Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from May 3-10, 2019:

Campus Watch Research

Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58406/why-the-middle-east-studies-association-should

Zachary Lockman Ignores Inconvenient Facts About Omar Barghouti’s Ties to Terrorists (Caschetta’s response to MESA’s rebuttal): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58409/zachary-lockman-ignores-inconvenient-facts-about

Campus Watch in the Media

): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58408/denying-omar-barghouti-admittance-to-the-us-is

Blog

New Jersey Library Postpones Event Featuring Rutgers Prof and ‘P is for Palestine’ Author Golbarg Bashi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58443/new-jersey-library-postpones-event-featuring

CAIR Uses Ramadan to Insert Religious Indoctrination into Washington Public Schools: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58422/cair-uses-ramadan-to-insert-religious

CW’s Response to MESA’s Zachary Lockman: Stop Ignoring Omar Barghouti’s Terror Ties: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58417/cw-response-to-mesa-zachary-lockman-stop-ignoring

Why the Middle East Studies Association Should Not Defend Omar Barghouti: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58463/why-the-middle-east-studies-association-should

Middle East Studies in the News

American Thinker piece criticizing MESA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58410/an-academic-umbrella-for-bigots-on-the-middle

The ACLU lauds a federal court ruling that the challenge to the Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” can continue (incl. Judith Tucker, Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58413/federal-court-rules-muslim-ban-challenge-can

On the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (in conjunction with Georgetown U.)'s annual “Islamophobia” study (incl. U. of Kentucky’s Ihsan Bagby): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58433/study-shows-islamophobia-is-growing-in-the-us

Newsweek series on “Ramadan 2019" (incl. Johns Hopkins U. lecturer Homayra Ziad and “Islamophobia”): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58416/ramadan-2019-special-greetings-and-wishes-from

Tufts U. Muslim chaplain Celene Ibrahim on Ramadan, unity, and “Islamophobia” (incl. Duke U. prof Omid Safi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58418/muslim-chaplain-brings-message-of-unity

The Christian Science Monitor examines the “burkini” debate in light of the latest Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (incl. Lailatul Fitriyah, coordinator of the Notre Dame [University] Islamic Studies Colloquium): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58447/how-first-burkini-in-si-swimsuit-edition-is

Jezebel “investigates” whether Tiffany Trump posted a fake Rumi quote on Instagram (incl. Duke’s Omid Safi, U. of Maryland’s Fatemah Keshavarz, U. of Chicago’s Franklin Lewis): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58432/did-tiffany-trump-post-a-fake-rumi-quote-on

Clarion Project on Shiite extremist groups holding an event at Columbia U. (incl. U. of Colorado’s Hossein Hasemi, Columbia’s Gary Sick and Hamid Dabashi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58444/columbia-event-a-dream-for-the-iranian-regime

Clark U. prof Taner Akçam discussed his new book for an Armenian Genocide commemoration at St. Mary Armenian Church Hall: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58459/taner-akcam-speaks-at-washington-event

The Luxembourg government will review Bonnevoie mosque funding following revelations in the book Qatar Papers (incl. Tariq Ramadan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58448/government-to-review-statements-made-about-mosque

UCLA prof Michael Rothberg bemoans the potential closing down of Stanford University Press: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58425/one-of-world-wealthiest-educational-institutions

On Rep. Ilhan Omar and anti-Semitism (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58431/omar-the-one-in-every-generation-incl-hatem-bazian

Gary Fouse on UC Irvine’s SJP inviting SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi to speak about “resistance": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58458/rabab-abdulhadi-coming-to-uc-irvine-finallymaybe

On an Arabic presentation at the U. of Oregon’s annual Foreign Language and International Studies Day (incl. Faten Arfaoui): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58460/arabic-culture-on-display-at-annual-foreign

On anti-Israel imam and Southern Methodist U. adjunct prof Omar Suleiman giving the invocation to the U.S. House of Representatives at the invitation of Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas):

The Investigative Project on Terrorism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58452/israel-hating-gay-bashing-sexist-imam-gives

Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58456/democrats-invited-anti-israel-imam-omar-suleiman

Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58455/kkk-apartheid-ethnic-cleansing-the-anti-israel

Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58454/israel-bashing-imam-delivers-opening-prayer

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58461/controversial-imam-gives-opening-invocation

On Highland Park Library (NJ) postponing an event featuring Golbarg Bashi, Rutgers U. prof and author of the controversial children’s book “P is for Palestine":

Jewish Link of New Jersey: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58439/public-library-event-for-p-is-for-palestine

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58462/amid-backlash-library-in-highland-park-nj

JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58438/nj-library-postpones-reading-by-p-is-for

NJ.com (an op-ed supporting Bashi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58440/im-outraged-at-my-hometown-bigotry-of-a-children

On the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund (FCDF) warning Washington’s Dieringer and Northshore School Districts that adopting CAIR’s recommendations for accommodating Muslim students with Ramadan and other holidays is unconstitutional:

FCDF (on Northshore): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58457/second-school-district-must-cease-and-desist

FCDF (on Dieringer): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58421/school-district-asks-teachers-to-bless-muslim

Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58436/seattle-school-district-urges-teachers-to-follow

The Blaze: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58446/report-seattle-school-district-wants-teachers-to

The College Fix: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58445/claim-school-district-wants-teachers-to-bless

Fox News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58424/washington-school-district-wants-teachers-to

The Daily Wire: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58423/seattle-school-district-wants-teachers-to-bless

The Washington Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58420/schools-under-fire-for-encouraging-teachers-to

World Net Daily: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58419/us-school-urging-teachers-to-bless-muslim

On the controversy surrounding an issue of Israel Studies dedicated to pushing back against anti-Zionist rhetoric (incl. Miriam Elman, Ian Lustick, Asaf Romirowsky, Ilan Troen, Donna Robinson Divine, Arie Dubnov):

Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58435/israel-studies-journal-controversy-escalates-as

Elder of Ziyon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58414/israel-studies-and-fighting-words-incl-steven

Moonlighters

On the aftermath of the U. of Massachusetts panel discussion, “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, & the Battle for Palestinian Rights” (incl. Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill):

The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58428/linda-sarsour-preaches-hate-and-intolerance

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58430/watchdog-group-slams-one-sided-anti-israel-event

Daily Hampshire Gazette: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58426/supporters-some-protesters-attend-not-backing

Mass Live: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58412/pro-palestine-event-at-umass-draws-2000-attendees

The Massachusetts Daily Collegian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58411/not-backing-down-panel-draws-in-hundreds

Boston Herald: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58415/strife-muted-at-controversial-pro-palestinian

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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