Duke University has just appointed a new director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, Omid Safi. Spencer Case, writing elsewhere on the NRO site, points out that Safi isn’t exactly impartial in the issues of the day involving Islam.

In particular, Case refers to a blog post Safi wrote last year for the Religion News Service. The title, “Zionist Atrocities at Palestinian Village of Deir Yassin, 65 years ago…and Today” says a lot. But in addition, Case recounts:

Zionist atrocities at Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, 65 years ago…and today

– See more at: http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/09/zionist/#sthash.PENFTFRq.dpuf

Zionist atrocities at Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, 65 years ago…and today

– See more at: http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/09/zionist/#sthash.PENFTFRq.dpuf

Zionist atrocities at Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, 65 years ago…and today

– See more at: http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2013/04/09/zionist/#sthash.PENFTFRq.dpuf

The article featured a black and white photograph of a prison yard littered with hundreds of human corpses. The people in that photograph are not Arab victims of Deir Yassin, but Jewish victims of the holocaust. A Jewishpress.com article noted: “It’s clear that the photo is there to magnify the impact of [Safi’s] words, and to serve as a historical record of what he describes.”

The Religion News Service retracted the post for “failing to meet the editorial standards of Religion News Service.”

Did we ever expect impartiality at Duke?