Scott Jaschik of Inside Higher Ed, writes Winfield Myers, performs ”evidentiary acrobatics” and commits “sins of omission” to exonerate one of Barack Obama’s pals, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, from charges that he was a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization when he lived in Beirut during the late 1970s and early 1980s — years in which the PLO was on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations.