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SPME deplores the recent Faculty Council of DePaul University’s vote to censure an article by Prof. Jason Hill, advocating the Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Regardless of how one feels about Hill’s extreme policy recommendations, his treatment at the…
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As the spring semester closes BDS resolutions were debated on a number of campuses and were regular features of political debates. While campus results were mixed, the damage has been done, and continues to spread throughout the political system. SPME’s…
read morePHILADELPHIA, PA March 15, 2019 – Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) strongly condemns Pitzer’s College Council decision to suspend its study abroad with the University of Haifa which was motivated by the global BDS movement. What makes…
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Description Donna Robinson Divine, PhD, Miriam F. Elman, PhD, and Asaf Romirowsky, PhD Background Of all the changes that can be documented in the seventy years since the founding of Israel, none is as dramatic and surprising as the country’s…
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As the fall semester ends the election of BDS supporters to Congress and the growing public conflicts between university faculties and administrations have made a BDS national political issue. With near uniform progressive support for BDS as free speech, rather…
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Recap http://spme.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/11/Benjamin-Weinthal-Nov-20-2018.mp3 BDS Monitor Live Speaker: Benjamin Weinthal Benjamin Weinthal is a research fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies. A widely published journalist based in Berlin, he serves as Foundation for Defense of Democracies eyes and ears in Europe. Benjamin’s investigative…
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As the fall progresses the ‘intersectional’ reach of the BDS movement has been expanded from campuses to broader culture and politics with its embrace by rising ‘democratic socialists.’ BDS has also been exposed in routine areas of faculty activity, namely student recommendations,…
read moreSPME wishes to congratulate the University of Michigan administration for its disciplining of Jonathan Cheney-Lippold for his unprofessional BDS actions. In particular, the documenting of bad faith in refusing only after he had tenure, the hijacking of class time for…
read moreDear President Schlissel, We are 58 religious, civil rights and education advocacy groups writing to you about an incident of grave concern to our organizations and our hundreds of thousands of members and supporters. Earlier this month a University of Michigan faculty…
read moreDear President Bollinger, We are 65 education and civil rights organizations who are writing to express our deep concern about the extraordinarily hostile climate for Jewish and pro-Israel students at Columbia University, and to offer a recommendation for addressing the…
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