Campus Watch reports the following from April 26 - May 3, 2019:
Campus Watch Research
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58343/qatar-influence-operations-find-allies
The Cowardice of Middle East Studies (Daniel Pipes): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58365/the-cowardice-of-middle-east-studies
Academic Malfeasance: Do Moderate Muslims Exist? (Daniel Pipes): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58295/academic-malfeasance-do-moderate-muslims-exist
Campus Watch Blog
UMass Hillel Arab-Israeli Conflict ‘Conversation’ Provides a Model for Avoiding Divisiveness: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58383/umass-hillel-arab-israeli-conflict-conversation
SFSU Prof Rabab Abdulhadi’s Advice for Palestinians? ‘Continue What They Are Doing: Resistance': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58355/sfsu-prof-rabab-abdulhadi-advice-for
Qatar’s Influence Operations Find Allies at Georgetown: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58345/qatar-influence-operations-find-allies
Middle East Studies in the News
Andrew Harrod on Williams College religion prof and “progressive Muslim feminist” Saadia Yacoob (incl. Georgetown’s Jonathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58387/sharia-truth-and-the-progressive-muslim-feminist
Saudi Arabia temporarily releases detained women’s rights activists (incl. Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58400/saudi-arabia-temporarily-releases-some-detained
The National (UAE) on the 2019 Arab Youth Survey results (incl. George Washington U’s Nathan Brown, Middle East Studies Association): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58362/arab-youth-survey-religion-too-influential-in
U. of British Columbia prof Rumee Ahmed delivers a lecture on Sharia law at John Hopkins U: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58398/what-is-the-past-present-and-future-of-sharia-law
On Genocide Awareness Week at Scottsdale Community College (incl. USC prof Taner Akçam, CSU Fresno prof Barlow Der Mugrdechian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58394/genocide-awareness-week-at-scottsdale-community
On what Dutch site The Correspondent will publish in English (incl. Hamilton College’s Mariam Durrani): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58399/what-will-the-correspondent-publish-in-english
Stanford U. will wait at least a year to end financial support for Stanford University Press: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58359/reprieve-at-stanford-incl-middle-eastern-studies
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks at Stanford U. (sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58385/kareem-abdul-jabbar-weighs-in-on-intersection
Turkey’s Andalou Agency calls Trump’s forthcoming Arab-Israeli peace deal a “hoax” (incl. SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58354/deal-of-the-century-is-pro-israel-colonial-plan
A $5 million gift creates the Helen Diller Family Chair in Israel Studies, the first in its field at UC Berkeley: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58392/a-5-million-gift-will-create-uc-berkeley-first
U. of Massachusetts Hillel hosts a “conversation between Middle East experts (incl. UMass prof David Mednicoff): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58382/umass-hillel-hosts-conversation-between-middle
On the controversy surrounding an issue of Israel Studies dedicated to pushing back against anti-Zionist rhetoric (incl. Miriam Elman, Ian Lustick, Asaf Romirowsky, Ilan Troen, Donna Robinson Divine, Arie Dubnov):
Legal Insurrection: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58391/word-crimes-left-wing-israel-studies-faculty-try
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58357/israel-journal-editors-reject-claims
On Rep. Ilhan Omar retweeting Southern Methodist U. prof Omar Suleiman’s claim that “Jesus was a Palestinian":
Legal Insurrection: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58380/ilhan-omar-joins-ny-times-in-spreading-false
American Thinker: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58369/omar-suleiman-jesus-was-a-palestinian
The Daily Caller: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58386/the-liberal-media-keeps-showing-its-total
Other articles that include Omar Suleiman:
Religion News Network on Muslims boycotting China (incl. Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58393/china-is-punishing-muslims-for-fasting-so-us
Erie News Now on attacks against houses of worship: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58366/houses-of-worship-worry-who-next-incl-omar
On the Duke/UNC anti-Israel “Conflict over Gaza” conference:
Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58372/islamic-studies-center-pays-a-price-after-hosting
The Charlotte Observer: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58373/why-did-unc-invite-an-anti-semitic-speaker
Moonlighters
UC Riverside’s student newspaper interviews UCR prof Reza Aslan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58361/an-interview-with-ucr-professor-dr-reza-aslan-on
On opposition to the U. of Massachusetts panel discussion, “Not Backing Down: Israel, Free Speech, & the Battle for Palestinian Rights” (incl. Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill):
The Tablet: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58395/let-them-speak-incl-marc-lamont-hill
One News Now: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58397/umass-hears-plea-to-stop-anti-israel-panel-incl
Mass Live: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58396/court-refuses-to-block-panel-talk-on-palestine
Massachusetts Daily Collegian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58360/former-senator-criticizes-sga-support
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58358/80-groups-applaud-umass-for-initial-steps-over
The Boston Globe: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58368/at-umass-a-palestinian-human-rights-panel-draws
Daily Hampshire Gazette: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58371/students-file-lawsuit-to-stop-umass-israel
Other items on Marc Lamont Hill:
Capital Research Center on Hill delivering the keynote at the American Muslims for Palestine annual dinner (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58370/former-cnn-contributor-speaks-at-terror-linked
