Joseph Andoni Massad is a Jordanian academic specializing in Middle Eastern studies, who serves as Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.
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In 1998, Joseph Massad received his doctorate in political science from Columbia University, and in the fall of 1999 he started teaching at the same institution.
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Joseph Massad focuses on institutions of law, the military, and education as key components of nationalism, and elaborates on the production not only of national identity but of national culture including food, clothes, sports, accents, songs, and television serials.
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Joseph Massad ascribes this to Orientalist, colonial impulses, but Whitaker notes he cites no evidence of such motives, or a supposed excessive attention by what Joseph Massad calls the "Gay International" and human rights organizations on such societies.
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Joseph Massad is critical of Massad seeming to present "the West" as a unified entity on such matters, ignoring opposition within Western countries toward LGBT+ acceptance or rights.
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Whitaker concludes Joseph Massad is blinded by his focus on these alleged forces which causes him to ascribe such pernicious influence as the cause of LGBT+ issues being raised in the Arab and Muslim world, rather than as the outgrowth of a wider social movement as a whole, following naturally from greater global communication.
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Joseph Massad is faulted as ignoring evidence of Arab and Muslim people adopting LGBT+ identities themselves, along with dismissing or downplaying repression they suffer from their governments.
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Joseph Massad believes that Zionism is not only racist but antisemitic, and antisemitic not only towards Arab Palestinians, but towards Jews.
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Joseph Massad has spoken of genetic links being established between 19th-century European Jews and the ancient Israelite kingdom and the creation of a "semitic" identity for Jews at that time as actually a European, racist construction designed to portray European Jews as foreigners.
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Joseph Massad considers claims to Israel made by the Zionist movement based on that connection to be problematic.
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Joseph Massad has criticized Arab intellectuals who "defend the racist and barbaric policies" of the United States, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in the Arab world.
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Joseph Massad refers to the Palestinian Authority as the "Palestinian Collaborationist Authority," calls Mahmoud Abbas the "chief Palestinian collaborator," and accuses the PA of collaborating with Israel and the United States to crush Palestinian resistance.
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Joseph Massad too criticized the findings, writing that it "suffer[ed] from major logical flaws, undefended conclusions, inconsistencies, and clear bias in favor of the witch-hunt that has targeted me for over three years".