Jonathan Calt Harris (born December 27, 1969) a native of Illinois, is an American Christian Zionist,[1] writer, and a foreign policy analyst.
[2] Harris served as the managing editor of Campus Watch, a website which monitors U.S. universities backed by a pro-Israel think tank,[3] from October 2002 through May 2004.
Through Campus Watch, Harris published several highly critical profiles of individual academics including Sarah Lawrence scholar Fawaz Gerges,[4] Columbia University's Rashid Khalidi, whom he called "Arafat's minion",[5] Joseph Massad, whom he compared to a neo-Nazi and of belittling the Holocaust,[6][7] and the University of Michigan's Juan Cole, whom he has called "anti-Israel to the point of being an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist."
"[8] Jonathan Calt Harris did not publish under a by-line while serving as an in-house Washington lobbyist for the right-wing Zionist Organization of America.
"[12] Harris has written on Christian Zionism for the Jewish Policy Center and was profiled in the Decatur Herald & Review in late 2008.