) First hour: Juan Cole may be the best-known Middle East Studies expert in America. A professor at the University of Michigan, he has taken up the role of public intellectual with a vengeance in response to what I (not he) would call the 9/11-triggered war on Islam for Israel. And like me, he has been hounded by the Zionist lobby’s fronts, including the McCarthyist snitch-on-your-professor confederacy of weasels known as Campus Watch. From his bio: Juan R. I. Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University…