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Biographical Statement: Joel Fishman was born in Winston-Salem, N. C. and has lived in Israel since 1972. He grew up in Brookline, MA, received his B.A. from Tufts University, and his Ph. D. in modern European history from Columbia University.…
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Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer,” one of the “most distinguished defenders of individual rights,” and “Israel’s single most visible defender – the Jewish state’s lead attorney…
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Steven Weinberg was born in New York City, a son of Jewish immigrants. He was educated at Cornell, Copenhagen, and Princeton, where he earned his Ph.D. He taught at Columbia, Berkeley, M.I.T., and at Harvard where, from 1973 to 1982,…
read moreToward the end of June, Professor Neve Gordon, Department of Political Science, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, received a death threat in the mail from an unidentified source. The letter said: “Gordon, you are a traitor!! I will reach…
read moreDavid Meir-Levi is SPME’s Directors of Communications and Research In mainstream media, at the UN, in the EU and in American academia, the responses to Israel’s boarding of the Mavi Marmara on May 31, 2010 have been characterized by inaccurate…
read moreFew rights are dearer to the American people than freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly. But there are legal and rational limits to these rights. Incitement to violence, to unlawful activity, or to the violent overthrow of the…
read moreOne of my favorite professors (and later my colleague) at Tel Aviv university used to adjure his students with the following definition: “Archaeology is the science of digging a hole, and spinning a yarn.” Professor Nadia abu el-Haj does not…
read moreAmbassador Ross has written an amazing book. The Missing Peace (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, New York, 2004) tells in 815 pages of excruciating “blow-by-blow” detail the story of how over almost two decades, three American presidents, three Secretaries of State,…
read moreMichael Tarazi must think that Americans never read newspapers (especially Front Page Magazine) or watch TV. His Op-Ed piece in Sunday’s NY Times (cf. infra, “Two Peoples, One State”, 10.3.04) presents readers with a masterpiece of mendacity. Almost every sentence…
read moreProfessor Neumann’s article in Sunday’s SPME newsletter2 raises a very important question: Why is the USA so supportive of Israel, over the past 30 years? Unfortunately, his answer is both deeply misguided and tragically misleading. The USA has, does, and…
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