Dear Editor,

Once again, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Nasser Abourahme has expressed his entirely one-sided and bigoted opinion in his op-ed piece. Professor Abourahme is entitled to his opinion and to express said opinion.

However, if Professor Abourahme is teaching this revisionist view of history, without any balanced viewpoint, to Bowdoin students, he is factually wrong, and he is prejudiced.

Professor Abourahme stakes out a position which makes abundantly clear his antipathy to Israel and the Jews who inhabit it. This sentence, from his op-ed piece, epitomizes his extreme position: “But the deeper truth is that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to face this genocide as a Zionist because the genocide is at least one logical end of Zionism as a historical project.”

Professor Abourahme is promoting anti-Zionism, which is considered by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance to be antisemitic.

This is a man who we have teaching Middle Eastern studies? I am ashamed of Bowdoin for allowing this entirely one-sided and false narrative to be taught to students.

Jeff Emerson is a trustee emeritus and a member of the Class of 1970.