Jonathan Calt Harris

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Jonathan Calt Harris (born December 27, 1969) a native of Illinois, is an American conservative writer and editor, and a Christian pro-Israel activist.

1 Education
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Education

Harris graduated from the University of Illinois in 1998 in History and attended graduate school at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Religious Studies, living in Israel for at least two years, but does not claim a graduate degree.

[edit] Journalism

Harris worked for Time magazine in Jerusalem from 1998-2000, and as a reporter in New York for much of 2001. Harris worked as a researcher and occasional contributor for Time magazine’s Jerusalem bureau while in graduate school.

More recently Harris' articles on academia and Middle East studies appear in National Review Online, The Washington Times, The New York Post, the Middle East Quarterly and various conservative online sources. ^[1]

[edit] Campus Watch

Harris served as the managing editor of the controversial academic review website Campus Watch from October of 2002 through May of 2004. Harris continued to write and edit for Campus Watch until registering as a lobbyist in January of 2005.

Through Campus Watch, Harris published several highly critical profiles of popular individual academics including Sarah Lawrence scholar Fawaz Gerges, Columbia University's Rashid Khalidi, and the University of Michigan's Juan Cole who he has called "anti-Israel to the point of being an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist." ^[2] The academic Middle East Studies Association of America, then headed by Cole, was the subject of several pieces, with Calt Harris referring to it as "once respectable group of scholars which has now become a hive of academic opposition of America, Israel, and...rationalism."

[edit] Advocacy

Jonathan Calt Harris has not been publishing under by-line since, as of January 2005, serving as an in-house Washington lobbyist for Zionist Organization of America^[3]. He is registered with the government as the ZOA's "Assistant Director of Government Relations" ^[4]