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Campus Watch Weekly Update

June 29, 2020

Campus Watch reports the following from June 22-June 29, 2020:

Campus Watch Research

Profs to America and Israel: Burn, Baby, Burn! (Andrew E. Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61151/profs-to-america-and-israel-burn-baby-burn

Campus Watch Blog

Profs to America and Israel: Burn, Baby, Burn! (highlights Harrod’s essay): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61156/profs-to-america-and-israel-burn-baby-burn

Campus Watch in the Media

AAUP’s John K. Wilson defends BDS supporters and George Washington U.'s appointment of Ilana Feldman as interim dean: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61166/in-defense-of-ilana-feldman-and-bds-supporters

Middle East Studies in the News

On the killing of Ahmed Erakat, a Palestinian who rammed his car into an Israeli checkpoint [incl. Noura Erakat]: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61170/palestinian-rams-a-checkpoint-death-lies

CSU students now required by law to take ethnic studies courses (incl. SF State U.'s Rabab Abdulhadi): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61164/csu-ethnic-studies-requirement-passes-in-state

A critique of John K. Wilson’s AAUP Academe Blog defending Ilana Feldman (George Washington U.'s interim dean) and BDS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61165/the-dean-of-bds-incl-ilana-feldman

CAIR represents Muslim student, sues prof Nicholas Damask for “Islamophobia":

UPI: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61149/test-questions-about-islamic-terrorism-lead-to

SOFREP: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/61167/arizona-college-professor-gets-death-threats-for

San Francisco State University Columbia University American Association of University Professors Title VI Rutgers University University of Southern California Islam in the Classroom Rashid Khalidi Islamophobia Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) George Washington University Rabab Abdulhadi Noura Erakat George Mason University Ilana Feldman
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