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CAMPUS WATCH, a project of the Middle East Forum, reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them. The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures, the mixing of politics with scholarship, intolerance of alternative views, apologetics, and the abuse of power over students. Campus Watch fully respects the freedom of speech of those it debates while insisting on its own freedom to comment on their words and deeds. The Latest on Campus
A Chill on 'The Guardian' [on libel tourism] Blessing from a Tyrant [incl. Carl Ernst, William Chittick] Wrong Blurb Can Ruin A Novel's Future [incl. Denise Spellberg] Khan Exhibits Bias About Israel's War With Hamas [Letter to the Editor; on Muqtedar Khan] Vatican Reaffirms That "Theological Dialogue" Cannot Take Place With Muslims [incl. John Esposito] Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz Democracies Not At Fault In Hamas-Israel Bloodshed [Letter to the Editor; on Muqtedar Khan] No Hate Speech Allowed: This Blogger's Declaration of Independence [incl. Norman Finkelstein] Middle East Studies on the Mend? Khan Wrong to Blame West for Latest War [Letter to the Editor; on Muqtedar Khan] BlogMiddle East Studies on the Mend?By Winfield Myers | Mon, 5 Jan 2009, 10:54 AM | Permalink Campus Watch adjunct scholar Jonathan Schanzer poses that question in his latest article, published yesterday at The American Thinker. Did the subjects treated by some panels at the latest conference of the Middle East Studies Association demonstrate some progress in Campus Watch's longstanding efforts to bring intellectual diversity to the field? Here is Schanzer's introduction:
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"Setting The Record Straight" Annual UpdateBy Cinnamon Stillwell | Mon, 22 Dec 2008, 5:50 PM | Permalink In December 2007, we alerted readers to a new Campus-Watch.org feature called Setting The Record Straight. The section (which can be accessed by passing one's mouse over the "About Campus Watch" category in the left-hand tab and clicking on "Setting The Record Straight") is designed to correct false accusations made against Campus Watch. As we explained at the time:
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Joel Brinkley: Right on Falk, Wrong on AcademiaBy Cinnamon Stillwell | Thu, 18 Dec 2008, 6:07 PM | Permalink Stanford University journalism professor and former New York Times foreign policy correspondent Joel Brinkley has written a commendable article in the San Francisco Chronicle questioning Princeton University professor emeritus of international law Richard Falk's role as special representative of the U.N. Human Rights Council. Falk is charged with investigating alleged Israeli human rights abuses against the Palestinians or, in other words, drumming up false charges against Israel on behalf of a "human rights council" that includes the Organization of the Islamic Conference, among other unsavory participants. As Brinkley puts it:
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Vassar's Joshua Schreier Promises Zero ObjectivityBy Cinnamon Stillwell | Fri, 12 Dec 2008, 4:26 PM | Permalink Biased Middle East studies professors are nothing new, but what about a professor who actually states in his course syllabus that he has no intention of presenting a scholarly, balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict? This is how Vassar College history professor Joshua Schreier introduces the syllabus for his fall 2008 course, "The Roots of the Palestine-Israel Conflict":
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