Last week the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Associated Student Council passed an amended version of a resolution for divesture from companies dealing with the State of Israel, voting 20-12-1 in favor of divesting. To date, UCSD is the most prestigious school to pass a divestment resolution, as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign being...

  On February 7th, the Department of Political Science of Brooklyn College and various student organizations sympathetic to the Palestinian view of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, such as the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), will sponsor a Forum entitled "Judith Butler and Omar Barghouti: BDS Movement for Palestinian Rights," an event that will be an effort to promote...

  Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends, St. Paul's Church is a historic site. Here, not only Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch, but also Alexander Mitscherlich and Thomas Mann, Amos Oz and Boualem Sansal were honored with prizes – each a worthy recipient. And today: Professor Judith Butler. But what happens? Frankfurt's mayor takes to his heels and not only the Jewish community in Frankfurt,...

  In 1938, shortly after philosopher Martin Buber, formerly of the University of Frankfurt, came to Israel to teach at Hebrew University, a reporter asked how his Hebrew was. He replied: "Good, but not good enough to be obscure in." The joke, apparently, is on the city of Frankfurt, which tomorrow—Sept. 11, incidentally—will hand its prestigious Adorno Prize for excellence in...

  Dear Friends of SPME: As students and faculty return to campuses around the world for a new semester this month, those of us concerned with honest discussions about the Middle East are girding ourselves for another academic year in which the debate about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Islamism, the Arab Spring, Iranian intransigence, and the continuing internecine bloodshed in Syria...