Campus Watch reports the following from August 2-11, 2019:
Recommended Professors
Benjamin Braude
Associate Professor of History
Boston College
Areas of Expertise: Race and the construction of collective identities in the Middle East and Europe; Ottoman history; Jewish history
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/history/people/faculty-directory/benjamin-braude.html
Campus Watch Research
Hijacking Black History to Bash Israel (David Swindle): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59121/hijacking-black-history-to-bash-israel
Encouraging Palestinians to Swim Uphill (A.J. Caschetta): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59085/encouraging-palestinians-to-swim-uphill
Campus Watch Blog
Hijacking Black History to Bash Israel (highlights David Swindle’s CW article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59122/hijacking-black-history-to-bash-israel
‘Word Crimes’ Co-Editors Set the Record Straight on Israel Studies Controversy: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59111/word-crimes-co-editors-set-the-record-straight-on
UC Riverside Prof Reza Aslan Calls for Half the Country to Be ‘Eradicated': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59096/uc-riverside-prof-reza-aslan-calls-for-half
Anti-Israel Bias in Proposed California High School Ethnic Studies Curriculum: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59087/anti-israel-bias-in-proposed-california-high
Encouraging Palestinians to Swim Uphill (highlights A.J. Caschetta’s CW article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59086/encouraging-palestinians-to-swim-uphill
Campus Watch in the Media
Gerald Honigman at Arutz Sheva (references DP, CS blog): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59119/higher-indoctrination-education-and-the-angry-jew
Middle East Studies in the News
Armenian genocide scholar Vahakn Dadrian passes away at 93 (incl. Clark U. prof Taner Akçam): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59142/armenian-community-grieving-genocide-scholar
A Japanese website interviews Georgetown’s John Esposito, who touts the “Islamophobia"-fighting Bridge Initiative: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59143/establishing-a-global-view-of-religion
Shenandoah University’s (Virginia) new chaplain and Muslim community coordinator Hanaa Unus to coordinate with the school’s Center for Islam in the Contemporary World on “research and recruitment of Islamic studies": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59147/shenandoah-welcomes-new-muslim-community
On Toledo Muslims performing the hajj amid a call to boycott Saudi Arabia (incl. U. of Toledo prof Ovamir Anjum): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59148/local-muslims-on-the-road-to-mecca-incl-ovamir
Jamia Millia Islamia—a university in New Delhi, India—holds a seminar “under the auspices of Madrasa Discourses,” featuring its faculty (incl. U. of Notre Dame’s Ebrahim Moosa): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59149/seminar-on-theological-challenges-to-islamic
Middle East Eye article on Zaytuna Institute co-founder Hamza Yusuf’s career, in light of his participation in the Trump State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59129/hamza-yusuf-and-the-struggle-for-the-soul
On the U. of North Georgia’s Summer Language Institute: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59098/summer-language-institute-experiences-extend
Gary Fouse parses U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole’s blog on the El Paso shooting: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59092/juan-cole-and-stochastic-terrorism
Tufts U. brings back controversial “Colonizing Palestine” course taught by anti-Israel prof Thomas Abowd: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59124/despite-previous-pushback-tufts-university-again
The Algemeiner on former academic Steven Salaita’s lecture at the University of Cape Town (South Africa): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59109/anti-zionist-former-academic-ditched-by-us
“Word Crimes” co-editors Donna Robinson Divine, Miriam Elman, and Asaf Romirowsky set the record straight on Israel studies controversy: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59097/after-the-apology-the-truth-about-our-special
On UCLA receiving a two-year $350,000 Mellon Foundation grant “to support a pilot project designed to reframe how Middle Eastern studies are conceptualized and taught” (incl. Center for Near Eastern Studies director Ali Behdad):
UCLA Newsroom: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59094/center-for-near-eastern-studies-receives-grant-to
The Daily Bruin: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59093/mellon-foundation-grant-allows-for-restructuring
On a new ethnic-studies high school curriculum under proposal by the California Department of Education that—due to concerns over anti-Israel, anti-Semitic bias—led to an AMCHA Initiative letter signed by 83 groups, incl. the Middle East Forum:
Los Angeles Times (editorial board): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59152/editorial-california-proposed-new-ethnic-studies
Los Angeles Times (op-ed): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59153/is-california-draft-ethnic-studies-curriculum
The Mercury News (San Jose): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59154/is-ethnic-studies-plan-too-politically-correct
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59116/anti-jewish-anti-israel-pro-bds-california
AMCHA Initiative: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59114/proposed-ca-high-school-curriculum-anti-semitic
JNS (Jonathan Tobin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59110/california-curriculum-shows-the-price
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59113/groups-call-on-california-to-safeguard-biased
J: The Jewish News of Northern California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59145/draft-high-school-ethnic-studies-curriculum-anti
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59115/83-jewish-and-pro-israel-organizations-call-for
Legal Insurrection (Samantha Mandeles): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59140/legal-insurrection-foundation-opposes-proposed
The Times of Israel (Rachel Wahba): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59155/malignancy-in-california-ethnic-studies-curriculum
On U. of Toronto’s Institute of Islamic Studies setting up a support hotline for Muslim students who have been contacted by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS):
CBC: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59146/muslim-student-in-ottawa-weirded-out-by
CBC (incl. Wilfrid Laurier U. prof Jasmine Zine): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59136/when-csis-comes-knocking-amid-reports-of-muslim
On a discrimination lawsuit against Friends’ Central School, a Main Line Quaker school in PA, by two teachers, who were apparently fired for inviting Swarthmore prof Sa’ed Atshan to speak at the school’s Peace and Equality for Palestine club:
Billy Penn (WHYY Public Media): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59128/philly-teachers-racial-discrimination-claim
KYW Newsradio: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59141/federal-judge-moves-discrimination-suit-forward
Moonlighters
Detroit News op-ed condemns BDS campaign that prevented the opening of a Burgerim franchise in Dearborn (incl. U. of Detroit Mercy prof Amer Zahr): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59099/boycott-of-israel-threatens-dearborn-businessman
On UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan’s latest Twitter outburst, this time in response to the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas:
Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59095/reza-aslan-calls-for-kellyanne-conway-to-be
The Daily Wire: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59100/ex-cnn-employee-appears-to-threaten-kellyanne
The Daily Wire (Michael J. Knowles): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59132/the-left-actually-hates-us-incl-reza-aslan
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59101/reza-aslan-calls-kellyanne-conway-the-evil-we
Campus Reform: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59102/calif-prof-trump-supporters-are-white-nationalist
Jihad Watch (Robert Spencer): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59150/reza-aslan-calls-for-genocide-says-trump
Fousesquawk (blog of Gary Fouse): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59091/reza-aslan-goes-ballistic-on-twitter
Human Events: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59137/reza-aslan-calls-for-genocide-against-trump
The Political Insider: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59138/former-cnn-host-threatens-kellyanne-conway
The Daily Caller: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59144/cnn-contributor-who-ate-human-brain-calls-for
New York Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59130/twitter-giving-conservatives-the-silent-tweetment
On Covington Catholic High School students’ libel lawsuit against various journalists and celebrities (incl. Reza Aslan):
Life Site News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59103/more-covington-boys-file-new-defamation-suit
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59104/robert-barnes-covington-lawsuit-will-determine-if
Also on Reza Aslan:
On “Rough Draft With Reza Aslan,” his forthcoming interview show carried on the streaming service Topic, owned by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59139/reza-aslan-to-host-topic-vod-service-first
