Copyright 2012 Campus Watch Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:28:34 -0500 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/2012/02/harvard-middle-east-outreach-center-propaganda Mon, 6 Feb 2012 11:31:59 EST In an article written for Campus Watch and appearing at American Thinker, journalist Stephen Schwartz takes a detailed look at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Center, which provides incredibly biased and shoddy teaching http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/12016 Sun, 5 Feb 2012 11:19:25 EST In 2005, Saudi prince Alwaleed Bin Talal donated $20 million dollars each to Harvard and Georgetown Universities. In the years since, Georgetown has earned considerably more press for its use of the prince's largesse, through which it renamed an extant http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/01/campus-watch-on-facebook Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:20:42 EST Campus Watch (CW) now has a Facebook page, so please stop by, give us a look, and if so inclined, a "like." We plan on linking to all of our new articles and blog posts, as well as posting updates on developments in the field of Middle East studies. CW http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11973 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:32:08 EST Muammar Gaddafi was certainly more than prophetic during the summit of the Arab League (AL) in 2008 when he inquired about the fate of his Iraqi predecessor for Western military interventions: Saddam Hussein. "The ruler and head of an AL member has been http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2012/01/farewell-to-ucla-sondra-hale Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:50:50 EST The rabidly anti-Israel University of California, Los Angeles anthropology and women's studies professor Sondra Hale has retired. Her list of dubious achievements is long and, over the years, Campus Watch has chronicled a good number: Hale was one of the http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11959 Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:46:53 EST Yesterday, I posted a piece sparked by the recent controversy about the Girl Scouts' endorsement of the leftist group Media Matters to argue that, while limelight led the Girl Scouts to reverse course, such inappropriate politicization of ostensibly http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11958 Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:44:02 EST During the holiday weekend, a story broke about how the Girl Scouts had directed its members to Media Matters, in a handbook about discerning bias in media. Here's the page in question. The problem, of course, is that Media Matters, funded by George http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2011/12/willful-blindness-toward-terrorists-at-ucla Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:17:25 EST In a Campus Watch essay published today at FrontPage Magazine, Judith Greblya reports on a recent roundtable discussion at the University of California, Los Angeles, at which Lisa Hajjar of UC-Santa Barbara and others attacked America, Israel, and the http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11947 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:24:37 EST The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Near Eastern Studies hosted a roundtable discussion last month titled, "After a Decade of the 'War on Terror': The Middle East, Human Rights and American Muslims." Sponsored by the UCLA School http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2011/12/rashid-ghannoushi-john-esposito-islamist-in-tunis Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:33:42 EST In an article written for Campus Watch that appears today at American Thinker, journalist Stephen Schwartz examines the beliefs of Tunisian political leader Rashid Ghannouchi. Although Georgetown's John Esposito has spent years whitewashing Ghannouchi's http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11927 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:11:06 EST Rashid Ghannoushi (or Rachid Ghannouchi in French) is the ideological elder of Tunisia's Ennahda, or the Renaissance Party, the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. He arrived in Washington on Monday, November 28, 2011, in the halo of a skewed http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2011/12/the-angry-arab-goes-mad Thu, 8 Dec 2011 12:40:45 EST Writing for Campus Watch, Rima Greene and I report on a recent lecture from the self-described "Angry Arab," California State University, Stanislaus professor As'ad AbuKhalil. Our article appears today at Frontpage Magazine: As'ad AbuKahlil—a political http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11925 Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:27:36 EST As'ad AbuKahlil—a political science professor at California State University, Stanislaus—spoke last month at a day-long "teach-in" at the University of California, Berkeley titled, "Building Solidarity with the Arab Spring." It consisted of a number of http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11916 Mon, 5 Dec 2011 14:31:35 EST Ilan Pappé rode to fame by bashing Israel, repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of war crimes and crying oppression when academics actually looked at his evidence and found it lacking. But, just as with University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole or http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11904 Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:22:52 EST Failing to muster empirical evidence in her opinion piece, Laurie Adkin of the University of Alberta settles for ad hominem attacks and religion-based smears against Campus Watch (CW), a project of the Middle East Forum in Philadelphia. If Adkin intended http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11882 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:15:49 EST Is knowledge of Arabic necessary to write about Arabs or make policy toward them? Yes, sniff some of those who have learned the language, known as Arabists. Antony T. Sullivan, for example, pulls rank in the journal Historically Speaking. Critiquing an http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2011/11/using-the-arab-uprisings-to-bash-america Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:39:11 EST Judith Greblya, writing for Campus Watch, reports on a recent lecture at UCLA on the "Arab uprisings" that devolved into a forum for America and Israel bashing. Her article appears today at Frontpage Magazine and it begins like so: On Thursday November http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11876 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:29:07 EST On Thursday November 10, 2011, approximately sixty people gathered for a lecture hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles's Center for Near Eastern Studies. The event was titled, "Taking Stock: The Arab Uprising on the Eve of Their First http://www.campus-watch.org/blog/2011/11/juan-cole-critic-of-democracy-apologist-for Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:43:13 EST Juan Cole, among the highest-profile Middle East scholars in the U.S., delivered a lecture on Iran's response to the so-called "Arab spring" at New York University recently. Alan Jacobs, a student of Middle East studies in New York City, filed a report http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/11873 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:41:31 EST [Ed. note: published as "Juan Cole's Totalitarian Odyssey."] Few professors in the controversial world of Middle East studies boast more about their own notoriety than Juan Cole, a man who believes the consistent criticism of his public positions to be a