel and the West while lauding Islamists, now...
Colleges Rush to Build ‘Islamophobia’ Studies Departments
“Before I get started, I just wanted to say that we are meeting on stolen indigenous people’s land. That’s really important to acknowledge.” So declared...
College Professors Defend Colleague Who Accused Israel of Harvesting Organs
Leave it to the Middle East studies establishment to defend the vilest forms of conspiratorial antisemitic rhetoric -- provided it's in service of demonizing Israel. Jasbir...
San Francisco State’s Deafening Silence on Partnership With Palestinian University
Late last year, during the ongoing frenzy of violence directed at Israelis known as the "stabbing intifada," 20-year-old Maram Hassoneh was killed in her second...
