SPME Editor's Note: This notice is being published solely for the purposes of international faculty awareness of the coordinated international calls for boycott of Israeli academics and academic institutions. Please help SPME fight these spreading calls in North America ( US and Canada) and now...

Dear Colleagues: Since its birth in 2002, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) has been ably led by President (now Emeritus) Ed Beck and a phenomenally dedicated group of scholars who have served as SPME's officers, Vice-Presidents and Executive Board members. What these men and...

Founded in June 2002 as a Yahoogroups listserv with a handful of like-minded college professors reacting to vapid spewings against Israel by our colleagues on campus, SPME is making history by having networked over 43,600 scholars into one project or another of the organization and retained 27,000...

SPME has issued a petition for academics to protest the proposal by the The petition which sought to raise at least 5000 signatures has gained over6500 signatures in just 10 days. Click to read and sign this petition and please circulate it to your colleagues and friends. Among many distinguished...

TORONTO, ONTARIO - The recent proposal by CUPE Ontario to boycott and ban Israeli academics from university campuses has elicited an outrage throughout the globe: nearly 5,000 individuals have signed a petition by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) condemning the move. Joining...

This Spring may be one of the most challenging semesters on campus ever in terms addressing anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism on campus. Anti-Israel forces are well organized and well financed through many student and community groups to promote calls for: boycotting Israeli academics and...

This week marks the seventh anniversary of the murder of our son, former Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. My wife Ruth and I wonder: Would Danny have believed that today's world emerged after his tragedy? The answer does not come easily. Danny was an optimist, a true believer ...

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On the eve of the Israeli bombing of Hamas sites in Gaza, I returned from the most recent of two trips to Israel and the West Bank. My mission, as a conflict resolution expert, practitioner and teacher, is to facilitate learning about conflict. My work was both at the highest levels, with members...

The German section of "Scholars for Peace in the Middle East"-an international network including more than 20,000 scholars (www.spme.net)--criticizes the defamatory tone with which the Center for Research on Antisemitism has been responding to criticism of its conference "Image...

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is lecturer in Hebrew at the University of California, Santa Cruz.She is cofounder of the UCSC chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Since 2001, anti-Zionist discourse has found its way into classrooms and academic events at the University of California, Santa...

SPME Austria's main activity was the organization of a lecture series on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Israel. Even though more than 200 students were subscribed to the lectures, we had a continuous attendance by approximately 80 students, mainly of Contemporary History,...

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Dear Dr. Katz, Regarding Dror Feiler, he was the radical ex-Israeli "artist" whose provocative and hate-filled anti-Israel installation inspired Ambassador Zvi Marzel to carry out a physical critique of Feiler's project. The installation itself was vile and cheap, devoid of any...

Kudos to you for having the courage to stand up to the boycotts.I have never understood why Duke and other universities can do what they want with impunity while ridiculous accusations cause Israel to be discriminated against.You never hear about universities in Saudi Arabia or Uganda or Malaysia...

"Emerging Trends in Anti-Semitism and Campus Discourse" Academic Conference March 8th and 9th 2009, University of Toronto Keynote Speaker: The Hon. Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., M.P. Attendance Limited to Canadian Academics Only CAFI is excited to be hosting it's founding...

Profs. Boaz Ganor and Barry Rubin will be the next participants in the very successful SPME International Conference Call Lecture Series for SPME contributors. Space is limited to 125 spaces for each call and so reservations are required. Dial-in instructions will be sent to those with...

Consulate General of Israel in New York The Department of Academic Affairs is pleased to announce these upcoming events for February 2009

LONDON, April 18 ( ) -- Jewish students have demanded action after warning that Britain's main student representative organization has failed to address rising levels of anti-Semitism on campus. The issue made national headlines after three Jewish members resigned from leading positions in the...

Next month will be critical for the fight against academic boycotts of Israel in the U.K., according to the founder of Academic Friends of Israel, Ronnie Fraser. March is the month boycott proposals will be submitted to the academic organizations, making time of the essence, says Fraser -...

We write to correct numerous reports circulating about actions taken by the Hampshire College board of trustees on February 7, 2009. The facts are as follows: On February 7, 2009, the Hampshire College board of trustees accepted the report of its investment committee, which earlier had voted,...

Another anti-Semitic incident took place in a Canadian university Thursday when over 100 anti-Israel activists surrounded a campus building belonging to the Jewish student club 'Hillel' at York University, Toronto. The activists pounded on office doors while yelling out racial slurs. Campus...

A pro-Palestinian student group and Hampshire College disagreed Thursday as to whether the Massachusetts institution's withdrawal of investments from an index fund represented a rebuke of Israel, and a major first for the divestment movement. Any hope that this might stay a quiet campus...

l Student activists at are hailing a divestment decision by the board of trustees that they say makes the college the first in the country to break financial ties with companies specifically because they do business with Israel. But the college strenuously denies the move was politically...

A STUDENT sit-in at a Scottish university ended peacefully last night, after the university authorities agreed to cancel their contract with an Israeli water company. The 40 students, led by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, occupied the foyer of Strathclyde University's...

Goucher College has suspended a visiting French professor from teaching after the Baltimore institution was presented with charges that he was directly involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country of Rwanda. While some view the charges as credible - he strongly denies them - some human...

A STUDENT sit-in at a Scottish university ended peacefully last night, after the university authorities agreed to cancel their contract with an Israeli water company. The 40 students, led by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, occupied the foyer of Strathclyde University's McCance...

A resolution by CUPE Ontario to boycott Israeli universities to show solidarity with Palestinian civilians suffering from Israeli attacks on Gaza is causing more dissension, this time from the university workers the union represents. The resolution was originally passed at a conference in 2006...

At last month's emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council, ambassadors from the world's dictatorships -- and even some democracies -- lined up to attack Israel for "targeting a U.N. school." Canada alone voted in opposition to the grossly one-sided text. (To join the thousands...

Sydney, Australia-A conference that was to "debate" charging Israel with war crimes was canceled, as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, after "revelations the convener had made anti-Semitic remarks." Maqsood Alshams, a reputed human rights activist made...

[SPME Editor's Disclaimer: SPME is publishing this material as a public service to show what professors are writing on campus. Comments on this article may be made at the source and/or shared in the SPME ChatFeedback section by sending your comments to ] When an impoverished Palestinian boy...

[SPME Editor's Note: Feedback for publication must have author's name, institution, contact information and sent to ] In the last few weeks, following the recent military attack on Gaza, we have seen an increase in calls for boycott of Israeli institutions in general, and academic institutions in...

SPME Editor's Note: SPME hopes after reading this story, you will sign this Bangladesh's new, democratically elected Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office last month, promising to put her country on a pro-growth, anti-Islamist path. Ending the trial of journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury...

Erweiterte Fassung der Rede zur Holocaustgedenkveranstaltung im Senatssaal des Bayerischen Landtags Sehr geehrter Herr Kalmanowicz, sehr geehrter Herr Eckert, meine Damen und Herren, der 27. Januar ist als Gedenktag an die Opfer des Holocaust, richtiger: als Tag, an dem auch der Opfer...

Cover story in Issue 22, February 16, 2009 of The Jerusalem Report. The images on television screens across the world were harsh: the tiny bodies of children wrapped in green Hamas shrouds; a Palestinian doctor who had worked in Israel, distraught at the deaths of his three daughters and a...

I have attended many anti-Israel, anti-Zionist lectures and events, but the Jan. 21st symposium on "Gaza and Human Rights" sponsored by UCLA's Center for Near East Studies was certainly one of the most disturbing. A purportedly academic analysis of human rights abuses in the...

Police patrols have been stepped up in Jewish neighbourhoods following the most intense period of antisemitic incidents to have been recorded in Britain in decades. Safety fears are so acute that reports have emerged of members of Britain's Jewish community fleeing the UK with antisemitic...

GAZA CITY, Feb. 6 -- A United Nations aid agency that serves more than half of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip suspended humanitarian shipments here on Friday, accusing Hamas of confiscating U.N. material for the second time this week. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency said Hamas,...

I am hearing ever more alarming accounts of the deepening attrition against British Jews in the wake of the incitement against Israel provoked by the war in Gaza.... [A] violent demonstration organised by the Stop the War coalition [STWC]... prevented the deputy commander of Israel's...

An Israeli reserve colonel who came to speak in Britain last week was forced to return home. The officer, Geva Rapp, a deputy commander of Israel's Gaza offensive, was scheduled to speak to mainly student audiences during a six-day visit. But his tour came to an abrupt end after...

TEHRAN (AFP) - The political supremo of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, on Sunday ruled out any "permanent ceasefire" until Israel ends its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meanwhile, in talks with Meshaal urged him...