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Miriam F. Elman

Miriam F. Elman is an associate professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where she was recently appointed the Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence. Elman serves as the director of the International and Intra-state Conflict Studies research team in the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) and is an advisory committee member of the Jewish Studies and the Middle Eastern Studies Programs.

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All Politics Is Local: How Off-Campus Anti-Israel Activists Impact Campus BDS

By: Miriam F. Elman

January 21, 2019

Back in the summer of 2009, the Atlanta, Georgia chapter of the virulently anti-Israel Quaker organization American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) launched a campaign to shut down the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) — a police leadership and counter-terrorism training program housed at…

Anti-Semitic “Deadly Exchange” campaign can be defeated when local pro-Israel groups respond quickly

By: Miriam F. Elman

December 14, 2018

Anti-Israel activists thrive in darkness. On campuses and municipalities, they spend months and sometimes years planning attacks on Israel that are often unveiled only at the last second, leaving Israel advocates scrambling. That is unfolding with a vile antisemitic campaign…

Will a Shrinking Protestant Church Obsess Against Israel, Again?

By: Miriam F. Elman

June 10, 2018

According to many observers, the Presbyterian Church (USA) — PCUSA — is a dying denomination. In 1993, the church reportedly had 3.1 million members — but by 2016, it had less than 1.5 million. You’d think that with the church experiencing this degree of…

Israel Is Right To Boycott Its Boycotters

By: Miriam F. Elman

January 10, 2018

This weekend Israel published a list of 20 mainly European and U.S.-based pro-BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) organizations whose senior members will be automatically barred from entering the country. The list is a follow up to Israel’s decision last March to amend its 1952 Entry Into…

Rutgers President Owes The Algemeiner an Apology

By: Miriam F. Elman

November 29, 2017

A phrase that likely originated as a wartime code of conduct, “shooting the messenger,” describes the act of blaming the bearer of unpleasant news. Before the era of modern telecommunications, messages had to be delivered by human envoys — and during hostilities, if a…