Campus Watch reports the following from February 28 - March 8, 2019:
Howler of the Month
“We are at a new stage of the fight to realize Palestinian rights and free both Palestinians and Jews from the consequences of Zionist racism. . . . To combat the popular criticism to which Israel is now subject, the Zionists have shifted tactics. They have abandoned popular debate and now use their influence with the West’s ruling elites to simply criminalize any rhetoric that points out the real discriminatory nature of the Zionist state. The gambit here is to have such criticism legally equated with anti-Semitism.”
Lawrence Davidson, professor emeritus of history at West Chester University, in “Anti-Semitism vs. Anti-Zionism in France"; Consortium News, March 6, 2019.
Source link: https://consortiumnews.com/2019/03/06/anti-semitism-vs-anti-zionism-in-france/
Campus Watch Research
Karys Rhea on two anti-Semitic Columbia U. events, one that equated the Holocaust with the “Nakba” and the other featuring Rutgers U. prof Jasbir Puar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57956/columbia-unmoored-academics-appropriate
Campus Watch Blog
Columbia Unmoored: Academics Appropriate the Holocaust to Bash Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57960/columbia-unmoored-academics-appropriate
Think Ilhan Omar’s Bad? Check Out the Latest Anti-Israel Rant from SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57939/think-ilhan-omar-bad-check-out-the-latest-anti
Norman Finkelstein U. of Toronto Lecture Tests Ontario’s Free Speech Policy: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57931/norman-finkelstein-u-of-toronto-lecture-tests
George Washington U’s Noura Erakat ‘Stands with’ Anti-Semitic Ilhan Omar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57927/george-washington-u-noura-erakat-stands-with-anti
New Yorker Portrays UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian as a Victim of ‘Counter-BDS Organizations': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57910/new-yorker-portrays-uc-berkeley-hatem-bazian-as
Middle East Studies in the News
UNC and Duke to co-host anti-Israel conference (incl. Rebecca Stein, Sara Roy, Sara Shields, Nadia Yaqub): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57947/in-wake-of-sarsour-speech-unc-to-co-host-anti
FrontPage Mag. reviews its four-part series on UCLA (incl. Khaled Abou El Fadl): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57946/poster-graduate-studies-at-ucla-incl-khaled-abou
Honest Reporting on whether BDS is free speech (incl. CSU Stanislaus prof As’ad AbuKhalil): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57949/boycotting-israel-is-it-free-speech-incl-asad
SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi posts a Facebook statement equating Zionists with Nazis: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57938/sfsu-professor-equates-zionism-with-nazism-denies
On a faculty “race and gender” panel discussion at Hamilton College in NY (incl. Mariam Durrani, Mireille Koukjian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57952/more-than-skin-deep-incl-mariam-durrani-mireille
On the establishment of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies at Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57921/meet-the-simon-fraser-university-centre-for
Robert Spencer critiques a Catholic Theological Union course on “Islamophobia” (incl. Scott Alexander): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57953/robert-spencer-catholic-theological-union-offers
On a discussion at the 10th Karachi Literature Festival (Pakistan) in praise of American U. prof Akbar Ahmed’s book, Journey into Europe: Islam, Immigration and Identity: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57923/muslims-helped-europe-come-out-of-dark-ages-on
Gary Fouse on UCI prof Mark LeVine’s Al-Jazeera op-ed on Europe: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57922/mark-levine-europe
San Diego State U. to offer a new major in Islamic and Arabic Studies (incl. Ahmet Kuru, Hisham Foad): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/campus-news/middle-east-studies-in-the-news
On the U. of Nebraska-Lincoln’s annual “Big Arabic Day": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57950/unl-hosts-annual-big-arabic-day-to-celebrate
Washington U. in St. Louis changes the name of the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures to the Department of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57945/department-of-jewish-islamic-and-near-eastern
The Ampersand on the same (incl. Aria Nakissa, Nancy Reynolds): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57924/new-name-for-department-of-jewish-islamic
Moonlighters
IPT on Marc Lamont Hill doubling down on the eliminationist rhetoric while being feted at an AMP fundraiser in Chicago: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57959/anti-israel-amp-inadvertent-truth-incl-marc
On Norman Finkelstein speaking at the U. of Toronto and testing Ontario’s campus free-speech policy:
The Canadian Jewish News (after-report): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57957/norman-finkelstein-sparks-controversy-at-u-of-t
The Canadian Jewish News (op-ed): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57948/jared-ecker-norman-finkelstein-hateful-rhetoric
The Post Millennial: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57951/carpay-university-of-toronto-supports-left-wing
National Post (Canada): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/57928/deeply-disturbing-u-of-t-talk-by-anti-israel
