Middle East Forum

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The Middle East Forum (MEF) is an anti-Islam think tank founded by historian Daniel Pipes in Philadelphia , USA in 1990 .

aims

The goals of the MEF are to “ define and advance US interests in the Middle East , combat radical Islamism and the Iranian threat, promote acceptance of Israel among Palestinians, a more robust representation of US interests vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia, and Israel's energy independence . "

The forum highlights the vital interests of the United States in the Middle East. It supported the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 . The MEF believes that close ties with Israel, Turkey and other countries in this area are necessary, which can be achieved through continuous support and a low oil price. MEF promotes regional and international dialogue on these issues.

activities

The MEF was registered as a tax-exempt and independent non-profit organization in the USA shortly after the start of the Oslo Peace Process in January 1994 .

MEF publishes the journal Middle East Quarterly and, in addition to “ Islam Watch ”, established the “ Campus Watch ” program. It supports study trips for university students to Kuwait , Turkey, Jordan and Israel - the latter goals with a specific focus on counter-terrorism .

MEF in Germany

According to ZEIT , the forum promotes the networking of the New Right across Europe and in Germany supports the right-wing Gustav Stresemann Foundation and the right-wing journal Journalistenwatch , on which " historical revisionist and anti-Semitic content" is published, with financial means.

Campus Watch

In 2002 the forum initiated the “ Campus Watch Program ” and justified it with five problems that it sees in academic teaching on the Middle East at US universities: “analytical errors, mixture of politics and teaching, intolerance of alternative perspectives, apologetics "Abuse of power against students".

Campus Watch therefore established a database of relevant scientific publications in order to make them better known. Students were urged to report college professors, books, and curricula in what some faculty have described as intimidation similar to that of the McCarthy era . In protest, around 100 academics asked to be added to the list. Campus Watch then removed the list from its website and published it in book form in 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nico Schmidt: AfD: Stresemann Foundation received money from right-wing US financiers . In: The time . December 22, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 21, 2018]).
  2. ^ Nico Schmidt: AfD: Stresemann Foundation received money from right-wing US financiers . In: The time . December 22, 2017, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed January 21, 2018]).