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Campus Watch Weekly Update

March 12, 2023

Campus Watch reports the following from March 7 - March 12:

Campus Watch Research:

McGill University’s Deep Ties with Iran Murderous Regime (Benjamin Weinthal and Charles Asher Small): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64239/opinion-mcgill-university-deep-ties-with-iran

Middle East Studies in the News

The Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina holds a 20th-anniversary celebration: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64247/center-for-middle-eastern-and-islamic-studies

Universities and MESers are rehabilitating Sami al-Arian despite his terrorist past (incl. John Esposito, Jonathan Brown): https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64235/why-are-us-universities-rehabilitating

Republican Senators urge the Department of Education to investigate whether federal funds are supporting anti-Zionism or antisemitism on college campuses: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64238/obsessive-republican-senators-urge-department

Developments and Reflections on Hamline U.'s ‘Islamophobia’ scandal:

KARE 11: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64244/lawsuit-concerning-hamline-adjunct-professor

Verde Magazine: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64245/opuib-canvas-conundrum-an-art-history-professor

Deseret: https://www.meforum.org/campus-watch/64232/is-there-a-cost-to-free-speech-on-college-campuses

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