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</div><div>=undated HNN launch announcement: oddly 0 comments<h1 class="no-uc" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 30px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Campus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Professors Who Teach About the Middle East</h1><a href="http://hnn.us/article/category/6" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Culture Watch</a> by Middle East Forum<div id="bodycopy" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last week the Middle East Forum, which is directed by HNN contributor Daniel Pipes, established a new website known as <a href="http://www.meforum.org/" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">Campus Watch</a>. The website lists professors suspected of an anti-Israel bias and asks students to send in names and information. The site currently lists"dossiers" on eight professors, including Juan Cole, who is also a frequent HNN contributor. Mr. Cole <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/988.html" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">reports to HNN</a> that since the website was established he and the other professors listed on the site have been targeted by a relentless conspiracy of email hackers.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; margin-bottom: 0px !important;">The following statement appears on the Campus Watch website.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">THE PROBLEM</h2>American scholars of the Middle East, to varying degrees, reject the views of most Americans and the enduring policies of the U.S. government about the Middle East.Examples:<blockquote style="padding: 0px 0px 0px 15px; margin: 0px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 5px; border-style: dashed dashed dashed solid; border-color: rgb(242, 242, 242) rgb(242, 242, 242) rgb(242, 242, 242) rgb(227, 75, 57); border-image: initial; background-color: rgb(252, 252, 252);">There may be a war on terrorism underway, but the scholars downplay the dangers posed by militant Islam, seeing it as a benign and even democratizing force.With only one exception, every American president since 1948 has spoken forcefully about the benefits to the United States from strong and deep relations with Israel. In contrast, American scholars often propagate a view of Middle Eastern affairs that sees Zionism as a racist offshoot of imperialism and blames Israel alone for the origin and persistence of the Palestinian problem.While Americans overwhelmingly supported the war to liberate Kuwait in 1991, the Middle East specialists just as overwhelmingly rejected that use of force; and the same divide has recurred in 2002 with the prospect of a military campaign against Iraq.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 26.88px; padding: 0em 2.5em; letter-spacing: 0.05em; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin-bottom: 0px !important;">Scholarly offerings frequently present in a benign light such hostile actors as the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Ba'th regime, and other Middle East despotisms. In contrast, they emphasize and often exaggerate the faults of Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and Kuwait. They blame Washington, not Tehran, for the hostile relations between these two states.</blockquote>Here are some choice but typical quotations:<ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 9px 6em; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em;">Stanford University's Joel Beinin, who also serves as head of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), blames U.S. foreign policy for the attacks of September 11, 2001, rather than militant Islam. Specifically, he finds that the attacks stemmed from Israel's use of American weapons to defend Israeli civilians from Palestinian terrorism:"The sight of American-supplied F-16 fighters and Apache helicopters bombing civilian targets and carrying out over 50 extra judicial assassinations has raised anger over the American-Israeli alliance to new levels."

Source: <a href="http://www.peaceandjustice.org/nowar/1beinin.html" target="1" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">http://www.peaceandjustice.org/nowar/1beinin.html</a></li>

<li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em;">John Esposito of Georgetown University condemns President Bush's description of the terrorists as"evil". He claims:"the use of 'evil' all the time … in religious terms translates into, 'You're a believer or you're a non-believer.' It is us and them, forces of good against forces of evil, and what this does is it leaves no middle-ground for anyone, whether it is countries or people. In effect, that is either the explicit or the subtle message that this administration has been giving out." One wonders, how would Professor Esposito have Mr. Bush characterize Al-Qaeda? As misguided?

Source: <a href="http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/esposito.cfm" target="2" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">http://www.asiasource.org/news/special_reports/esposito.cfm</a></li>

<li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em;">Stephen Zunes of the University of San Francisco, sees only the United States to blame for the atrocities of September 11, 2001:"It is no coincidence that terrorist groups have arisen in an area where the world's one remaining superpower puts far more emphasis on weapons shipments and air strikes than on international law or human rights and even blocks the United Nations from sending human rights monitors or enforcing its own resolutions against an ally. Nor is it surprising that that superpower would eventually find itself on the receiving end of a violence backlash."

Source: <a href="http://www.fcnl.org/issues/air-violence/terror/article_baltsun901.htm" target="3" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">http://www.fcnl.org/issues/air-violence/terror/article_baltsun901.htm</a></li></ul><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">THE CAUSES</h2>This bias results from two main causes. First, academics seem generally to dislike their own country and think even less of American allies abroad. They portray U.S. policy in an unfriendly light and disparage allies. The closer those allies are (first Israel, followed by Turkey, then at some distance Egypt and Saudi Arabia), the more hostile their analysis. In contrast, they apologize for the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Syrian Ba'th regime, and other rogue states. Likewise, the academics downplay the dangers of militant Islam and terrorism. Revealingly, while Americans overwhelmingly supported the war to liberate Kuwait in 1991 and the war on terrorism today, academic specialists just as overwhelmingly rejected the use of force on both occasions.Second, Middle East studies in the United States has become the preserve of Middle Eastern Arabs, who have brought their views with them. Membership in the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the main scholarly association, is now 50 percent of Middle Eastern origin. Though American citizens, many of these scholars actively disassociate themselves from the United States, sometimes even in public. Rashid Khalidi, a historian at the University of Chicago (and former president of MESA) said in the preface of his study of the PLO that he owes"the greatest debt of gratitude to those who gave their lives during the summer of 1982... in defense of the cause of Palestine and the independence of Lebanon." When Edward Said of Columbia University wrote,"Palestinians today are separated by geography and by Israel's designs to keep us fragmented and isolated from one another," he wrote"us" as a Palestinian, not as an American.In fact, Edward Said can be held responsible for a large portion of the morass of today's Middle East Studies departments. His 1978 book, Orientalism, was a watershed polemic that equated modern Middle East scholarship to racism, imperialism and ethnocentricity. As Martin Kramer notes in <a href="http://www.ivorytowers.org/" target="ivory" style="outline: 0px; transition: all 0.2s linear 0s;">Ivory Towers on Sand</a>,"In the more than twenty years since the publication of Orientalism, its impact on the broad intellectual climate in American Middle East studies has been far-reaching. Orientalism made it acceptable, even expected, for scholars to spell out their own political commitments as a preface to anything they wrote or did. More than that, it also enshrined an acceptable hierarchy of political commitments, with Palestine at the top, followed by the Arab nation and the Islamic world."<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?</h2>Scholars have an extensive but subtle influence on the way Americans see the Middle East, and set the tone for much of what is taught and learned across America on nearly every level. College students learn from them in the classroom and are influenced by the tone they set for the debate of Middle East politics on over two thousand campuses. High school and elementary teachers take their cue from them. Scholars write newspaper opinion pieces, are quoted in magazine articles, and appear on television. They serve as expert witnesses in court cases. They influence government officials in a variety of ways - a candidate formulating his positions, the CIA seeking outside advice, a congressional staffer preparing legislation, or a speechwriter for the secretary of state.Campus Watch seeks to reverse the damage already caused by the activist/scholars on American campuses. We see this as an ongoing effort, one that should continue so long as the problem exists.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">WHO WE ARE</h2>Campus Watch consists of American academics concerned about US interests and their frequent denigration on campus. Those interests include strong ties with Israel, Turkey, and other democracies as they emerge; human rights throughout the region; a stable supply and a low price of oil; and the peaceful settlement of regional and international disputes.<h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.05em; text-transform: uppercase;">WHAT WE DO</h2>Campus Watch will henceforth monitor and gather information on professors who fan the flames of disinformation, incitement and ignorance. Campus Watch will critique these specialists, and make available its findings on the internet and in the media. Our main goals are to:<ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 9px 6em; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Identify key faculty who teach and write about contemporary affairs at university Middle East Studies departments in order to analyze and critique the work of these specialists for errors or biases.</li><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Develop a network of concerned students and faculty members interested in promoting American interests on campus.</li><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Keep the public apprised of course syllabi, memos, debates over appointments and funding, etc.</li><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Keep the public informed of relevant university events.</li><li style="line-height: 26.88px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); padding: 0em 0em 1em; margin-bottom: 5px;">Continuously post the results of our project on www.campus-watch.org, including articles, reports from campus and other relevant information.</li></ul></div>
<a href="http://hnn.us/articles/986.html">http://hnn.us/articles/986.html</a>= wiki?According to the Campus Watch web site, "Campus Watch, a project of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Middle_East_Forum" title="Middle East Forum">Middle East Forum</a>, reviews and critiques <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a> 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." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-About_Campus_Watch-0" title="">[1]</a>The Campus Watch project is the brainchild of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Daniel_Pipes" title="Daniel Pipes" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Daniel Pipes</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Martin_Kramer" title="Martin Kramer">Martin Kramer</a>, and has been described as being "dedicated to revealing the alleged bias of mainstream Middle East studies programs at U.S. colleges and universities." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a> Initially the website published "dossiers" on critical academics, and it urged students to submit reports on political bias. Campus Watch was established in September 2002. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a> <table id="toc" class="toc" summary="Contents" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><tbody><tr><td><div id="toctitle"><h2>
</h2></div><ul><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Background">1 Background</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Push_to_Tie_Federal_Funding_to.22Standards.22">2 Push to Tie Federal Funding to "Standards"</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Personnel">3 Personnel</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Contact_details">4 Contact details</a></li><li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Articles_and_Resources">5 Articles and Resources</a><ul><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#References">5.1 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#Related_Organizations">5.2 Related Organizations</a></li><li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#External_links">5.3 External links</a></li></ul></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><a name="Background" id="Background"> </a><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Background</h2>On its website Campus Watch claims that "University-based Middle East specialists have been consistently wrong in their analyses, as <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Martin_Kramer" title="Martin Kramer">Martin Kramer</a> showed in his Ivory Towers on Sand." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-About_Campus_Watch-0" title="">[1]</a> CW argues that examples of this include<ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li>"Portraying militant Islam as a benign movement and suggesting that anyone who thought otherwise is either ignorant or prejudiced. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Esposito" title="John Esposito" class="mw-redirect">John Esposito</a> of Georgetown University stated that Islamist movements "are not necessarily anti-Western, anti-American, or anti-democratic" and called on Americans "to transcend their narrow, ethnocentric conceptualization of democracy" to include militant Islamic forms of governance. (John L. Esposito, The Islamic Threat, Myth or Reality? New York, Oxford University Press, 1992, pp.212.)";</li></ul><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li>"Apologetics: Middle East studies tend to evade, ignore, or apologize for topics that do not fit their politicized agenda:</li></ul><dl style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><dd><dl><dd>Internal repression in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Syria" title="Syria">Syria</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, and the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Authority support for suicide bombing against Israeli civilians; The long-term goals of Islamist movements; The suffering caused by insurgencies in <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>; The Syrian occupation of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a>; The anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-Semitic incitement that pervades state-run media through most of the region. As an example of this evasion, out of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Middle_East_Studies_Association" title="Middle East Studies Association">Middle East Studies Association</a>'s (MESA) four-day conference in November 2002 where more than 550 papers were presented, exactly one dealt with <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda" class="mw-redirect">Al-Qaeda</a> and one with "fundamentalism." "Militant Islam" was not the subject of a single paper."</dd></dl></dd></dl><dl style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><dd><dl><dd>Many scholars are hostile to any discussion of these issues, lest it cast the region in an unfavorable light. Even after 9/11, Khalidi advises Washington to drop its "hysteria about suicide bombers." Joel Beinin, as MESA's president, disparaged the study of terrorism, mocking it as "terrorology," and lauded his colleagues' "great wisdom" in avoiding it. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Juan_Cole" title="Juan Cole">Juan Cole</a> of the University of Michigan said "Asking MESA to hold panels on contemporary terrorism, is rather like asking literary scholars to comment on the resignation of Treasury Secretary <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_O%27Neill" title="Paul O'Neill">Paul O'Neil</a>."</dd></dl></dd></dl><dl style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><dd>"Unfortunately, Middle Eastern studies specialists responded to the launching of Campus Watch with a campaign of vilification and distortion. Lest there be any confusion, we wish to make explicit several points in response ...:<dl><dd>The charge of "<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>" has come up so often that we address this in a separate study which demonstrates why the charge is ignorant, intolerant, and ultimately self-serving. We challenge scholars of Middle Eastern studies to abandon the crude resort to insults and engage Campus Watch on the substance of our analysis." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-About_Campus_Watch-0" title="">[1]</a></dd></dl></dd></dl>Joel Beinin, the Professor of Middle East History at Stanford University and the then President of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America, wrote a pointed critique of Campus Watch's advocacy. "Campus Watch seeks to 'monitor and gather information on professors who fan the flames of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Disinformation" title="Disinformation">disinformation</a>, incitement, and ignorance.' Campus Watch does not care to ask whether scholars who study the Middle East might actually know something that would lead them to think that the world is not simply divided between the forces of good (us) and the forces of evil (them). Instead, it has compiled dossiers on professors and universities that do not meet its standard of uncritical support for the policies of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Walker_Bush" title="George Walker Bush">George Bush</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ariel_Sharon" title="Ariel Sharon">Ariel Sharon</a>." <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-Beinin-3" title="">[4]</a>"Campus Watch alleges that Middle East scholars 'seem generally to dislike their own country and think even less of American allies abroad. They portray U.S. policy in an unfriendly light and disparage allies.' Apparently Campus Watch is able to penetrate the psyches of scholars whose opinions it does not sanction. Some Americans - <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a>, for example - naively believed that dissent and debate are an integral part of the democratic process and essential to the formation of educated citizens. Campus watch apparently believes this tedious process allows too much room for unapproved thinking to emerge," he wrote. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-Beinin-3" title="">[4]</a>"Campus Watch," he wrote, "notes that 'Middle East studies in the United States has become the preserve of Middle Eastern Arabs, who have brought their views with them. Membership in the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), the main scholarly association, is now 50 percent of Middle Eastern origin.' Some Americans have foolishly believed that all U.S. citizens have equal rights regardless of their country of origin and that pointing to peoples' country of origin to discredit them is a form of racism. This too, is outmoded thinking according to Campus Watch. But imagine the uproar that would be created by the suggestion that because Daniel Pipes is Jewish he may be more loyal to Israel than to the United States."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_note-Beinin-3" title="">[4]</a><a name="Push_to_Tie_Federal_Funding_to.22Standards.22" id="Push_to_Tie_Federal_Funding_to_.22Standards.22"> </a><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Push to Tie Federal Funding to "Standards"</h2>Daniel Pipes and CW favor the U.S. Congress passing legislation mandating university Middle East departments to adhere to "standards" when receiving Federal funding.The unfortunate consequence of the legislation is to censor academics and to prohibit a stance critical of the U.S. and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Israel" title="Israel">Israel</a>.<a name="Personnel" id="Personnel"> </a><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Personnel</h2><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Winfield_Myers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Winfield Myers (page does not exist)">Winfield Myers</a>, Campus Watch Director</li></ul><a name="Contact_details" id="Contact_details"> </a><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Contact details</h2>Email: campus-watch AT meforum.org
Web: <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/" class="external free" title="http://www.campus-watch.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.campus-watch.org</a><a name="Articles_and_Resources" id="Articles_and_Resources"> </a><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Articles and Resources</h2><a name="References" id="References"> </a><h3 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">References</h3><ol class="references" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li id="cite_note-About_Campus_Watch-0">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-About_Campus_Watch_0-0" title="">1.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-About_Campus_Watch_0-1" title="">1.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-About_Campus_Watch_0-2" title="">1.2</a> "<a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/about.php" class="external text" title="http://www.campus-watch.org/about.php" rel="nofollow">"About Campus Watch"</a>, Campus Watch, accessed September 2007.</li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> Michael Dobbs, "<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11400-2004Jan12?language=printer" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11400-2004Jan12?language=printer" rel="nofollow">Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.</a>", Washington Post, January 13, 2004 page A01.</li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://hnn.us/articles/986.html" class="external text" title="http://hnn.us/articles/986.html" rel="nofollow">Campus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Professors Who Teach About the Middle East"</a>, History News Network, September 23, 2002.</li><li id="cite_note-Beinin-3">↑ <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-Beinin_3-0" title="">4.0</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-Beinin_3-1" title="">4.1</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Campus_Watch#cite_ref-Beinin_3-2" title="">4.2</a> Joel Beinin, "<a href="http://www.hnn.us/articles/1001.html" class="external text" title="http://www.hnn.us/articles/1001.html" rel="nofollow">Who's Watching the Watchers?</a>", History News Network, September 30, 2002.</li></ol><a name="Related_Organizations" id="Related_Organizations"> </a><h3 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">Related Organizations</h3><dl style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><dd>Comment: Prof. Beinin finds that these organizations work for the same aims, and some of the principals overlap in several of these organizations.</dd></dl><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ADL&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ADL (page does not exist)">ADL</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AVOT" title="AVOT" class="mw-redirect">AVOT</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=AIPAC" title="AIPAC" class="mw-redirect">AIPAC</a></li><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Council_of_Trustees_and_Alumni" title="American Council of Trustees and Alumni">American Council of Trustees and Alumni</a> (ACTA)</li></ul><a name="External_links" id="External_links"> </a><h3 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">External links</h3><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li>Joel Beinin, "<a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/_{hfc/mideast/newmccarthy.pdf}" class="external text" title="http://www-personal.umich.edu/_{hfc/mideast/newmccarthy.pdf}" rel="nofollow">The New American McCarthyism: policing thought about the Middle East</a>", Race & Class, Vol. 46(1): 101-115; (NB: loads very slow)</li></ul><dl style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><dd>Abstract: September 11 ushered in a sustained campaign by the American Right and the Bush administration to deligitimise critical thought abut the Middle East, Islam and the Arab world. The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) has borne much of the brunt of this campaign, some of it conducted by think-tanks with close links to Israel’s ruling circles. Such attacks on MESA date back to 1967 and the Arab-Israeli war. The role of organisations such as ADL, AIPAC, AVOT and ACTA is examined, as is Campus-Watch and the attempt to introduce legislation in 2003 to place university-level Middle East studies under much closer government control (via HR 3077).</dd></dl><ul style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"><li>Michael Dobbs, "<a href="http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5534" class="external text" title="http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5534" rel="nofollow">Middle East Studies Under Scrutiny in U.S.</a>", Washington Post, January 13, 2004 page A01.</li><li>Richard H. Curtiss, "<a href="http://wrmea.com/archives/december02/0212059.html" class="external text" title="http://wrmea.com/archives/december02/0212059.html" rel="nofollow">A Tale of Two Boycotts: The Campus Debate on Israel Heats Up</a>", Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Dec 2002, p. 59.</li><li>Hamid Dabashi, "<a href="http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0004502.txt" class="external text" title="http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0004502.txt" rel="nofollow">Forget reds under the bed, there's Arabs in the attic</a>", The Times Higher Education Supplement, October 18, 2003.</li><li>Robert Fisk, "<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=344510" class="external text" title="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=344510" rel="nofollow">How to shut up your critics</a>", The Independent, October 21, 2002</li><li>Leah Harris, "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/harris1228.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/harris1228.html" rel="nofollow">Why the Pro-Occupation Right is Running Scared</a>", CounterPunch, December 28, 2002.</li><li>Kristine McNeil, "<a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&s=mcneil" class="external text" title="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021125&s=mcneil" rel="nofollow">The War on Academic Freedom</a>", The Nation, November 11, 2002.</li><li>Nigel Parry, "<a href="http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/747" class="external text" title="http://electronicintifada.net/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/4/747" rel="nofollow">Campus Watch: Interview with Prof. Hamid Dabashi</a>", <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=ElectronicIntifada" title="ElectronicIntifada">ElectronicIntifada</a>, September 30, 2002.</li><li>Paul de Rooij, "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij0924.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij0924.html" rel="nofollow">Smear Mongers</a>", CounterPunch, September 24, 2002.</li><li>Will Youmans, "<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans0922.html" class="external text" title="http://www.counterpunch.org/youmans0922.html" rel="nofollow">Campus Watch: The Vigilante Thought Police</a>", CounterPunch, September 23, 2002.</li><li>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, <a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=321" class="external text" title="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=321" rel="nofollow">Spinwatch Proflie: "Campus Watch"</a>, Spinwatch, April 5, 2005.</li><li>Martin Kramer, "<a href="http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899528/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899528/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Said's Splash</a>" (Chapter Two of Ivory Towers on Sand).</li><li>Martin Kramer, "<a href="http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899528/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.martinkramer.org/pages/899528/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Islam Obscured</a>" (Chapter Three of Ivory Towers on Sand).</li><li>Sarah Meyer, "<a href="http://www.williambowles.info/media/2006/0606/media_dissemblers.html" class="external text" title="http://www.williambowles.info/media/2006/0606/media_dissemblers.html" rel="nofollow">The Haditha Doctor and The Media Dissemblers</a>", Media Files, June 19, 2006.</li></ul><h1 class="title" style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman">==</h1></div>