Campus Watch reports the following from June 7-June 15, 2020:
Campus Watch Research
U. Arizona Defends Misuse of Federal Funds for MidEast Studies (Clifford Smith and Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61091/university-of-arizona-middle-east-studies-center
Campus Watch Blog
U. Arizona Defends Misuse of Federal Funds for MidEast Studies (highlights Smith and Myers’s essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61097/university-of-arizona-middle-east-studies-center
New “We Couldn’t Have Said It Better” Quote:
“The campus zealotry of Students for Justice in Palestine is hardly a spontaneous youthful expression of outrage funded by pocket money. Their activities include costly defamatory installations of so-called apartheid walls, checkpoints, die-ins, chants and hostile invasions of classrooms and meetings, and thuggish disruptions of visiting speakers. Its founder, Hatem Bazian, is a lecturer in ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley.”
Cynthia Ozick, American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist, on the leading role of professors and other thinkers and writers in fomenting anti-Semitism over the centuries; in “Anti-Semitism and the Intellectuals"; the Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2020. (link to source)
Middle East Studies in the News
On antisemitism in the intellectual community (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61108/anti-semitism-and-the-intellectuals-incl-hatem
CAIR represents Muslim student, sues prof Nicholas Damask for “Islamophobia": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61094/cair-files-suit-professor-is-disapproving
A critique of Juan Cole’s blog post on Qatar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61086/juan-cole-qatar-and-turkey
SF State’s Rabab Abdulhadi receives prestigious award from the AAUP: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61093/pro-terror-anti-semitic-us-professor-receives
Former MES prof and leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad dies, is buried in Syria: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61085/former-leader-of-palestinian-islamic-jihad-buried
A scathing critique of zionism, Trump, the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, and all things pro-Israel on college campuses (incl. Rutgers U.'s Noura Erakat, SF State’s Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61080/waging-lawfare-incl-noura-erakat-rabab-abdulhadi
On an anti-Israel webinar hosted by Bard U.'s SJP and featuring Rutgers U.'s Noura Erakat: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61081/despite-coronavirus-antisemitism-and-anti-zionism
