Nothing but Dirt: Stephen Schwartz on the "Scholarship" of Nadia Abu El-Haj

Stephen Schwartz has penned a concise take-down of Barnard College archaeologist Nadia Abu El-Haj for Campus Watch. Abu El-Haj, who's coming up for tenure soon, is part of an effort to delegitimize the modern state of Israel by "discovering" that, contrary to archaeological and historical evidence, the ancient Hebrews never existed as a nation called Israel. Moreover, she claims that Israeli and Western archaeologists purposefully destroy evidence that would back up her absurd thesis.

For a somewhat analogous position on these shores, think of the claims that the drafting of the U.S. Constitution depended upon Iroquois Indians' Great Law of Peace (it didn't).

Better yet, Google the words "Roswell, New Mexico."