Campus Watch reports the following from December 26, 2019 – January 10, 2020:
Campus Watch Research
Georgetown Gets a Title VI Wakeup Call (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60246/georgetown-gets-a-title-vi-wakeup-call
Mourning Soleimani, from Hollywood to the Campus (A.J. Caschetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60223/mourning-soleimani-from-hollywood-to-the-campus
Campus Watch Blog
Georgetown Gets a Title VI Wakeup Call (Cinnamon Stillwell): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60249/georgetown-gets-a-title-vi-wakeup-call
Craig Considine Shills for Anti-Israel Propagandists (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60236/craig-considine-shills-for-anti-israel
Mourning Soleimani, from Hollywood to the Campus (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60225/mourning-soleimani-from-hollywood-to-the-campus
Princeton’s Mousavian Mourns Terror Leaders (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60197/princeton-mousavian-mourns-terror-leaders
Campus Watch in the Media
CAMERA’s Zac Schildcrout at JNS on Middle East studies centers misappropriating Title VI funding to push anti-Israel activism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60195/are-american-taxpayer-funds-fueling-anti-israel
Middle East Studies in the News
“Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell” (incl. Princeton’s Michael Reynolds, Cornell’s Mostafa Minawi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60260/six-reasons-why-the-ottoman-empire-fell-incl
Clarion Project on the DoE’s investigation into undeclared foreign funding of US universities: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60265/prominent-us-universities-failed-to-disclose-13
Daily Wire op-ed urges academia and think tanks to boycott Qatar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60189/academia-and-think-tanks-must-boycott-qatar
Gary Fouse on UC Irvine prof Mark LeVine’s rant against “whiteness": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60266/mark-levine-rants-against-whiteness
Afikra, an organization that hosts presentations on Arab culture, holds a discussion at NYU’s Center for Near Eastern Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60212/giving-deeper-thought-to-arab-heritage
CAIR-Oklahoma produces a “Guide to Islam and Muslims in Oklahoma” (incl. Oklahoma City U’s Imad Enchassi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60208/oklahoma-muslims-tell-their-own-story-with-new
The Armenian Weekly on a Harvard U. panel titled, “Incitement to Genocide, Freedom of Expression, and Social Media": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60218/agbu-naasr-panel-wrestles-with-genocide-free
Legal Insurrection’s Samantha Mandeles on the American Historical Association rejecting an anti-Israel resolution for the fourth time (incl. Middle East Studies Association, U. of Houston’s Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Stanford’s Joel Beinin, Vassar’s Joshua Schreier, Rice U’s Ussama Makdisi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60244/american-historical-association-rejects-anti
Adam Scott Bellos, founder of the Israel Innovation Fund and U. of Arizona graduate, credits UA prof Maha Nassar with teaching him “the total opposite side of Zionism": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60254/university-of-arizona-graduate-takes-judaics-out
American U’s Akbar Ahmed aids the effort to get the Trump administration to designate France, Sweden, Germany, and the UK so that the Simon Wiesenthal Center can add them to its antisemitism watchlist: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60258/four-european-countries-might-be-added-to-anti
CSU Stanislaus prof As’ad AbuKhalil downplays Hezbollah’s presence in Latin America: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60259/could-iran-and-hezbollah-strike-in-latin-america
Alex Joffe’s “BDS Monitor” references Rep. Denver Riggleman’s DoE complaint against Georgetown U. alleging anti-Israel bias against the federally funded Center for Contemporary Arab Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60220/bds-monitor
Middle East studies profs on the US air strike against Iranian military commander and Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, and its aftermath (in chronological order):
Newsbusters (on Penn State’s Hillary Mann Leverett): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60213/by-bombing-hezbollah-trump-is-bombing-war-heroes
Quartz (incl. NYU’s Arash Azizi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60205/one-thing-unites-americans-and-iranians-nobody
KCTV News 5 (incl. U. of Missouri–Kansas City’s Rebecca Best): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60206/what-the-situation-with-iran-could-mean-for
CTV News (Canada) (incl. John Hopkins U’s Narges Bajoghli): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60209/death-will-turn-soleimani-into-a-martyr-and-unify
Los Angeles Times (incl. SFSU’s Persis Karim, Narges Bajoghli): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60204/across-california-iranian-americans-are-shocked
Market Watch (incl. Stanford’s Abbas Milani, NYU’s Arang Keshavarzian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60207/despite-iranian-demonstrators-chanting-death-to
The Hub at Johns Hopkins (incl. Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60219/experts-assassination-of-suleimani-pulverizes-us
Religion News Network (incl. Duke’s Omid Safi, Cornell’s Seema Golestaneh): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60268/iranian-cultural-sites-include-landmarks
Architectural Digest (incl. Seema Golestaneh): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60269/leading-art-institutions-denounce-president-trump
The Independent (UK) (incl. U. of Denver’s Nader Hashemi, Narges Bajoghli): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60273/soleimani-funeral-shows-trump-has-underestimated
Inside Higher Ed (incl. Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60274/academic-groups-condemn-threat-to-target-cultural
Daily Hampshire Gazette (Massachusetts) (U. of Massachusetts Amherst’s David Mednicoff): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60240/local-experts-congressmen-react-to-heightened-us
WSAW (Wisconsin) (incl. U. of Wisconsin–Stevens Point’s Edgar Francis): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60242/uwsp-professor-breaks-down-the-impacts-conflict
KGUN 9 (Arizona) (incl. U. of Arizona’s Leila Hudson): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60239/reaction-in-southern-arizona-to-conflict-with
KHOU 11 (Houston) (incl. U. of Houston’s Emran El-Badawi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60251/uh-professor-third-party-should-conduct-ukrainian
On U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole’s participation in a “No War on Iran” protest at the University:
Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60264/umich-prof-we-have-a-mad-bomber-in-the-white
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60263/u-of-michigan-professor-juan-cole-we-have-a-mad
Michigan Radio (NPR): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60243/hundreds-attend-anti-war-rally-after-us-iran
The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60233/hundreds-gather-for-no-war-on-iran-demonstration
Iranian-American dissidents urge Princeton U. to reconsider hosting ex-Iranian diplomat Seyed Hossein Mousavian as a scholar:
New York Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60194/teaching-at-princeton-with-blood-on-his-hands-on
The Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60211/iranian-americans-investigate-princeton-prof-for
On the DoE accepting an antisemitism complaint filed by a Jewish student and StandWithUs against UCLA that names SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi:
The Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60234/us-ed-dept-investigating-ucla-over-anti-zionist
J: The Jewish News of Northern California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60237/trump-order-could-bolster-anti-semitism-complaint
Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60267/doe-investigating-ucla-for-anti-semitism-incl
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60210/us-education-department-investigating-ucla-over
On the political rivalry surrounding the “International Unity in Diversity” conference in Kuala Lumpur, co-organized by Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and including Southern Methodist U’s Omar Suleiman and Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi:
The Sun Daily (Malaysia): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60272/no-discussion-about-power-transition-during
Arab News (Saudi Arabia): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60217/malaysian-political-leader-to-host-islamic
Free Malaysia Today:
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60250/claim-surfaces-zakir-naik-offered-free-passage-in
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60238/muslim-activist-tells-why-conference-graced-by
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60270/upcoming-conference-featuring-anwar-no-rival-to
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60271/anwar-gathers-celeb-muslim-scholars-at-counter-to
Articles on the AMCHA Initiative’s new study, which shows that anti-Israel faculty use the classroom to promote BDS, that reference Middle East studies:
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60227/first-empirical-evidence-shows-anti-israel
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60226/bds-faculty-using-classrooms-to-promote
Moonlighting
On a lawsuit that includes UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan’s “punchable face’ tweet, and accuses other commentators and celebrities of making “false and defamatory accusations” against Covington High School student Nick Sandmann (following the latter’s settlement with CNN over similar charges):
PJ Media: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60235/reza-aslan-to-face-the-music-for-calling-nick
LifeNews.com: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60262/covington-boys-sue-elizabeth-warren-kathy-griffin
One News Now: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60257/legal-standard-too-easy-to-prove-in-student-case
The New American: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60256/aslan-finally-deletes-tweet-about-sandmann
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60255/reza-aslan-deletes-attack-on-covington-kids
On allegations of antisemitism at Fieldston School, a private school in NY, incl. an anti-Israel lecture by Columbia U. prof and Open Society Foundations employee Kayum Ahmed—and more recently, the firing of a history teacher for anti-Israel tweets:
The Riverdale Press (New York): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60261/fieldston-teacher-says-they-were-fired-after
The Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60253/no-zionists-and-no-straights-tweets-from-teacher
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60252/elite-ny-prep-school-fires-teacher-who-posted
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60241/democrat-congressmen-raise-concerns-over-ny
