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Ivy League Beggars to Critics: Hush Your Mouth!
By Winfield Myers  |  Wed, 31 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Edmund Burke III The email below, which is circulating among academics, solicits contributions for a full-page ad in the New York Times by the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University to attack external critics of academe in the "newspaper of record." ...

Muqtedar Khan Boots Israeli Vet from Panel
By Winfield Myers  |  Thu, 25 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Muqtedar Khan Campus Watch Associate Fellow Asaf Romirowsky was removed from an academic panel at the University of Delaware yesterday because one of the panelists, Muqtedar Khan, refused to share the panel with a veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces. ...

Are Some Middle East Studies Profs Antisemitic?
By Winfield Myers  |  Tue, 23 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: A group of professors, mostly from the humanities and with a large contingent from Middle East studies, have formed the Ad Hoc Committee to Defend the University. They claim that "outside groups" are "seeking to influence what is taught and who can teach ...

DePaul Prof. Aminah Beverly McCloud: Pushing "Islamophobia," Obscuring Islamism
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Mon, 22 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: As part of the "Islam Awareness Week" currently taking place at the University of Pennsylvania, a discussion titled, "Don't Believe the Hype: How the Media and Hollywood Portray Muslims and their Faith" will take place on October 24. Looking at the ...

Sherna Gluck of Radio Intifada Mischaracterizes Campus Watch
By Winfield Myers  |  Mon, 15 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Back on October 4, Sherna Gluck, the host of Radio Intifada, which broadcasts on KPFK from Los Angeles, examined "the campaign to silence critics of Israel." During the course of the show, she referenced a September 7, 2007, Campus Watch web log entry, ...

UC Berkeley's Hatem Bazian Back in the Headlines
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Fri, 12 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: UC Berkeley Near Eastern studies lecturer and adjunct professor at Boalt Hall School of Law Hatem Bazian is back in the headlines. Campus Watch readers will no doubt recall Bazian's infamous call for an "intifada in this country" at a 2004 anti-war ...

David Castle of Pluto Press Discredits Himself While Mischaracterizing Campus Watch
By Winfield Myers  |  Thu, 11 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: The mischaracterizations of Campus Watch continue to roll in. Today's bogus charge comes from David Castle, the continuing editor of London-based Pluto Press. By its own admission a press that "has always had a radical political agenda," Pluto has made ...

Upcoming Campus Watch Speaking Engagements
By Cinnamon Stillwell  |  Tue, 9 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: The work of Campus Watch will be highlighted via two speaking engagements this week. On Wednesday, October 10, I'll be a panelist at a Philanthropy Roundtable higher education conference at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. titled, "Middle ...

Howard Zinn Gets Campus Watch Wrong in Plugging Pluto Press and Joel Kovel's "Overcoming Zionism"
By Winfield Myers  |  Mon, 8 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: Howard Zinn, the radical historian who wrote that "objectivity is impossible, and it is also undesirable," remained true to his word when he claimed recently that the organization StandWithUs is "an offshoot of Campus Watch." The objective truth is that ...

Priyamvada Gopal of Cambridge University Gets Campus Watch Wrong, Laments Cancellation of UCU Boycott Debate
By Winfield Myers  |  Fri, 5 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt:   Priyamvada Gopal     Cambridge University English professor Priyamvada Gopal, writing in today's Guardian, charges Campus Watch with attempting to deny free speech to academics with whom we disagree. Gopal is upset that the University ...

John Esposito Shills for (another) Radical Islamist, Esam Omeish
By Winfield Myers  |  Tue, 2 Oct 2007  |  Permalink
Excerpt: John Esposito, who heads the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (financed by a $20 million gift from the prince), is on record as defending yet another radical Islamist. The beneficiary of ...