Campus Watch reports the following from December 1 – 8, 2019:
Campus Watch in the Media
Al-Monitor on how the DoE’s scrutiny of foreign funding of US universities is affecting Gulf donors: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60030/gulf-donors-drawn-into-controversy-over-foreign
Reporter Sara Carter on Harvard prof and Trump impeachment “witness” Noah Feldman’s past apologias for Islamism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60048/feldman-who-argued-islamists-never-got-a-chanceto
Middle East Studies in the News
UC Santa Cruz establishes a new Center for the Middle East and North Africa with anti-Israel prof Jennifer Derr as director: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60056/uc-santa-cruz-establishes-new-center-for
Rice U. prof Craig Considine’s “Muslims in America” class features outside speakers, incl. representatives from CAIR: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60070/rice-class-explores-what-it-means-to-be-muslim-in
One of the woman who accused scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape is now suing him (in Switzerland) for slander: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60069/new-slander-case-brought-against-tariq-ramadan
NPR on the fallout from allegations of abuse and sexual misconduct against Muslim preacher Usama Canon (incl. Tariq Ramadan, Huron U. College’s Ingrid Mattson): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60050/navigating-the-fallout-of-alleged-abuse
On the final program in UCLA’s “10 Question” series, in which “UCLA experts discuss 10 big questions over 10 weeks” (incl. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Director Ali Behdad): https://www.meforum.org/admin/campus-watch/doc_edit.php
Brown U. PhD religious studies candidate Cyril Uy delivers his inaugural lecture as a New Global Islamic Studies fellow and visiting scholar at Connecticut College: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60075/lost-in-a-sea-of-letters-on-cyril-uy-incl-eileen
Robert Spencer on journalist Mehdi Hasan claiming his wife was harassed on a flight due to “Islamophobia (incl. U. of Arkansas prof Khaled Beydoun): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60079/mehdi-hasan-claims-flight-attendant-harassed-his
The Middle East Studies Association presents its Jere L. Bacharach Service Award to UC Davis prof Suad Joseph: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60040/laurels-suad-joseph-receives-service-award-incl
Mitchell Bard on “Losing the Semantic War on ‘Palestine’” (incl. Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60052/losing-the-semantic-war-on-palestine-incl-middle
Brown U’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies sponsors an Arab-Israel conflict discussion with two Washington Institute policy experts: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60022/policy-experts-talk-israel-palestine-conflict
Former Arabic lecturer Samir Bitar’s discrimination lawsuit against the University of Montana Faculty Association is dismissed due to a cash settlement: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60017/former-arabic-lecturer-lawsuit-dismissed-on-samir
Israel Hayom on UC Berkeley prof Ron Hassner’s revealing survey of Berkeley undergraduates’ views on the Arab-Israeli conflict: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60016/they-support-palestine-but-cant-find-it-on-a-map
From 11/27: Alex Joffe’s latest “BDS Monitor” for SPME (incl. Middle East Studies Association, Boston U’s Sarah Ihmoud, Temple U’s Marc Lamont Hill, Columbia U’s Joseph Massad, Norman Finkelstein): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60024/bds-monitor-incl-middle-east-studies-association
On the Iranian regime freeing US citizen and Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang—who was studying Farsi and conducting research in Iran when he was imprisoned for “spying” in 2016— in a prisoner swap with the US:
Reuters: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60059/united-states-and-iran-swap-prisoners-in-rare-act
Associated Press (AP): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60067/iran-frees-chinese-american-scholar-for-us-held
New York Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60060/in-prisoner-swap-iran-frees-american-held-since
National Public Radio (NPR): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60061/american-student-xiyue-wang-freed-in-us-iran
Al-Jazeera: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60062/iran-frees-chinese-american-scholar-for-us-held
NBC News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60063/american-student-freed-in-prisoner-swap-after
The Hill: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60064/iran-releases-american-graduate-student-in
Fox News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60065/american-graduate-student-held-in-iran-on-spy
BBC News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60066/us-and-iranian-men-released-in-prisoner-swap-on
On the AMCHA Initiative’s letter—signed by 88 groups, incl. the Middle East Forum—to Betsy DeVos, calling on the DoE to prevent directors and affiliated faculty of Title VI federally-funded Middle East Studies programs from implementing BDS:
AMCHA Initiative (press release): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60043/88-orgs-to-sec-devos-dont-let-federally-funded
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60045/nearly-90-pro-israel-groups-call-for-devos-to
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60046/88-groups-call-on-devos-to-prevent-federal
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60044/88-groups-urge-us-education-dept-to-prevent
The Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60071/pressure-on-us-education-dept-to-stop-funding
On Harvard prof and Trump impeachment “witness” Noah Feldman’s past apologias for Sharia law and Islamism:
(Also: See Sara Carter in “Campus Watch in the Media”).
Israel National News (Phyllis Chesler): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60076/why-is-the-nyt-allying-with-islamists-against
Gateway Pundit: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60047/democrat-impeachment-witness-noah-feldman
Patheos: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60049/what-i-remember-about-noah-feldman
The Tennessee Star: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60051/dem-witness-noah-feldman-penned-fawning-defense
On the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) annual conference in Chicago, which included Temple U’s Marc Lamont Hill (a Moonlighter), UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, Columbia U’s Joseph Massad, and Rutgers prof Golbarg Bashi:
Legal Insurrection (Samantha Mandeles): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60078/rep-rashida-tlaib-keynotes-american-muslims-for
The Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60053/a-weekend-with-american-muslims-for-palestine
Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60039/watch-linda-sarsour-makes-antisemitic-remarks
Middle East Eye: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60038/american-muslims-to-democrats-palestine-is
The Washington Free Beacon (under “Moonlighting”): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60068/rashida-tlaib-headlined-anti-semitic-hate-fest
On Columbia U. and Tel Aviv U. launching a joint undergraduate degree program that will include Middle Eastern studies:
The Times of Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60073/tel-aviv-university-columbia-launch-joint
C’Tech (Calcalist): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60077/columbia-university-tel-aviv-university-partner
