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