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In appreciation for JNF's help with SPME's fund-raising needs through our "cooperative-venture agreement" with JNF, SPME contributed to subsidize one of the 200 young adults from the US and Canada that participated in this year's JNF Alternative Spring Break, this year in the Negev...

Sara Roy is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard. We apologize for the error published in an in the Faculty Forum 2008-04-28.

UC Santa Cruz officials said campus police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on a wall outside a classroom at Oakes College, a school whose stated mission is to support social justice through celebrating ethnic diversity. The drawing, which depicts the Star of David resting...

Editor's note: Clemens Heni, who has been interviewed for this article is a member of the German Chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. A highly controversial publicly funded photo exhibit equating Israel's security fence with the Berlin Wall has sparked political controversy in the...

I joined ASMEA and participated in its . For me, ASMEA provides an alternative to the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which has tended to take an obscurantist or apologist line toward Islamism and its threat to the West, as well as a pro-Arab line on the Arab-Israel conflict. The...

In the 60 years of Israeli independence, relations with Europe have gone through phases of cooperation as well as conflict. Some of the recent friction results from hidden European Union funding for anti-Israel "civil society organizations." While supposedly promoting peace and...

Israel's major accomplishment in 60 years of independence is surviving - staying on the map as a sovereign state, with equal status among the nations of the world. The many economic and cultural achievements have helped to contribute to this survival, while the desire for peace with our...

Efraim Karsh is head of Mediterranean Studies at King's College, University of London, and the author most recently of Mr. Karsh gratefully acknowledges the generosity of Roger and Susan Hertog in supporting the research on which the present article is based. [ SPME Editor's Note: He is a...

If I would choose one article in the Western media that I have read over many decades as the worst piece of anti-Israel propaganda of all, it might well be Karin Laub's April 26, 2008 piece, "Palestinian plight is flip side of Israel's independence joy." Why? Because many...

"Human security" is one of those politically correct, new-age terms that sound good, but are often without content and readily exploited to promote conflict. And in at least one important case, this is the result of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs fellowship program with...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recognition of this day of remembrance, I have updated my Future Holocaust Memorials blog, , to make everyone aware that remembering the Holocaust is not enough. We must all act to prevent a second Holocaust as Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map while...

Hamas established an "Islamic republic" in Gaza in early 2006, and is probably in a position to replicate this success in the West Bank - the only inhibiting factors being considerations of political expediency and Israel's effective counterinsurgency measures. While the hope that...

The GLORIA Center has released a new report, "UNRWA: Refuge of Rejectionism?" The report details how this UN agency, nominally a humanitarian effort to help Palestinian refugees, has in fact become a major barrier to resolving the conflict as well as furnishing finances, facilities, and...

The Islamic republic, Israel's struggle for existence and European reactions May 3rd/4th 2008, Camp of the University of Vienna, courtyard 2, lecture room C1 Program Saturday, May 3rd 2008 19.30 Introduction and greetings Dr. Ruth Contreras (Scholars for Peace in the Middle East) Simone...

Business As Usual? The Iranian Regime, the Holy War Against Israel and the West and the German Reaction The Conference will be held at the Auditorium Friedrichstraße, Friedrichstraße 180 in Berlin-Mitte Friday, May 2nd 2008 11 a.m. Press conference 7 p.m. Introduction...

Washington Islamic extremism was the dominant topic this past weekend at the first conference of a new organization for scholars of the Middle East and Africa. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, or Asmea, was formed last fall by two conservative academics as a...

· President Truman regarded his Secretary of State, General of the Army George C. Marshall, as "the greatest living American." Yet the two men were on a collision course over Mideast policy. Marshall firmly opposed American recognition of the new Jewish state. ...

On Monday, the 14th of April, I moderated a dialogue at the University of Delaware with an imam and a rabbi. The speakers at the event were Rabbi David Kalender, a senior rabbi from the congregation Olam Tikvah in Fairfax, Va., and Imam Muhammad Magid, the imam of ADAMS Center in northern...

THE continuing tragedy of Gaza is that it was supposed to offer Palestinians an opportunity to show they were ready for self-government after Israel withdrew in August 2005. Unfortunately, the Strip has descended into poverty and chaos, a launching pad for thousands of rockets targeted at...

War and Peace Index: April 2008 The War and Peace Index is an ongoing public-opinion survey project aimed at systematically tracking the prevailing trends in Israeli public opinion on the regional conflict and its effects on Israeli society. The project was launched as the Peace Index in...

SPME Faculty Forum Editor's Note: Matthias Kuentzel is a Member of the Board of Directors of SPME Critics of Germany's pro-business policy toward Iran flocked to a conference in Berlin that for the first time brought together Germans, Iranians-in-exile and Israelis for two days of panel...

NETANYA, Israel - Suicide bombings in Israel have dropped off so significantly that the nation's security officials now dare to speak openly of success. But the very steps they are taking to thwart bombers appear to collide head-on with the government's agenda of achieving peace with...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush will visit Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt in May, a trip intended to hail Israel's 60th anniversary but also shove along Mideast peace talks that have stalled as Bush's term winds down. The White House on Monday released details of Bush's trip, the broad outline...