As anyone who’s encountered a liberal in a debate about the Israel-Palestine conflict knows, liberal academia has absolutely no grasp of the hypocrisy of their support for dictatorships and terrorists.

Malcolm A. Kline at Accuracy in Academia has the story:

Upside Down Academics

The divide between academics’view of the world and actual events on planet earth is a wide one.  “The United States is beset by acute foreign policy crises, from the Middle East to Russia to its own border,” Mike Gonzalez writes in a study for the Heritage Foundation. “While the Obama Administration bears its share of the responsibility for mishandling events and for the policies that led to these crises, looming behind the Administration’s record of failure is an influential progressive academic consensus that has been tragically wrong on many key global questions.”

From the crime wave on our southern border to the far away, but getting closer, Middle East, the consequences, as Gonzalez, a senior fellow a Heritage, indicates, have been tragic.

“Barack Obama, the President most beholden to the fads of the faculty lounge since Woodrow Wilson, has executed this orthodoxy faithfully,” Gonzalez avers. “The U.S. government pays for much of this academic work in many ways, but it pays directly through Title VI of the Higher Education Act, which should be eliminated.” Moreover, the ill-informed advice of academics does not come cheap: Taxpayers are paying good money for it.

“Taxpayers also directly support universities through the act’s Title VI, which funds 10 programs that provide instruction in languages and areas that could become key to the national interest,” Gonzalez writes. “The lion’s share of the $97.5 million that taxpayers spent in 2010 on Title VI programs went to 125 National Resource Centers at U.S. universities across the country and to Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS), which are related as the centers receive most of the FLAS moneys.”

How wrong are they?  Gonzalez shows they have a bias towards dictatorships and terrorist groups:

• “When Israel decided this summer to protect itself against Hamas, academics swung into action. More than 50 Middle Eastern experts from top U.S. universities signed a letter published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz calling for ‘an end to Israel’s obscene assault on Gaza.’”