GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION – AT 11:51 A.M. ET:  You know, we have some very strange people teaching in our colleges and universities.  From Fox: 

Responding to charges a professor engaged in Mideast politics on the taxpayer dime, San Francisco State University officials offered bland reassurances that the school investigates "any allegations that a member of the University community misused state funds."

According to a California Public Records Act inquiry requested by the nonprofit group AMCHA Initiative, "Professor Rabab Abdulhadi received more than $7,000 from SFSU to fly to Jordan, the West Bank and Israel to meet with members of known terrorist organizations."

Abdulhadi did not respond to email and telephone requests for comments. In a recording, she said the trip was aimed at "collaborating with academic institutions, especially with academic institutions in Palestine."

Abdulhadi was scheduled to present a paper at a Jan. 11 - 14 Conference of the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University in Lebanon.

After receiving university approval to attend at the school's expense, Abdulhadi sent an email to the SFSU Risk Management Office advising that her "name was dropped from the Beirut conference."

Despite that change, she made the Mideast trip, along with SFSU ethnic studies professor Joanne Barker and Jaime Veve, who is Abdulhadi's husband.

COMMENT:  San Francisco State is one of the most leftist of American universities.  This report is not shocking.  I think it's unlikely any action will be taken against the "professor."

By the way, some people who've looked at the subject estimate that as many as 80% of the professors in American Mideast Studies departments get their financing from Sharia governments.  I doubt it students are told this.  The Saudis, in particular, have infiltrated American universities, especially in California.  Ah, multiculturalism.

May 31, 2014