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Georgetown Panel Miraculously Criticizes the 'Golden Age' Myth of Muslim Empire

"If you are looking for a Golden Age, talk to the people that have the gold. For the rest of the people, it's probably not that golden," said University of Colorado-Boulder religious studies professor Brian Aivars Catlos. Along...

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McGill University's Deep Ties with Iran's Murderous Regime

While some academic institutions, such as the University of Freiburg in Germany, have pulled the plug on their affiliation with Iranian universities that urge the destruction of Israel, McGill University in Montreal continues to...

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Amnesty International Report Calls Out Tehran-Tied Oberlin Professor

Oberlin College says Mohammad Jafar Mahallati did nothing as Iran's UN ambassador that would disqualify him from teaching there. Amnesty International says he played "a particularly active role" in covering up the mass killings of dissidents.

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Rashid Khalidi's Fusillade of Falsehoods Against Israel

Americans faced the "biased, crooked, legalized lawlessness of Israeli law and Israeli planning," decried Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi in a Jan. 31 Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) webinar...

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CAIR vs. CAIR at Hamline Univ.; Inciting a Firing

Jaylani Hussein, the executive director of the Minnesota Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has good reason to feel jittery. After coming to the defense of Fayneese Miller, the president of Hamline...

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Islamists Enforce Blasphemy Laws at Hamline College, Suffer Blowback

Activists associated with the Muslim Student Association (MSA) tried to isolate and punish an art history professor who displayed pictures of Muhammad to students at Hamline University, a small liberal arts school in Minnesota...

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2022 Was a Bad Year for Academia and Especially for Middle East Studies

Last year was a bad year for academia. Every week, the Chronicle for Higher Education documented faculty disillusionment, student anxiety, staff burnout, and the lingering censorial snitch culture that thrives on COVID. Yes, 2022...

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The Navel-Gazing Inanities of MESA

Dying to learn more about "Rural-Urban Womanscapes" or "Space, Materiality, and Biopolitics" in the Mideast while hobnobbing with anti-Israel extremists? The Middle East Studies Association annual conference is this week. From A.J. Caschetta.

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Noura Erakat

Howler of the Month (archive)

"The members of this association, now more than half a century old, have harnessed years of rigorous scholarship and intellectual output to conclude that solidarity with Palestinians must today deepen and expand."

Noura Erakat, Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies, defending the Middle East Studies Association's (MESA) adoption of an academic boycott of Israel as its official policy, in "Why Our Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions Will Hurt the Apartheid Regime"; Middle East Eye, April 13, 2022. (link to source)

William Jacobson

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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