Campus Watch reports the following from April 5-12, 2019:
Howler of the Month
“I believe Fox News is not a news network. It is a propaganda network. It is a destructive force in America and around the world. It’s incorrect to say that Fox News presents the other side. No, it’s fake news and the closest thing to state-run media. It should be boycotted by anyone that is not a white supremacist. I will talk to the other side, but Fox News doesn’t count.”
Reza Aslan, professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, in an interview with “The Iranian"; April 9, 2019.
Link: https://iranian.com/2019/04/09/a-conversation-with-reza-aslan/
Blog
Anti-Semitic Posters Appear at UNC Following Israel-Bashing UNC/Duke Conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58205/anti-semitic-posters-appear-at-unc-following
Israel-Bashing Columbia Prof Hamid Dabashi Equates the Jewish State with ISIS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58200/israel-bashing-columbia-prof-hamid-dabashi
Middle East Forum Shows Columbia University How to Resist Erdoğan’s Bullying: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58182/middle-east-forum-shows-columbia-university-how
‘Islamophobia Scholar’ Khaled Beydoun Offends Muslims with Tasteless Christchurch Competition: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58153/islamophobia-scholar-khaled-beydoun-offends
Qatar Has Been Funding Tariq Ramadan, Along with Muslim Brotherhood Groups in Europe: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58150/qatar-has-been-funding-tariq-ramadan-along-with
Middle East Studies in the News
Hamilton College (NY) prof Mariam Durrani’s article on “decolonizing anthropology through pedagogy” appears in Anthropology News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58232/durrani-publishes-aha-inspired-article-on-mariam
On the “Queer and Trans Studies Conference” at Kenyon College with a keynote speech by Swarthmore’s Sa’ed Atshan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58222/conference-centers-on-lgbtq-scholarship-incl-saed
Americans for Peace and Tolerance expands its anti-Semitism lawsuit against Newton Schools to include violation of the First Amendment: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58204/antisemitism-lawsuit-against-newton-schools
CAMERA corrects the NYT on Oslo and the two-state solution (incl. Columbia’s Rashid Khalidi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58198/ny-times-errs-on-oslo-and-two-state-solution-incl
World Socialist Web Site blasts U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole and SOAS’s Gilbert Achcar for supporting regime change in Libya: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58189/libya-descent-into-civil-war-the-bitter-fruit
NYU’s Brennan Center for Justice and UNC prof Charles Kurzman file a joint lawsuit against the Dept. of Justice for allegedly withholding information on the identities of convicted terrorists: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58233/brennan-center-fights-doj-for-information-on
Kurzman’s 4/5 Lawfare blog on the above topic: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58234/the-privacy-rights-of-terrorism-defendants-muslim
On the implications of NYU’s Abu Dhabi campus being fully funded by the UAE (incl. Zachary Lockman, Arang Keshavarzian, Philip Kennedy): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58155/what-it-means-for-nyuad-to-be-fully-funded-by
The New Yorker interviews Princeton prof Bernard Haykel about his conversations with Saudi Arabian ruler Mohammed Bin Salman: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58157/a-middle-eastern-studies-professor-on-his
Miriam Elman on JVP’s “Deadly Exchange” campaign debuting during this year’s “Israeli Apartheid Week” (incl. SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58154/the-intersectional-antisemitic-deadly-exchange
Golden Gate Xpress (SFSU) editorial defends anti-Zionism; labels criticism thereof “McCarthyism” and “oppression” (incl. Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58181/mccarthyism-oppression-unwelcome-on-campus-rabab
J: The Jewish News of Northern California’s tribute to recently deceased reporter Rob Gloster (incl. Rabab Abdulhadi and UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58230/remembering-rob-gloster-62-our-treasured-friend
IPT on Reps. AOC and Rashida Tlaib meeting with AMP members during “Palestine Advocacy Day” (incl. Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58211/aoc-tlaib-met-with-amp-members-during-palestine
A Bay Area woman asks for help freeing her brother from a Saudi prison (incl. U. of San Francisco prof Stephen Zunes): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58156/california-woman-brother-being-tortured-in-saudi
New Jersey Institute of Technology/Columbia U. prof Zeynep Çelik wins the UCLA Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award in Islamic Studies; organizes UCLA conference for May: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58186/acclaimed-architectural-historian-zeynep-celik-to
Johns Hopkins U. inducts new members into its Society of Scholars (incl. Indiana University, Bloomington prof Asma Afsaruddin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58187/johns-hopkins-inducts-new-members-into-society
Dartmouth College prof and author Alaa Al Aswany gives a talk on literature at Bowdein College: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58173/creating-change-through-power-of-literature-on
U. of Michigan students and faculty debate Arabic language curriculum (incl. Wijdan Alsayegh, Gottfried Hagen): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58196/students-faculty-join-nationwide-debate-over
Middlebury College Hebrew Program to lose its only professor (incl. Arabic instruction, Middle East studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58224/hebrew-program-to-lose-its-only-professor-in-fall
On the Hindi-Urdu department—which falls under the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies—at Washington U. in St. Louis: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58158/khush-raho-the-wu-hindi-department-fosters
On “Israeli Apartheid Week” and anti-Israel bias at Columbia University (incl. Joseph Massad):
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58199/jewish-zionist-students-speak-out-over-divisive
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58229/columbia-and-barnard-have-a-diversity-inclusion
On, or referencing, the Duke/UNC anti-Israel “Conflict over Gaza” conference, including a video showing a rapper performing an anti-Semitic song:
ABC11 (North Carolina): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58219/video-shows-rapper-performance-of-anti-semitic
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58220/university-of-north-carolina-condemns-disturbing
And (on at Duke): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58202/what-happened-during-duke-israeli-apartheid-week
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58218/video-depicts-rapper-performing-anti-semitic-song
And (on anti-Semitic posters appearing at UNC): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58201/anti-semitic-posters-found-at-university-of-north
Conservative Daily News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58231/youtube-censors-video-revealing-anti-semitism
On the revelations in a new book re Qatari funding for Muslim Brotherhood organizations throughout Europe and for former Oxford prof Tariq Ramadan:
The National (UAE): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58171/new-book-exposes-doha-murky-european-network-incl
Arab News (Saudi Arabia): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58159/qatar-papers-book-reveals-doha-lavish-funding-for
Gatestone Institute (Giulio Meotti): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58183/qatar-a-wolf-in-sheep-clothing-bankrolling
On the 51st commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. death, featuring Duke prof Omid Safi:
The Daily Helmsman: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58223/civil-rights-movement-leaders-remember-martin
Duke Today: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58162/omid-safi-speaks-at-tribute-to-rev-martin-luther
On Columbia U. prof Hamid Dabashi equating Israel with ISIS:
Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58174/columbia-prof-compares-israel-to-isis-on-hamid
The Jewish Voice: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58197/columbia-u-professor-thinks-israel-and-islamic
The Tower: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58167/columbia-university-professor-compares-israel-to
On CAIR’s defeat in a lawsuit to end its “anti-Islamophobia initiative” in San Diego schools:
PRI (Public Radio International): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58194/san-diego-school-district-and-parents-reach
Jihad Watch: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58195/san-diego-parents-prevail-over-hamas-linked-cair
Moonlighters
Turkey’s Andalou Agency on a DC protest against China’s oppression of the Uighur Muslims (incl. Lincoln U. prof Kaukab Siddique): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58170/hundreds-protest-china-urge-us-action-for-uighurs
The Iranian interviews UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58169/a-conversation-with-reza-aslan
Honest Reporting on media responses to the Israeli election, incl. UCLA prof Saree Makdisi’s latest LA Times op-ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58221/israeli-election-a-vote-of-no-confidence-in
On the U.S. denying entry to BDS leader Omar Barghouti, who had planned talks at NYU, Harvard, and to Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill’s bookstore in Philadelphia:
i24News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58225/us-denies-entry-to-founder-of-israel-boycott
NPR: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58227/us-denies-entry-to-leader-of-movement-to-boycott
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58226/united-states-denies-entry-to-bds-founder
IPT: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58193/us-blocks-bds-co-founder-barghouti-from-entering
Other articles that include Marc Lamont Hill:
IPT (on Barghouti’s talk at the annual BDS National Committee conference in Ramallah): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58180/bds-co-founder-who-calls-for-israel-destruction
JNS (on the Harvard University Palestine Solidarity Committee’s “Black-Palestinian Solidarity” event): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58203/slamming-zionists-and-zionism-writ-large
Jerusalem Post (on a video satirizing Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58164/stupid-excuses-for-ilhan-omar-antisemitism-new
Articles that include U. of Detroit-Mercy prof Amer Zahr:
Dearborn Press & Guide (Zahr to be master of ceremonies at campus event featuring Rashida Tlaib): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58166/rashida-tlaib-to-talk-about-arab-american-woman
Gizmodo (on ICE fake university/Facebook sting): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58228/ice-used-fake-facebook-profiles-to-prosecute
