Campus Watch reports the following from July 25 – August 3, 2019:
Recommended Professors
Kevin Blankinship
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Brigham Young University
Areas of Expertise: Arabic language and literature, Islamic civilization, the Qur’an
https://humanities.byu.edu/person/kevin-blankinship/
Campus Watch Blog
‘Israel Studies’ Editors Apologize . . . for Pro-Israel Bias: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59062/israel-studies-editors-apologize-for-pro-israel
Clark University Prof Taner Akçam Uncovers Armenian Genocide ‘Smoking Gun': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59046/clark-university-prof-taner-akcam-uncovers
Middle East Studies in the News
Daily Herald (Utah) obituary for former Brigham Young U. (also: AUC, U. of Miami) prof Arnold Harrison Green: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59066/arnold-harrison-green-1940-2019
JNS report on a new ethnic-studies curriculum under proposal by the California Department of Education that’s raising concerns over anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias (incl. Miriam Elman, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59064/proposed-anti-israel-ethnic-studies-curriculum-in
Haaretz on Israel Studies journal editors’ apology for the “Word Crimes” issue and “pro-Israel bias” (incl. Arie Dubnov, Pnina Lahav, Yehudah Mirsky, Derek Penslar, Daniel Kurtzer, Ilan Troen): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59060/editors-apologize-after-israel-studies
JNS on Canary Mission’s report linking IfNotNow and American Muslims for Palestine (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59056/new-report-highlights-ties-between-ifnotnow
Daniel Greenfield on the same (incl. Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59073/is-a-hamas-allied-hate-group-influencing-the-2020
Daily Californian on UC Berkeley’s new Assyrian studies program: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59074/uc-berkeley-adds-assyrian-studies-program-through
Wisconsin Muslim Journal profile of Carthage College (WI) Islamic studies prof Fatih Harpci: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59071/professor-teaches-about-islam-in-popular-classes
Sarmad Ishfaq of Pakistan’s Lahore Center for Peace Research critiques Western academia’s study of the Middle East: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59069/why-is-the-middle-east-such-a-complicated-region
Jonathan Marks asks why the BDS movement doesn’t boycott Turkey (incl. Columbia’s Joseph Massad, SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59049/where-is-the-movement-to-boycott-turkey-incl
US Islamists decline to participate in Erdoğan’s “Uniting Ummah” event in NYC (incl. Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi, Southern Methodist U’s Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59045/erdogan-uniting-ummah-event-in-new-york-divides
Organizers of the CAIR-dominated Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy conference prevent Andrew Harrod from attending (incl. Georgetown’s Jonathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59050/muslim-brothers-shut-out-critics-incl-jonathan
FrontPage reports on the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund’s case against New Jersey’s Memorial High School over Islamic proselytizing: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59043/nj-high-school-allows-muslim-proselytizing-in
Moonlighters
CAMERA’s Karen Bekker cites anti-Semitism as the “canary in the coalmine” for the Oberlin case and similar problems on other campuses (incl. UCLA’s Saree Makdisi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59065/at-oberlin-and-elsewhere-anti-semitism-was-canary
On Covington Catholic High School students’ libel lawsuit against various journalists and celebrities (incl. UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan):
Law and Crime: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59072/exclusive-8-covington-catholic-teens-sue-most
The Epoch Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59081/covington-students-sue-nyt-reporter-cnn-analysts
On U. of Detroit Mercy prof Amer Zahr’s successful BDS campaign to prevent an Arab-American man from opening a Burgerim franchise in Dearborn:
Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59070/rashida-tlaib-silent-on-constituent-targeted-by
The Arab-American News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59075/when-boycotts-work-israeli-franchise-burgerim
Articles on, or including, Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:
Petra Marquardt-Bigman at Legal Insurrection on Janna Jihad’s US tour: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59044/rewarding-palestinian-child-exploitation-janna
Leonard Getz at American Thinker on the Netroots Nation conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59068/netroots-nation-rooted-in-islamism-incl-marc
Will Alexander at Townhall on “Mideast hatred” coming to the US: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59067/mideast-brand-0f-hatred-finds-a-home-in-america
Alex Joffe’s latest SPME “BDS Monitor": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59058/bds-monitor-incl-marc-lamont-hill
