Unfortunately, despite his interesting thoughts on Afghanistan, Robert Crews was one of the Stanford professors who joined the anti-Semitic BDS campaign against Israel in 2015. <br><br>At first, it is easy to dismiss this as just projection beyond his field, but listening to this podcast and his exclusive focus on Western empires, while ignoring, for example, the various nationalistic Islamic empires that hav dominated in the East, it is pretty obvious where his distortions and his biases lie. His compassion for those who were inspired by OBL victimhood narrative betrays the full history of an area and places oppressor status exclusively on the 'other'.