Birzeit University in Ramallah has produced some of the Palestinians' most famous and deadly terrorists, and the school unabashedly praises them. So when Brown University's Beshara Doumani became the fifth president (and first... 
Asked during a Dec. 13 webinar whether "anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism," Noura Erakat – no stranger to antisemitism herself—proclaimed the proper reaction to Nazism is not Zionism, but "a class-based response that sought to... 
Rice University sociology lecturer Craig Considine holds some views that are "probably not too justified under Christian doctrine, but I have never been too concerned about that," he stated on December 9. This self-described... 
Sign the Statement Here Statement Condemning the Middle East Studies Association's Race to Embrace BDS We are greatly concerned that the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has set itself on the path of approving the boycott... 
Brown University is working hard to become the most anti-Israel school in America. In its competition with Columbia University and New York University, Brown not only boasts the nation's first ever endowed chair in Palestinian... 
"Ninety percent of the stuff that gets written on global jihad is just junk" and "usually replete with 'Islamophobia,' " stated Naval Postgraduate School professor Glenn E. Robinson during a Nov. 10 webinar on his new book... 
The November 11 American Muslim Institution (AMI) webinar "The History & Future of Muslim—Christian Relations" revealed yet again the emptiness of what often passes as Christian-Muslim dialogue. Rice University sociology... 
Israel exhibits a "colonial systematology about nativeness" in the treatment of online smartphone pictures of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stated Duke University associate professor of anthropology Rebecca Stein during a... 
Howler of the Month (archive)"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," September 10, 2021. (link to source) 
We Couldn't Have Said it Better (archive)"Academics in U.S. universities are far more radical in many ways than the people who run some of the Arab Muslim countries." William Jacobson, founder of the Legal Insurrection website and clinical professor of law at Cornell University, in a discussion with the Breitbart News Network about the impending vote by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) on whether to adopt BDS as its official policy. Interview posted at SoundCloud, December 19, 2021. (link to source) CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds. |
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