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This membership-wide vote will be the second time that the AAA has considered whether the organization and its members should sever ties with Israeli academic institutions. Back in 2016, the AAA’s full membership was also asked to endorse a similarly…
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A Professor at Bar Ilan University’s Faculty of Law and at the University of San Diego School of Law, Avi Bell is among the world’s leading scholars of property and intellectual property law, international law, and economic analysis of law,…
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This webinar was held jointly by ASMEA and SPME on April 4, 2023. Neil Rogachevsky is assistant professor and associate director at the Straus Center of Yeshiva University, where he teaches Israel studies and political thought. His writing has appeared in the…
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Simone Ledeen is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue; Managing Director at Vantage ROI and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Ms. Ledeen has served in various U.S. Government and…
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Gabriel Noronha is the Executive Director of POLARIS National Security and a fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. From 2019 to 2021, he served as Special Advisor for the Iran Action Group at the U.S. Department…
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Haviv Rettig Gur is a veteran Israeli journalist who serves as senior analyst for The Times of Israel. He has covered Israel’s politics, foreign policy, education system and relationship with the Jewish diaspora since 2005, reported from over 20 countries…
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Mid-semester sees BDS crises unfolding on campus, on the floor of the US Congress, and within Israel itself. Universities dissembling about classroom targeting of Jews and Israelis, and protests celebrating Palestinian gunmen deemed “martyrs,” are among the notable developments. But…
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David Schenker is the Taube Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of the Program on Arab Politics. Confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2019, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs through January…
read moreThis webinar was held November 22, 2022 and led by Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi. He discussed his contribution on “Antisemitic Rhetoric in Urdu on YouTube” from the recently published “Antisemitism on Social Media” (London: Routledge, 2022). For his work on this chapter, Dr.…
read more This webinar was held October 20, 2022 and led by Neetu Arnold, Senior Research Associate at the National Association of Scholars (NAS). Middle East Studies Centers (MESC) have strayed from their mission to objectively study the Middle East and Islam, a new…
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