MEF fellow
A.J. Caschetta
Campus Watch and Milstein Writing Fellow
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Profile
A.J. Caschetta is a Campus Watch and Milstein writing fellow and principal lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology. After 9/11 he turned to the rhetoric of radical Islamists and to how Western academics explain Islamist terrorism. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University and writes often for the Middle East Quarterly.
Summarized from the MEF bio of A.J. Caschetta, read October 4, 2026.
Writes on: campus and Middle East studies; terrorism and counterterrorism; Arab-Israeli conflict; the United States; Palestinian territories.
Topics are this site's tags, assigned from the subjects of A.J. Caschetta's bylined MEF pieces and the MEF bio.
MEF Work (229)
Bylined pieces published by the Middle East Forum, newest first, 2013 to 2026. Titles are quoted as MEF published them and link to the original on meforum.org.
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2026 (11)
- Expect A Chaotic Fall 2026 Semester in New York City
- Palestinian Culture, Part 2: Without Violence, What Remains?
- Palestinian Culture, Part 1: Origins
- The Media Minimizes University of Michigan’s Student Intifada
- National Students for Justice in Palestine ‘Position Paper’ Is a Declaration of War Against Higher Education
- Academia’s Iran Lobby
- The Roots of Harvard’s Jewish Problem
- Has Columbia University Learned Anything from Its Middle East Studies Fiasco?
- Elite U.S. Papers Eulogize Ayatollah Khamenei as an 'Avuncular,' 'Austere Cleric' and 'Pragmatist'
- How Campus Anti-Israel Activism Collapsed Into a Single Front
- Hatem Bazian Is the Jewish Voice For Peace
2025 (19)
- Students for Justice in Palestine's Hunger Strikes Wear Thin
- Iran: Surrounded by Water with Nothing to Drink
- Call It October 7
- Banning Students for Justice in Palestine Won't Erase It
- Addressing Campus SJP Problems, Part 2: Denial at the University of Rochester
- Addressing Campus SJP Problems, Part 1: Some Approaches
- Radical U, Part 2: How Students Turned Their Professors' Words into Deeds
- Radical U, Part 1: How Professors Became Architects of the Academic Palestinian Resistance
- Whitewashing Anti-Israel Campus Protests
- Faculty for Justice in Palestine Is Worse than Students for Justice in Palestine
- Iran's Crazy Search for Spies
- Stimulating Revolt in the Iranian Crazy State
- How Academics Can Show Support for Israel at Graduation Ceremonies
- How One University Dealt With Pro-Hamas Protesters
- Rutgers University’s Anti-Israel Bunch
- What Country Would Accept Relocated Gazans?
- Good Riddance, Antony Blinken
- Bassam Haddad, Part 2: Interview with a Terrorist
- Bassam Haddad, Part 1: George Mason University's Hamas Cheerleader
2024 (16)
- Tomorrow Marks Day 444 for Hostages in Gaza
- Students: Boycotting All Things Israeli? Abandon All Hope Ye Who Venture
- Yahya Sinwar's Career in American Academia
- The Phrase ‘Israel’s War in Gaza’ Is Anti-Israel Propaganda
- Breaking the Brand: The Palestinization of Academia
- Israel Must Not Allow Hamas to Survive Gaza War
- Spain, Norway, and Ireland's Recognition of 'Palestine' Latest Chapter in Long History of Appeasement
- Post 10/7 Looks a Lot Like Post 9/11, Only Worse
- Countering Pro-Palestine Propaganda Part 6: Palestinian Refugees' Right of Return
- Countering 'Pro-Palestine' Propaganda Part 5: Gaza is an Open-Air Prison
- Countering 'Pro-Palestine' Propaganda Part 4: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing
- Countering 'Pro-Palestine' Propaganda, Part 3: Israel Is an Apartheid State
- Countering 'Pro-Palestinian' Propaganda, Part 2: Israel Is a Settler-Colonial State
- Countering 'Pro-Palestinian' Propaganda, Part 1: Resistance Is Justified When People Are Occupied
- Tom Friedman's Soft Jihad Against Israel
- Israel Can Trust Hamas, To Keep Its Promises
2023 (18)
- To Defeat Hamas, Emulate the Destruction of the Tamil Tigers
- A Devil's Bargain on Campus: What Compels College Students to 'Stand in Solidarity' with Hamas?
- Stop Calling Them 'Pro-Palestine' Rallies
- Columbia University Professor Cheers Hamas Barbarity
- Are 'Palestine Scholars' Really Denied Academic Freedom?
- George Washington University Still Has an Antisemitism Problem
- Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative Opposes Free Speech
- Middle East Studies Association Expelled from George Washington University
- Israeli Counterterrorism is Not 'Arbitrary'
- Georgetown's John Esposito, Part 2: The Blame Israel Libel
- Georgetown's John Esposito, Part 1: A Terrorist's Best Friend
- State Dept. Report Ignores 2021 Policy Calamities, Bashes Israel
- How to Write a Jihadist's Biography, or Not
- Roger Waters: The Leni Riefenstahl of Rock and Roll
- Who Will Celebrate World Hijab Day This Year?
- Another Reminder That White Supremacists Aren't the Only Threat to the Homeland
- 2022 Was a Bad Year for Academia and Especially for Middle East Studies
- Why Is Blinken Hiding Report on Global Terrorist Threats?
2022 (13)
- The Navel-Gazing Inanities of MESA
- Arizona State University Opens Center for Muslim Identity Politics
- It's Too Late to Prevent an Iranian Nuke
- "Ben and Jerry's of Palestine"
- 'No Shakespeare' without Islam?
- Wasting Time on "Palestine" Studies
- Nobel Prize Winner Tries to Make the Case for BDS, And Fails Spectacularly
- New York State Supports Hamas, Muzzles Anti-Islamist Reporter
- CAIR's Media Enablers
- CAIR Doubles Down on 'Illegal Surveillance' Charges
- Media Attack Investigative Reporter for Investigating and Reporting on CAIR
- The UAE's New Academic Enemies
- Birzeit University Sure Loves Its Jihadis
2021 (23)
- Brown University Professor Can't Control Birzeit's Terrorists
- Biden's Counterterrorism Ignores Jihadi Threats
- Brown University's Anti-Zionist Fantasy World
- Tarnishing Academe to Legitimize Jihad: Prof Appears with Terrorist Supporters
- Tarnishing Academe to Legitimize Jihad: Prof Appears with Terrorist Supporters
- Fareed Zakaria's Bad Middle East Advice, 20 Years Later
- Tarnishing Academe to Legitimize Jihad: Prof Appears with Terrorist Supporters
- A Tale of Two Drone Strikes
- The State Department's Failed Diplomacy in the Middle East
- The Palestinian Solidarity Statement I'd Like to See
- Confusion, Blame-Shifting, and Inaccuracy: Academia Reacts to the Fall of Afghanistan
- The Real "Islamophobia Industry"
- Solidarity with 'Palestine' Means Kalashnikovs for Kids
- When It Comes to Israel, Academia Agrees
- Academia Signs Shockingly Unoriginal Anti-Israel Petitions
- The Palestinian Flag Is a Symbol of Hate
- Ivy League Professor to Head Terrorist University
- Brown U. Professor to Head Terrorist University
- What Would a 'Proportionate' Israeli Response to Hamas Attacks Really Look Like?
- Biden's Taylor Force Betrayal
- Does Iran Even Need Spies in Academia?
- Uyghurs and Palestinians: What's in a Name?
- What if Scientists Join the BDS Movement?
2020 (20)
- Cancelled Palestine Conference Promised Violent, Anti-Israel Propaganda
- History Proves John Kerry Wrong ... Again
- Palestinians Have Painted Themselves into a Corner
- Anti-Israel NYU: The Gaza of Greenwich Village
- Iran Plays the Race Card
- Why Does the Iranian Regime Rely on Fakes?
- The Islamist Takeover of George Floyd
- Brown University Goes All in for Palestine
- An American Intifada?
- An American "Intifada"?
- 'Happy Birthday, Hamid Algar' -- Khomeini's Favorite American Turns 80
- Why Do Democrats Want to Save Iran's Theocracy?
- Is Iran on the Brink of a Coronavirus Coup?
- Wrong Candidates for Aid, Wrong Time
- Lessons from London: You Can't Fix Jihad
- The Irony and Hypocrisy of World Hijab Day
- Saudi Critics Should Revisit Sue Myrick's 'Wake Up America Agenda'
- Funding Lebanon is Funding Hezbollah
- Trump Has Ended 'Proportionate Warfare' against Iran, Will It Last?
- Mourning Soleimani, from Hollywood to the Campus
2019 (22)
- Why Are Academics Ignoring Iran's Colonialism?
- Iranian Protests Were Not about the Price of Gas
- The Islamic Zealots Who Seized U.S. Embassy 40 Years Ago Today Weren't 'Students'
- Twitter Falls for the Terrorist Wing Scam
- Islam Needs Reformers, not Publicists
- Islamic Reform: Craig Considine's Bridge to Nowhere
- War Isn't Over Just Because You Want It To Be Over
- Middle East Scholars Blame Trump for an Iran Policy 40 Years in the Making
- Encouraging Palestinians to Swim Uphill
- US Saudi Arabia Policy Needs a Dose of Realpolitik
- Turning Egypt's Morsi Into a Progressive Icon
- In Death, Morsi Becomes Mossadeq
- MESA Demands US Welcome Palestinian Terror Apologist Hanan Ashrawi
- MESA Demands U.S. Welcome Palestinian Terrorist Apologist Hanan Ashrawi
- Two More Jihadis Get Out of Jail Early
- Zachary Lockman Ignores Inconvenient Facts About Omar Barghouti's Ties to Terrorists
- Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti
- 'ISIS Bride' Hoda Muthana Was an ISIS Propagandist, Not Some Brainwashed Child
- Al Shabaab Jumps on the Anti-Israel, Anti-Trump Bandwagon
- In Criticizing Israel, MESA Ignores Terror Threats on Palestinians Campuses
- In Criticizing Israel, MESA Ignores Terror Threats on Palestinian Campuses
- While 2018 was a Good Year for Islamists, 2019 is Looking Even Better
2018 (22)
- Columbia University's Center for Palestine Studies: Ramallah on the Hudson
- Iran as a 'Crazy State'
- The Whitewashing of Jamal Khashoggi, Friend of Osama Bin Laden
- Why Did U.S. Academics Attend a Conference Led by a Terror Supporter in Erdoğan's Turkey?
- Why Are US Academics Attending a Conference Led by a Terror Supporter in Erdogan's Turkey?
- Turkey's Revolution Looks like Iran's - but in Slow Motion
- Has the State Department Finally Given up on Its Palestinian Fantasies?
- John Esposito: What Everyone Needs to Know
- 'The Jewish Voice for Palestine': Review of Jewish Voice for Peace's 'On Anti-Semitism'
- What Pnina Peri Tells Us about Israel Studies
- Kuwait Seizes the Palestinian Cause
- No Surprise that MESA Opposes the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
- MESA Opposes Anti-Semitism Awareness Act: No Surprise
- Palestinians hoisted by their own petard
- The Folly of Proportionate Warfare
- New Developments in Suicide Attacks
- The True Commander in Tweet
- Any North Korea nuclear deal must involve Iran's nuclear program
- The Palestinians' Kite Jihad
- What Will Middle East Studies Do without Alwaleed bin Talal?
- The Saudi Arabia-Middle East Studies Love Affair Is Over
- A New Era at the State Department?
2017 (19)
- There's Nothing New About the Palestinian 'Days of Rage'
- New Evidence of the Iran Deal's Failures
- The Important Symbolism, but Probable Futility, of the Taylor Force Act
- Why There's More and More Truck Jihad
- Kathy Griffin Needs to Check Her Infidel Privilege [Satire]
- Trump Dumps the UN Erasure, Slander, and Cover-up Organization
- The State Department's Palestinian Fantasies
- Where is Western Academia's Outrage at Turkey?
- The Islamic State of Al-Qaeda
- Terrorism in Iran: As Ye Reap ...
- Jihad of the Jobless?
- CUNY's Curious Defense of Linda Sarsour
- Trump Can Break the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
- Israel's New Rules
- An End to the Grievance-Based Counterterrorism Approach
- The Lessons of Omar Abdel Rahman
- Fake Anti-Muslim Backlash
- Is Judith Butler the New Edward Said?
- The Real Obama Legacy
2016 (34)
- Jimmy Carter's Lifelong Pursuit of a Palestinian State
- The MLA Vs. Israel
- Israeli Fires and Irish Skirmishers
- The UN's Palestine Language
- Erdogan's Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant
- It is Time to Break up the Quartet
- Massoud Day, September 9
- Rebranding the Iran Ransom Payment as 'Leverage'
- The Terrorist "Wing" Scam
- Turkey Blames American Scholar for Coup Attempt
- Freelance Jihad
- The Peril in Paroling Jihadists
- Flaws in the 'Lone Wolf' Analysis
- Department of Homeland Security Targeting the Wrong Enemy
- Munich Shooting Exposes Media Double Standard
- French Lesson: Guns not Critical To Jihadi Violence
- Why Jihadists Kill 'Gays'
- Negotiating with the Taliban, Again
- In Search of Iranian Moderates
- Dhimmi Nation
- Backdoor BDS
- Humor, Counter-terrorism, and ISIS
- Ben Rhodes and the Fiction behind the Iran Nuclear Deal
- Stop Asking 'Why Do They Hate Us?'
- The UN is a Plastic Owl
- Cuba and Obama's 'Axis of Evil'
- Killing ISIS with Kindness
- Trump's Saddam Nostalgia
- Syracuse University Professor Exposes Anti-Semitic Foundations of BDS
- Syracuse U. Professor Exposes the Anti-Semitic Foundations of BDS
- Counterterrorism? Obama Administration Uses Honor System to Vet Immigrants
- Obama's Syria Diplomacy is Doomed to Fail
- The 'Radicalization' Fraud
- Will 2016 Be the Year of Abbas Diplomacy?
2015 (8)
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