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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Were Barack Obama re-elected, I predicted two months before the Nov. 2012 presidential vote, "the coldest treatment of Israel ever by a U.S. president will follow." Well, election's over and that cold treatment is firmly in place. Obama has signaled in

In an article for Campus Watch posted today at Frontpage Magazine, I examine the University of California, Berkeley's highly politicized Islamophobia Research & Documentation Project and its latest vehicle, the Islamophobia Studies Journal: Scholars of

Scholars of the Middle East would do well to follow the lead of the Associated Press (AP), which last year struck the political term "Islamophobia" from the new edition of its widely used Stylebook, explaining that "'-phobia,' an irrational,

As reported last month by Lee Kaplan, writing for Campus Watch, Manzar Foroohar, an Iranian immigrant and a notorious anti-Israel activist who teaches modern Middle Eastern and Latin American history at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis

What do Middle East studies professors do when they're not in the classroom? Write books? Engage in research? Advance important scholarship? Conduct outreach to students? In the case of two anti-Israel activist professors—Mark LeVine, University of

The capacity of national security experts for self-delusion in the name of supposed sophistication has always been amazing. Some diplomats and self-professed experts suggest that Hamas is now moderate, regardless of what Khaled Meshaal says. Likewise,

Does appointing an advocate of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel to chair a committee aimed at combating anti-Semitism in the California State University system make sense? That's exactly what happened in the case of Manzar

How should universities combat rising anti-Semitism on campus? Journalist Lee Kaplan, writing for Campus Watch, reports today in FrontPage Magazine that the California State University system has turned to a harsh critic of Israel to lead the effort:

In an article for Campus Watch posted today at American Thinker, Stephen Schwartz offers up a deservedly scathing portrait of Muhammad Shahid Alam, a tenured economics professor at Northeastern University with a penchant for anti-Semitism: What need be

What need be said of a professor at a large American university who declares that to be called an anti-Semite is "a sign of distinction" for an academic or an activist? That he is crudely and arrogantly heedless in his biased declamations? That the

In an essay commissioned by Campus Watch, Stephen Schwartz exposes another American campus plagued by apologists for radical Islam in "Northeastern University's Islamists," which appeared yesterday at American Thinker. Northeastern University in Boston

Northeastern University in Boston has big ambitions.  As a private and popular institution, with more than 20,000 students, it rose from a night school to a commuter college to a leading research facility in health, homeland security, and other public

In an article for Campus Watch posted today at Frontpage Magazine, I offer up a sampling of egregious commentary from Middle East studies academics on the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. It begins like so: In the wake of the al-Qaeda attack on the U

In the wake of the al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the seizure of the American embassy in Cairo, Egypt, and the ensuing anti-American protests and riots throughout the Middle East—the latter ostensibly over an

To commemorate Campus Watch's ten-year anniversary this week, I have an article at Frontpage Magazine today that begins like so: It was ten years ago this week, on September 18, 2002, that Campus Watch—a project of the Middle East Forum that reviews and

Campus Watch, the Middle East Forum's project to critique Middle East studies in North America, opened its metaphorical doors on September 18, 2002, to a hysterical opposition from the academics that did much, thank you, to propel it to prominence and

It was ten years ago this week, on September 18, 2002, that Campus Watch—a project of the Middle East Forum that reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them—opened its doors. The response was instantaneous:

What do Middle East studies professors do when they're not in the classroom? Write books? Engage in research? Advance important scholarship? Conduct outreach to students? In the case of two anti-Israel activist professors—Mark LeVine, University of

President Obama has thrown allies like Israel under the bus." That's what Mitt Romney, Republican candidate for president, said in the high-profile speech accepting his party's nomination last week, repeating a slang phrasefor sacrificing a friend for

As the dog days of summer are coming to an end, pro-Palestinian activist groups are gearing up for the fall semester to rally campuses in support of their cause. One upcoming event is the 'US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation' national conference,

Writing for Campus Watch, Rima Greene and I report on a recent lecture from University of San Francisco professor Stephen Zunes, who continues to act as an apologist for the bellicose Iranian regime. Our article appears today at Frontpage Magazine: On

On August 5, 2012, Stephen Zunes—professor of politics and international studies and director of the Middle East studies program at the University of San Francisco—made his seventh appearance at the hilltop Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

Engagement with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is the consensus among elite opinion and certainly among the ranks of North American Middle East studies academics, the "experts" tasked with informing the public and, often, policy-makers on foreign policy in