Said’s polemic demoralized scholarship and drove an unavowed policy of Jewish exclusion.

Evidence

Another dismal consequence of polemics like Orientalism is that some university departments of Arabic or Middle Eastern history appear to have an unavowed policy of excluding Jews from serious consideration as candidates for jobs in those departments. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 498

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a striking and specific accusation — worth verifying against other accounts of post-Said hiring practices in Middle Eastern studies.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the Said-vs-Orientalists debate in this same book and to broader culture-war treatments of Orientalism. Could also connect to the moral-panic literature on academic fields perceived as besieged.

Related

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