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Middle East Studies in the News
Title Publication Date
DHS Official Worked with Anti-Israel Group Tied to Embattled Biden Judicial Nominee [incl. Sahar Aziz, Hatem Bazian, Joseph Massad] The Washington Free Beacon March 29, 2024
Premier Middle East Studies Nonprofit Relocates Headquarters to Georgetown's School of Foreign Service The Hoya (Georgetown University) February 23, 2024
Georgetown's Extremist Turn [incl. Joseph Massad, Nader Hashemi, John Esposito] City Journal February 23, 2024
Qatar's Back Door to Higher Education [incl. Laurie Brand, Hamid Dabashi] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) February 14, 2024
George Wash. Faculty Defends Hamas' 'Right of Resistance' [incl. Shira Robinson] Newsmax December 11, 2023
George Washington University Sparks Outrage after Faculty Panel said Hamas has a 'Right of Resistance' and FAILED to Discuss the Rape and Murder Terrorists Committed on October 7 Attack [incl. Shira Robinson] The Daily Mail December 11, 2023
A Voice of Sanity in the Campus Effort to Demonize Israel The Algemeiner November 22, 2023
Why are Federally Funded University Centers Pushing Antisemitism? The Daily Signal November 21, 2023
At University of Arkansas, a State Law Stifles Pro-Palestinian Speakers The New York Times November 20, 2023
Inside the Pro-Palestinian Group Protesting Across College Campuses [incl. Hatem Bazian] The New York Times November 17, 2023
Academically Approved Antisemitism [incl. Jasbir Puar] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) September 27, 2023
Eisgruber Defends Academic Freedom After Congressman Calls for Book to be Removed [incl. Satyel Larson, Jasbir Puar, Marc Lamont Hill] The Daily Princetonian September 15, 2023
US Professors Using Classrooms to Spread Antisemitic Lies [incl. Satyel Larson, Jasbir Puar, Joseph Massad] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) August 22, 2023
GWU Cuts Ties with Academic Group Following Support for BDS The College Fix August 11, 2023
MESA's Anti-Semitism Got Evicted—But American Academia Has a Long Way to Go Minding the Campus August 1, 2023
GW Ends Partnership with Middle East Studies Association After BDS Vote JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) July 26, 2023
'A Step Toward Eradicating Antisemitism on Campus': George Washington University Ends Partnership with Middle East Studies Association The Algemeiner July 25, 2023
Annual Psychology Conference Invites Bevy Of Anti-Israel Commentators [incl. Jasbir Puar] Daily Caller April 19, 2023
'Obsessive': Republican Senators Urge Department of Education to Examine Anti-Zionism in College Programs The Algemeiner March 9, 2023
Israel Boycotters Convene in Denver Martin Kramer on the Middle East December 1, 2022
Surprise! Survey Shows Most Anti-Israel Academics Support Boycotting Israel Legal Insurrection November 27, 2022
Overwhelming Majority of Middle East Scholars Support Boycotting Israel, New Survey Shows The Algemeiner November 22, 2022
America: 60% of Academics in Mideast Studies Believe Israel is "Apartheid" Al Bawaba April 20, 2022
12 Universities Urged to Drop Middle East Studies Association Over BDS Endorsement The Algemeiner April 6, 2022
Top Academic Group Endorsing Israel Boycott Sparks Growing Outrage, Calls for Schools to Cut Ties [incl. As'ad AbuKhalil] Just The News April 3, 2022
MESA's Israel Boycott Encapsulates Everything Wrong with Academia The Jerusalem Post March 26, 2022
Professors Who Teach Courses on Israel Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel The Washington Free Beacon March 25, 2022
Middle East Studies Association Losing Institutional Members as Anti-Israel Boycott Resolution Voting Starts Legal Insurrection February 9, 2022
Will George Washington U let Middle East Studies Ass'n Operate International Anti-Israel Academic Boycott from its HQ on GWU's Campus? [incl. Ilana Feldman] Legal Insurrection January 25, 2022
American Scholars Feature Prominently in Ex PIJ Official's Conference [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi, Nader Hashemi, Joseph Massad] IPT News (Investigative Project on Terrorism) June 24, 2021
The Washington Post Uses Bad Social Science to Push Anti-Israel Propaganda National Review March 11, 2021
Two-Thirds of Middle East Experts Want Biden to Return to Iran Deal Without Conditions: Poll [incl. Shibley Telhami] Newsweek February 16, 2021
Here's how Experts on the Middle East see the Region's Key Issues, Our New Survey Finds The Washington Post February 16, 2021
Leila Khaled Event at S.F. State Gets Israeli Knesset's Attention [incl. Rabab Abdulhadi] JWeekly September 17, 2020
Academia's Antisemitism and Foreign Funding in the Corona Era [incl. Ilana Feldman] The Jerusalem Post July 2, 2020
The Dean of BDS? [incl. Ilana Feldman] The Bulwark June 29, 2020
Examples of Anti-Semitism on Campuses Abound — Enough is Enough [incl. Ilana Feldman, Rabab Abdulhadi] The College Fix June 3, 2020
The Need to Boot BDS off College Campuses [incl. Ilana Feldman] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) June 3, 2020
Academic Freedom Win: Israel Boycott Supporter Ilana Feldman will not be Dean at George Washington U [incl. Marc Lamont Hill] Legal Insurrection May 27, 2020
Pro-BDS Interim Dean of International Affairs School not up for Permanent Role [incl. Ilana Feldman] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) May 26, 2020
GW University Says Controversial Interim Dean Won't be Considered for Permanent Role [incl. Ilana Feldman] Jewish Insider May 22, 2020
GW University Under Fire for Appointing BDS Activist to Head International Affairs School [incl. Ilana Feldman] Jewish Insider May 20, 2020
Provost Says Interim Elliott School Dean Will 'Adhere to All' University Policies [incl. Ilana Feldman] The GW Hatchet (George Washington University) May 20, 2020
GW Hires BDS Loving Dean with History of 'Antisemitism' [incl. Ilana Feldman] Campus Reform May 19, 2020
GWU Condemns Anti-Semitism, BDS, Says Interim Dean 'Will Adhere to All of Our Policies' [incl. Ilana Feldman] Jewish Journal May 19, 2020
Pro-Israel Group Fails to Have BDS Supporting Professor Removed Middle East Monitor May 18, 2020
A Slap in the Face from George Washington University [incl. Ilana Feldman] Commentary May 15, 2020
Is Supporting Academic Boycotts of Israel Consistent with Administering an Academic Program? Reason Magazine (The Volokh Conspiracy) May 12, 2020
Global Antisemitism Rises as Pandemic Spreads [incl. Hatem Bazian] The Algemeiner April 30, 2020
More Antisemitism at Duke University Press [incl. Jasbir Puar, Stephen Sheehi, Ilana Feldman] The Algemeiner March 1, 2020
Lecture Discusses Racialization of Muslims [incl. Arshad Ali, Noor Khan] The Colgate Maroon-News (Colgate University) February 6, 2020
Trump's Executive Order on Anti-Semitism Adds to the Fierce Campus Debate About Israel and Palestinian Rights [incl. Abdulkader Sinno] The Washington Post December 11, 2019
BDS Monitor [incl. Middle East Studies Association, Sarah Ihmoud, Marc Lamont Hill, Joseph Massad, Norman Finkelstein] Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) November 27, 2019
Religion Faculty Launch First-Ever Shiism Track for Islamic Studies Students [incl. Robert Eisen, Mohammad Faghfoory] The GW Hatchet (George Washington University) October 9, 2019
Clarion Exclusive Report: Foreign Influence Ops on US Universities [incl. John Esposito] Clarion Project September 6, 2019
Institute for Middle East Studies Seeks to Raise its Profile Among Region's Researchers [incl. Dina Khoury, Nathan Brown, Sarah Pursley, Middle East Studies Association] The GW Hatchet (George Washington University) September 2, 2019
After the Apology: The Truth About Our Special Israel Studies Issue [incl. Arie Dubnov] Haaretz August 6, 2019
The Word Crimes Controversy (6): A Personal Reflection By John Strawson [incl. Arie Dubnov] Fathom Journal July 2019
Charter Board Turns Down Arabic Immersion School But Encourages Founders to Return Next Year with Strengthened Application The DC Line (Washington D.C.) May 20, 2019
Is There Room in the Academy for Honest Scholarship on Israel? [incl. Arie Dubnov] JNS (Jewish News Syndicate) May 17, 2019
Profs' Attempt to Shut Down Anti-BDS Journal Issue, Make Editors Resign, FLOPS [incl. Arie Dubnov, Miriam Elman, Asaf Romirowsky, Donna Robinson Divine] Campus Reform May 13, 2019
'Israel Studies' Journal Controversy Escalates as June Meeting Nears [incl. Arie Dubnov, Miriam Elman, Asaf Romirowsky, Donna Robinson Divine] The Chronicle of Higher Education May 8, 2019
Word Crimes: Left-Wing Israel Studies Faculty Try to Silence Scholars Deemed Too Pro-Israel [incl. Ian Lustick, Arie Dubnov, Miriam Elman, Asaf Romirowsky, Donna Robinson Divine] Legal Insurrection May 2, 2019
Arab Youth Survey: Religion 'Too Influential' in Middle East, Say Young People [incl. Nathan Brown, Middle East Studies Association] The National (UAE) April 30, 2019
Israel Journal Editors Reject Claims of Publishing 'Anti-BDS' Issue, Defend Academic Integrity [incl. Arie Dubnov, lan Troen, Miriam Elman, Asaf Romirowsky, Donna Robinson Divine] The Algemeiner April 30, 2019
The Middle East Studies Association Moves to GW [incl. Judith Tucker] GWToday (George Washington University's Official Online News Source) April 22, 2019
American Muslim Scholar Says Atheists Worse than Rapists [incl. Jonathan Brown] Clarion Project April 16, 2019
The Democratic Party's 'Progress' into Antisemitism (Part One) [incl. Noura Erakat] Jihad Watch March 19, 2019
An Exploration Into Life of American-Iranian Who Fell in Love with Islam [inc. Seyyed Hossein Nasr] Mehr News Agency (Iran) March 13, 2019
The Indoctrination of Monica Witt [incl. Nathan Brown] Powerline Blog February 20, 2019
Isolated and Adrift, An American Woman Turned Toward Iran [incl. Kevin Barrett] New York Times February 16, 2019
Will the Pope's Arabian Adventure Affect the Turbulence Within Global Islam? [incl. Akbar Ahmed, Hamza Yusuf, Ingrid Mattson, Seyyed Hossein Nasr] Get Religion February 14, 2019
Classical Department Expands Course Offerings for Major The GW Hatchet (student newspaper for George Washington University) February 4, 2019
What the UAE's Arrest of Matthew Hedges Means for Political Science Research in the Middle East [incl. Middle East Studies Association] The Washington Post November 29, 2018
Ties That Bind [on Saudi funding; incl. Zachary Lockman] Inside Higher Ed November 8, 2018
Carnegie's Stale Israeli-Palestinian Peace Proposals Illustrate Failures of America's Foreign Policy Establishment The Algemeiner October 4, 2018
Controversy Over an ISIS Archive [incl. the Middle East Studies Association] Inside Higher Ed September 27, 2018
The New York Times and GW Program on Extremism Announce 'ISIS Files' Research Partnership George Washington University News September 10, 2018
Roundtable on Political Islam After the Arab Uprisings [incl. John Voll, Abdullah Al-Arian, Asef Bayat, Jillian Schwedler, Nathan Brown, Mark LeVine] Jadaliyya May 2, 2018
New Course, Conference Studies Where Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Began [incl. Arie Dubnov, Nathan Brown, Sherene Seikaly] The GW Hatchet [George Washington Univ.] March 22, 2018
The Middle East Studies Association Imagines Its Future [incl. Noura Erakat, Judith Butler, Samera Esmeir, Joel Beinin, Shira Robinson, Joshua Schreier] Telos Press December 20, 2017
Under Historic Challenge, What is the Future of Middle Eastern Studies? [incl. MESA, Nathan Brown] The National (UAE) February 16, 2017
Trump Immigration Ban Sparks Fears From Faculty, Student Leaders [incl. Nathan Brown] The GW Hatchet (newspaper of George Washington University) January 30, 2017
Elliott School Professor Named Carnegie Fellow [on Marc Lynch] The GW Hatchet (newspaper of George Washington University) May 8, 2016
Medieval Islam Scholar Joel Blecher Joins History Department The GW Hatchet (newspaper of George Washington University) May 8, 2016
'Bizarre' pro-Israel robot accused of harassing students at Brown University [incl. Gershon Shafir, Shira Robinson] Haaretz March 14, 2016
Elliott School Receives $2.5 Million in Carnegie Grants [incl. Marc Lynch] GW Today November 4, 2015
The Door for Many Middle East Scholars is Slamming Shut [incl. Nathan Brown] Al-Fanar Media October 27, 2015
Reciprocity, Responsibility Must Govern Iran Educational Exchanges [incl. Seyyed Hossein Nasr] Commentary Magazine June 28, 2015
Israel Studies Has an Israel Problem [incl. Dov Waxman] Sapir Journal Summer 2022
Campus Watch in the Media
Title Publication Date
New York City's in Trouble and Other Commentary The New York Post April 8, 2021
Are Universities Producing the Anti-Israel Foot Soldiers? The Jerusalem Post December 2, 2020
In Defense of Ilana Feldman and BDS Supporters Academe Blog (American Association of University Professors) June 22, 2020
Why the Middle East Studies Association Raised Concerns About the Publication of Stolen Iraqi Documents History News Network October 21, 2018
Campus Watch Research
Title Publication Date
Campus Watch Update April 1, 2024
Campus Watch Weekly Update February 26, 2024
Campus Watch Weekly Update December 20, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update December 12, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update November 27, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update November 20, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update October 22, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update September 26, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update August 28, 2023
George Washington University Still Has an Antisemitism Problem The Investigative Project on Terrorism August 23, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update August 14, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update August 7, 2023
Middle East Studies Association Expelled from George Washington University Investigative Project on Terrorism July 24, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update April 24, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update March 12, 2023
Campus Watch Weekly Update December 5, 2022
The Navel-Gazing Inanities of MESA National Review December 1, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update November 28, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update October 23, 2022
Israel in Higher Learning Institutions The Times of Israel October 8, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update August 14, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update April 25, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update April 11, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update April 4, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update March 28, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update February 14, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update January 31, 2022
Campus Watch Weekly Update November 24, 2021
Duke Professor's Distorted Lens into Israel/Palestinian Conflict American Thinker November 14, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update November 14, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update June 28, 2021
Palestinians' Institutional Decay Can't Be Masked The American Spectator April 19, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update April 12, 2021
Does Iran Even Need Spies in Academia? The Hill April 8, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update March 15, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update February 22, 2021
Campus Watch Weekly Update December 14, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update September 21, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update September 8, 2020
MESA Defends Canceling Supporters of Israel at USC JNS September 8, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update July 13, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update June 29, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update June 8, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update May 31, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update May 27, 2020
George Washington U Appoints BDSer Ilana Feldman to Top Position Newsweek May 21, 2020
Campus Watch Weekly Update September 8, 2019
Academic BDS Should Be Directed against Turkey and the Palestinians, Not Israel The Algemeiner January 15, 2019
Scholars at UPenn Condemn U.S.-Israel Friendship American Spectator October 31, 2018
Why Is the Middle East Studies Association Trying to Stop the Online Publication of Islamic State Documents? History News Network October 8, 2018
Juan Cole: Shameless Opportunist New English Review (The Iconoclast Blog) June 30, 2018
It's All Relative, but Islam Is Best, Says George Mason U. Prof. New English Review (The Iconoclast Blog) May 7, 2018
Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel The Algemeiner December 21, 2017
Israel a Fascist State? So Declares George Washington U. Prof Shira Robinson The Algemeiner November 17, 2017
Taxpayer-Funded Bias on Middle East Invades K-12 Classrooms The Algemeiner November 8, 2017
Trump Upsets the Academic Foreign Policy Establishment Jihad Watch February 17, 2017
Islamists Find Willing Allies in U.S. Universities American Thinker January 7, 2017
Erdogan's Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant The Daily Caller October 28, 2016
Ibrahim Kalin: Erdoğan's U.S.-Trained Enforcer Independent Journal Review August 2, 2016
Duke Prof: Feminist 'Soft' Jihad a Force for Peace FrontPage Magazine March 2, 2016
The Politicization of Middle East Studies The American Interest September 18, 2015
No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U's Nathan Brown Jihad Watch August 3, 2015
Campus Watch Blog
Title Publication Date
MESA Defends Canceling Supporters of Israel at USC Campus Watch Blog September 8, 2020
Kudos: George Washington U. Strikes BDSer Ilana Feldman from Dean's List Campus Watch Blog May 29, 2020
George Washington U's Noura Erakat 'Stands with' Anti-Semitic Ilhan Omar Campus Watch Blog March 5, 2019
Iran Spy Monica Witt's Radicalization 'Accelerated' at George Washington University Campus Watch Blog February 22, 2019
Juan Cole: Shameless Opportunist Campus Watch Blog July 2, 2018
Middle East Studies Association Panel Reserves Outrage Only for Israel Campus Watch Blog December 21, 2017
Israel a Fascist State? So Declares George Washington U. Prof Shira Robinson Campus Watch Blog November 17, 2017
Taxpayer-funded Bias on Middle East Invades K-12 Classrooms Campus Watch Blog November 8, 2017
Middle East Studies Profs Head to Turkey, Academic Freedom Be Damned Campus Watch Blog October 11, 2017
Trump Upsets the Academic Foreign Policy Establishment Campus Watch Blog February 20, 2017
Islamists Find Willing Allies in U.S. Universities Campus Watch Blog January 9, 2017
Erdogan's Academics: Middle East Studies Scholars Shill for a Tyrant Campus Watch Blog October 28, 2016
Ibrahim Kalin: Erdoğan's U.S.-Trained Enforcer Campus Watch Blog August 2, 2016
Duke Prof: Feminist 'Soft' Jihad a Force for Peace Campus Watch Blog March 2, 2016
American Historical Association Fails to Pass Anti-Israel Resolution Campus Watch Blog January 11, 2016
The Politicization of Middle East Studies Campus Watch Blog September 21, 2015
No Jihad in Gaza, Says George Washington U's Nathan Brown Campus Watch Blog August 3, 2015