Joel Beinan

The current president of the Middle East Studies Association, Joel Beinan, who is a professor of Middle East history at Stanford, on behalf of its more than 5,000 members in universities all over America, wrote, somewhat tongue in cheek, to Daniel Pipes and his Middle East Forum as follows: "I have recently learned that your organization is compiling dossiers on professors at U.S. academic institutions who oppose the Israeli occupation and its brutality and actively support Palestinian rights of self-determination, as well as a more informed and intelligent view of Islam than is currently represented in the U.S. media.