Setting The Record Straight

Campus Watch corrects false allegations made against it.

In the course of this long interview, American Conservative reporter Kelley Beaucar Vlahos mischaracterizes the mission of Campus Watch. In answering a question about the Giuliani campaign, she says that Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes:

[H]as put out his Campus Watch, in terms of going after professors that he deems are not pro-Israel enough.

In fact, Campus Watch does not determine the extent of a professor's support for Israel and "go after" them if we decide they are not "pro-Israel enough." Rather, we critique academics for their work on Middle East studies as a whole, and our criteria for critiquing them include the accuracy and historicity of their work, the degree of politicization, and their treatment of students.

(Posted by Winfield Myers)