Campus Watch reports the following from May 31-June 7, 2019:
Howler of the Month
“I think what we have to deal with in the case of Iran is that it’s a developing democracy where the majority of the population being under 30 years old are voting for a moderate candidate. . . . [B]eing an ancient and proud civilization and being a democracy in progress, when their hard-line ruler says, ‘We have no interest in nuclear weaponry and please bring the United Nations and bring the global powers and verify that we’re not developing nuclear weaponry’ — I think this represents an extraordinary opportunity for anybody in the world that would like to see a path other than warfare and destruction.”
Omid Safi, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University and Director of the Duke Islamic Studies Center, in an interview with Public Radio International’s (PRI) “The World"; May 30, 2019
Campus Watch Blog
SFSU Prof Rabab Abdulhadi’s Guest Lecture at UCLA Leads to ADL, Hillel Intervention: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58669/sfsu-prof-rabab-abdulhadi-guest-lecture-at-ucla
Public Outcry Causes Illinois High School District to Withdraw Anti-Israel ‘Teaching Palestine’ Course: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58653/public-outcry-causes-illinois-high-school
Middle East Studies in the News
Jack Miller op-ed urging conservatives not to “break up with universities” (incl. Martin Kramer and Middle East studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58692/miller-conservatives-must-not-break-up-with
On the closing of a 167-year-old PA church and its replacement with an Islamic worship center (incl. Rev. Walter Wagner, a professor at the Moravian Seminary and the Respect Graduate School for Islamic studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58673/catasauqua-congregation-bids-farewell-to-167-year
How US mosques are ramping up security for Eid al-Fitr due to “Islamophobia” (incl. U. of Arkansas’s Khaled Beydoun, UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian, Luther College’s Todd Green): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58664/as-american-muslims-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-mosques
Glowing profile of Huron University College prof and former ISNA president Ingrid Mattson: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58693/scholar-spotlight-ingrid-mattson-paving-the-way
Pakistani publication reviews America U. prof Akbar Ahmed’s book, Journey Into Europe: Islam, Immigration, and Identity: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58697/muslims-and-european-society-on-akbar-ahmed
How drought cycles in the Middle East could create more refugees (incl. U. of Oklahoma’s Joshua Landis): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58666/how-the-middle-east-drought-cycle-will-probably
Gary Fouse on UC Berkeley lecturer Hatem Bazian’s Ramadan drive to raise funds for the Islamophobia Research & Documentation Center: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58695/will-you-donate-5-million-to-hatem-bazian
SFSU prof Rabab Abdhuladi loses sanctions motion against the Lawfare Project: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58698/sf-state-prof-loses-sanctions-motion-against
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:
The Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58663/hillel-adl-urge-ucla-to-address-incidents-of-anti
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58660/adl-ucla-hillel-call-on-ucla-to-issue-a-more-full
American Thinker (Abraham Miller): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58658/exposing-a-university-hypocrisy-incl-rabab
Fousesquawk (blog of Gary Fouse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58655/ucla-still-taking-heat-over-rabab-abdulhadi
On Highland Park Library (NJ) postponing—and then rescheduling after canceling a hearing on the matter—an event featuring Golbarg Bashi, Rutgers U. prof and author of the controversial children’s book “P is for Palestine":
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58694/nj-library-cancels-hearing-over-p-is-for
Arutz Sheva: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58680/new-jersey-library-p-is-for-palestine-reading
Jewish Link of New Jersey: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58681/p-is-for-palestine-library-controversy-ends-for
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58671/highland-park-library-p-is-for-palestine
Bridgewater Courier News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58668/p-is-for-palestine-event-reinstated-compromise
Haaretz: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58667/fear-of-unrest-causes-new-jersey-library-to
TAPinto New Brunswick: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58700/sixty-highland-park-residents-call-for
On Illinois’s Niles Township High School District 219 withdrawing an anti-Israel course for teachers due to public outcry:
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58652/after-backlash-illinois-high-school-district
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58696/chicago-area-high-school-pulls-support-for
Other K-12 articles:
Jonathan Marks at Commentary on anti-Israel bias entering high school curriculum (incl. Miriam Elman; references Illinois case): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58661/the-anti-israel-movement-coming-to-a-high-school
Clarion Project on public schools promoting Islam during Ramadan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58656/public-schools-promoting-islam-during-ramadan
Moonlighters
David Mikics’s Tablet essay on profs who push BDS (incl. UC Berkeley’s Judith Butler, Steven Salaita, UCLA’s Saree Makdisi, Rutgers University’s Jasbir Puar): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58677/the-big-lie-incl-judith-butler-steven-salaita
American Thinker piece on being subjected to a “Secret Life of Muslims” short at the movies featuring UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58679/jihad-infiltration-of-the-movies-incl-reza-aslan
Articles that include Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:
Tablet Mag. on how today’s “anti-Zionist” propaganda originated with Soviet anti-Semitic propaganda: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58678/understanding-the-real-origin-of-that-new-york
The Algemeiner on the owner of an upcoming gay bar in Minneapolis who’s under fire for anti-Semitic social media posts: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58672/owner-of-minneapolis-gay-bar-faces-local-backlash
