Make a Difference

You can help rid academia of bias and politicized scholarship in discussions about the Middle East.

It has been some time since we have written to you to let you know about SPME‘s continuing, important work.  

Your grassroots support has demonstrated to our major donors that you were serious about our work on campuses worldwide. The truth is, however, that to continue to address the serious issues that are key to our mission we need to increase our membership contributions from you.

Many of you have been receiving the Faculty Forum and other SPME information for a number of years and have not yet contributed.  Others have been with us from the beginning as contributors, and we are most grateful for your ongoing support.

At this time, we would like you, especially those of you who have never ever given before, to go to spme.org/donation.html and give generously, so that we can continue our critical work with more donors than ever before.

Previous donations to SPME have enabled us to move quickly on a number of critical initiatives.  

For example, we continue fighting BDS efforts on campuses all over the world. This battle is not an easy one because the BDS supporters on campus often contort the truth and revise history to suit their ideology and false narrative. Calls for boycotts  against Israeli academics are particularly troublesome,  as are calls for divestiture from companies who do business with Israel.

We are also putting pressure on administrators who do not seem to see that attacks against Jewish students and faculty need to be taken seriously, and that the physical and emotional intimidation of any students on campus, because of what they believe or who they are, is unacceptable.

We are also confronting some academics—faculty, administrators, and students—who are continually active in the effort to delegitimize Israel. This is another area where we need your help and your support, and your presence on campuses can help moderate the dialogue about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

The reality is that because of our efforts, and the efforts of our students, not one BDS campus attack has succeeded. This is a major achievement we can all be proud of. But BDS proponents are relentless in their campaign to weaken and libel Israel, and without vigilance on our part there may be future successes.  

So your continued help is critical. We need your support in three ways:

• First, we hope that you will advance the missions of SPME to your like-minded colleagues and get them to join us and be informed by our Faculty Forum, petitions, statements, and letters to university administrators around the world.   
   
• Second, we need more of you to step up and join your colleagues in speaking out against the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic activities happening on your campus. Create an SPME chapter on your campus; engage students and faculty; educate administrators and academic colleagues.
   
• Third, and most important, we need your financial support to enable SPME to address the serious radicalism and degradation of scholarship that pervades campuses worldwide so that we can effect positive change in academia.

Please go to: spme.org/donation.html to learn how you can support SPME with a tax deductable contribution.

All our best and thanks in advance,

Richard Cravatts, PhD
President  

Asaf Romirowsky, PhD
Acting Executive Director