Campus Watch reports the following from September 27 - October 4, 2021:
Campus Watch Research
Terrorist-Sympathizing Panel Buries Identity of 9/11’s Killers While Slandering Their Victims (Andrew E. Harrod): meforum.org/campus-watch/62684/terrorist-sympathizing-panel-buries-identity-of-9
New Howler of the Month
“We have only just begun to comprehend the homo-nationalist and ... homo-capitalist forces of a purported secular queerness that produces coming out as a technology of Christian theological confession ... and hypercritically demands reconciliation of Islam and sexuality through those very terms.”
Jasbir Puar, professor and graduate director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, in her introduction as moderator of a webinar featuring professors and activists, “Twenty Years After 9/11: Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire.” (link to source)
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/howler-of-the-month/
Middle East Studies in the News
Anti-Israel students & faculty at U. of Texas said roundtable discussion hosted by the Center for MES spread misinformation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (incl. Mohammad Mohammad): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62685/pro-palestine-ut-students-say-roundtable
Intisar Rabb appointed special adviser to ICC prosecutor: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62690/intisar-rabb-has-been-appointed-special-adviser
Boston U. hosted symposium to celebrate Sahar Aziz’s first book on her experience of Islamophobia after 9/11 (incl. Tarek Masoud): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62688/visiting-law-professor-discusses-new-book-focused
On antisemitism at U. of North Carolina (incl. Kylie Boderick, Jonathan Brown):
The Intercept: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62686/israeli-diplomat-pressured-unc-to-remove-teacher
HonestReporting: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62693/the-intercept-offers-impassioned-defense-of-phd
US evaluating antisemitism complaint against Oberlin College (incl. Mohammad Jafar Mahallati):
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62691/us-evaluating-antisemitism-complaint-against
Powerline: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62694/oberlin-accused-of-discriminating-against-jews
