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Campus Watch Weekly Update

March 1, 2021

Campus Watch reports the following from February 22 - March 1, 2021:

Middle East Studies in the News

Oberlin prof. Mohammad Jafar Mohallati called for destruction of Israel in 1989 speech: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62051/oberlin-professor-of-peace-called-for-destruction

Anti-Israel Middle East studies professors, including Rashid Khalidi, Jasbir Puar, and Mark LeVine, pressure Australian history prof. to reject award from Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62056/unsw-history-professor-under-pressure-to-reject

Moonlighting

On the recent antisemitic behavior of Temple U. prof Marc Lamont Hill :

Jewish Insider: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62050/marc-lamont-hill-signs-with-black-news-channel

Israellycool: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62055/marc-lamont-hill-latest-antisemitic-dog-whistle

Columbia University Rutgers University University of California, Irvine Rashid Khalidi Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Mark LeVine Jasbir Puar
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