There are still spots available for contributors to SPME on the next SPME Conference Call with Stanford Professor Boaz Ganor on 2.26.09 at 3PM Eastern Time. Prof. Ganor, who will be speaking on " Israel's Strategic and Ethic's Oriented Response to Terrorism" To secure your make a...

We hope you will join 9 Nobel Laureates Eric Kandel, Roald Hoffman Kenneth Arrow, Sir Harry Walter Kroto,Walter Kohn, Eric Maskin, Steven Weinberg and Andrew V. Schally and 2600 of your colleagues worldwide in signing and circulating the as we try to amass 10,000 signatures. SPME Statement on...

With the recent wave of anti-Israel activity hitting college and university campuses this year, new chapters of SPME are forming and SPME is getting inquiries about forming chapters. Forming a chapter is easy and takes a steering committee of only three contributing faculty members from a campus...

Ed Beck, President Emeritus of SPME will be presenting on a panel at the Canadian Academic Friends of Israel Conference in Toronto on Monday, March 9 at 1:30 PM at a site to be announced. He will be on a panel along with Irving Abella of York University, Head of the Task Force on Countering Israel...

SPME is pleased to announce its new line of wonderful merchandise to show the world you support our work. to see all the wonderful items you can get that. Tote bags, mugs, shirts, hoodies, buttons and other wonderful merchandise are available with proceeds going to support SPME's important...

Rising disaffection with the direction of the publicly funded Berlin Center for Research on Anti-Semitism has intensified since it organized a conference equating hatred of Jews with discrimination against Muslims in December. The center's indifference to the high levels of left-wing and...

On the panel "Utility in Ethics: Past Precedents and Future Reforms re: ius in bello" International Studies Association Theme of "Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future" 15 February 2009 New York City ...

Woe to the wicked and woe to his neighbor (Talmudic proverb) Dear Fellow Trojans, I am writing to bring to your attention a new low for our beloved USC. Professor David Lloyd from our Department of English, an expert on Irish literature and culture, is the driving force behind a movement that...

Weil die offene Parteinahme für antisemitischen Terror wenig ratsam erscheint, pflegen sich Antizionisten und Antiimperialisten hinter kulturellen oder Friedensinitiativen zu verschanzen. Die berüchtigte Antiimperialistische Koordination (AIK) etwa geht seit einiger Zeit als eine...

Remember Ionesco's "Rhinoceros"? Written in the late 1950s, the play describes the transformation of a quiet, peaceful town into anarchy when one after another of its residents is transformed into a lumbering, thick-skinned brute. Only Berenger, a stand-in for the playwright,...

Today Australian academics from the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong as well as Monash University launched their own chapter of SPME. The immediate goals of the Chapter are: ü To distribute details about upcoming lectures/seminars at Universities and the community...

SPME- University of Pittsburgh and SPME Board of Directors SPME members, along with students from the University of Pittsburgh Hillel-Jewish University Center and the local ZOA director, responded to speakers hosted by the Law School chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild. The website...

There have been a number of student sit-ins throughout the UK. Those involved variously demand that their University cancel a contract with Eden Springs, an Israeli water cooler supplier; sever funding links with arms manufacturer BAe systems; issue a statement condemning the recent Israeli action...

I was a professor of religious studies at Lancaster University, UK, for twelve years. Happily, I am now professor at the University of Aberdeen. When I read recent posts about the presence of antisemitism in the classroom, I am reminded of the situation in my own former department. Our ...

Dear Editor, This is the letter I sent the Admissions Office as well the President of Hampshire College upon learning about their new divestment policy. Please feel free to share it with the members of the SPME. Begin forwarded message: From: Ben-Amots Ofer < > Date: February...

"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...

Hilton Tel Aviv Hotel, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 22 - 26, 2009 IMPORTANT DATES Extended Deadline for Early Registration: March 1, 200 MAIN THEMES Advanced Technologies in Medicine - including technologies for diagnosis, treatment, stem cell genetics and more Medical Ethics - Jewish and...

A lecture, subtitled "Which is the chicken and which is the egg?" by Professor Dina Porat, head of the Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Thursday, FEB 19, 2009 6:00 p.m. Simon Wiesenthal Center 226 East 42nd Street New...

Moves to boycott Israeli goods have taken a turn described as "sinister" with the publication of a 68-page report ‘outing' companies and individuals that sell goods from West Bank settlements. The report, published by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at...

TORONTO - York University has been a hotbed of anti-Israel activity for years, but "the siege" against Jewish students on campus of late is more intense than ever before, says Aaron Rosenberg, co-president of Hasbara at York. While anti-Israel protested called on York President...

. Joel Kovel - one of the more outspoken professorial critics of Israel on American college campuses - is out of his job at Bard College. This week Kovel sent a letter to all Bard faculty members denouncing the way he has been treated and charging that his politics cost him the position. ...

# To those who might say that forming a partnership with a Palestinian university could be an iffy proposition, filled with doubts, challenges and questions, the president of Bard College has a ready answer. "Anything new is filled with a lot of unknowns," says Leon Botstein, an...

JERUSALEM - It would be hard to find two institutions of higher learning that seem more different than Bard College, an upscale, bucolic college in Dutchess County, N.Y., and Al Quds University, a struggling, sprawling Palestinian institution in and near this disputed capital. Yet the two schools...

Statement of Clarification from Sigmund Roos (73F), chair of the board of trustees, Ralph Hexter, president, and Aaron Berman, vice president and dean of faculty, regarding trustees' actions on college investments We write to correct numerous reports circulating about actions taken by...

SPME Editors's Note: SPME is publishing this piece as matter of public information. The views expressed are solely those of the author and are not meant to reflect the views of SPME, its Board, Chapters or Network Participants STATEMENT OF JOEL KOVEL REGARDING HIS TERMINATION BY BARD COLLEGE ...

Dr. Shlomo Aronson is a Schusterman Visiting Professor, University of Arizona, and the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise The attached report is a letter written by an outraged listener following a panel discussion held at the University of Arizona by the Arizona Center for Middle...

Hampshire College students were among the protesters at an anti-Israel rally featuring students from several area campuses on Jan. 10, 2009 in Amherst, Mass. (Photo Power Against Empire / Creative Commons) NEW YORK (JTA) -- Hampshire College insists it has not divested from Israel, but try...

LONDON (JTA ) -- A group of anti-Israel academics chided London's Science Museum for renting space for an exhibition celebrating Israel's scientific achievements. In a letter to the Guardian newspaper, the academics called on the museum to cancel the Israel Day of Science on the grounds that...

Some have compared it to a modern day Dreyfus trial. Let us not get carried away with the analogies-as lovely (or scary) as it might be to think that our student government matters, the extent to which it really does is minimal. But the proposed recall of ASUC Senator John Moghtader is...

A motion to boycott Israeli goods and condemn Israel's Gaza operation as an "atrocity" has been passed at Manchester University's Student Union. In an emergency general meeting on Wednesday afternoon, 550 students voted for the motion, defeating 200 voting against. The...

Jewish students at York University in Toronto were forced to take refuge in the Hillel office last Wednesday night as anti-Israel protesters banged on the glass doors, chanting, "Die, bitch, go back to Israel," and "Die, Jew, get the hell off campus." The students had...

Academic seminars are so numerous at UCLA that they rarely have much of an afterlife, but this has not been the case with the symposium on "Human Rights and Gaza" held Jan. 21 on campus. Even three weeks later, some outraged critics across the country continue to weigh in and to...

The Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism is meeting today in London in the wake of the Gaza campaign, which ignited an exponential eruption of global anti-Semitic frenzy unprecedented since the Nazi era. The intensity of the anti-Jewish rage, frequently accompanied by acts of...

Last December, we wrote that an "early test" for the Obama Administration would be whether it participated in a forthcoming U.N. conference on racism, better known as Durban II. Uh, oh. The first "Durban" -- named for the South African city where the U.N. held its 2001 World...

During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama indicated his willingness to engage with Iran over the nuclear issue without preconditions; in other statements he maintained that he would not allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. The urgency of the Iranian nuclear challenge - emphasized by...

The periodic crises that have shaken world capitalism in the century and a half since Marx wrote Das Kapital are marked by a common political phenomenon. It is the rise of political anti-Semitism. Attacks on Jews and Jewishness constitute the canary in the coal mine that tells us something is...

In his letter to the Atlanta City Council (September 12, 1864), US Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman wrote: "War is cruelty, and cannot be refined. You don't know the horrible aspects of war. I've been through two wars and I know. I've seen cities and homes in ashes. I've seen...

http://www.investigativeproject.org/996/hampshire-divests-from-israel-sodocument.getElementById('share_cell').style.display = "; Reprinted with permission from the author. Several months ago, a rabidly anti Israel group on the Hampshire College campus began a campaign to try to get the...

Likudniks don't scare former United States president Jimmy Carter. On the contrary: The electoral turnaround of 1977 that brought them to power for the first time enabled Carter to be inscribed in the history books as the leader who facilitated the first peace agreement between Israelis and...

A declaration pledging to challenge anti-Semitism was signed on behalf of all participating nations on Tuesday, the final day of the London Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism. Noting the dramatic increase in anti-Semitism being disseminated in the media and attacks targeting Jewish persons and...

TOKYO, Feb. 17 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that the Obama administration will make "a concerted effort" to restore the image of the United States in the Islamic world and will seek to "enlist the help of Muslims around the world against the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7895485.stm At a weekend meeting in Istanbul, 200 religious scholars and clerics met senior Hamas officials to plot a new jihad centred on Gaza. The BBC's Bill Law was the only Western journalist at the meeting. In a hall crowded with...

London - The world has witnessed a "pandemic of anti-Semitism" over the past few weeks that is of a scale not seen since the end of World War II, an international conference on combating anti-Semitism was told in London Tuesday. Both the size and the intensity of anti-Jewish sentiment,...