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Thursday, October 06, 2005

Another Juan Cole Takedown

Martin Kramer notes a hint of paranoia in the good Professor's statements.
Cole offers an account of Daniel Pipes' Campus Watch that goes way beyond claims he's made in the past. It turns out that Campus Watch, which began by putting up "dossiers" of links on Cole (and others), wasn't acting alone! "If you followed Pipes around, I think you would probably find that he did have some kind of consultation with Israeli officials at some point about all this. I couldn't prove that but I wouldn't be surprised at it." Of course! It's the Mossad!
Cole continues:
"I'm quite convinced that the individuals behind this cyberspace harassment were right-wing Zionists and very possibly settlers on the West Bank." Of course! Settlers!
Kramer comments:
I don't know whether Cole really imagines that Israeli agents and settlers targeted him, or whether he just puts out these accusations so that more bats will flock to his tree. But if a history professor in Ann Arbor believes that plots are being hatched against him in secret offices and hilltop redoubts thousands of miles away, he's got a problem. Counseling might help.
Read it here.

This is by no means the first looney set of utterances made by the mad professor from Michigan.

UPDATE:

Dan Darling at Campus Watch notes that Cole [sorta] retreats from his charge that there is an Israeli conspiracy to take him down, but then launches into a diatribe against a Zionist conspiracy to control Congress. Loonier and loonier!

Read Darling's post here.

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