Campus Watch reports the following from October 20-27, 2019:
Campus Watch Research
Profs at Saudi-Sponsored Georgetown Center Advocate Iranian Hegemony, Downgrade Saudi-U.S. Ties (Andrew Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59656/profs-at-saudi-sponsored-georgetown-center
NYU Panel Seeks to Delegitimize Jewish History (Karys Rhea): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59646/nyu-panel-seeks-to-delegitimize-jewish-history
Campus Watch Blog
Profs at Saudi-Sponsored Georgetown Center Advocate Iranian Hegemony, Downgrade Saudi-U.S. Ties (highlights Harrod’s article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59658/profs-at-saudi-sponsored-georgetown-center
NYU Panel Seeks to Delegitimize Jewish History (highlights Rhea’s article): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59650/nyu-panel-seeks-to-delegitimize-jewish-history
Seven People (All Protesters) Attend Rutgers Prof Golbarg Bashi’s ‘P Is for Palestine’ New Jersey Library Reading: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59644/seven-people-all-protesters-attend-rutgers-prof
Brown U’s Center for Middle East Studies Hires ‘Palestinian Studies’ Fellow: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59632/brown-u-center-for-middle-east-studies-hires
Middle East Studies in the News
Alums for Campus Fairness releases a report on anti-Semitism at Columbia U. (incl. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Gil Andijar, Partha Chatterjee, Hamid Dabashi, Rashid Khalidi, Mahmood Mamdani, Joseph Massad, George Saliba): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59685/expose-antisemitism-at-columbia-barnard-incl
The first annual Alnadwa Free Thinking Society Dinner takes place in Dearborn, MI (incl. Wayne State U’s Aoun Jaber): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59634/alnadwa-free-thinking-society-holds-first-annual
Clark U. prof Taner Akçam receives Lifetime Achievement Award from the Armenian organization, the Knights and Daughters of Vartan in Fair Lawn, New Jersey: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59687/turkish-historian-receives-award-for-research-on
Jerusalem Post on the UCLA student/StandWithUs Title VI anti-Semitism complaint against UCLA in which SFSU’s Rabab Abdulhadi was named: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59675/did-ucla-go-far-enough-in-confronting-a-recent
The Daily Texan on Muslim women “expressing themselves through their hijabs (incl. UT prof Faegheh Shirazi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59637/muslim-women-express-themselves-through-their
On Jewish-Muslim groups forming to “combat anti-Semitism and Islamophobia” (incl. Rutgers prof Atiya Aftab): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59669/tragedies-deepen-jewish-muslim-bonds-to-fight
Brigham Young U. reacts to US troop withdrawal from Syria (incl. BYU’s James Toronto): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59671/byu-students-faculty-react-to-withdrawal
Texas Christian U. Middle East studies director Hanan Hammad organizes a rally to protest police brutality after a shooting: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59676/students-faculty-protest-police-brutality
Middle Eastern studies faculty among the supporters of a U. of Illinois-UC student government resolution distinguishing anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59682/ui-student-government-oks-resolution-chastising
Gary Fouse on anti-Semitism at U. of Illinois-UC (incl. UC Berkeley’s Hatem Bazian): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59679/anti-semitism-at-university-of-illinois-incl
Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann is inaugurated as the first non-Christian president of the UC Berkeley-affiliated Graduate Theological Union (incl. Islamic studies): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59680/lehmann-inaugurated-as-first-non-christian
U. of Notre Dame hosts “Religion Beyond Memes” conference (incl. Ebrahim Moosa): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59689/the-dark-side-of-memes-spreading-untruths-about
On concerns over pro-BDS, anti-Israel sentiment in the “Canadian Muslim Voting Guide: Federal Election 2019,” which was released by the Canadian Islamophobia Industry Research Project at Wilfred Laurier University, with prof. Jasmine Zine as lead author:
B’nai Brith Canada (press release): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59691/bnai-brith-canada-disturbed-by-federal-funding
Jihad Watch: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59690/canada-university-sanctioned-antisemitic-muslim
On Katrien Vanpee, director of Arabic instruction at U. of Minnesota, struggling to explain the Nazi origins of the Hans Wehr Arabic-English dictionary:
Minnesota Daily: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59635/umn-arabic-department-works-to-address-history
Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59653/nazi-authored-arabic-english-dictionary-causes
On Rutgers prof Golbarg Bashi’s reading for her children’s book, “P Is for Palestine,” at New Jersey’s Highland Park Library, including protests:
Jewish Link of New Jersey: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59688/highland-park-town-council-pressured-to-remove
Middle East Monitor: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59686/protests-in-us-against-children-book-p-is-for
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59681/nj-library-hosts-public-reading-of-p-is-for
Israellycool Blog: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59673/p-is-for-palestine-book-reading-a-complete-bust
Bridgewater Courier News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59639/p-is-for-palestine-event-held-in-highland-park
Moonlighters
UC Riverside prof Reza Aslan and film executive Erik Feig’s new venture, Picturestart, to produce “One Thousand and One Nights,” a “collection of Middle Eastern folklore” adapted for film, TV and gaming content: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59684/one-thousand-and-one-nights-content-universe
Articles that include Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill:
The Kenyon Collegian (controversy surrounding his upcoming talk at Kenyon College): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59677/student-groups-clash-over-upcoming-lecture-by
Jewish Journal (references Hill’s participation in a UMass pro-BDS panel): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59678/umass-chancellor-condemns-pro-bds-panel-incl-marc
On the fallout from Norman Finkelstein’s anti-Semitic comments on a “Black and Palestinian Solidarity” panel at Princeton University co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies:
The College Fix: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59674/jew-hatred-controversial-speaker-at-princeton
Jewish Exponent: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59670/jewish-princeton-student-pained-at-speaker-israel
The Daily Princetonian (a student’s response): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59633/a-response-to-anti-semitism-on-norman-finklestein
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:
JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59683/sanders-presidential-campaign-selects-anti
Reason Magazine (The Volokh Conspiracy): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59638/the-irony-of-antisemites-for-bernie-incl-amer-zahr
JTA: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/59672/how-bernie-sanders-became-a-favorite-among-muslim
