Campus Watch

A Georgetown academic at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding is facing deportation after @meforum @_Anna_Stanley_ reported on his pro-Hamas and antisemitic links/writings.

Special Podcast: Join the Middle East Forum's experts to discuss Iran's attack on Israel. youtube.com/watch?v=5H8h73…

According to the inestimably obtuse @UMich professor Juan Cole (@jricole), Iran was “baited” into launching the largest UAV attack in history on Israel Saturday night by (you guessed it) Israel. “They fell for #Netanyahu’s trick.” #IranIsraelWar juancole.com/2024/04/netany…

#Breaking | @NYUniversity #MiddleEastStudies professor Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer defies her colleagues by suggesting #Iran is as bad as #Israel. #IsraelIranWar #IranAttackIsrael

Jonathan Rieder at @BarnardCollege: “No department, no matter how animated by righteous zeal, should turn its website into an instrument of propaganda and indoctrination … even if every single member shares the same orthodoxy.” chronicle.com/article/activi…

Jonathan Rieder: “The newfound progressive embrace of free expression coincides with the desire to foist an orthodoxy on @BarnardCollege students, one which politicizes academic study and makes hash of the liberal-arts ideal of competing viewpoints.” chronicle.com/article/activi…

.@BrownUniversity's contribution to slanted, politicized #MiddleEastStudies at the university level is legendary. Its @ChoicesProgram works to indoctrinate even younger minds in American high schools. From Ricki Hollander. @CAMERAorg nypost.com/2024/03/29/opi…

Tarek Masoud: “I want ... my students who have strong positions to actually know why they hold them and to have those positions be subject to the most rigorous test possible, such that if they realize that their position was wrong, they change it.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

.@RepJimBanks: “Congress sends elite universities billions of taxpayer dollars each year, and if Harvard keeps giving haven to anti-Semitism, there’s a lot that House Republicans should do to make them pay." freebeacon.com/campus/harvard…

Donna Robinson Divine: “The failure of Middle East scholars to account for developments in the Middle East is not a bug but a feature of the field’s ethos.” #MiddleEastStudies sapirjournal.org/friends-and-fo…

Two #MiddleEastStudies professors at @Penn have filed a lawsuit to prevent the university from cooperating with a U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce investigation of #antisemitism at the school universityherald.com/articles/78620…

Noura Erakat and Sahar Aziz provide an object lesson on why Rutgers' Center for Security, Race and Rights (CSRR) is under scrutiny for using taxpayer dollars to advance biased, antisemitic programming. @4noura @saharazizlaw @AEHarrod meforum.org/campus-watch/6…

Marc B. Shapiro: “Public support for genocidal terrorists” by faculty should not be tolerated in the name of academic freedom because it “smashes headlong into another professed value of almost all universities: providing a ‘safe space’ for all students.” jns.org/columbia-unive…

.@TalSchneider on the billions of dollars Qatar has injected into American universities and “the role they may play in influencing attitudes toward the Jewish state in academia.” timesofisrael.com/awash-in-qatar…

Fourteen years after being hired by @Princeton, professor Seyed Hossein Mousavian’s role in orchestrating murderous violence against civilians while serving in the upper echelon of Iran’s regime is putting real heat on his employers. @isareport nypost.com/2024/03/13/us-…

.@UCBerkeley professor Judith Butler on the #HamasMassacre: “The uprising of October 7 was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack, and it’s not an antisemitic attack … This was an uprising that comes from a state of subjugation.”

#Qatar has provided funding to @PrimarySource, a Massachusetts education nonprofit dedicated to helping American schoolchildren become “global citizens.” Naturally, its Middle East curriculum is quite deficient. @DexterVanZile meforum.org/65611/qatari-i…

The radical Middle East Studies Association (@MESA_1966) lost its headquarters at the University of Arizona in 2019, then outlived its welcome at George Washington University last year. @Georgetown now welcomes its extremism. @liel city-journal.org/article/george…

The New York Times reports a “a 17 percent drop in the number of students applying to @Harvard for early admission decisions this year. Other Ivy League schools saw increases.” nytimes.com/2024/02/20/us/…

.@InsideHigherEd: Texas A&M at Qatar (@TAMUQ) faculty members are “devastated” by its “abrupt and unceremonious” closure after public outrage forced Texas A&M to pull the plug on its “incredibly lucrative” contract with the Hamas-supporting emirate. insidehighered.com/news/global/us…