The
Latest on MEF's Campaign to End San Francisco State's MOU with An-Najah
U.
by Cinnamon Stillwell
• Oct 3, 2016 at 5:28 pm
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 The Middle East
Forum's petition
to end San Francisco State University (SFSU)'s memorandum of
understanding (MOU) with radical An-Najah University in the West Bank has
topped 1,870 signatures! Additionally, the Forum has sent a
letter to the leadership of several committees in the Senate and
House requesting that Congress investigate and conduct oversight
concerning this dangerous partnership.
The campaign
has received significant media coverage, including from San Francisco's CBS
affiliate, SFSU's student newspaper, Golden
Gate Xpress, the Algemeiner,
Jewish
News Service (JNS), CNS
News, and ZipDialog,
the blog of University of Chicago professor and journalist Charles
Lipson. On Global
Patriot Radio, Campus Watch West Coast Representative Cinnamon
Stillwell discussed the campaign in a wide-ranging interview.
Tellingly, opponents of academic accountability
have denounced the Forum's efforts: they include the MOU's architect, San
Francisco State University professor Rabab
Abdulhadi (read our response here);
the General
Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS), the virulently anti-Israel SFSU
student group notorious for disrupting
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat's lecture earlier this year; Stanford
professor David
Palumbo-Liu; and the Middle
East Studies Association, the politicized umbrella group for the
field of Middle East studies noted for its willingness to downplay
Islamist terrorism.
There's still time to sign our petition
and let SFSU President Leslie Wong know that the MOU he
approved with a Palestinian university that promotes terrorism
and extremism is outrageous and unacceptable. Our thanks to those who
have already signed. Please pass it on!
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