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Our first BDS Monitor Live broadcasting saw over 70 people join and that success has ensured that we will continue to offer our live broadcasts on a monthly basis for the foreseeable future. Future iterations of the live broadcast will…
read moreIntroduction In June BDS activities took a dramatic turn as the Presbyterian Church-USA narrowly approved a limited Israel divestment resolution. The language and tone of the resolution and the accompanying debate, however, were strongly shaped by traditional Protestant supersessionism. The…
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The Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East P.O. Box 48 Grantham, PA 17027 We are the members of the board of Scholarsfor Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass-roots community of more than 50,000…
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Prof. Alan Dershowitz speaks off the record to a gathering of scholars at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs On the morning of December 6, Prof Alan Dershowitz, delivered an off the record breakfast briefing to Israeli scholars at the Jerusalem Center for…
read moreTo: Dr. Herbert L. Carter, Chair CSU Board of TrusteesDr. Charles B. Reed, Chancellor, California State University We the undersigned scholars and academics, including faculty members of California State University and the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in…
read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 22, 2011Contact: Prof. Samuel Edelman, Executive Director SPMEEmail: xdir@spme.org Phone: 530-570-8137 or Kenneth L. Marcus, Executive Vice President, Institute for Jewish & Community Email: Klmarcus@aim.com Phone: 571-271-8278 Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Legal Task Force…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East Welcome Clarification by the American Jewish Committee on Anti-Semitism on Campus Issue FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 18, 2011 Los Angeles: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) welcomes and applauds the disavowal…
read moreFor Immediate Release: For Further Information Contact Peter Haas, SPME President, peter.haas@case.edu In response to Yale University’s abrupt and thus far poorly explained termination of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA), Scholars for Peace in the…
read moreThe modern university has historically striven to be an honest forum for competing ideas, freedom of speech and academic freedom. It has prided itself on being a citadel for peoples of all beliefs, persuasions, faiths and ethnic groups to come…
read moreThe Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East wishes to join Professor Rivka Carmi, President, of Ben-Gurion University, in condemning the recent death threat against Professor Neve Gordon. Although many of us fervently disagree with views…
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