Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from January 19-31, 2020:

Campus Watch Blog

MESA Hits Bottom, Continues Digging in Support of Anti-Israel Activism (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60337/mesa-hits-bottom-continues-digging-in-support

Middle East Studies in the News

A review of Columbia U. prof Rashid Khalidi’s book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017, in the NYT: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60341/is-there-any-way-to-end-the-israeli-palestinian

CAMERA’s Sean Durns on the late Palestinian terrorist and CIA asset Ali Hassan Salameh (incl. Rashid Khalidi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60329/the-time-the-cia-took-a-terrorist-to-disneyland

U. of Pennsylvania prof Ian Lustick discusses his new book, Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality (incl. Swarthmore prof Sa’ed Atshan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60321/penn-prof-explains-why-he-lost-hope-for-israel

UC Berkeley prof. Ron Hassner reports on “Jewish progress,” including in Israel and Jewish studies, at the University: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60354/jewish-progress-taking-place-at-uc-berkeley-by

Pro-Israel groups urge U. of Michigan to cancel SJP conference featuring “vicious anti-Semites” (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60318/pro-israel-groups-urge-university-of-michigan-to

IHE reports on the news late last year that Duke U. settled an antisemitism complaint involving a conference that was co-sponsored by the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60357/duke-resolves-anti-semitism-complaint

McGill U. holds an event to commemorate the third anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting (incl. Khalid Medani): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60356/quebec-city-mosque-shooting-mcgill-remembers

Clark U. prof Taner Akçam speaks at the 7th annual dinner of the Coordinating Council of the Armenian Organizations in France, along with French President Macron: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60355/recognition-of-armenian-genocide-is-precondition

The Houston Uighur Society speaks at Rice U. in a collaboration between the “Islamophobia Resistance Campaign” and professor Craig Considine’s “Muslims in American Society” class: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60347/modern-day-genocide-houston-uighur-society-speaks

North Central College’s (IL) Muslim Student Association tries to prevent the Middle Eastern and North African studies program from ending (incl. Esra Tasdelen): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60339/controversy-surrounds-the-mena-program-incl-esra

A student in American U. prof Akbar Ahmed’s “The World of Islam” class praises his effort to teach about “Jewish-Muslim relations” by bringing in Stephanie Tankel of the Washington Hebrew Congregation as a guest speaker: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60334/building-bridges-of-understanding-incl-akbar-ahmed

The inaugural event of UC Santa Cruz’s new Center for the Middle East and North Africa featured the center’s founding director Jennifer Derr and two NPR journalists: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60330/questions-that-matter-reporting-the-middle-east

Eileen Kane, director of Connecticut College’s Global Islamic Studies program, receives a $60,000 NEH fellowship to write a book on Jewish and Muslim emigration from Russia to the Middle East: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60317/emigrant-empire-professor-eileen-kane-awarded-neh

A study claims immigrants drive New York’s economy more than any other state’s (incl. Rutgers prof Sahar Aziz): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60346/immigrants-drive-ny-economy-more-than-any-other

On an LA Times op-ed by UCLA prof David Myers and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller claiming that StandWithUs’s antisemitism complaint against UCLA—which named SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi—is a threat to free speech:

The Algemeiner (StandWithUs): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60349/the-fallacious-argument-about-free-speech

LA Times (Letter to the Editor): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60342/letters-to-the-editor-why-ucla-needs-to-be-held

Moonlighting

On Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:

Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60314/a-m-hosts-accused-anti-semite-nation-of-islam

Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60340/watch-marc-lamont-hill-glorifying-violence

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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