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Campus Watch Weekly Update

September 5, 2022

Campus Watch reports the following from August 22 - September 5, 2022:

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Prof’s Claim that Rushdie Attacker ‘Likely’ Incited by ‘Mossad Operative’ Fits His Conspiracy-Laden Worldview (Andrew E. Harrod): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63537/prof-claim-that-rushdie-attacker-likely-incited

Middle East Studies in the News
Brooklyn College prof Moustafa Bayoumi says white Muslims have ‘internalized Islamophobia’ due to a ‘crisis of whiteness': https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63547/professor-says-crisis-of-whiteness-has-affected

MESA is silent about the PA’s physical abuse of Palestinian college students in the West Bank: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63546/palestinian-authority-security-forces-beat-up

U. of Denver prof Nader Hashemi claims the Israeli Mossad is behind Salman Rushdie’s stabbing:Jewish Chronicle: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63486/university-of-denver-professor-suggests-mossad

Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63493/republicans-eye-pro-iran-propaganda-in-us

Washington Free Beacon: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63488/university-of-denver-professor-blames-israel-for

Washington Examiner: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63485/denver-professor-suggests-mossad-was-behind

Newsmax: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63498/denver-prof-claims-israel-behind-attack-on-salman

World Israel News: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63484/rushdie-stabbing-is-a-zionist-conspiracy-says

Jerusalem Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63475/mossad-likely-behind-salman-rushdie-stabbing

Denver Post: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63513/colorado-jewish-leaders-call-out-du-professor

JNS: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63487/university-of-denver-professor-says-mossad-likelyJihad Watch: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63499/why-is-antisemitic-conspiracy-theorist-nader

Iran International: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63500/prof-remarks-in-rushdie-attack-prompt-probe-on

Denver Gazette: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63501/du-professor-says-he-a-political-target-after

Denver Gazette: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63502/du-middle-eastern-scholar-under-fire-for-comments

Daily Beast: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/63548/antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-are-going

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