Campus Watch reports the following from August 22 – September 1, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
‘Diversity’ Training for Michigan Teachers Glorified Islam, Bashed Christianity and America: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59247/diversity-training-for-michigan-teachers
A Third Woman Charges Islam Scholar Tariq Ramadan with Rape: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59242/a-third-woman-charges-islam-scholar-tariq-ramadan
Campus Watch in the Media
UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian “connects Islamophobia in the U.S., India and Israel” in a talk at the Islamic Society of Milwaukee; accuses DP, MEF, and CW of being involved in the “Islamophobia industry": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59245/berkeley-professor-connects-islamophobia-in
Middle East Studies in the News
PJ Media on the Thomas More Law Center’s investigation into “diversity” training for teachers at a Novi, MI public school and the woman behind it: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59244/taxpayer-funded-islamic-propaganda-attacks-on
Daniel Greenfield on biased PBS Learning Media documentaries and lesson plans for teenagers: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59271/getting-pbs-hate-out-of-the-classroom
Alex Joffe’s latest installment of “BDS Monitor” includes the CA ethnic studies controversy, Qatar funding for K-12, and the involvement of profs from federally-funded Middle East studies centers: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59264/bds-monitor
On Saudi Arabia and the UAE funding universities in the UK and beyond: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59259/saudi-arabia-and-the-uae-fund-academia-with
Harvard Gazette on a summer program for incoming freshmen that one student used to teach Arabic language and culture to children: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59257/service-in-any-language
Houston Chronicle profile on several generations of a Muslim family (incl. Rice U. profs David Cook and Craig Considine): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59269/generations-of-houston-family-grapple-with-what
SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi receives “Islamophobic” hate mail: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59254/professor-receives-hate-mail-on-rabab-abdulhadi
Clarion Project on Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Julian Castro speaking at the ISNA convention, alongside Islamist speakers (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, Southern Methodist U’s Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59258/sanders-castro-are-speaking-with-these-extremists
On a third woman bringing rape charges against Tariq Ramadan:
AFP: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59241/islamic-scholar-ramadan-targeted-by-new-rape
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59262/report-ex-oxford-scholar-tariq-ramadan-facing-new
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59240/prominent-islamic-scholar-tariq-ramadan-accused
Oxford Mail: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59260/tariq-ramadan-accused-of-raping-another-woman
On California Assemblyman Jose Medina delaying the bill he authored to make ethnic studies a requirement for high school education in the state, following the scrapping of a proposed ethnic studies curriculum due to outcry over anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias:
Los Angeles Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59268/ethnic-studies-bill-delayed-in-california-amid
Los Angeles Times (op-ed): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59267/require-ethnic-studies-for-california-students
The Sacramento Bee: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59265/bill-to-mandate-ethnic-studies-in-california-high
J: The Jewish News of Northern California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59261/bill-requiring-state-ethnic-studies-curriculum
Del-Mar Times (Solano Beach Sun - Carmel Valley News): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59266/education-matters-ethnic-studies-do-over
On the Zaytuna Institute’s Zaid Shakir and Southern Methodist U. adjunct Omar Suleiman’s “Muslims for Migrants” campaign to raise money to bail out detained migrant parents:
CBS 11 News (Dallas Fort Worth): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59255/muslim-led-crowdfunding-campaign-raises-150k-for
Religion News Network: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59256/muslims-bailout-fund-raises-nearly-150000-to
Moonlighters
Melissa Landa op-ed on HBO’s “Our Boys,” BDS, and academe (incl. Rutgers prof Jasbir Puar, Temple U’s Marc Lamont Hill): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59252/why-jews-should-experience-the-palestinian
Articles involving U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign academic-turned-bus driver Steven Salaita:
Salaita pens a CHE piece titled “My Life As a Cautionary Tale": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59272/my-life-as-a-cautionary-tale
Salaita discusses “suffering and resoluteness” at the U. of Cape Town (8/8): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59273/freedom-requires-suffering-and-resoluteness-on
