Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from October 7-13, 2019:

Campus Watch Blog

SFSU Prof Rabab Abdulhadi Named in Anti-Semitism Complaint Against UCLA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59544/sfsu-prof-rabab-abdulhadi-named-in-anti-semitism

Why Did Duke Professors Bring Up Israel When the Dept. of Education Didn’t?: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59504/why-did-duke-professors-bring-up-israel-when

Middle East Studies in the News

UCLA student and StandWithUs file Title VI anti-Semitism complaint (incl. SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59534/ucla-student-standwithus-submit-title-vi

Columbia prof Rashid Khalidi’s son, Ismail Khalidi, and partner adapt an anti-Israel play that was performed on campus and co-presented by the Center for Palestine Studies: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59552/returning-to-haifa-adaptation-presents-tale

Former IDF paratrooper Yoni Michanie confronts Rutgers prof Noura Erakat during Q&A for Harvard book talk: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59562/propagating-the-false-narrative-that-zionists-are

Robert Spencer notes Tariq Ramadan’s sympathetic take on Paris Islam convert Mickaël Harpon, who stabbed four of his police colleagues: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59570/tariq-ramadan-laments-that-paris-jihad-murderer

George Washington U. religion faculty launch first-ever Shiism track for Islamic Studies grad. students: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59549/religion-faculty-launch-first-ever-shiism-track

Henry Luce Foundation awards Emory U. religion prof Jim Hoesterey a $305,000 grant to conduct international research on moderate Islam: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59560/luce-foundation-award-will-support-international

Dartmouth College students reflect, a year later, on the splitting up of the Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages and Middle Eastern Studies programs, which were previously combined: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59547/students-reflect-on-mes-and-ascl-split-a-year

Boston U. holds an event to honor the late professor Augustus Richard Norton [incl. BU’s Denis Sullivan, Harvard’s Sara Roy and Lenore Martin, Brandeis U’s Eva Bellin): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59564/the-enduring-impact-of-prof-augustus-richard

Morgan State U. religion prof Harold Morales discusses his book on the “Latinx Muslim community” at the U. of Michigan: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59550/religion-professor-presents-book-on-latinx-muslim

Brown U’s Center for Middle East Studies hosts an event on the uprising against now-former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (incl. McGill U. prof Khalid Medani, U. of Massachusetts prof Nada Mustafa Ali): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59551/experts-explore-root-causes-of-sudanese-uprising

Massachusetts lawmakers consider a genocide education mandate (incl. Clark University’s Taner Akçam): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59546/massachusetts-lawmakers-considering-genocide

Clarion Project report on the Qatar Foundation’s undisclosed (to the DoE) grants to Northwestern U. prof Justin Martin: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59568/qatar-scam-to-gain-more-influence-on-us

IPT on Islamists’ silence on Turkey’s assault on the Syrian Kurds (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59566/turkey-assault-on-kurds-the-silence-of

The Express Tribune (Pakistan) on the controversy over rapper French Montana’s niqabi album cover (incl. U. of Detroit-Mercy prof and UC Berkeley affiliate Khaled Beydoun): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59548/french-montana-new-album-cover-sparks-outrage-inc

On the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies receiving its ’19-20 Title VI funding, despite a DoE warning that it’s not meeting the requirements:

Washington Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59556/education-department-says-it-will-fund-middle

The Hill: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59559/dept-of-education-stands-firm-that-duke-unc-joint

Jihad Watch: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59569/department-of-education-says-duke-unc-program

Al-Jazeera (Columbia prof Hamid Dabashi opines on the DoE’s focus on an Iranian film): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59567/is-love-and-desire-in-iran-a-threat-to-us

Inside Higher Ed (on the initial DoE letter): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59542/training-the-foreign-policy-experts-we-need

Moonlighters

Norman Finkelstein delivers an anti-Semitic diatribe on a Princeton U. panel on “Black and Palestinian Solidarity": https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59553/finkelstein-gs-87-delivers-anti-semitic-remarks

On U. of Detroit-Mercy prof and anti-Israel activist Amer Zahr being chosen to serve as an official surrogate on Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign:

The Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59565/sanders-campaign-taps-vocal-anti-israel-activist

Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59558/radical-anti-israel-activist-endorses-bernie

Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59557/antisemite-amer-zahr-officially-named-as

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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