One of America’s greatest problems is its seemingly growing acceptance of open antisemitism. Teaching the next generation in the pro-Israel way to go is crucial in order to develop foreign policy that is based on truth and moral order. And that’s just not what’s happening in today’s college campuses.
Pete Peterson, dean of public policy at Pepperdine University, says it’s not just the protests on college campuses of antisemitism that are the problem. Rather, it’s in the college course material. It’s in the college curriculum for foreign studies and Middle East courses.
“There’s definitely an anti-Israel bias in the vast majority” of college campus Middle East course studies, and more than that, “an anti-American, anti-Western bias,” he said.
In a partnership with The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Pepperdine has launched a new master’s program for Middle East policy studies — and it’s one Peterson says will "take a much different approach to the Middle East and preparing people to go and serve and work" on these issues.
America’s places of higher learning are finally getting the jolt they need to correct some long-time biases and narratives that have not served the nation well.
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