SPME
Dear SPME Here is a report from the UK chapter of SPME.Dr Howard KahnCo-director SPME-UKA recent meeting of the Edinburgh University Jewish Society, to be addressed by Ishmael Khaldi, was disrupted by anti-Israel demonstrators (see below for a report from…
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I graduated from Glasgow University in 1967 and my first jobs were as a systems analyst for British Steel for three years, and then as a business analyst at Lloyd’s of London (the underwriters) for three years. Changes of direction…
read moreLast week a large banner stating ‘Free Palestine from Israel apartheid’ was hung outside the students union at Manchester University. However, the Jewish Society there had it removed within minutes of their becoming aware of it. The security staff at…
read moreA lecturer at the National University of Ireland at Maynooth has refused to provide an Israeli student with some information that she had requested. He replied to her stating, ‘I am sorry, we imposed an academic boycott of Israel at…
read moreThe UK branch of SPME has been invited to join the Executive Board of the Fair Play Campaign Group (FPCG). This is a major step forward for SPME-UK, which was formed earlier this year. The FPCG was established by the…
read moreTo date, Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has been trouble-free. There has been little sign of the anti-Israel problems that have been causing difficulties in some other campuses in the United Kingdom. But recently, the Muslim Society at the University…
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