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David Menashri, Professor Emeritus Tel Aviv University (TAU), is Founding Director of the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies at TAU and Senior Researcher at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at TAU. His main field of academic…
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2020 has taken a dramatic turn with the global coronavirus pandemic. Most US campuses are closed and politics have focused increasingly on the health crisis. Campus shutdowns also came just as ‘Apartheid week’ was about to get underway. The respite provides an…
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The Year 2020 has seen BDS firmly established as a national and international political issue. Protestors pressuring Democratic presidential candidates and the UN’s new blacklist of firms working across the ‘Green Line’ are ominous developments showing the movement of BDS…
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The fall semester ended with BDS inspired antisemitism at the center of political debates. The Trump Administration’s Executive Order extending civil rights protections to Jewish students, the Labour Party’s antisemitism crises, and the endorsement of BDS by students and faculty,…
read moreWe do not know whether you signed because you are knowledgeable on the issue, or you are just trusting the colleague who encouraged you to “be one of the good guys” and sign. If you are of the latter, allow…
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Civil Rights Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Education – With Kenneth L. Marcus Kenneth L. Marcus serves as assistant secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 7,…
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The fall semester begins with BDS increasingly at the center of American political debates. Following campus trends, political parties have grown more extreme but as the antisemitic nature of BDS is more widely understood, there are signs that limits are…
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Recap http://spme.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/07/jason-hill-jul-25-2019.mp3 A Conversation with Professor Jason D. Hill Jason D. Hill is professor of philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, and a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His areas of specialization include ethics, social and…
read moreSPME 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…
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