Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from July 25 – August 3, 2019:

Recommended Professors

Kevin Blankinship
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages
Brigham Young University
Areas of Expertise: Arabic language and literature, Islamic civilization, the Qur’an
https://humanities.byu.edu/person/kevin-blankinship/

Campus Watch Blog

‘Israel Studies’ Editors Apologize . . . for Pro-Israel Bias: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59062/israel-studies-editors-apologize-for-pro-israel

Clark University Prof Taner Akçam Uncovers Armenian Genocide ‘Smoking Gun': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59046/clark-university-prof-taner-akcam-uncovers

Middle East Studies in the News

Daily Herald (Utah) obituary for former Brigham Young U. (also: AUC, U. of Miami) prof Arnold Harrison Green: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59066/arnold-harrison-green-1940-2019

JNS report on a new ethnic-studies curriculum under proposal by the California Department of Education that’s raising concerns over anti-Israel, anti-Jewish bias (incl. Miriam Elman, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59064/proposed-anti-israel-ethnic-studies-curriculum-in

Haaretz on Israel Studies journal editors’ apology for the “Word Crimes” issue and “pro-Israel bias” (incl. Arie Dubnov, Pnina Lahav, Yehudah Mirsky, Derek Penslar, Daniel Kurtzer, Ilan Troen): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59060/editors-apologize-after-israel-studies

JNS on Canary Mission’s report linking IfNotNow and American Muslims for Palestine (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59056/new-report-highlights-ties-between-ifnotnow

Daniel Greenfield on the same (incl. Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59073/is-a-hamas-allied-hate-group-influencing-the-2020

Daily Californian on UC Berkeley’s new Assyrian studies program: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59074/uc-berkeley-adds-assyrian-studies-program-through

Wisconsin Muslim Journal profile of Carthage College (WI) Islamic studies prof Fatih Harpci: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59071/professor-teaches-about-islam-in-popular-classes

Sarmad Ishfaq of Pakistan’s Lahore Center for Peace Research critiques Western academia’s study of the Middle East: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59069/why-is-the-middle-east-such-a-complicated-region

Jonathan Marks asks why the BDS movement doesn’t boycott Turkey (incl. Columbia’s Joseph Massad, SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59049/where-is-the-movement-to-boycott-turkey-incl

US Islamists decline to participate in Erdoğan’s “Uniting Ummah” event in NYC (incl. Rhodes College’s Yasir Qadhi, Southern Methodist U’s Omar Suleiman): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59045/erdogan-uniting-ummah-event-in-new-york-divides

Organizers of the CAIR-dominated Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy conference prevent Andrew Harrod from attending (incl. Georgetown’s Jonathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59050/muslim-brothers-shut-out-critics-incl-jonathan

FrontPage reports on the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund’s case against New Jersey’s Memorial High School over Islamic proselytizing: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59043/nj-high-school-allows-muslim-proselytizing-in

Moonlighters

CAMERA’s Karen Bekker cites anti-Semitism as the “canary in the coalmine” for the Oberlin case and similar problems on other campuses (incl. UCLA’s Saree Makdisi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59065/at-oberlin-and-elsewhere-anti-semitism-was-canary

On Covington Catholic High School students’ libel lawsuit against various journalists and celebrities (incl. UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan):

Law and Crime: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59072/exclusive-8-covington-catholic-teens-sue-most

The Epoch Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59081/covington-students-sue-nyt-reporter-cnn-analysts

On U. of Detroit Mercy prof Amer Zahr’s successful BDS campaign to prevent an Arab-American man from opening a Burgerim franchise in Dearborn:

Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59070/rashida-tlaib-silent-on-constituent-targeted-by

The Arab-American News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59075/when-boycotts-work-israeli-franchise-burgerim

Articles on, or including, Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:

Petra Marquardt-Bigman at Legal Insurrection on Janna Jihad’s US tour: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59044/rewarding-palestinian-child-exploitation-janna

Leonard Getz at American Thinker on the Netroots Nation conference: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59068/netroots-nation-rooted-in-islamism-incl-marc

Will Alexander at Townhall on “Mideast hatred” coming to the US: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59067/mideast-brand-0f-hatred-finds-a-home-in-america

Alex Joffe’s latest SPME “BDS Monitor": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59058/bds-monitor-incl-marc-lamont-hill

Cinnamon Stillwell analyzes Middle East studies academia in West Coast colleges and universities for Campus Watch. A San Francisco Bay Area native and graduate of San Francisco State University, she is a columnist, blogger, and social media analyst. Ms. Stillwell, a former contributing political columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, has written on a wide variety of topics, including the political atmosphere in American higher education, and has appeared as a guest on television and talk radio.
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