Campus Watch reports the following from March 15-29, 2019:
Howler of the Month
“Donald Trump has made sure that Israel will be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbors for many decades to come. What Trump has done is to hammer a deadly nail in the coffin of the peace process and Arab-Israeli reconciliation. This is a fundamental turning point. There is nothing left to discuss anymore.”
Fawaz Gerges, professor of international relations and holder of the Emirates Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights; Reuters, March 25, 2019.
Campus Watch Blog
Duke-UNC Middle East Studies Departments Sponsor Three-Day Anti-Israel Hate-Fest: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58091/duke-unc-middle-east-studies-departments-sponsor
Wofford College Prof Courtney Dorrall Tells Westerners to Ignore Islamism and Fight ‘Islamophobia': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58051/wofford-college-prof-courtney-dorrall-tells
Columbia U. Prof Hamid Dabashi Wants to Fight Anti-Semitism by Promoting It: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58090/israel-bashing-columbia-u-prof-hamid-dabashi
Rape-Accused Tariq Ramadan Shows Up at Sexual Violence Conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58089/rape-accused-tariq-ramadan-shows-up-at-sexual
Middle East Studies in the News
Armenian Mirror-Spectator obituary for Speros Vryonis Jr., former director of UCLA’s G. E. von Grunebaum Center for Near-Eastern Studies and a pioneer in Armenian studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58037/eminent-byzantinist-dr-speros-vryonis-jr
Asaf Romirowsky on Quaker support for BDS (incl. Swarthmore College prof Sa’ed Atshan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58036/quaker-activists-incl-saed-atshan
Wofford College (S. Carolina) prof Courtney Dorrall delivers lecture on “Islamophobia” at Spartanburg Methodist College: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58048/professor-talks-islamophobia-at-spartanburg
Bowdein College plans on new minors in Arabic and Middle East studies (incl. Robert Morrison, Batool Khattab, Pamela Klasova, Idriss Jebari, Barbara Elias, Oyman Basaran, Meryem Belkaid): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58087/college-plans-on-new-minors-in-arabic-middle-east
U. of Kansas Dept. of African & African-American Studies announces new language minor that includes Arabic: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58034/department-of-african-african-american-studies
A Cape Town council member peddles the discredited “Khazar Theory’” denying Jewish ties to the Middle East (incl. Shlomo Sand): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58085/university-of-cape-town-council-member-who-will
On the lack of consequences for Obama’s “collusion” (incl. Rashid Khalidi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58088/no-recriminations-for-the-real-collusion-incl
Letter to the Editor of a Long Island publication objecting to its editorial supporting BDS (incl. As’ad AbuKhalil, Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58033/readers-write-it-is-wrong-to-present-arguments-in
Letter to the Editor of a Pakistani publication setting the record straight re American U prof Akbar Ahmed producing the film Jinnah: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58057/akbar-ahmed-jinnah
Brigham Young U. prof Daniel C. Peterson on two new Middle East-related publications with BYU connections: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58030/two-new-publications-on-the-middle-east-with-byu
Indiana University-Bloomington prof Ron Sela plans to hold international workshops to study the “fragmentation and plurality of Islamic authority": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58038/international-research-collaborating-to-study
On the alleged underfunding of SFSU’s College of Ethnic Studies (incl. Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58053/funding-allocations-show-challenges-coes-face
UC Berkeley’s Tikvah: Students for Israel accuses the federally-funded Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) of anti-Israel bias (incl. Emily Gottreich, Miriam Elman, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58007/zionist-student-group-accuses-uc-berkeley-middle
Elder of Ziyon on Columbia U. prof Hamid Dabashi urging Muslims and Jews to fight (Christian) anti-Semitism together, while justifying the murder of Israelis: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58025/columbia-professor-hamid-dabashi-implicitly
Americans for Peace and Tolerance on Newton residents’ lawsuit against the city’s school officials and teachers over discrimination against Jews and Israelis: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58024/newton-residents-sue-city-school-committee
Clarion Project on the principal of Autrey Mill Middle School (GA) condemning the use of a map that replaced Israel with “Palestine": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58082/georgia-principal-disgusted-by-display
FactCheck.org on a viral meme that “distorts” Koran verses (incl. Penn prof incl. Joseph Lowry): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58062/meme-distorts-quran-verses-incl-joseph-lowry
NY Times on the spread of “replacement theory” in “far right circles” (incl. NYU’s Arun Kundnani, UC Berkeley’s Paola Bacchetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58060/replacement-theory-a-racist-sexist-doctrine
On MEF profs involved in campus events in honor of (or general reaction to) the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand:
The Wood Word (Marywood University; incl. Melinda Krokus): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58035/campus-reacts-to-new-zealand-massacre-incl
The Inquirer (Diablo Valley College; incl. Amer Araim): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58031/community-members-come-together-in-response-to
TAP Into Greater Olean (on St. Bonaventure University; Michael Calabria): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58028/olean-community-gathers-to-pray-for-peace-after
Olean Times Herald (same as above): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58042/community-gathers-at-st-bonaventure-university-to
And: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58061/franciscans-show-support-to-local-muslims
Notre Dame News (U. of Notre Dame; incl. Ebrahim Moosa): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58040/unity-at-the-heart-of-prayer-service-for-mosque
WSTB 22 (same as above): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58039/prayer-service-held-at-notre-dame-for-people
National Public Radio (on U. of Arkansas prof Khaled Beydoun’s online memorial): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58056/how-one-man-is-remembering-victims-of-the-new
Memphis Commercial Appeal (Rhodes College; incl. Yasir Qadhi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58054/rhodes-college-hosts-vigil-honoring-victims
WMC News (on community support for the Memphis Islamic Center; incl. Yasir Qadhi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58076/community-shows-support-for-memphis-islamic
Fox 13 News (on increasing police presence at Memphis mosques; incl. Yasir Qadhi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58074/local-mosques-to-have-bigger-police-presence
The Guardian (open letter from Muslim leaders condemning the attack and calling for further efforts to combat “Islamophobia"; incl. Yasir Qadhi, Ermin Sinanovic, Rania Awaad): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58055/anti-muslim-bigotry-cannot-go-unchecked-incl
KIRO (incl. U. of Washington-Bothell prof Karam Dana): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58073/local-reaction-to-new-zealand-attack-heartening
Chicago Sun-Times blames “American racism” for inspiring global events (incl. Karam Dana): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58081/american-racism-could-be-the-catalyst-for-hate
Michigan Daily (U. of Michigan; incl. Samer Mahdy Ali): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58072/solidarity-vigil-for-new-zealand-mosques-shooting
Gary Fouse criticizes U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole’s response: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58063/juan-cole-in-fantasyland
Los Angeles Times (on reaction among S. CA Muslims; incl. UCLA prof Khaled Abou El Fadl): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58079/southern-california-muslims-react-to-new-zealand
Brandeis Now (Brandeis U. prof Jytte Klausen discusses terrorist use of livestreaming): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58058/how-live-streaming-connects-new-zealand-attack
On a settlement in the lawsuit—brought by the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund on behalf of five San Diego families and substantially funded by the Middle East Forum—against the San Diego Unified School District ending its unconstitutional “anti-Islamophobia initiative":
MEF press release: https://www.meforum.org/58012/cair-loses-round-mef-funded-lawsuit
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58027/federal-judge-dismisses-anti-islamophobia
FrontPage Magazine: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58026/california-school-district-forced-to-dump-cair
Clarion Project: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58047/court-kicks-cair-out-of-san-diego-school-district
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58029/california-islamophobia-initiative-ended-after
Peter Reitzes’s Tower series on the three-day UNC/Duke “Conflict Over Gaza” conference:
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58050/part-1-unc-duke-conference-on-gaza-whitewashes
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58065/part-2-unc-duke-conference-on-gaza-whitewashes
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58092/part-3-unc-duke-conference-on-gaza-whitewashes
And a report at the Algemeiner on the same conference by former Duke faculty member Amy Rosenthal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58052/gaza-conference-by-duke-and-university-of-north
Hugh Fitzgerald’s Jihad Watch series on “Islamophobia expert” and Luther College (Iowa) prof Todd Green:
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58067/in-cedar-rapids-nationally-recognized-expert-todd
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58068/in-cedar-rapids-nationally-recognized-expert-todd
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58069/in-cedar-rapids-nationally-recognized-expert-todd
On outrage over rape-accused Tariq Ramadan attending a Paris conference on sexual violence against women:
The National (UAE): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58020/tariq-ramadan-accused-of-unacceptable-provocation
Morocco World News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58041/paris-denounces-ramadan-insulting-presence
On objection to Oberlin College switching to a “digital classroom” for Arabic courses and cutting a teacher’s assistant position:
(Open Letter from Arabic 102): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58078/an-open-letter-from-arabic-102
The Oberlin Review (Faculty Letter to Save Arabic Language Program at Oberlin College): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58077/faculty-letter-to-save-arabic-language-program
Moonlighters
On a meeting between Sen. Gary Peters (MI) and Arab American community leaders on his support for an anti-BDS bill (incl. U. of Detroit Mercy prof Amer Zahr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58080/community-leaders-reflect-on-meeting-with-senator
On, or including, Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:
Investigative Project on Terrorism (incl. Southern Methodist U. prof Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58086/new-islamist-group-in-chicago-dominated-by
Newsbusters: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58059/twitter-still-allows-anti-semitic-calls-to
Philadelphia Magazine interview: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58075/temple-professor-and-cultural-lightning-rod-marc
North Jersey Record (incl. Amer Zahr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58032/free-speech-politics-and-anti-semitism-marc
