Campus Watch’s racist logic progressed from accusing scholars to targeting professors.

Evidence

Pipes went on to found the website Campus Watch, which asserts that Middle East scholars are un-American. In terms that barely disguise its racism, the website explains why this might be so; one page, since removed, stated that “Middle East studies in the United States has become the preserve of Middle East Arabs” who “have brought their views with them.” The next logical step was to target Arabs. Indeed, Campus Watch’s first prominent attack occurred against Professor Joseph Massad of Columbia University. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 528

Categorization

• XREF: Campus Watch’s targeting of Joseph Massad parallels the contemporary campus harassment of Middle East scholars that Grosfoguel/Rana/Selod describe as an extension of the surveillance and coercive state apparatus. — connects to: Campus watchdogs attacked Middle East scholars to police criticism of Israel — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 667