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Campus Watch reports the following from March 14-20, 2017:
Campus Watch Research
Mara Schiffren at The Daily Caller, “Noura Erakat Preaches Intersectionality at NYU": http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16612
Campus Watch Blog
Winfield Myers highlights Mara Schiffren’s article on George Mason University professor Noura Erakat: http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2017/03/noura-erakat-preaches-intersectionality-at-nyu
Middle East studies in the News
On Georgetown Islamic Studies professor Jonathan Brown defending slavery as moral and rape as normal in Virginia lecture, and subsequent fallout:
The Clarion Project: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16614
Foreign Policy: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16615
Jihad Watch: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16622
On comments by University of Toronto professor Katherine Bullock that it is not “radical” to support a Caliphate and Sharia law; incl. Ingrid Mattson:
CIJ News: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16623
Jihad Watch: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16624
Other articles:
Watertown Daily Times on lecture by Simona Sharoni at St. Lawrence University: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16617
Haaretz on Israel Studies Association opposition to Israel’s BDS travel ban, incl. Middle East Studies Association: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16618
Bowling Green Daily News on Arabic language study grant for Western Kentucky University: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16619
The McGill Daily on a BDS panel discussion, including Michelle Hartman of McGill’s Institute of Islamic Studies: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16625
Moonlighting: Non-Specialists in the News
On controversies surrounding Reza Aslan’s new CNN TV series, “Believer":
The Federalist on Aslan’s condescension: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16626
Huffington Post on alleged appropriation of academic research without attribution: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16627
On Richard Falk’s history of anti-Semitism, recent UN report branding Israel an ‘“apartheid regime,” and related fallout:
Times of Israel: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16628
The Jewish Chronicle: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16629
Forward: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16630
The Algemeiner: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16631
World Israel News: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16632
Jewish News: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16633
The Lid Blog: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16634
Jonathan Tobin at National Review: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16635
Legal Insurrection: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16638
On anger over Norman Finkelstein’s lecture series at Brooklyn Public Library; Max Planck Institute controversy:
Arutz Sheva: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16620
New York Daily News: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16621
The Jerusalem Post: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16639
Yeshiva World: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16640
Other articles:
American Thinker on the campus academic left, threats to free speech in higher education, and irresponsible professors, such as Steven Salaita: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/16616
