[SPME Editor's Note: Howard Kahn, co-coordinator of SPME-UK has received the following request from the Fair Play Campaign Group for SPME to distribute to its UK-based members. We urge your involvement before the stated deadline.] Israel Science Day is a project aimed at school years 12 and 13,...

The ground seems to have shifted, activists on all sides say. What they make of it varies. A shift toward more visible pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment has been profound on some campuses, prompted, in part, by the . Where some describe a corresponding disintegration of civil discourse or...

Israel activism groups in Canada launched a viral campaign this week called "Students for Peace on Campus" to battle Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). In just the second day of the week-long series of anti-Israel events, Canada's Center for Israel Activism and the Hasbara Fellowship and...

Letter to the Editor, concerning Yehuda Bauer's article: I am very grateful that Elie Wiesel took a position in the Jerusalem Post on the dispute about the Berlin Center for Anti-Semitism research. He spoke carefully, in the conditional: "If indeed the Berlin Center downplays...

What if the UN gave an Israel-bashing party and nobody came? While this is only one possible scenario for the Durban Review Conference scheduled to begin on April 20 in Geneva, it is not a total fantasy. The potential for a tipping point came after the Obama administration sent a delegation to...

I was more than a bit amazed that the BMJ chose to run five articles, including an editorial by its editors, alleging "an orchestrated campaign to silence criticism of Israel", the ostensible response to an analysis of five year-old emails. Such a focus by a medical journal is...

The documentary film "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land -- U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" was shown last Sunday, Mar 1, by Current Events Theater at the El Cajon Library, California. The event was organized by the East County Democratic Club, and was...

Professor Emeritus Leila Beckwith, Treasurer, SPME and Lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, CoChair of SPME Chapter at University of California at Santa Cruz will be presenting a paper at the American Association of University Professors Annual Conference, Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC on June 12. ...

SAVE THE DATE ASMEA Annual Conference October 22-24, 2009 Washington, D.C. The second annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) will be held October 22-24, 2009 at the Key Bridge Marriott in Washington, D.C. Entitled, The Middle East and...

Professor Barry Rubin's SPME International Conference Call will be on March 16, 2009 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time and will be on the subject of "An Interdisciplinary Look at the Complex Issues in Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." Reservations are required for this conference...

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

Swastikas found on fliers on DePaul's campus this week highlight a growing problem on college campuses in the Chicago area, one Jewish advocacy group says. The fliers were promoting an appearance by the Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh Tuesday on DePaul's Lincoln Park...

I have just been informed that the Jewish Studies department at Ottawa's Carleton University has received 3 threats: 2 threatening blog posts and one threatening phone message. The blogs, which have pretty much identical posts, talk about Carleton and say "We need to identify the...

London's Science Museum hosted a day of science lectures by Israeli academics for 1,000 high-school students on Thursday. The event, organized by Britain's Zionist Federation, featured lectures by seven leading Israeli academics from seven Israeli universities: Dr Gabi Nakache of Tel Aviv...

Pro-Palestinian activists are expected to turn out in force Thursday at London and Manchester's Science Museums to demonstrate against a science day event for high school students that will look at the contribution of Israeli science to the world. Organized by the Zionist Federation of the UK,...

SPME Editor's Note: SPME received this unconfirmed report via the blogosphere. We cannot vouch for its accuracy, but we print it as a public service as an example of mounting coordinated anti-Israelism being reported on university campuses around the world. We received this information earlier...

There's a new debate about anti-Semitism in Germany. The Center for Research on Anti-Semitism at the Technical University of Berlin has compared it with hostility against Islam in a conference called "Perceived Enemy Muslim - Perceived Enemy Jew." This attempted comparison has met...

In two articles in The Jerusalem Post (December 10 and February 15), and , Benjamin Weinthal attacked the Berlin Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism (headed by Prof. Wolfgang Benz), arguing that at its conference "Concepts of the Muslim Enemy - Concepts of the Jewish Enemy" on...

SPME Editor's Note: These pieces are reprinted from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Daily Israenet Briefing of March 6, 2009. from their series, "When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech." THE MYTH OF ‘ISRAELI APARTHEID' Yoram Elron National Post, March 6, 2009 ...

SPME Editor's Note: These pieces are reprinted from the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research Daily Israenet Briefing of March 6, 2009. from their series, "When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech." ANTI-SEMITISM FUROR AT UNIVERSITIES Amy Minsky The Concordian, March 3, 2009 ...

Sir, I am sure the honourable Nobel prize protester and his collegues mentioned in your leading article ( ) will be horrified to read that their computers and mobile phones were probably developed and/or manufactured in Israel. So is all the water distribution system for Manchester, or drip...

Earlier this month, McGill University students voted 436 to 263 to postpone indefinitely a Students' Society resolution condemning the "bombings" of "educational institutions in Gaza." The initiative paralleled similar resolutions which passed at other Canadian...

Throughout our history, Canadians have strived to understand each other across the solitudes that have broken other countries to pieces. Our common national purpose has been built on our diversity. We respect differences - of opinion, nationality, race and creed. We abandon that respect at...

American and European taxpayers are now being asked to fund a new TV station that will broadcast from Ramallah, the de facto capital of the Palestinians that is controlled by the Palestinian Authority. The new satellite station is intended to serve as a mouthpiece for Palestinian Authority head...

As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama called a nuclear Iran "a grave threat" and said "the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon." But he also called for direct, high-level talks in the hopes that the mullahs could be persuaded to abandon their nuclear...

. For those who haven't heard, the first week in March has been designated as Israel Apartheid Week by activists who are either ill intentioned or misinformed. On American campuses, organizing committees are planning happenings to once again castigate Israel as the lone responsible party for all...

SYDNEY, Australia (JTA) -- Australia pledged an extra $13 million to help rebuild Gaza as pressure mounted on the Labor government to withdraw from an upcoming anti-racism conference. The new funding, confirmed by Foreign Minister Stephen Smith at the international donors' conference...

WASHINGTON - sent a secret letter to 's president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday. The letter to President was hand-delivered...

GENEVA (AP) - European Union countries Tuesday stepped up their opposition to Muslim attempts to shield Islam from criticism and attack Israel through a U.N. conference on racism. EU members were unusually outspoken in appearances before the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying they were worried...

CAIRO (AP) - Saudi Arabia's top diplomat urged Arabs on Tuesday to stand up to Iran's ambitions in the region, including its nuclear program. Prince Saud al-Faisal told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo that non-Arab countries should not interfere in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian...

RAMALLAH, Mar 3 (IPS) - "Standing United with the People of Gaza" is the theme of this week's Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), which kicked off in Toronto and another 39 cities across the globe Sunday. A movement to boycott Israeli goods, culture and academic institutions is gaining...