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Dr. Ed Beck, President-Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, recently lectured in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Free University in Berlin and the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna on the new anti-Semitism in Academia. Focusing on pivitol...

Prompted by the notification that the American Jewish Committee has called for the publishers of the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism to "withdraw" its "Zionism" entry, SPME has asked Gideon Shimoni, Professor emeritus and senior lecturer and former Chair of the Hebrew...

The Board of Directors of SPME has authorized a search for a Director of Administration and Development. The announcement appears below:

In contrast to most of my colleagues, I am one of the pragmatists among Israeli political pundits - neither left nor right on issues of territory and borders. In my vision of Zionism, the central goal is to maintain and strengthen Jewish democratic sovereignty in the Land of Israel, within the...

Anti-Israel students clash with police during a protest against the visit of former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Concordia University in 2002. In recent months, I have been invited to participate in two conferences, one put on by the Ontario Bar Association...

Defining Jew-Hatred Down The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N. by Matthias Küntzel 11/17/2008, Volume 014, Issue 09 It is a topsy-turvy world: At the United Nations--an organization born out of the struggle against Nazi Germany and intended to embody the lessons of the...

The core principle of secondary anti-Semitism is the refusal or rejection of remembrance of the unprecedented crime which Germans committed during the Second World War, namely the Shoah. This has a specific dimension in Germany which basically reflects the country's unique political culture. The...

Many Arab officials and Israeli "New Historians" describe early Zionist attitudes toward the Arab population of Palestine as dismissive or arrogant. Books and pamphlets from the time tell a different story. Ben-Gurion: Our Arab Brethren During World War I, Israel's future first prime...

(SPME Editor's Note: We apologize to Dr. Clemens and the SPME Faculty Forum readership for having printed the wrong version of this article in our October 18th, 2008 edition. Dr. Clemens is looking for Yale faculty members to work with him to form a chapter of SPME. If you are a Yale faculty...

On 30 September 2000, Charles Enderlin, the -based head of the Middle East Bureau of the French television station France 2, presented sixty seconds of footage of what he described as the killing of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura targeted by Israeli soldiers. Enderlin...

On September 23, 2008, the day on which Iranian President Ahmadinejad was speaking at the UN, genocide scholars and international war-crimes jurists met in Washington, D.C., to present evidence of Iran's pattern of official incitement to genocide. The incitement is, as we well know, directed at...

On Monday, October 27, 2008, on the occasion of his visit to Austria, the former president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, was scheduled to give a lecture at the University of Vienna on "Global Ethos - Law and the Dialogue of Cultures." Numerous protests have been sent to the Rector of the...

is a very good summary of largely secondary sources, going all the way back from the Prussian Colonization Commission to the Nazi extended version thereof - until the author's arrival at "The Jewish Question: From Europe to the Middle East" on page 597. Offering a sort of an ironic...

Ending Impunity or Decreasing Accountability Averting Abuse of Universal Jurisdiction Schedule: Paper Session (The Royal Houseguards Hotel & One Whitehall Place - Meston Suite Panel Session*) (House of Commons - Grimond Room at Portcullis House: Panel Host: MP James Arbuthnot,...

Dennis Ross Has Advised President-Elect Obama and 3 Former Administrations Dennis Ross served as a foreign policy adviser to President-elect Barack Obama during his presidential campaign. The inaugural Distinguished Negotiation Lecture series at UT Dallas will feature...

"WHAT ARE THE ORIGINS OF MONOTHEISM?" Alert to "The Bible's Buried Secrets" on PBS, Nov 18, 2008 on NOVA Avi Bass, Northern Illinois University JFR: Jewish Faculty Roundtable, November 13, 2008. College campuses may become a battleground for reinterpreting the Hebrew...

Paper proposals are requested for an international conference addressing the question of whether a two-state solution or a single constitutional democracy in Israel/Palestine offers the most promising path to future peace and security in the region. The conference aims to envision in specific...

On Friday night, Rachel Kucharczuk's routine trip to the grocery store was disrupted by the discovery of anti-Semitic comments smeared on the front and back of her car. "I was in bed with the flu all day and I came out to my car to get some ginger ale. I got into the front seat of my...

BERLIN (JTA)-Young demonstrators destroyed an exhibit about the expropriation of Jewish property in Nazi Germany. Police have not ruled out anti-Semitic motives in Wednesday's rampage in what appears to have been a peaceful protest gone awry. The exhibit, "Betrayed and Sold: Jewish...

Middle East Task Force of Ann Arbor says any attempt by University Musical Society to develop ties with Israeli orchestra amounts to 'condoning Israeli apartheid', urges condemnation of Israel's 'racist and discriminatory practices' var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();var is_major =...

Oxford University students who planned an outrageous party night have been accused of anti-semitism. Players from the university's under-21 rugby squad were specifically told to invite a pretty Jewish date to accompany them to a drunken, themed dinner. Organisers pulled the plug on the...

An Ottawa university instructor has been arrested for the infamous terrorist bombing of a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four people, injured scores of others and put synagogues around the world on a tough new security footing. Hassan Diab, 54, was arrested by the RCMP at Gatineau...

Esha Momeni, an Iranian graduate student at California State University-Northridge, has been released from detention on bail. Momeni, 28, was arrested Oct. 15 for an alleged traffic violation after filming a documentary on the movement for equal rights for women in Iran in the framework of her...

FAS Communications for story section heads. Prior to delivering the first of this year's Tanner Lectures, political activist Sari Nusseibeh gave the audience a laugh - and a cheat sheet. "My normal attitude in lectures is to doze off when someone is reading them," he quipped,...

Ron Prosor The University of Edinburgh has rejected calls from a radical anti-Israel group to cancel the visit of Ron Prosor, Israel's ambassador to Britain, to the university on Tuesday. Speaking on "The Middle East Today: Regional Challenges, Global Implications," Prosor...

As the road dips and rises through the Hebron hills, white etched with the glowing green of vineyards, the turn-off to Edna village is marked by the grey, concrete watchtower of an Israeli checkpoint. But it doesn't deter Israeli-Arab lawyer Khaled Kasab Mahameed from his quixotic mission: He...

LONDON - The situation in Gaza will be compared to that in the Warsaw Ghetto under the Nazis, at a prestigious London university next week. The Student Union at Goldsmiths college, University of London, is hosting an event on Wednesday titled "From the Warsaw Ghetto to the Gaza...

HIRBET QEIYAFA, Israel: An Israeli archaeologist has discovered what he believes is the oldest known Hebrew inscription on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard -a find that suggests Biblical accounts of the ancient Israelite kingdom of David could have been based on written texts. A teenage volunteer...

The University College Union this week denied allegations that asking union members to question their contacts with Israel is in violation of their legal powers. The denial comes amid allegations from several anonymous members from within the union itself. The union, whose membership...

UCU resignations continue UCU members Jonathan Campbell and Raphael Levy resigned from the Union this week in light of its continued failure to abandon a boycott of Israeli academics. UCU as an organisation has still not commented on the resignations. Guardian: UCU members to take legal...

SPME Editors Note: The Editors of the SPME Faculty Forum would like to thank the for bringing this article to our attention Ruth Wisse and Seth Lipsky are among the most influential, thoughtful Jews associated with neoconservatism. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature...

SEVERAL Middle Eastern and world leaders will meet in New York this week under United Nations auspices to discuss the world state of religious freedom. The meeting - part of an initiative of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on religious dialogue - is controversial. Abdullah, an...

Reactions in the Arab world to the election of Sen. Barack Obama as U.S. president fell into two main categories: expressions of appreciation for the American democracy which had made his victory possible, and attempts to assess the impact of his election on the political future of the region. ...

It was Thursday, barely 36 hours since Barack Obama was recognized to have won the American presidency, that some editorialist at the London Financial Times sat down to do his Friday leader. It was the paper's first instructions to Obama. The previous day's commentary was a cliche: a reminder,...

In his column in the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam, 'Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar criticized the persecution of Christians in Arab countries, with a particular emphasis on the Christian population of the Palestinian Authority.(1) Following are excerpts from the article: "In Iraq, a crime is...

Having welcomed the historic victory of Barack Obama in the US presidential election, let us begin by shedding too much expectations of him. They are likely to be dashed - generating a great deal of pain and resentment into the bargain. There are some quite extraordinary notions circulating...

Recently, college campuses throughout many Western countries have fallen victim to an increase in anti-Semitic displays and events. In 1995, there were 118 reported incidents of anti-Semitism on college campuses in America, with many likely not reported. The following examples are extreme cases...

Editors' preface: Philippe Karsenty is the founder and president of Media-Ratings (www.M-R.fr), an online French media watchdog. In November 2004, he published an article entitled "Arlette Chabot and Charles Enderlin Must Be Fired Immediately," alleging that France 2, the television...

Jerusalem is holy to two religions - Islam and Christianity, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salaam Fayad said at the UN-organized interfaith peace conference on Wednesday night. Fayad failed to mention the importance of Israel's capital to the Jewish people, Israel Radio reported. ...

GAZA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The deposed government of Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza denied on Tuesday that secret talks were held with some advisors of elected U.S. President Barack Obama. "The Palestinian government denies what has been published earlier that a secret meeting was held...

Secretary Condoleezza Rice Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt November 9, 2008 Other Attendees: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, High Representative for European Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier...

As the signing of the U.S.-Iraq long-term security pact draws near, senior clerics from both inside and outside Iraq - most of them Shi'ite - have been opposing the pact in attempt to influence the Iraqis to reject it. To this end, they have issued fatwas depicting it as against shari'a, and...

JERUSALEM, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday and both spoke about the need to press ahead with the peace process with the Palestinians, Olmert's office said. The current peace talks, launched nearly a year ago at a...

JERUSALEM -- Admiration for U.S. president-elect Barack Obama extended across much of the Middle East yesterday with Palestinians in particular holding out hope he would be the answer to their prayers. However, Palestinian pollster Jamil Rabah cautioned against reading too much into such...

Following are excerpts from an interview with Palestinian cleric Muhsen Abu 'Ita, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on July 13, 2008: To view the clip, visit To view the MEMRI TV page for Al-Aqsa TV, visit Muhsen Abu 'Ita: "Naturally, the Koran chapters conveyed to Muhammad in Mecca only rarely...