Campus Watch reports the following from May 2 - May 22:
Campus Watch Research
Georgetown Professor Jonathan Brown Again Justifies Islam’s Acceptance of Slavery (Andrew E. Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64427/georgetown-professor-jonathan-brown-again
Middle East Studies in the News
On the fallout from the U. of Denver scandal involving prof Nader Hashemi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64404/on-air-speculation-academic-freedom-and-its
Debunking Columbia prof Rashid Khalidi’s claim that Israel is a ‘settler-colonial project: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64409/debunking-the-claim-that-israel-is-a-settler
SUNY Binghamton’s Center of Middle East and North Africa Studies gets a nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Resource Centers Program: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64394/binghamton-named-national-resource-center-in
A coalition of Iranian-Americans and human rights activists urge Ohio legislators to take punitive action against Oberlin College for employing prof Mohammad Jafar Mahallati: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64418/iranian-ngo-to-ohio-stop-funding-oberlin-over
UC Berkeley prof Hatem Bazian accidentally tweets that he is Jewish: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64415/godfather-of-islamist-campus-antisemitism-plays
An AAUP report criticizes Hamline University for its treatment of prof Erika López Prater, who was fired for showing students images of the prophet Muhammad:
Inside Higher Ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64431/report-adjunct-who-showed-images-of-prophet-was
Star Tribune: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64423/lawsuit-against-hamline-university-raises
Swiss academic Tariq Ramadan goes on trial for rape:
Morocco World News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64417/rape-case-islamic-scholar-tariq-ramadan-trial
Guardian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64416/swiss-academic-tariq-ramadan-goes-on-trial
The National: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64420/tariq-ramadan-on-trial-in-switzerland-over-sex
The Tab: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64422/former-oxford-university-professor-on-trial
Reactions to Canadian prof Hassan Diab’s guilty verdict and life sentence for his role in the 1980 Paris synagogue bombing:
Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64392/conviction-of-french-synagogue-bomber-is-a-better
Front Page Magazine: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64393/something-is-very-wrong-with-justin-trudeau-incl
Moonlighters
Library rejects call from Jewish group to cancel show with U. of Detroit Mercy prof Amer Zahr over his antisemitism:
True North Canada: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64425/jewish-group-calls-on-london-to-cancel-show
London Free Press: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64424/library-rejects-call-by-jewish-group-to-cancel
