Copyright 2013 Campus Watch Mon, 20 May 2013 02:40:53 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Campus Watch :: Writings http://www.campus-watch.org myers@meforum.org (Campus Watch) webmaster@meforum.org en-us http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/05/profs-on-boston-bombing-blame-right-wingers Tue, 7 May 2013 12:02:04 EST The latest Campus Watch Research, posted today at Frontpage Magazine, examines the reaction of Middle East studies academics and their allies to the Boston Marathon bombing. Anyone and everyone is to blame--except Islamist terrorists. How did scholars of http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/13112 Tue, 7 May 2013 08:54:15 EST How did scholars of the Middle East and those engaged in moonlighting (non-specialists who write about the region) react to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, 2013? Before the smoke cleared, some were predicting that the perpetrators would be http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/05/anti-semite-ali-mazrui-honored-by-alwaleed-bin Fri, 3 May 2013 18:05:54 EST On May 6, 2010, Ali Mazrui, director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at SUNY-Binghamton, made the following statement to an audience at Columbia University: The population of Jews in the US is three percent ... but [their 'genius'] leads to http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/04/uc-berkeley-hatem-bazian-promoted-asuc-divestment Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:35:25 EST Predictably, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has congratulated the Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley (ASUC), for its recent passage of Resolution SB-160, which, as they describe it, calls for "divestment of student and http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/04/the-great-book-robbery-hijacks-history Mon, 8 Apr 2013 13:49:47 EST Writing for Campus Watch, Middle East Forum adjunct scholar Asaf Romirowsky critiques "The Great Book Robbery," an anti-Israel film posing as a historical documentary. It is being screened on campuses across the U.S., often with the sponsorship of http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12964 Sun, 7 Apr 2013 20:59:04 EST 'The Great Book Robbery' (watch here), a documentary that recently screened on a number of US college campuses, is the latest attempt by anti-Israel groups to rewrite and recast the historical events of 1948. In the film, Israeli-Dutch director Benny http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/03/israel-lobby-threatening-free-speech-at-berkeley Fri, 29 Mar 2013 06:23:54 EST The academic far left has an old, bad habit of crying "censorship!" whenever they're faced with criticism (living inside a bubble distorts reality). Journalist Lee Kaplan reports for Campus Watch on a recent panel discussion at UC-Berkeley at which http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12930 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:58:00 EST The title of a recent panel discussion at the University of California, Berkeley was ominous: "SHHHH! Don't Talk About Palestine: Chuck Hagel, Judith Butler, and the Israel Lobby's Threat to Free Speech on Our Campus." Taking place in Boalt Hall at UC http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12915 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:16:25 EST The return of Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) makes it necessary to review some of the better and less well-known features of this annual, global event. By doing so, it will become possible better to understand the nature and scope of the problem and to http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/03/pro-gay-and-anti-israel-pinkwashing-to-the-rescue Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:15:12 EST In the latest Campus Watch research, journalist Reut R. Cohen and I report on a lecture at the University of California, Los Angeles from Nada Elia, a professor at Antioch University in Seattle, in which Israel stands accused of the alleged crime of http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12912 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:30:35 EST What's a pro-gay, anti-Israel activist to do when faced with the fact that the Jewish state is the only nation in the Middle East in which not only is it illegal to discriminate against homosexuality, but where homosexuality is celebrated with an annual http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/03/the-iran-lobby-buys-a-friendly-face-for-despotism Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:38:42 EST Today at American Thinker, journalist Stephen Schwartz exposes the Iran lobby's efforts to influence the discipline of Middle East studies at American and Canadian universities, including Harvard. The funding of a significant pro-Iran lobby that funnels http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12888 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:44:03 EST The funding of a significant pro-Iran lobby that funnels money to American universities was disclosed to the wider public for the first time during the U.S. Senate's recent confirmation battle over Chuck Hagel's successful nomination as secretary of http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12867 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:13:44 EST Officials are investigating a bizarre incident at Terre Haute's Dixie Bee Elementary on February 8 in which Mohammed Alharbi and his three daughters, all students there, distributed religious messages while school was in session. Going room to room, they http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/02/indoctrinating-children-palestine-solidarity-in Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:30:59 EST In an article for Campus Watch posted today at American Thinker, Rima Greene and I review Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman's book, The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies. Knopf-Newman's approach demonstrates just how http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12813 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 13:06:11 EST Marcy Jane Knopf-Newman is an anti-Israel activist and English professor who has taught at Boise State University, al-Quds University, the American University of Beirut, and other universities in the Middle East. In The Politics of Teaching Palestine to http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2013/02/pushing-palestine-at-ucla Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:34:04 EST The most recent Campus Watch research features a report by journalist Reut Cohen on a panel discussion at UCLA's law school that saw professors claim, among other things, that Hamas rocket attacks on Israel amount to "pinpricks." It appears today at http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12805 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:07:22 EST The United Nations General Assembly's decision to grant "non-member state observer" status to the Palestinians in November, 2012 was the latest salvo in the never ending quest to create a mythical state of "Palestine" unburdened by concessions to http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12804 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:31:47 EST The recent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) event at Brooklyn College featuring professional Palestinian Omar Barghouti and celebrity anti-Israel academic Judith Butler was true to form. A dual purpose was served. For one, students and staff were http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12795 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:53:28 EST John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators in 1915 to found the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization designed to preserve the integrity of the