Campus Watch reports the following from September 22-29, 2019:
Campus Watch Blog
Anti-Israel Rutgers Prof Noura Erakat Admits (Again) That ‘The Law is Politics': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59440/anti-israel-rutgers-prof-noura-erakat-admits
MESA Objects to DoE Insisting Taxpayer-Funded Duke/UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies Maintain Balance: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59429/mesa-objects-to-doe-insisting-taxpayer-funded
Middle East Studies in the News
Gary Fouse on U. of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign prof Lila Adib Sharif’s anti-Israel talk at UC Irvine: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59470/olive-oil-speaking-appearance-of-prof-lila-adib
Op-ed on the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism (incl. CSU Stanislaus prof As’ad AbuKhalil): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59468/is-antisemitism-becoming-mainstream-in-america
Rapper French Montana criticized for album cover with women in niqabs and thigh-high boots (incl. U. of Detroit-Mercy prof and UC Berkeley affiliate Khaled Beydoun): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59457/rapper-french-montana-slammed-for-sexualising
Massis Post on two upcoming international genocide conferences (incl. Clark U’s Taner Akçam, UCLA’s Richard Hovannisian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59441/two-major-international-genocide-conferences
Dexter Van Zile on Rutgers prof Noura Erakat’s openly cynical approach to the law: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59430/noura-erakat-sordid-cynicism
Robert Spencer on Southern Methodist U. adjunct and imam Omar Suleiman’s statements on two Muslim men being removed from an American Airlines flight: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59471/dallas-muslim-leader-airports-are-a-scary-place
On the DoE ordering the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies to revise its offerings to continue receiving Title VI funding, UNC’s response, and opposition to the DoE from MESA, the ACLU, and others (in chronological order):
PJ Media (Robert Spencer): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59416/trump-administration-to-unc-and-duke-quit
Clarion Project: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59417/trump-admin-challenges-university-program
AP (on UNC’s response): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59418/unc-denies-claims-of-bias-in-middle-east-studies
CBN News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59419/trump-administration-threatens-to-slash-funds-to
The Philadelphia Inquirer (op-ed): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59424/team-trump-free-speech-attack-on-us-universities
The Progressive Pulse (on SJP protesting): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59425/students-to-demonstrate-against-federal-pressure
The Williams Record (Williams College): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59428/in-other-ivory-towers-doe-investigates-unc-duke
Israel Hayom: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59462/unc-denies-claims-of-pro-islam-bias-in-mideast
The Jewish Voice: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59426/furor-over-mid-east-studies-program-at-unc-duke-u
Inside Higher Ed (incl. Middle East Studies Association, Stanford’s Joel Beinin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59427/middle-east-studies-program-comes-under-federal
The Daily Tar Heel (UNC): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59442/students-and-community-protest-doe-intervention
The Daily Tar Heel (editorial): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59443/editorial-leave-the-consortium-for-middle-eastern
World: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59444/off-balance-instruction
The Duke Chronicle (Community Editorial Board): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59445/empire-building-101
The Christian Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59456/trump-admin-could-pull-funding-for-duke-unc
Religion News Network: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59467/academics-criticize-department-of-education-probe
Wall Street Journal: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59447/aclu-demands-us-drop-action-against-schools
Reason Magazine: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59459/betsy-devos-threatens-to-cut-funding-for-duke-unc
AP (on the ACLU’s response): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59465/us-is-urged-to-end-probe-of-middle-east-studies
AP (roundup of “The Latest”): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59466/the-latest-education-department-responds-to-aclu
On Islam scholar and accused rapist Tariq Ramadan:
Daily Mail (French police expand rape investigation to include two more women): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59469/french-authorities-xpand-rape-probe-into-oxford
Al-Jazeera (TR proclaims his innocence): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59464/im-innocent-tariq-ramadan-on-rape-allegations
On a panel discussion on “Islam in America” at the U. of Nevada, Las Vegas hosted by former Sen. Harry Reid and including Rutgers prof Sahar Aziz and U. of Santa Clara’s Farid Senzai:
The Nevada Independent: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59460/scholars-advocates-join-harry-reid-for-unlv-panel
Nevada Current: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59461/reid-urges-understanding-of-islam-incl-sahar-aziz
On concerns over the upcoming SJP national conference at the U. of Minnesota:
The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59458/students-for-justice-in-palestine-national
JNS (incl. past speakers, SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi, Stanford’s David Palumbo-Liu, CSU San Bernardino’s Ahlam Muhtaseb): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59422/israel-advocacy-groups-urge-cancellation-of-anti
Moonlighters
Newsbusters on Twitter’s political double standards on suspensions (incl. UC Riverside’s Reza Aslan): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59463/twitter-suspends-user-for-questioning-climate
