Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from September 1-7, 2019:

Campus Watch Blog

Access Islam: K-12 ‘Islamist Indoctrination’ Backed by the DoE: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59297/access-islam-k-12-islamist-indoctrination-backed

SFSU Prof Rabab Abdulhadi Uses Hate Mail to Push ‘Pro-Palestine’ Victimhood Narrative: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59280/sfsu-prof-rabab-abdulhadi-uses-hate-mail-to-push

Middle East Studies in the News

Bar-Ilan U. prof William Kolbrener at Fathom Journal on “Israel Hatred and the Collapse of Liberal Education” (incl. Middle East studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59296/poisonous-pedagogy-israel-hatred-and-the-collapse

George Washington U’s Institute for Middle East Studies acquires the Middle East Studies Association of North America, which had been housed at the U. of Arizona: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59285/institute-for-middle-east-studies-seeks-to-raise

U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign launches the Illinois Global Institute, which will merge ten global studies units, incl. the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59326/ui-merging-10-global-studies-units-into-new

Oberlin College to offer introductory Arabic courses in the Fall (incl. Mahmoud Meslat, Basem Al-Raba, Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, Zeinab Abul-Magd): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59325/introductory-arabic-courses-offered-on-campus-in

Clarion Project report on “foreign influence ops on US universities (incl. Georgetown’s John Esposito): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59321/clarion-exclusive-report-foreign-influence-ops-on

Clarion Project on “Islamist indoctrination” in K-12 via the DoE-funded Access Islam program: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59288/back-to-school-islamist-indoctrination-for-us-kids

Duke University’s Abdullah Antepli is named to the NonProfit Times’ “Power & Influence Top 50": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59300/abdullah-antepli-named-leading-innovator-in

Golden Gate Xpress on SFSU’s first female president, Lynn Mahoney (incl. Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59304/mahoney-first-woman-president-in-sf-state-history

On the AMCHA Initiative sending a follow-up letter signed by eighty organizations, incl. the Middle East Forum, to CSU re SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi using the AMED Facebook page to post pro-BDS, anti-Israel material:

AMCHA Initiative: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59284/zionism-racism-boycott-divest-sanction-welcoming

J: The Jewish News of Northern California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59324/jewish-groups-allege-sfsu-professor-violating

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59303/groups-call-on-cal-state-to-act-against-professor

Jewish Press: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59299/80-groups-sfsu-prof-abdulhadi-still-using-school

Fousesquawk (blog of Gary Fouse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59282/sfsu-continues-to-shield-rabab-abdulhadi

On U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole blaming Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for Hurricane Dorian:

Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59287/history-professor-on-dorian-gov-desantis-inaction

Fousesquawk (blog of Gary Fouse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59290/hurricane-juan-cole-hits-florida

Articles that include Islam scholar Tariq Ramadan:

Gatestone Institute (Giulio Meotti): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59289/european-dreams-vs-mass-migration-incl-tariq

Dawn (Pakistan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59301/the-scholar-and-his-crimes-on-tariq-ramadan

Moonlighters

Dexter Van Zile on U. of Massachusetts failing to hold anti-Israel prof Sut Jhally accountable for “acts of deception in his research” (incl. Temple U’s Marc Lamont Hill): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59320/umass-protects-propagandist-from-scrutiny-incl

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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