Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from October 6-October 12 2020:

Campus Watch Research

Why Doug Lamborn Referred SFSU’s President for Prosecution (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61627/sfsu-president-referred-for-prosecution

Campus Watch Blog

Why Doug Lamborn Referred SFSU’s President for Prosecution (highlights Myers’ essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61628/why-doug-lamborn-referred-sfsu-president-for

Middle East Studies in the News

Rutgers U. prof Noura Erakat claims the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians is modeled after a Nazi theory: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61630/lecturer-tells-soas-event-that-israel-deploys

What Rutgers U. prof Noura Erakat left out of her recent account of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61639/continuing-a-one-way-conversation-incl-noura

The Iran lobby gains influence at Stanford U.: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61629/stanford-under-the-influence-of-iran-lobby

Developments in SF State U. controversy regarding online panel featuring Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled (incl. Rabab Abulhadi, Hatem Bazian, Amer Zahr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61640/chased-from-three-platforms-leila-khaled-still

On alleged rapist Tariq Ramadan:

The National: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61624/alleged-rapist-tariq-ramadan-hires-convicted

Law & Liberty: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61643/the-sordid-tale-of-tariq-ramadan

Iranian diplomat turned prof at Oberlin College accused of crimes against humanity for role in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran:

Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61635/iranian-diplomat-turned-us-professor-accused

Oberlin Review: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61642/hiring-mohammad-mahallati-against-oberlin-mission

Oberlin Review: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61641/religion-professor-denies-accusations-of-human

New Recommended Professors

Saeid Golkar
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Service
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Areas of Expertise: International and comparative politics of authoritarian regimes with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa.
https://www.utc.edu/political-science-public-service/profiles/faculty/hqw118.php

Ahmed H. al-Rahim
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Director of Islamic Studies
University of Virginia
Areas of Expertise: Medieval and modern facets of Arabic and Islamic intellectual and philosophical history.
https://religiousstudies.as.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/aa3wn

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