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Campus Watch Weekly Update

February 14, 2022

Campus Watch reports the following from Feb 9 - Feb 14, 2022:

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American University Censors an Inconvenient Truth (Winfield Myers): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63009/american-university-censors-an-inconvenient-truth

Middle East Studies in the News

On backlash of MESA’s academic boycott of Israel:

Legal Insurrection: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63012/middle-east-studies-association-defends-terror

Legal Insurrection: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63004/middle-east-studies-association-losing

Differing opinions on controversial Princeton U. prof Hossein Mousavian, who served as a diplomat for Iran’s revolutionary regime, including as ambassador to Germany:

Daily Princetonian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63003/why-is-princeton-harboring-a-man-who-condones

Daily Princetonian: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63005/the-attack-on-dr-mousavian

University of North Carolina Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Duke University American University Princeton University University of Arizona University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) George Washington University University of Arkansas Hossein Mousavian
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