Campus Watch reports the following from July 14-21, 2019:
We Couldn’t Have Said it Better
“Universities are supposed to foster critical thinking skills, but critical thinking involves open-minded analysis of the merits of multiple arguments. [San Francisco State University] Professor [Rabab] Abdulhadi, and all other professors who have transformed their departments into antisemitic indoctrination centers, are destroying what it means to be an honest intellectual.”
Zac Schildcrout, campus adviser and online editor for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), in the Algemeiner; July 17, 2019.
Campus Watch Research
Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms (report by Winfield Myers and Benjamin Baird): https://www.meforum.org/58946/middle-east-studies-at-ut-austin
Urge University of Texas to Clean Up Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Middle East Forum Action Alert): https://www.meforum.org/58960/urge-university-of-texas-to-clean-up-mideast-studies
Campus Watch Blog
Profs at ‘Progressive’ Netroots Summit: ‘Zionists’ Control the Media and All of Israel is ‘Occupied': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58964/profs-at-progressive-netroots-summit-zionists
Middle East Studies at UT-Austin: Biased Professors, Politicized Classrooms (highlights CW’s new report): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58961/middle-east-studies-at-ut-austin-biased
‘Qatar is Playing the Long Game in the Ideological War’ with University and K-12 Funding: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58947/qatar-is-playing-the-long-game-in-the-ideological
Middle East Studies in the News
Adelle Nazarian critiques Rep. Ilhan Omar’s pro-BDS resolution (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58975/ilhan-omar-pro-bds-resolution-isnt-about-free
On SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi’s anti-Zionism and the wider problem on college campuses: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58962/enshrined-anti-zionism-at-san-francisco-state
Gary Fouse on U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole rehashing attacks on John McCain: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58986/university-of-michigan-professor-goes-afterjohn
Robert Spencer critiques Duke prof Omid Safi’s comments on Islam: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58943/duke-prof-islam-has-clear-emphasis-on
“Conspiracy theorist” Laura Loomer to speak in Minnesota; “Islamophobia” hysteria ensues (incl. Luther College prof Todd Green): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58994/conspiracy-theorist-laura-loomer-visit-leaves
AFP on Iran’s detention of Franco-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah (incl. former director of the Middle East program at the Wilson Center Haleh Esfandiari, Princeton U. researcher Xiyue Wang): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58956/macron-demands-answers-from-iran-over-academic
“Gando,” a new Iranian state TV program, glorifies the regime’s detention of Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian (incl. Johns Hopkins U’s Narges Bajoghli): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58958/iran-spy-tv-show-glorifies-hard-liners
A New Jersey imam fuses environmentalism and worship (incl. U. of Notre Dame’s Ebrahim Moosa): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58984/reading-the-quran-with-green-glasses-incl-ebrahim
On Philadelphia’s Al-Bustan Camp, held at St. Peter’s School in Society Hill, where children learn Arabic “language, music, history, and science": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58982/al-bustan-camp-immerses-philly-kids-in-arabic
Liel Leibovitz at Tablet on anti-Israel indoctrination at Newton South High School (MA): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58977/teaching-high-school-students-to-demonize-israel
Fathom Journal publishes a series of responses regarding the Israel studies “Word Crimes Controversy” (following Cary Nelson’s review in May):
Gershon Shafir Responds to Cary Nelson: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58950/the-word-crimes-controversy-2-gershon-shafir
Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler: A Rejoinder to Gershon Shafir: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58951/the-word-crimes-controversy-3-cary-nelson
Ilan Troen Responds to Gershon Shafir: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58952/the-word-crimes-controversy-4-ilan-troen-responds
Donna Robinson Divine replies to Gershon Shafir: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58949/the-word-crimes-controversy-5-donna-robinson
A Personal Reflection By John Strawson (incl. Arie Dubnov): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58948/the-word-crimes-controversy-6-a-personal
On Clark U. prof Taner Akçam unearthing new evidence for the Ottoman intent to commit genocide against the Armenians:
Clark University press release: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58987/taner-akcam-unearths-evidence-of-ottoman-decision
Massis Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58978/prof-taner-akcam-unearths-solid-evidence-for
ZME Science: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58980/historian-unearths-more-solid-evidence-of-ottoman
Courthouse News Service: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58981/letters-reveal-ottoman-commitment-to-armenian
Moonlighters
On Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill calling major news outlets “Zionist organizations” that produce “Zionist content” at the Netroots summit (incl. Rutgers prof Noura Erakat):
Jewish Insider: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58954/ex-cnn-commentator-at-progressive-summit-major
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58953/former-cnn-commentator-mark-lamont-hill-tells
Hot Air: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58967/netroots-speaker-talking-about-networks-as
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58983/shirt-saying-resist-racism-sexism-zionism
Jewish Exponent: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58988/netroots-panel-equates-zionism-with-white
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58989/ex-cnn-pundit-us-news-outlets-are-zionist-on-marc
Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58993/marc-lamont-hill-unbottles-his-antisemitism-again
FrontPage Magazine (Daniel Greenfield): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58992/marc-lamont-hill-at-netroots-media-is-run-by
Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58991/former-cnn-commentator-marc-lamont-hill-calls
On UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan’s role in the Williams College free speech dust-up:
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58957/reza-aslan-colleges-should-have-rules-on-who-cant
One News Now: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58990/prof-challenges-oppressive-campus-environment
