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Elan S. Carr serves as the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism. As Special Envoy, he advises the Secretary of State and is responsible for directing U.S. policies and projects aimed at countering anti-Semitism throughout the world. Prior to…
read moreWe, the undersigned faculty of USC, have followed the case of Rose Ritch and her resignation from student government with great dismay. As described in the supportive statement by President Folt and fully detailed in the statement by the Alliance for Academic Freedom of August 24th,…
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Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg is professor emeritus of political science at Bar Ilan University, and founder-president of NGO Monitor, based in Jerusalem. He is a frequent oped writer and an analyst on Middle East issues in the international media. His…
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The summer of 2020 has seen unprecedented upheaval in the US and worldwide. After capitalizing on the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of Israeli ‘annexation,’ the BDS movement continues to make electoral gains and expand its alliances with BLM, all…
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In late March 2019 Stephen Lamonby, 73, a part-time lecturer in engineering at Solent University in the UK, remarked to a colleague at the University restaurant, that people from different countries had become good at certain things owing to what…
read moreIn what should have proved to be a positive step, a group of Syracuse University (SU) students recently tried to experiment with social media in order to encourage open discussion about racism on their campus, an effort, as it were,…
read moreProfessor Diethard Pallaschke (1940-2020) Scholars for Peace in the Middle East deeply mourns the passing of Prof. Pallaschke who passed away on July 8, 2020. Prof. Pallaschke was a founding member of the SPME German Chapter which he co-founded with Matthias…
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Textbooks are a powerful tool in shaping children’s minds. In the Middle East, however, they all too often promote Islamism and other extremist ideas. What tools are available to make positive change, what is the record of efforts so far,…
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Robert Satloff is the executive director of The Washington Institute. His most recent study is entitled “Wrestling with Annexation:The Elusive Search for a Policy Rationale”
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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen is a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. Hacohen served in the IDF for 42 years, commanding troops in battle on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. Was a Corps commander, and…
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