Campus Watch reports the following from February 15-21, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
Iran Spy Monica Witt’s Radicalization ‘Accelerated’ at George Washington University: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57856/iran-spy-monica-witt-radicalization-accelerated
Prof-Turned-School Bus Driver Steven Salaita Slams Academe: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57848/prof-turned-school-bus-driver-steven-salaita
‘Islamophobia’ Scholar Khaled Beydoun Accuses Delta Airlines of Discrimination: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57826/islamophobia-scholar-khaled-beydoun-accuses-delta
Rabab Abdulhadi Protests SFSU Observing Israeli Independence Day: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57811/rabab-abdulhadi-protests-sfsu-observing-israeli
Middle East Studies in the News
On the new Arabic program at Sacramento (CA)'s Thomas Edison Language Institute: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57821/students-in-sacramento-become-students-of
Students in Western Kentucky U’s Arabic program to travel to Qatar for the International Universities Debating Championship: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57859/four-students-in-wku-arabic-program-preparing-for
Yale U’s MacMillan Center Council on Middle Eastern Studies cosponsors “The Middle East in New Haven: A Celebration of Community": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57842/cmes-cas-and-sanctuary-kitchen-celebrate-middle
Q&A with Dartmouth College history prof Golnar Nikpour: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57844/q-a-with-history-professor-golnar-nikpour
“Professor Spotlight” on Francis Marion U. political science prof Dillon S. Tatum: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57820/professor-spotlight-dillon-s-tatum
Glowing review of Tel Aviv U. prof Shlomo Sand’s book, The Invention of the Land of Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57818/is-the-bible-a-title-deed-to-palestine-on-shlomo
SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi and cohorts issue a statement re the administration mistakenly categorizing Israeli Independence Day as a religious holiday: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57858/groups-demand-academic-senate-removes-political
Syracuse U. claims that offering credit to students who intern for the pro-BDS Syracuse Peace Council doesn’t imply its endorsement (incl. Miriam Elman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57854/syracuse-university-granting-credits-to-students
In Memoriam:
Martin Kramer’s remarks at the unveiling of Bernard Lewis’s gravestone at Trumpeldor Cemetery in Tel Aviv: http://martinkramer.org/sandbox/2019/02/bernard-lewis-between-memory-and-legacy/?fbclid=IwAR1liR-JkBfF6BxhR9wnK_50lkkKflkXH6D3LeXufmBlNdYvZARwk3mXXnI
Boston University Professor Richard Augustus Norton: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57851/rip-prof-augustus-richard-norton
Bernard Weiss (American University in Cairo, University of Utah): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57829/bernard-weiss-rip-incl-arnold-green
On reports that the radicalization of Monica Witt, a US Air Force intelligence officer who converted to Islam and became a spy for Iran, “accelerated” while pursuing a Middle East studies master’s degree at George Washington University:
New York Times (incl. Kevin Barrett): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57849/isolated-and-adrift-an-american-woman-turned
Powerline (incl. Nathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57850/the-indoctrination-of-monica-witt-incl-nathan
On Khaled Beydoun (U. of Arkansas assoc. prof, U. of Detroit-Mercy law prof., senior affiliated faculty at UC Berkeley’s Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project) claiming that Delta Airlines discriminated against him—and a Delta pilot assaulted him— because of his race/religion:
Robert Spencer at PJ Media: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57853/islamophobia-professor-claims-to-be-victim
The Arab-American News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57822/arab-american-professor-alleges-racial
UC Berkeley anthropology prof Laura Nader reviews American U. prof Akbar Ahmed’s book, The Thistle and the Drone:
Part 1: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57819/anthropologist-state-empire-and-tribe-part-1-on
Part 2: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57830/anthropologist-state-empire-and-tribe-part-2-on
Moonlighters
NGO Monitor urges the UN to condemn Michael Lynk, the UN Human Rights Council’s “Special Rapporteur on Palestine” (incl. his predecessor Richard Falk): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57861/human-rights-ngo-urges-un-secretary-general
On Arab-American support for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, based on his anti-Israel platform (incl. U. of Detroit-Mercy prof Amer Zahr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57843/bernie-2020-arab-american-advocates-show-early
On the news that former academic Steven Salaita is now driving a school bus in DC:
The Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57840/ousted-from-academe-steven-salaita-says-he
Israellycool Blog (incl. Norman Finkelstein): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57841/hate-professor-steven-salaita-now-a-bus-driver
On Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill defending Ilhan Omar’s AIPAC tweets in an Al-Jazeera video:
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57860/watch-marc-lamont-hill-defends-omar-aipac-tweets
Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57852/antisemitic-blood-libel-disseminator-marc-lamont
