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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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A new study released by AMCHA Initiative reveals how academic boycotts of Israel pose a serious threat to Jewish students and significantly increase the likelihood of anti-Semitism on campus. Much has been written in recent years detailing how academic boycotts, and…
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With the spring semester underway BDS tactics on campus have become more deceptive and its hijackings of other movements and causes continue. And as the second year of the Trump Administration begins, the larger political context for BDS has also…
read moreThe Hon. Lamar Alexander Chairman, Senate HELP Committee 455 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Hon. Patty Murray Ranking Member, Senate HELP Committee 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Amendments to Title VI…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and The Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) cordially invites you to conversation addressing a New Pathway to Israeli-Palestinian Relations with Arab Palestinian Journalist Khaled Abu Toameh and Bruce Daniel Diker from the Jerusalem Center for…
read moreDear Colleagues: As you may of have heard, Africa’s top university is placing its partnerships with its US counterparts in jeopardy if it succumbs to pressure from BDS activists to adopt a full-scale academic boycott of Israel. The governing bodies of the University of Cape Town…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is deeply concerned about the non-renewal of longtime University of Maryland (UM) professor and SPME member Melissa Landa. Currently, her contract is being investigated by the school’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct…
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