Campus Watch reports the following from February 1-8, 2020:
Howler of the Month
“The secret of Palestinian resistance and ultimate triumph: they sing they dance they live they love and they pass the message from one to the next generation—over the last 100 years over the next century if necessary — long after the racist settler colonialist occupiers of their homeland have rotten [sic] in the dustbin of history.”
Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, commenting on a video of Palestinian girls performing the Dabka, a traditional Levantine dance; on his Facebook page, January 30, 2020.
Link: https://bit.ly/31DvqSe
Campus Watch Research
Federally-Funded Middle East Studies Centers Need Scrutiny (Winfield Myers in Academic Questions, the magazine of the National Association of Scholars): https://bit.ly/2StQ5nG
Campus Watch Blog
Columbia’s Joseph Massad Uses Holocaust Inversion to Sully Holocaust Memorial Day (David Gerstman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60362/columbia-joseph-massad-uses-holocaust-inversion
Campus Watch in the Media
A Columbia U. Middle East studies student objects to Title VI complaints against the University; smears MEF and CW in the process: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60378/the-prelude-to-trump-peace-plan-politicizing
Middle East Studies in the News
A Jewish member of the Harvard Club is suing because she claims she was assaulted by Harvard finance prof Faris Mousa Saah when she attended a lecture at the venue by Columbia prof Rashid Khalidi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60398/jewish-harvard-club-member-assaulted-during-pro
Carleton U. prof Hassan Diab is suing the Canadian government over its role in his extradition to France for terror charges that were later dropped: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60397/hassan-diab-urges-federal-government-to-settle-90
UNC’s Carl Ernst and Duke’s Mbaye Bashir Lo conduct new research into Omar Ibn Said, a nineteenth century black Muslim slave and scholar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60396/who-was-omar-ibn-said-new-research-reconsiders
The San Francisco-based Arab Resource and Organizing Center has sponsored a petition to revive the anti-Israel California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60392/extremist-aroc-seeks-to-reinstate-discredited
GW University prof Arshad Ali speaks at Colgate U. (NY) about “the racialization of Muslims” (incl. Noor Khan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60387/lecture-discusses-racialization-of-muslims-incl
U. of Nebraska at Omaha prof Ramazan Kılınç examines why “authoritarianism and underdevelopment are so pervasive in the Muslim world” (incl. San Diego State U’s Ahmet Kuru): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60386/let-examine-a-key-problem-hampering-the-muslim
A Malaysian site examines why the Islamicity Indices rank Malaysia and other Muslims nation below non-Muslim countries (incl. U. of Houston’s Emran El-Badawi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60388/islamic-governance-muslim-majority-nations-not
JNS on Duke U. resolving an antisemitism complaint surrounding a Middle East studies-sponsored conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60379/duke-university-resolves-anti-semitic-complaint
Micha Danzig on the Palestinian Authority’s use of bogus maps (incl. U. of Michigan’s Juan Cole): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60377/bogus-maps-to-back-a-bogus-cause-and-continued
On concern over the state of Arabic and Middle Eastern studies at Franklin & Marshall College (PA): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60364/state-of-arabic-middle-eastern-studies-at-f-m
Moonlighting
On UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan’s nasty tweets on the news of Rush Limbaugh’s cancer diagnosis:
PJ Media: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60390/leftist-hack-reza-aslan-is-the-world-a-better
Russia Today (RT): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60391/are-you-even-human-former-cnn-host-says-world-is
Fox News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60389/former-cnn-host-reza-aslan-slammed-for-rush
The Spectator (USA): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60376/progressive-twitter-celebrates-rush-limbaugh
The Daily Wire: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/60375/former-host-of-cnn-believer-reza-aslan-asks-if
