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Campus Watch Weekly Update

June 7, 2021

Campus Watch reports the following from June 1 - June 7, 2021:

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Hamas Apologists Slander Israel at Rutgers ‘Teach-In’ (Andrew E. Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62408/hamas-apologists-slander-israel-at-rutgers

Setting the Record Straight

Response to errors in “Is Musa Al-Gharbi the Last Academic Who Can Tell the Truth?,” Tablet, May 3, 2021 (Winfield Myers):
https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/correction/126

Middle East Studies in the News

Rutgers U hosts anti-Israel Columbia U prof Rashid Khalidi: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62415/rutgers-hosts-professor-who-compared-israel

UC Santa Barbara hosts prof Noura Erakat to lecture on Israel: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62421/noura-erakat-fairy-tales-about-israel

On Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s connections to antisemitic UC Berkeley prof Hatem Bazian:

Fox News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62398/tlaib-ally-runs-organization-accused-of-promoting

Jihad Watch: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62420/tlaib-ally-hard-left-academic-hatem-bazian

University of California, Berkeley Columbia University University of California, Santa Barbara Rutgers University Saudi/Gulf Funding University of Arizona Rashid Khalidi Hatem Bazian Islamophobia Zaytuna College Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Noura Erakat George Mason University Temple University
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