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Campus Watch Weekly Update

January 10, 2022

Campus Watch reports the following from Dec 28 - Jan 10, 2022:

Setting the Record Straight

Response to “Revealed: Israel’s Big-Money Smear Campaign to Demonise Muslims,” TRT World, December 31, 2020 (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/correction/128

Middle East Studies in the News

MESA may face legal ramifications over endorsement of Israel boycott: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62922/middle-east-studies-association-members-may-face

UC Berkeley Prof. Hatem Bazian claims Muslims face discrimination on college campuses: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62933/berkeley-professor-of-islamophobia-claims

Princeton U. Prof Hossein Mousavian threatens former U.S. diplomat in documentary film praising Qassem Soleimani:

Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62932/scrutiny-over-princeton-scholar-former-iran

Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/62934/princeton-faculty-member-brags-about-death

University of California, Berkeley Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Princeton University University of Southern California San Diego State University Hatem Bazian Islamophobia Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Hossein Mousavian
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