Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from September 21-October 5 2020:

Howler of the Month

“We really idolize somebody like Leila Khaled, somebody who actually stands up for herself, speaks for herself, actually goes to a plane and hijacks it.”

Rabab Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies and Senior Scholar of the Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Initiative, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, commenting on convicted Palestinian terrorist/hijacker Leila Khaled. Quoted in “Zoom Denies Service for Controversial Panel Featuring Leila Khaled"; Goldengatexpress.org, September 22, 2020.

Link: https://goldengatexpress.org/94299/campus/zoom-denies-service-for-controversial-panel-featuring-leila-khaled-2/?fbclid=IwAR1nofViHwCVMZM0GLaeqOduVJzhY-eZr31LgEspH1M8vwK-ljqrUomb-hQ

Campus Watch Research

Cancelled Palestine Conference Promised Violent, Anti-Israel Propaganda (A.J. Caschetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61573/palestine-event-promised-violent-propaganda

Congressman Calls for Federal Investigation of University for Hosting Convicted Terrorist Leila Khaled (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61566/congressman-calls-for-investigation-of-sfsu

Campus Watch Blog

Cancelled Palestine Conference Promised Violent, Anti-Israel Propaganda (highlight’s Caschetta’s essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61576/cancelled-palestine-conference-promised-violent

Congressman Calls for Federal Investigation of University for Hosting Convicted Terrorist Leila Khaled (highlight’s Myers’s essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61571/congress-calls-for-federal-investigation

Middle East Studies in the News

Debunking U. Penn prof. Ian Lustick’s anti-Israel treatise in Middle East Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61601/debunking-prof-ian-lustick-anti-israel-treatise

Developments in SF State U. controversy regarding online panel featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled (incl. Rabab Abulhadi):

Israellycool: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61595/sfsu-professor-who-idolizes-terrorist-leila

Golden Gate Xpress: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61594/tech-giants-shut-down-panel-featuring-leila

San Diego Jewish World: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61591/a-safe-space-for-terrorists-at-san-francisco-state

San Diego Jewish World: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61602/a-tale-of-two-palestinians-incl-rabab-abdulhadi

Clarion Project: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61596/san-francisco-state-university-to-host-lecture-by

JWeekly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61593/sf-hillel-hosts-vigil-to-counter-khaled-event

JWeekly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61592/zoom-will-not-host-sf-state-event-featuring-leila

Intermountain Jewish News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61609/how-we-defeated-leila-khaled-incl-rabab-abdulhadi

New Recommended Professors

Elana Delozier

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Center for Security Studies
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Georgetown University
Areas of Expertise: Yemen, the Gulf states, nuclear weapons and proliferation.
https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0031Q00002FzOl9QAF/elana-delozier

Eric Bordenkircher

Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Development
University of California, Los Angeles
Areas of Expertise: Domestic and international relations of the Middle East; Lebanon; Syria; the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
https://web.international.ucla.edu/cmed/person/1866

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