WASHINGTON, DC, May 20, 2013 -- The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law (LDB) and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East today issued a Joint Statement in defense of University of California at Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin. Rossman-Benjamin, an activist known for her opposition to campus anti-Semitism, has recently been the target of a public...

  Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) vigorously condemns the actions of the membership of the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), which has just unanimously approved a resolution* which endorses the boycott of Israeli universities, making it the first academic organization in the U.S. to do so.   Most troubling to SPME was the language in the AAAS resolution that...

PHILADELPHIA - Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is proud to announce its SPME Fellows for 2013-14, Sanaz Alasti, Gabriel Brahm, Nimrod Hagiladi, Veronica Slootsky, Ariel Zellman, and Maor Shani. SPME is an organization dedicated to the non-politicized study of the Middle East, and is interested in supporting high level academic work in the humanities and social sciences by...

  Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University (YU) is set to give its International Advocate for Peace Award to former President Jimmy Carter, author of Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Carter's anti-Semitic record as well as acrimonious feelings towards Israel are well documented which should raise even more concerns why YU a school that attracts so many Jews would make this choice. To...

SPME is a unique and vital organization that is characteristically innovative in our approach to fulfilling our mission. Over the past years SPME has progressed from an idea to a fully formed and functioning nonprofit whose contributions are already notable.   Over the past two years the SPME Board of Directors has been focused almost exclusively on improving its governance practices,...