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Campus Watch is a project of the Middle East Forum, an American pro-Israel think tank. It was founded by Daniel Pipes and the current director of Campus Watch is Winfield Myers. The Middle East Forum, a think tank, works to define and promote the interests of the United States in the Middle East. ...
The Israel lobby in the United States is defined by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, [1] as a loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer US foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction, whose core is American Jews who make a significant effort in their daily...
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Winfield Myers (born 1960) is an American journalist and public intellectual in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ...
Founded in 2002, its website states that it: "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."
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- "If professors, scholars, and public intellectuals choose to enter the civic arena and voice their beliefs, then they are all subject to scrutiny--praise, blame, rebuttal, agreement, even parody--for what they say and write in public fora. In the case of controversies about the Middle East, where tempers run high and there is easy promulgation of false knowledge, Daniel Pipes' Campus Watch sheds light on often volatile and intemperate proclamations-allowing both the scholarly community and the public at large to read what our professors and experts write and then to determine on their own whether it is accurate or mere nonsense." [1]
Responding to critics of Campus Watch, Daniel Pipes writes: "Campus Watch is to Middle East studies as political analysis to politics, film criticism to movies, and consumer reports to manufacturing; we provide assessments for the public. Unlike politicians, actors, and business executives, who accept criticism with good grace, academics howl with umbrage at being judged." [1] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
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Criticism Many opponents of Campus Watch see it as an attempt to stifle any criticism of Israel in American academia. [2][3] [4][5]
Rashid Khalidi, a Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University and a target of Campus Watch: Rashid Khalidi (1950 - ) is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and the head of Columbias Middle East Institute. ...
Columbia University is a private research university in the United States and a member of the prestigious Ivy League. ...
"This noxious campaign is intended to silence such perfectly legitimate criticism, by tarring it with the brush of anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism, truly loathsome charges. They reveal the lengths that these people apparently feel impelled to go to in order to silence a true debate on campus." [6] Joel Beinin, then Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University, now Director of the Middle East Studies Department at the American University in Cairo, said this of Campus Watch: This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university located approximately 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco and approximately 20 miles northwest of San José in Stanford, California. ...
"Campus Watch [..] compiles dossiers on professors and universities that do not meet its standard of uncritical support for the policies of George Bush and Ariel Sharon. Among other things, this may be Pipes' way of taking revenge on the scholarly community after failing in his own pursuit of an academic career in Middle East studies.[....] The efforts to stifle public debate about U.S. Middle East policy and criticism of Israel are being promoted by a network of neo-conservative true believers with strong links to the Israeli far right. They are enthusiastic supporters of the Bush administration's hands off approach to Ariel Sharon's suppression of the Palestinian uprising. And they are aggressive proponents of a preemptive U.S. strike against Iraq." [2] Many individuals who have been targets of Campus Watch alerts have been honored by mainstream Jewish organizations. One example is Barnard College President Judith Shapiro, who came under fire for an email exchange in which she defended Barnard faculty member Nadia Abu El Haj's upcoming tenure review. In May 2007, Shapiro was accused of claiming El Haj had received a death threat and presented as an accomplice in promoting an anti-Israel academic agenda at Barnard. Only one year earlier, Shapiro was praised by Jewish Theological Seminary Chancellor Ismar Schorsch for "her commitment to Israel and the Jewish people. The intifada broke out in September in the year of 2000. It was that fall when Judith made an official visit to the state of Israel, the first President of Barnard to visit the state of Israel. That was an act of commitment and courage." [7] Judith R. Shapiro (born January 24, 1942) is the current President of Barnard College, a liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia University; as President of Barnard, she is also an academic dean within the university. ...
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Political scientists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt wrote in March 2006 that Campus Watch was founded by "passionately pro-Israel neoconservative Jews" with the intention of "encourag[ing] students to report comments or behavior that might be considered hostile to Israel" and that it was a "transparent attempt to blacklist and intimidate scholars."[8] Professor John J. Mearsheimer John J. Mearsheimer (born December 1947) is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. ...
Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government. ...
See also Jonathan Calt Harris (born December 27, 1969) a native of Illinois, is an American conservative writer and editor, and a Christian pro-Israel activist. ...
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References - ^ Daniel Pipes, Is Campus Watch Part of a Conspiracy?, Middle East Forum, May 12, 2006
- ^ The War on Academic Freedom by Kristine McNeil, The Nation, November 11, 2002
- ^ Zionism vs. Intellectual Freedoms on American College Campuses, David Green, ZMag
- ^ Short Cuts, Sarah Roy, London Review of Books, April 1 2004
- ^ The New Commissars Anders Strindberg, The American Conservative, February 2 2004
- ^ ADC Denounces New Efforts to Chill Academic Freedom, Press Release, Arab Americans Anti-Discrimination Committee, September 26 2002
- ^ Jewish Theological Seminary by Ismar Schorsch, Jewish Theological Seminary, May 18, 2006
- ^ The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, March 2006
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