SPME Petitions A Petition To Condemn The 2009 British UCU's Silent Boycott of Israel Academics and Institutions To: British Academic Participating in Silent Boycott of Israeli Academics and Institutions Statement: We, the undersigned faculty members, researchers, professionals,...

(SPME Editor's Note: SPME Canadian Faculty have been invited for written submissions for this inquiry which was announced in June, 2009.) CPCCA Coalition parlementaire canadienne de lutte contre l'antisémitisme Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism ...

Dear Colleague, Thank you for supporting Israeli medicine during these difficult times. It is both disturbing and worrying that anti-Israel sentiments have found their way into the field of medicine. Political views should be discussed, but not within the framework of a profession whose supreme...

The paperback version of edited by Philip Carl Salzman and Donna Robinson Divine, is now available SPME Mart at $40 as opposed to $140 for the hardback copy previously available. To purchase this book through SPMEMart click Shipping and Handling are Free. A collection of essays addressing and...

Local and international anti-boycott groups said this week they are monitoring the growing academic boycott movement in the U.S. but currently do not deem it a serious threat. The U.S. Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel said recently it has more than tripled its...

After months of controversy, UCSB has terminated the investigation against global studies and sociology professor William Robinson. Since January, Robinson - who came under fire for forwarding online material to his students that compared Israeli soldiers to Nazis - has been the focal...

A clear US strategy is emerging in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it is a badly flawed one, as the Obama administration will likely find out over the next six months. Hopefully, it will make changes as a result. Let's consider the interrelated policy regarding Iran and the Arab-Israeli conflict....

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME)'s UK chapter is now up and running, and is working with other organisations through the framework of the Fair Play Campaign Group. In an , Dr Howard Kahn and Prof. Ashley Grossman ask: The fact that SPME-UK will now be working closely with FPCG...

SPME Editors' Note- This piece was submitted by Diethard Pallaschke, University of Karlsruhe, who serves as SPME-Germany Chapter Coordinator. Prof. Pallaschke notes that "SPME-Germany closely cooperates with 'Stop the Bomb'," as does the SPME-Austria Chapter. Renate Künast, the head...

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"Preparedness for and Response to High Consequence Urban Terrorism" Colonel (Ret.) Professor Isaac Ashkenazi MD, MSc, MPA, MNS - an international expert on disaster management and leadership with both extensive professional and academic experience. He is considered one of the...

Twenty Israeli and Palestinian religious teachers will begin a weeklong joint workshop Sunday in Tel Hai, where they will discuss conflict resolution and the role of religion in the Middle East. The workshops, which have been held for the past few years in Turkey, had previously been kept quiet,...

Furious faculty at Columbia University claim administrators skirted rules by granting tenure to a controversial Arab-studies professor -- and angry alumni are threatening to withhold donations. Joseph Massad -- a professor of modern Arab politics who has called Israel a "racist Jewish...

NEW YORK (AP) - An Iranian-American scholar whom Iran once accused of fomenting political unrest has been arrested by authorities there for the second time in two years, his family said Friday. Security forces arrested Kian Tajbakhsh late Thursday, a family member told The Associated Press. The...

TORONTO, July 7 /CNW/ - Toronto-Students at York University condemn recent hateful anti-Semitic attacks that occurred in the Scott Library and Student Centre. On July 2, anti-Semitic material was found in a bathroom of Scott Library and today, an anti-Semitic attack occurred on the office of the...

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music has announced it will partner with the Center for Jazz Studies at the Israel Conservatory of Music (ICM) in Tel-Aviv, Israel, to enable Israeli students to earn a degree in jazz on the college level. In this four-year program, which will launch...

President Barack Obama and I have one thing in common shared by few Americans: we were brought up by at least one parent - biological or step is irrelevant - who was born and raised in an Islamic milieu. Intimately aware of the inevitable effects of this, I must question Obama's...

Who are and who promoted these leftist intellectuals who question the social uprising of the people in Iran, asks Hamid Dabashi When a political groundswell like the Iranian presidential election of June 2009 and its aftermath happen, the excitement and drama of the moment expose not just our...

We need fresh thinking if the Arab Peace Initiative is to have the impact it deserves on the crisis that needlessly impoverishes Palestinians and endangers Israel's security. This crisis is not a zero-sum game. For one side to win, the other does not have to lose. The peace dividend for...

I will examine the practicalities, challenges and difficulties faced by military forces in trying to fight within the provisions of international law against an enemy that deliberately and consistently flouts international law. I shall focus on counter-insurgency operations from the British...

Executive SummaryWhen an armed force holds territory beyond its own national borders, the term "occupation" readily comes to mind. However, not all the factual situations that we commonly think of as "occupation" fall within the limited scope of the term...

Israel finally won one last week in an international human rights court. On Thursday, the Council of Europe's European Court of Human Rights upheld a French ruling that it was illegal and discriminatory to boycott Israeli goods, and that making it illegal to call for a boycott of Israeli goods...

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad urged the United States on Saturday to draw up a fresh plan aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, AFP reported. "I call anew on the United States to come up with a plan and a timetable for its application that will contribute to put...

BERLIN - German President Horst Köhler issued on Thursday the Federal Cross of Merit, first class - the country's most prestigious award - to Israeli attorney Felicia Langer, a vociferous critic of Israel who lives in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg. Langer, 79, who left Israel in...

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- President Obama invoked the black-Jewish alliance in a speech to the pre-eminent African-American civil rights group. Speaking Monday in New York, Obama focused on education in his first speech as president to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A former senior U.S. diplomat met with two senior officials of Hamas. Thomas Pickering, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, met with Bassem Naim and Mahmoud al-Zahar in Switzerland last month, the Washington Post reported...

A movement set up to fight "boycott Israel" initiatives has launched an audacious advertising campaign on Google. Trade Unions Linking Israel and Palestine (TULIP), which unites trade unions and nongovernmental organizations fighting the boycott of Israel, has initiated a series of...

U.S. President Barack Obama met with 15 American Jewish leaders at the White House for the first time on Monday. The president and the Jewish officials huddled for talks aimed at clearing the air following allegations that his administration was taking a tough line with Israel over settlement...

In a June 25, 2009 interview with the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour, Palestinian Authority negotiations department head Saeb Ereqat said that the previous Israeli government, under Ehud Olmert, had offered PA President Mahmoud 'Abbas territory equal in size to 100% of the land occupied in 1967, by...

Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair said Monday that Israel was not getting enough credit for its many recent measures to improve conditions for the Palestinian population in the West Bank, such as the removal of roadblocks and checkpoints. Blair was speaking during a meeting with Prime...

He tells American Jewish leaders who are concerned about the public disagreements between Israel and the U.S. that such disputes are useful in the pursuit of peace. Some are not convinced.Reporting from Washington -- A private meeting Monday held to ease tensions between the White House and...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama indicated to Jewish-American leaders on Monday that the United States and Israel are making progress in bridging their differences on the issue of Jewish settlements. Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have differed sharply...