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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is not-for-profit [501 (C) (3)], grass-roots community of scholars who have united to promote honest, fact-based, and civil discourse, especially in regard to Middle East issues. We believe that ethnic, national, and religious hatreds, including anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, have no place in our institutions, disciplines, and communities. We employ academic means to address these issues.

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Press Release: Rather than boycott

Bar-Ilan University (RA) International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) Press Release: May 24, 2006 Rather than boycott, IAB suggests cooperation and dialogue at all levels of higher education The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) at Bar Ilan…

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Iran students protest over increased restrictions

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Stone-throwing Iranian students fought police and Islamic vigilantes on Wednesday in protest against restrictions imposed by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said. Students who covered their faces with scarves lit fires outside dormitories through Tuesday…

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Iranian President To Be Sued For Anti-Israel Comments

Various highly profiled Israeli diplomats, plan to take Mr. Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice, for what they believe as a violation of the 1948 UN genocide convention, to which Iran is still a cosigner. An advisory document that…

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National Academy of Sciences Opposes Boycott

The Council of the National Academy of Sciences has always been opposed to academic boycotts, and we continue to call on the members of the world scientific community to support freedom in the conduct of science and cooperative scientific exchange.…

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Priorities Out of Order-Where are the Feminists?

The Dutch people have driven the heroic Aayan Hirsi Ali out of parliament, out of Holland, and out of Europe. Their shameful appeasement of murderous, totalitarian Islamism has accomplished what the jihadists could not do: sadden one of Europe’s most…

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University of Colorado Report of Investigative Committe on Alleged Academic Misconduct of Ward Churchill Released: Found Guilty of Fabrication, Plagerism and Other Standards Violations,

The complete Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/reports/churchill/churchillreport051606.html Professor Churchill was found guilty…

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Judea Pearl Speaks at the United Nations

(SPME Faculty Forum Editor’s Note: Professor Pearl is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and father of terrorist slain Wall Street Journalist reporter, Daniel Pearl. ) On January 26, in observance of the International Day of Commemoration and in…

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