SPME
Dear Professor Skloot, I am responding to your letter of June 6th in which you decry the statement issued by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) about the City University of New York Board of Trustees’ award of…
read moreDespite the history of recurrent blood libels that Jews have had to endure over the centuries, it is still a surprise that a new one would premier in an academic lecture hall. The event occurred on the evening of October…
read moreIs a question-and-answer session with a ballet master, just preceding an on-campus ballet performance, an educational environment similar to a classroom? Or is it a legitimate forum for political expression? As phrased, the question is highly particular and seemingly obscure.…
read moreThe new antisemitism, which execrates Israel as the collective Jew among the nations, has attained such global reach that expressions of malice against the Jew-Zionist are now commonplace. Even to the more hardened among us, the virulence can still come…
read moreThe past decade has seen the coalescence of a new ideology that envisions social movements in a cataclysmic struggle against global capitalist Empire. Controlled by U.S. militarism and multinational corporations, in cahoots with Zionism, Empire contaminates environments and destroys cultures.…
read moreThe beliefs that motivate my own Zionism originate in a specific conversation with my mother in December 1979, when she finally felt able to talk to me about her experiences in Auschwitz. I vividly recall her description of the day…
read more(Buffalo, NY, April 14, 2009) Faculty members in the State University of New York system are circulating a union resolution to denounce an Ontario academic union’s boycott of Israel. SUNY faculty and professional staff are represented by United University Professions…
read moreOn September 23, 2008, the day on which Iranian President Ahmadinejad was speaking at the UN, genocide scholars and international war-crimes jurists met in Washington, D.C., to present evidence of Iran’s pattern of official incitement to genocide. The incitement is,…
read moreOn Nov. 5, 2007, we co-sponsored a talk by Benjamin Krasna, Deputy Israeli Consul General, on “Israel’s Outreach to the Developing World,” with a disappointing turnout. On Nov. 12, 2007, we co-sponsored Dexter Van Zile, Deacon in the United Church…
read moreA leading American university has just organized a glitzy media event for an oppressor of religious minorities, debaser of academic freedoms, and sponsor of war crimes by private death squads (a.k.a. terrorists). Of course the university is Columbia and the…
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