Opinion Iraqi Jews leaving Lod airport in Israel on their way to the Ma’abara transit camp, 1951. Photo: Israeli Government Press Office. JNS.org – For some years now, the creeping politicization of the arts and social sciences in western universities has been a cause for concern. Now the rewriting of Jewish history in the Middle East and North Africa has received a huge boost. The US-based academics Lior Sternfeld, Michelle Campos, and Orit Bashkin have been awarded a $250,000 grant to “reimagine” Jewish life in the Middle East before Zionism. The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) , one of...