Campus Watch reports the following from May 24-31, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
Illinois High School District Offers Teachers Anti-Israel ‘Teaching Palestine’ Course: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58634/illinois-high-school-district-offers-teachers
Temple U. Prof Marc Lamont Hill Called an ‘Orientalist’ for Dismissing Hen Mazzig: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58630/temple-u-prof-marc-lamont-hill-called
Thomas More Law Center Brings Public Schools’ Promotion of Islam to the Supreme Court: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58596/thomas-more-law-center-brings-public-schools
Middle East Studies in the News
Contributors to “Word Crimes,” the “Israel Studies” issue devoted to anti-Zionist rhetoric, discuss the “academic thuggery” of its detractors (incl. Ian Lustick, Donna Robinson Divine, Miriam Elman, Asaf Romirowsky): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58610/israel-studies-academics-blast-academic-thuggery
Andrew Harrod on Georgetown U. associate Nathan Lean’s thuggish tweets (incl. ACMCU director Jonathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58638/twitter-reveals-leftist-thug-nathan-lean-incl
PRI interviews Duke U’s Omid Safi on the Iranian regime’s statement that nuclear weapons are “forbidden under Islamic law": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58645/ayatollah-khamenei-says-nuclear-weapons-are
U. of San Francisco prof Stephen Zunes blasts the Trump administration for “emergency” arms sales to Jordan, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58626/us-emergency-arms-sales-to-mideast-nations-under
Bloomberg’s Donna Abu-Nasr describes her search for a traditional tablecloth in war-ravaged Syria (incl. U. of Oklahoma prof Joshua Landis): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58633/my-search-for-a-tablecloth-in-damascus-shows
CNN on the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding survey finding that 0% of American Muslims identified as lesbian or gay (incl. Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58625/in-a-survey-of-american-muslims-0-identified-as
Israellycool Blog on Golbarg Bashi, Rutgers U. prof and author of the controversial children’s book “P is for Palestine": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58646/p-is-for-palestine-author-golbarg-bashi-likes
Gary Fouse on UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian’s paranoia about Israel’s “Psy-Group": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58612/hatem-bazian-the-mossad-planted-a-chip-in-my
SFSU students on the swastika/"Free Palestine” graffiti found in a campus bathroom and the wider problem of anti-Semitism at SFSU (incl. Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58615/free-palestine-swastika-at-san-francisco-state-is
On the fallout from SFSU prof Rabab Abdulhadi’s guest lecture at UCLA, in which she likened Zionists to white supremacists, including a student filing a complaint with UCLA’s Discrimination Prevention Office and StandWithUs threatening legal action:
The College Fix: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58643/ucla-investigating-professor-for-inviting-speaker
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58644/swu-pressure-leads-ucla-to-probe-anti-zionist
Jewish Journal (letter to the editor): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58642/letters-a-letter-to-ucla-dean-pat-turner-jews
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58641/ucla-committee-backs-professor-over-guest-lecture
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58632/standwithus-calls-on-ucla-to-address-anti
The Daily Bruin (editorial supporting Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58608/editorial-controversial-lecture-sheds-light-on
Articles on K-12, or “Islam in the Classroom":
JNS on an Illinois school district offering teachers an anti-Israel course titled “Teaching Palestine": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58631/illinois-high-school-district-in-the-spotlight
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund sends a cease and desist letter to a New Jersey school district for displaying a Ramadan poster reading, “May Allah Continue to Shower You Love and Wisdom": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58628/nj-public-school-district-to-students-may-allah
Jihad Watch on same: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58639/new-jersey-public-school-poster-may-allah
On the Thomas More Law Center asking the Supreme Court to decide on case involving a Maryland public school promoting Islam and disparaging Christianity (from last week):
Jihad Watch (Hugh Fitzgerald; Part I): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58621/how-not-to-teach-islam-in-a-maryland-high-school
Part II: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58620/how-not-to-teach-islam-in-a-maryland-high-school
Jihad Watch (Christine Douglass-Williams): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58622/maryland-school-denigrates-christianity-promotes
Faith Wire: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58616/a-hotbed-of-islamic-propaganda-student-claims
Christian Headlines: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58619/student-petitions-supreme-court-for-religious
CBN: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58617/will-supreme-court-agree-that-christian-student
Moonlighters
The Express Tribune (Pakistan) interview UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58614/a-human-history-of-faith-and-religion-on-reza
On the debate between journalist Hen Mazzig and Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill over the nature of Mizrahi Jews:
The Times of Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58627/marc-lamont-hill-personification-of-orientalism
Spectator USA (Dominic Green): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58613/false-history-from-naomi-wolf-and-marc-lamont-hill
