Campus Watch Weekly Update

Campus Watch reports the following from Mar 8 - Mar 21, 2022:

Middle East Studies in the News

Islamist Imam Omar Suleiman will speak at Oakland U. and discuss the challenges of being Muslim in America: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63103/imam-who-defended-honor-killings-and-sex-slavery

Columbia U. prof Nadia Abu El Haj condones the looting of Jewish antiquities: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63085/palestinian-columbia-university-professor

San Francisco State U. president vetoes a faculty decision on its ethnic studies program that originally supported the stance of anti-Israel prof Rabab Abdulhadi:

San Francisco Chronicle: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63100/tensions-over-ethnic-studies-continue-at-sf-state

Inside Higher Ed: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63115/another-broken-promise-on-rabab-abdulhadi

Yeshiva U. cancels an event featuring anti-Israel San Francisco State U. prof Rabab Abdulhadi:

Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63110/yeshiva-university-cancels-talk-by-scholar-over

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63098/yeshiva-university-cancels-student-program

Commentator: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63109/yu-cancels-cardozo-event-featuring-palestinian

A demonstration is held in Ohio to protest Oberlin College prof and Iranian war criminal Mohammad Jafar Mahallati:

Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63081/international-women-day-protest-against-iran

Oberlin Review: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63087/anti-mahallati-protests-lack-context

A new study shows pro-BDS faculty members fuel campus antisemitism:

Algemeiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63106/anti-zionist-faculty-fueling-campus-antisemitism

Jewish Press: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63105/new-study-shows-faculty-driven-bds-is-fueling

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63104/study-shows-pro-bds-faculty-members-contribute-to

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