Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from April 12-19, 2019:

Howler of the Month

“Arabs’ views of the Israeli elections are no different from how South African blacks regarded elections of whites in apartheid South Africa. . . . The state that killed, displaced, and prevented the return of the natives can’t be said to be democratic, even if the majority Jewish population are permitted to select who among them should lead the apartheid state.”

As’ad AbuKhalil, a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus, falsely equating the 2019 Israeli legislative election with that of apartheid-era South Africa; Consortium News, April 11, 2019.

Link: https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/11/how-arabs-watch-israeli-elections/

Blog

Congress Asks DOE to Investigate Taxpayer-Funded Anti-Israel Gaza/UNC Conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58258/congress-asks-doe-to-investigate-taxpayer-funded

Canadian High School Students Promote the Same Anti-Semitic Blood Libel as Rutgers Prof Jasbir Puar: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58244/canadian-high-school-students-promote-the-same

Palestinian Rapper Performed Anti-Semitic Song at Duke/UNC Gaza Conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58217/palestinian-rapper-performed-anti-semitic-song

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 Studies in the News

On Georgetown U’s John Esposito “Islamophobia” lecture at the College at Brockport (NY): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58280/georgetown-professor-gives-lecture-on

Beshara Doumani, director of Middle East Studies at Brown U. and a Kenyon College alum, returns to Kenyon to deliver a lecture: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58281/leading-scholar-of-ottoman-history-77-returns-to

On Loyola U. prof Sara Scalenghe’s U. of Delaware lecture lauding the Middle East’s “culture of socially including people with disabilities": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58271/the-disabled-experience-in-islam-on-sara

Gary Fouse praises UCLA prof Judea Pearl for renouncing his distinguished alumnus status with NYU after its “President’s Service” award to Students for Justice in Palestine (incl. UCLA’s James Gelvin and UC Irvine’s Mark LeVine): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58259/in-praise-of-judea-pearl-incl-james-gelvin-mark

Washington Post article claims the Notre Dame Cathedral fire set off “the West’s far right” (incl. U. of Michigan’s Juan Cole): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58248/the-notre-dame-fire-ignites-the-west-far-right

Clarion Project on American Muslim scholar Shadee Elmasry, who has coauthored articles with Georgetown prof Jonathan Brown, comparing atheists to rapists: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58282/american-muslim-scholar-says-atheists-worse-than

Clarion Project’s Shireen Qudosi on the backlash against U. of Arkansas prof Khaled Beydoun’s tasteless Christchurch competition: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58269/backlash-against-muslim-celebrity-trip-to

The Al-Jazeera/Vanessa Taylor op-ed on the phenomenon of “Muslim celebrity culture” that Qudosi references (incl. Khaled Beydoun): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58270/the-problem-with-muslim-celebrity-culture-incl

Seth Frantzman on the alleged threats against Rep. Ilhan Omar (incl. Luther College’s Todd Green): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58272/protecting-ilhan-controversy-leads-to-concerns

Turkey’s Anadolu Agency on an Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim U. conference on “discrimination and Islamophobia” (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian and U. of Long Island’s Dalia Fahmy): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58276/conference-in-istanbul-sheds-light-on

Saudi Gazette on Iranian infiltration of the US education system: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58265/iranian-propagandists-infiltrate-us-education

Students in an Ontario (Canada) high school’s “social justice” class display a poster accusing Israel of conducting “human testing” on Palestinians: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58243/canadian-high-school-launches-probe-removes

The North East Middle East Politics Working Group holds a weekend conference at Hamilton College: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58263/ne-middle-east-politics-conference-convened

U. of Arizona is chosen to host the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (incl. Sonia Shiri): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58260/center-for-arabic-study-abroad-moves-to-ua-incl

On reaction to the Duke/UNC anti-Israel “Conflict over Gaza” conference:

The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58279/sponsors-demand-refund-after-antisemitic-rap

Arutz Sheva (Israel National News): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58264/congressman-demands-probe-of-anti-israel-college

The Daily Caller: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58262/lawmaker-calls-for-investigation-into-unc-duke

ABC11 (North Carolina): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58261/some-sponsors-want-money-back-after-anti-semitic

The Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58257/congress-wants-investigation-into-taxpayer-funded

Forbes: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58242/why-has-explicit-anti-semitism-at-a-unc-duke

Chapelboro.com and WCHL (incl. Carl Ernst, Charles Kurzman, Shai Tamari): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58273/interim-unc-chancellor-kevin-guskiewicz-responds

Moonlighters

Letter to the editor (LA Times) responding to UCLA prof Saree Makdisi’s latest op-ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58274/palestinian-leaders-have-themselves-to-blame-for

On the U.S. denying entry to BDS leader Omar Barghouti (incl. Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill):

Washington Square News (NYU): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58267/after-being-denied-us-entry-bds-co-founder-phones

And: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58268/bds-movement-co-founder-set-to-speak-at-nyu

i24News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58225/us-denies-entry-to-founder-of-israel-boycott

Other items that include Marc Lamont Hill:

Letter to the editor expressing concern over an upcoming anti-Israel panel at the U. of Massachusetts: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58266/letter-will-umass-support-viewpoint-diversity-or

National Council of Young Israel denounces NYU and Harvard for allowing anti-Semitic speakers to address students: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58275/young-israel-college-campuses-shouldnt-embrace

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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