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As the holiday season approaches, it is also time for annual meetings of different scholarly associations. Recently, the usual activities –presenting research, networking and job hunting — have been augmented with the latest academic fixation: Israel bashing. Two years ago,…
read moreWhile the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has officially hit America’s scholarly associations over the last two years, even considering academic boycotts is a dramatic rupture with the past. In 2005, the prestigious American Association of University…
read moreOmar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), is on the road again with his anti-Israel show and its pack of bigotry and lies. On January 15th, UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine [SJP] hosted him at…
read moreAn April 23rd conference organized by the University of Southern California’s [USC] Peace and Conflict Studies Program started out reasonably enough. Entitled “The Shamrock and the Olive Tree: From Belfast to Bethlehem,” the conference’s goal was to analyze whether strategies…
read moreThe bias, questionable scholarship, and even anti-Semitism prevalent in many Middle Eastern Studies programs may have come to yet another American campus. Claremont McKenna [CMC], the highly ranked California liberal arts school, recently inaugurated a Middle East Studies department directed…
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