Campus Watch reports the following from September 9-22, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
Luther College Prof Todd Green Inflates ‘Islamophobia,’ Blames ‘White Christian Americans,’ Ignores Anti-Semitism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59375/luther-college-prof-todd-green-inflates
Juan Cole: Michigan’s Pontificator-in-Chief: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59319/juan-cole-michigan-pontificator-in-chief
Middle East Studies in the News
Princeton U. prof Michael Cook is awarded the 2019 Balzan Prize for Islamic Studies ($760,000): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59343/michael-cook-awarded-balzan-prize-for-islamic
Op-ed by the co-presidents of “Tikvah: Students for Israel” at UC Berkeley on campus anti-Semitism (incl. UCB’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59344/a-failure-of-leadership-the-culture
Luther College prof Todd Green speaks about “Islamophobia” on an interfaith panel organized by U. of Tennessee prof Jaclyn Michael: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59374/stopping-islamophobia-means-recognizing-its
Gary Fouse on Benjamin Tua’s “glowing” review of U. of Michigan prof Juan Cole’s Muhammad book: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59386/juan-cole-glowing-book-review
UNC Islamic studies doctoral candidate Katherine Merriman leads the “Muslim History Tour NYC": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59388/chronicling-new-york-muslim-history-incl
U. of Notre Dame prof Ebrahim Moosa urges negotiation with Iran: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59401/it-time-to-de-escalate-the-crisis-with-iran-meet
Middlebury College Arabic student who opposed CIA information session acquitted of protest policy violation: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59372/confronting-the-cia-arabic-student-acquitted
On Georgia Southern U’s Arabic club: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59397/movie-nights-and-coffee-hour-part-of-the-arabic
On the DoE letter to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies ordering it to revise its offerings to continue receiving Title VI funding (in chronological order):
Inside Higher Ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59362/education-department-probes-middle-east-studies
WTDV-TV Eyewitness News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59365/federal-investigation-finds-unc-duke-middle-east
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59367/department-of-ed-duke-unc-mideast-studies-has
The New York Times: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59378/us-orders-duke-and-unc-to-recast-tone-in-mideast
AP: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59379/feds-cite-islam-focus-in-review-of-duke-unc
Jewish Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59382/education-department-says-unc-duke-middle-east
CNN: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59384/education-department-says-duke-unc-middle-east
CNN (David M. Perry, academic adviser to the U. of Minnesota’s history dept.): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59393/this-is-what-a-real-threat-to-campus-free-speech
Slate: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59398/the-right-latest-attack-on-academic-freedom-might
Forbes (Loyola Marymount U. prof Evan Gerstmann): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59380/the-truth-about-devos-order-on-colleges-middle
Newsweek: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59385/trump-admin-threatens-to-cut-funding-for
Salon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59394/betsy-devos-doe-threatens-to-cut-duke-unc-funding
The Daily Tar Heel (student newspaper for the University of North Carolina): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59396/doe-says-unc-duke-must-revise-consortium-on
Religion News Network: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59399/academic-antisemitism-returns
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59402/duke-university-of-north-carolina-must-fix-pro
New York Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59395/feds-may-pull-grant-on-islamic-studies-program
On a French court allowing Islam scholar and accused rapist Tariq Ramadan to publish his book, “Duty of Truth,” despite it revealing the identity of one of his accusers:
The National (on her attempt to block publication): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59345/french-court-asked-to-block-new-tariq-ramadan
The National (on court decision): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59347/tariq-ramadan-book-to-be-published-despite-pleas
RFI (Radio France Internationale): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59346/tariq-ramadan-accuser-seeks-ban-on-book-about
Metro (U.K.): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59349/alleged-rapist-allowed-to-publish-book-which
Articles related to the eighteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks:
U Daily on U. of Delaware prof Muqtedar Khan’s book and “much-delayed response” to 9/11, Islam and Good Governance: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59342/identity-and-islam-on-muqtedar-khan
The Washington Post on a Michigan Baptist church cancelling its “anti-Islam” 9/11 event due to criticism (incl. Luther College’s Todd Green, U. of Notre Dame’s Gabriel Said Reynolds): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59405/baptist-church-cancels-9-11-anti-islam-event
Middle East Eye on US police officers commemorating 9/11 while in Israel for the “Police Unity Tour": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59339/police-unity-tour-us-officers-in-israel-for
Egypt Today notes the rise of Middle East studies in the US after 9/11: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59340/how-did-americans-view-the-middle-east-after
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian (incl. UMass prof David Mednicoff): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59341/eighteen-years-later-talking-about-9-11-at-umass
Articles on Clark U. prof and Armenian genocide scholar Taner Akçam:
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator on the Knights and Daughters of Vartan presenting Akçam with a Lifetime Achievement Award: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59383/dr-taner-akcam-to-receive-lifetime-achievement
Massis Post reprints Akçam’s speech at an event to honor the late scholar Vahakn Dadrian and at which he became the first recipient of the OIA Vahakn N. Dadrian Genocide Scholarship Award: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59409/prof-taner-akcam-we-have-to-create-institutions
The Zoryan Institute disputes a point in Akçam’s speech: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59392/zoryan-institute-response-to-prof-taner-akcam
On Qatar Foundation International and other foreign funding for K-12 and US universities:
Breitbart: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59404/exclusive-china-russia-and-other-foreign-states
The Daily Caller: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59403/qatar-funded-group-engages-in-propagandistic
On the controversial, and now scrapped, proposed ethnic studies curriculum for CA high schools:
J: The Jewish News of Northern California: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59371/bay-area-lawmaker-hears-community-concerns-on
Orange County Register: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59387/educators-will-get-another-shot-at-writing-state
Moonlighters
Articles that include U. of Detroit-Mercy prof Amer Zahr:
The Arab-American News (Rep. Debbie Dingell slammed by anti-Israel activists for not co-sponsoring a bill barring US aid from “contributing to the imprisonment of Palestinian children”): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59400/us-rep-dingell-grilled-by-local-activists-for
The Detroit News (on the Dearborn BDS campaign against Burgherim): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59373/burgerim-nixes-dearborn-location-after-backlash
