Campus Watch reports the following from June 22 - 30, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
UCLA Prof. Khaled Abou El Fadl Condemns Mosque for Prohibiting His Tribute to Mohamed Morsi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58836/ucla-prof-khaled-abou-el-fadl-condemns-mosque-for
Cary Nelson’s Anti-BDS Book Singles Out Rutgers Prof. Jasbir Puar, Among Others: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58824/cary-nelson-anti-bds-book-singles-out-rutgers
Luther College Prof. and ‘Islamophobia Expert’ Todd Green: Criticize Christianity, Not Islam: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58816/luther-college-prof-and-islamophobia-expert-todd
Middle East Studies in the News
Qanta Ahmed on SFSU prof and BDS advocate Rabab Abdulhadi’s motion against the Lawfare Project being denied: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58840/battling-bds-sanctioning-islamist-antisemitism
Campus Reform on the DoE investigating a Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies conference over anti-Semitism accusations: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58819/devos-directs-ed-dept-to-investigate-unc-amid
Christian Science Monitor on Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran (incl. CUNY prof Ervand Abrahamian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58843/iranian-leaders-shun-chalice-of-poison-incl
Gary Fouse on Columbia prof Hamid Dabashi’s pro-Iran/anti-Trump op-ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58848/if-the-us-and-iran-go-to-warwho-is-on-our-side-on
On U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole’s blog claiming that Iranian president Hassan Rouhani’s “mental retardation” quote on Trump was mistranslated:
Business Insider: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58842/reports-that-iran-president-called-trump
Washington Monthly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58841/sloppy-reporting-on-iran-could-inadvertently
On reaction to the death of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader and former president Mohamed Morsi:
American Thinker (incl. Southern Methodist U. lecturer Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58818/dallas-muslim-brotherhood-supporters-openly-mourn
Investigative Project on Terrorism (incl. UCLA’s Khaled Abou El Fadl): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58835/american-mb-supporters-make-morsi-memorial-about
On Bay Area community college Islamic studies lecturer Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Sidiqqi’s San Francisco mosque sermon claiming Morsi was murdered by “Zionists agents . . . working for Satan":
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58844/san-francisco-friday-sermon-by-dr-khalid-siddiqi
Pro-Israel Bay Bloggers: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58845/dr-hafiz-mohammed-khalid-siddiqi-spreads-hate-in
On Luther College prof and “Islamophobia expert” Todd Green’s op-ed bashing Christianity, while condemning criticism of Islam:
Jihad Watch (Robert Spencer): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58807/todd-green-islamophobia-expert-claims
Fousesquawk (blog of Gary Fouse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58837/professor-of-islamophobia-at-lutheran-college
On the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund’s ongoing investigation into Islamic proselytizing at New Jersey’s Memorial High School:
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58803/fcdf-demands-records-from-new-jersey-school
Jihad Watch (Christine Douglass-Williams): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58830/new-jersey-school-lets-muslims-interrupt-classes
World Net Daily: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58831/us-school-lets-muslims-interrupt-classes-to
Moonlighters
Columnist CJ Werleman apologizes for using Norman Finkelstein’s term, “Holocaust industry,” on social media: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58806/middle-east-eye-columnist-regrets-using-term
Jerusalem Post op-ed on the lack of distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism (incl. Norman Finkelstein, Shlomo Sand): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58839/anti-zionism-is-antisemitism-incl-norman
On Cary Nelson’s anti-BDS book, “Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & the Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State” (incl. UC Berkeley’s Judith Butler, former academic Steven Salaita, UCLA’s Saree Makdisi, and Rutgers prof Jasbir Puar):
The Algemeiner (Petra Marquardt-Bigman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58820/cary-nelson-makes-the-progressive-case-against
Israel Diaries (Sheri Oz): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58826/israel-denial-doing-something-positive-to-fight
Abu Yehuda (Vic Rosenthal’s blog; 6/20): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58827/the-department-of-anti-israel-studies-incl-judith
Elder of Ziyon (6/18): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58825/book-review-israel-denial-by-cary-nelson-incl
On UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan:
The News on Sunday (Pakistan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58805/if-you-ask-me-who-i-am-i-will-say-i-am
Entertainment Weekly: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/58821/reza-aslan-talks-confronting-iranian-american