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2010-01-05

SPME News
 
New SPME Book Review Editor, Joel Fishman, Invites Reviewers and Books and Offers Guidelines
Joel Fishman, Jerusalem Center for Pubic Affairs, SPME Book Review Editor - January 1, 2010

Dear SPME Faculty Network Colleagues: We are now trying to set up a book review project under the auspices of SPME and need your help. Our goal is to build a book review section which will give a good sense of what is being written in the field and keep our readers informed of new scholarship...

SPME President Peter Haas Reports on Global Forum For Combatting Antisemitism
December 29, 2009

SPME Executive Director Sam Edelman and I have just returned from a very intense four days of meetings, discussions and lectures at the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism. I want to give you a sense of the Forum and why SPME's participation was so important. I should start by saying that I...

Please Be Sure to Join Nobel Laureates in Signing SPME's Statement on Spain's Expulsion of Ariel College from the Solar Decathlon 2010
SPME Board of Directors - December 29, 2009

If you haven't already signed and circulated this SPME Statement on the Expulsion of Ariel University Center of Samaria from Solar Decathlon 2010 on Political Grounds being sent to the Presidency of the Council of the European Union and to the organizers of the Solar Decathlon Competitions, please...

Peruvian Professors Reach Out To SPME
December 27, 2009

SPME was recently contacted by Alexander Grobman, Professor Emeritus from the National Agricultural University in Lima with the following letter. We have read with considerable interest your December 24 message concerning the organization of a serious defense activity on behalf of Israel and its...

SPME Faculty Voices
 
Clemens Heni: The Prague Declaration: Antisemitism with a Democratic Face...
clemensheni.wordpress.com - January 4, 2010

We are facing two substantial antisemitic movements today. Anti-Zionist action and propaganda against Israel from one side, and a rewriting of the history of the Holocaust from the other. The latter has been named the "Holocaust Obfuscation movement" by Yiddish Professor , Vilnius....

Barry Rubin: The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandednes Gone Mad
Rubinreports - January 2, 2010

It's a heartening story just made for this season and the Western media: two seriously injured children, one Israeli and one Palestinian, becoming friends together in a hospital, with an innocence that transcends the hatred of their peoples. The article is written precisely balanced, two...

Ashley Grossman: Holding University College London Responsible for Radicalization of Terrorist
January 2, 2010

As Gordon Brown attempts to mobilise world leaders to sort out the problem of Al-Qaeda training grounds in Yemen, and how to increase airport security, it seems increasingly strange that so little attention is being paid to the radicalisation of Abdulmutallab in London. This man attempted to blow...

Barry Rubin: How to Get Western Intellectuals to Support Dictatorships and Totalitarian Ideas
December 28, 2009

) In 1937, at the peak of the purge trials (when thousands of people were arrested, tortured into making false confessions, and shot), after the government-made famines (when hundreds of thousands of people died), and as literally millions were being sent to concentration camps, Soviet dictator...

SPME Faculty Profile- Philip Carl Salzman
December 27, 2009

SPME Editor's Note: This article marks the inauguration of the SPME Faculty Profile Series where members of the SPME Faculty Network will share their profiles with other faculty members. We are delighted to have Philip Carl Salzman kick off this series and request others of you who are...

Barry Rubin: Dramatic New Evidence On Major Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood Terror Attack
Rubinreports - December 25, 2009

This story seems to blow the lid off the killings at Fort Hood. Anwar al-Awlaki, a Muslim cleric who is a U.S. citizen now living in Yemen, says that the mass murdering major, Nidal Hasan, asked and was given by him a religious ruling authorizing him to shoot the soldiers. This would prove...

Ernest Sternberg: Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For
December 17, 2009

The past decade has seen the coalescence of a new ideology that envisions social movements in a cataclysmic struggle against global capitalist Empire. Controlled by U.S. militarism and multinational corporations, in cahoots with Zionism, Empire contaminates environments and destroys cultures. Its...

SPME Chapter News
 
SPME Columbia Actively Involved in Programming for Students, Faculty and Challenging Tenure and Promotion Processes Violations for Joseph Massad
Judith Jacobson and Awi Federgruen, Columbia University; SPME-Columbia Co-Chairs - January 4, 2010

At Columbia this fall, the SPME chapter co-sponsored three events with student groups: Benjamin Anthony of Our Soldiers Speak with LionPAC, Geert Wilders with the Campus Republicans, and Effie Eitam with LionPAC. These events were well attended by students but not by faculty. However, the feedback...

SPME-UK Heads Into 2010 Seeking More UK Colleagues Involved to Tackle Big Issues on UK Campuses
Howard Kahn, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,Scotland; Co-Coordinator SPME-UK, SPME Faculty Fellow 2008 - January 2, 2010

Happy New Year from Scotland, the home of New Year celebrations, and from London. As we write, the snow is falling and it is very cold (for us) in the United Kingdom. The UK chapter of SPME was formed in the Spring of 2009 with co-chairmen Ashley Grossman, Professor of Neuroendocrinology at...

SPME Austria Chapter Announces Ambitious Spring Programming with Sam Edelman, Robert Wistrich, Andreas Peham, Chava Muehhofer-Gurion and Karl Pfeifer
Ruth Contreras, Ph.D. Chair, SPME-Austria; Secretary, SPME Board of Directors; Co-Editor, SPME Faculty Forum; Vienna - January 1, 2010

SPME Austria is preparing al lecture-series on anti- Semitism in the left with special focus on academia. At the moment we have confirmed a lecture on March 25th with SPME Executive director Sam Edelman and another lecture on April 27th with Prof. Robert S. Wistrich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem....

SPME Reviews and Recommendations
 
Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, Yale University Press New Haven & London 2009, 335pp.
SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - December 20, 2009

Erst seit einigen wenigen Jahren rückt das ungeheure Ausmaß der antisemitischen und antijüdischen Propaganda der arabischen Welt während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und Faschismus ins allgemeine Bewusstsein. Während die diesbezüglichen Aktivitäten des...

SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable
 
Richard Landes, and Tammi Rossman Benjamin on The Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism...Leila Beckwith and Stan Dubinsky on CFA Coercion of Members' Beliefs...Alan Kuperberg on Iran...Joel Brinkley on Gaza
December 25, 2009

.SPME President Peter Haas' Report on the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism appear in the SPME News section at: Reflections on the Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism Richard Landes, Boston University, SPME Board of Directors I attended most of the two days, but missed important events at the...


Instructions for SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable

SPME encourages it SPME network faculty members to share important news and views about issues of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism in their disciplines or on their campuses and get feedback from colleagues. The purpose of the Roundtable is to promote dialogue and discussion about these issues. As SPME is a "big-tent" organization, we hope to have submissions and reactions from many perspectives.Graduate students and students as well as adjunct and full-time faculty are welcome to submit material to the FFR.

Please limit each of your contributions to 500 words, and give us your name, institutional affiliation and institutional email address so that colleagues can follow up with you. When referring to previously published material, please include the URL (if this appears on the internet) and the title, author, publication or publisher, and date.

SPME reserves the right to publish (or not) all submissions. Contributors may be asked to edited or revised or to approve editing or revision of their contributions. Submissions must be sent to spme@spme.net.


Conference & Events Announcement
 
CFP: Five hundred years of Jew-Hatred and Anti-Semitism in the German Press Conference May 23rd-May 26th, 2010, Bremen University
December 15, 2009

CFP: Five hundred years of Jew-Hatred and Anti-Semitism in the German Press. Conference May 23rd-May 26th, 2010, Bremen University Location: Call for Papers Deadline: 2009-05-15 (Archive) Date Submitted: 2009-03-16 Announcement ID: 167578 The development of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism...

Latest Academic News
 
Revealed: the True Extent of Islamic Radical Influence at UCL
David Barrett, Patrick Sawer and Sean Rayment - Telegraph.co.uk - January 3, 2010

The true picture of Islamic radicalism preached at the British university attended by Christmas Day airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab can be revealed today. The Sunday Telegraph can disclose new details of radical Muslim speakers who have been invited to events organised by University...

Bucknell Professor Gets Death Sentence From Ethopia
Kristin E. Holmes - The Philadelphia Inquirer - December 25, 2009

A Bucknell University professor was sentenced yesterday to death in absentia by an Ethiopian court that convicted him of plotting to assassinate government officials. Berhanu Nega, of Lewisburg, an associate professor of economics at the Union County school, was one of five people to receive...

Dartmouth Heckling Prompts Soul-Search
Tracy Jan, Globe Staff - boston.com - December 22, 2009

About 300 fans packed into the narrow spectator gallery at Dartmouth College's squash courts, hoping to see their underdog team topple fifth-ranked Harvard for the first time. But the cheering soon turned to heckling - and then a full-fledged verbal assault. For at least 90 minutes, about...

'Coastie Song' Stirs Up UW-Madison with Claims of Anti-Semitism, Debate Over Housing Policy
Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press - StarTribune.com - December 16, 2009

'Coastie Song' stirs up UW-Madison with claims of anti-Semitism, debate over housing policy By RYAN J. FOLEY, Associated Press Last update: December 15, 2009 - 4:18 PM MADISON, Wis. - When two students recorded their first rap song together, they wanted to have fun with a cultural icon unique...

Views
 
Danny Ayalon: Israel's Right in the 'Disputed' Territories
Danny Ayalon - The Wall Street Journal - January 5, 2010

The recent statements by the European Union's new foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton criticizing Israel have once again brought international attention to Jerusalem and the settlements. However, little appears to be truly understood about Israel's rights to what are generally called the...

Evelyn Gordon: The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace
Evelyn Gordon - Commentary Magazine - January 5, 2010

When the Oslo process began in 1993, one benefit its adherents promised was a significant improvement in Israel's international standing. And initially, it seemed as if that promise would be kept: 37 countries soon established or renewed diplomatic relations with Israel; a peace treaty was...

Ruth Dudley Edwards: British Universities: Seats of Learning – and Loathing
Ruth Dudley Edwards - Telegraph.co.uk - January 2, 2010

Many British universities are breeding grounds for Muslim extremism. Islamic specialist Ruth Dudley Edwards explains why financial need and government interference have rendered academics oblivious to this threat to democratic society. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab "never gave his tutors any...

Charles Jacobs: Where's Our Leadership?
Charles Jacobs - The Jewish Advocate - January 1, 2010

We are a small people. We have multiple and powerful external enemies. Striving for Jewish political unity is our natural and rational impulse. Criticizing other Jewish leaders and mainstream Jewish organizations is usually just not done. But these are extraordinary times. We face daunting...

Fouad Ajami: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy
Fouad Ajami - The Wall Street Journal - January 1, 2010

With year one drawing to a close, the truth of the Obama presidency is laid bare: retrenchment abroad, and redistribution and the intrusive regulatory state at home. This is the genuine calling of Barack Obama, and of the "progressives" holding him to account. The false dichotomy has...

Wall Street Journal Editorial: Suspect Puts U.K. Schools in Focus
Dana Cimilluca and Alstair MacDonald - The Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2009

Accused airline bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's affiliation with University College London is reviving concerns in Britain that its universities and colleges-even the elite-can breed Islamic radicalism. In several of the terrorist plots linked to London since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on...

Khaled Abu Toameh: Why Abbas Does Not Want To Resume Peace Talks
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - December 31, 2009

The leaders of the Palestinian Authority have reached the conclusion that, under the current circumstances, it would be a waste of time to return to the negotiating table with Israel. They are convinced that the only way to get anything is by rallying pressure from the international community...

Ray Takeyh: In the Face of Protests, Iran's Leaders Are at an Impasse
Ray Takeyh - The Washington Post - December 31, 2009

The that has in the past few days is once more calling into question the Islamic Republic's longevity. Recent events are eerily reminiscent of the revolution that displaced the monarchy in 1979: A fragmented, illegitimate state led by cruel yet indecisive men is suddenly confronting an...

Yossi Shain and Neil Rogachevsky: Why Lobbies Don't Matter
Yossi Shain and Neil Rogachevsky - Haaretz - December 31, 2009

The signing of a peace treaty between Armenia and Turkey in October was a little-noticed milestone. Since the Ottomans deported and murdered Armenians in World War I in what Armenians and much of the world call the Armenian Genocide, Armenians have not been fond of Turkey. For its part, Turkey...

Raymond Ibrahim: Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On
Raymond Ibrahim - Pajamasmedia.com - December 27, 2009

"Al-Qaeda's Zawahiri Accuses Obama of Trying to ‘Enslave' Arab World." So reads the headline of a recent report, which goes on to quote Zawahiri saying things such as "Obama's policy is nothing but another cycle in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to...

Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Religious Zionists Must Disown the Zealots
Isi Leibler - The Jerusalem Post - December 26, 2009

Religious Zionists are confronted by an unenviable challenge which could permanently undermine their status in Israel. From being regarded by the mainstream as the voice of religious moderation and a force of societal unification - whose youth have earned the reputation as role models of...

Alex Grobman: Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian (Christian) Arabs Suffer At The Hands of Muslims.
Alex Grobman - GM's Place.com - December 23, 2009

On December 11, 2009, a group of Palestinian Christian leaders issued a 13 page document known as "Kairos Palestine-2009: A moment of truth." Having "reached a dead end" because of the "Israeli military occupation," the leaders appealed to churches worldwide...

Ami Eden: A Gloomy Decade Later, Jews Still Fighting J2K Virus
Ami Eden - JTA - December 22, 2009

NEW YORK (JTA) -- The arrival of the new millennium proved to be a false alarm for computer users. But, it turned out, the switch-over from the '90s to the '00s did unleash the J2K virus. Think of it as history's practical joke on the Jews, one that's still going strong as the first decade of...

Times Editorial: Abuse of Process, 12.16.09
Times Online - December 16, 2009

The application of law to warfare is among the greatest advances in Western civilisation over four centuries. In the name of human rights, that tradition is being traduced by a politicised campaign to harass the statesmen of a democracy. It is unlikely that you will have needed to read this far...

Abbas Still Says No to Talks but Everyone Still Blames Bibi
Jonathan Tobin - Commentary » Blog Archive » - December 16, 2009

The decision of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a freeze on building homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank has earned him little credit either in Europe or among his country's Arab foes. Rather than respond to Israel's gesture aimed at re-starting...

News
 
Arab League Chief Wants Bigger UN Role in Middle East
Yasmine Saleh - Reuters - January 1, 2010

CAIRO (Reuters) - The United Nations must play a bigger role in trying to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the United States should not be the only mediator, a senior Arab official said. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa told Reuters, without directly criticising U.S. policy...

Jordan Asks Canada to Seize Dead Sea Scrolls
The Globe and Mail - January 1, 2010

2,000-year-old Hebrew artifacts, which Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967, are on display in Toronto Jordan has asked Canada to seize the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, on display until Sunday at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, invoking international law in a bid to...

Rockets Fired from Gaza Strike Israel
JTA - January 1, 2010

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip exploded in a southern Israeli town. The two Grad type rockets, which have a range of about 13 miles, hit the Israeli town of Netivot late Thursday. No one was hurt. The Color Red early warning alarm reportedly did not go off. The...

Muslims Rally on Facebook Against Anti-Semitism
JTA - December 29, 2009

(JTA) -- Muslims placed personal messages against anti-Semitism on the Facebook page of a Muslim reformist and author. The hundreds of personal messages on Irshad Manji's were a thank you to the European Union of Jewish Students for the group's statement earlier in the month condemning the...

Netanyahu, Mubarak Meet in Cairo
JTA - December 29, 2009

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Following Tuesday's meeting, which lasted less than two hours, the Prime Minister's Office released a statement saying that the two leaders held an "in-depth and...

Deaths Reported in Iran Clashes
CNN - December 27, 2009

Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Fresh clashes broke out between demonstrators and security forces in Tehran on Sunday as large crowds gathered for Ashura, a major religious observance. An opposition Web site said three people were killed in the fighting. But, with tight restrictions on international...

Deputy FM to Arab World: Israel Extends Its Hand in Peace
Danny Ayalon - Haaretz Service - Haaretz - December 25, 2009

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon published the following op-ed in A-sharq Alawsat on Tuesday: Since the reestablishment of our state, Israeli leaders have sought peace with their Arab neighbors. Our Declaration of Independence, Israel's founding document that expressed our hopes and dreams...

Gabriel Schoenfeld: Back to the Future
Gabriel Schoenfeld - Weekly Standard Volume 015, Issue 15 December 28, 2009 - December 25, 2009

Like cancer, ideas can metastasize. In 2007, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt--the former a professor at the University of Chicago, the latter at Harvard--came out with The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. A "situation [that] has no equal in American history" had arisen, they...

Former President Carter Apologizes to Jews
Greg Bluestein AP - Sphere News - December 25, 2009

ATLANTA (Dec. 23) - Former President Jimmy Carter apologized for any words or deeds that may have upset the Jewish community in an open letter meant to improve an often-tense relationship. He said he was offering an Al Het, a prayer said on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. It...

Hatred for Jews Has Mutated: Congress
Allison Cross, Canwest News Service - National Post - December 22, 2009

The manner in which anti-Semitism is expressed in Canada has mutated since the end of the Holocaust, according to Mark Freiman, director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, who says the underlying message of hate remains the same. "(The message is) the evils that beset our society are caused...

Israel-UK Relations Strained Over Livni Arrest Warrant
DEBKAfile Special Report - December 16, 2009

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni The British court practice of issuing war crimes warrants against Israeli official visitors has catapulted UK-Israel relations to the brink of a crisis. Tuesday, Dec. 15, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he takes a grave view of the warrant for the arrest...

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