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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.

The Anti-Semitic Divestment Campaign

By: SPME

February 14, 2006

Phyllis Chesler is a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East The Palestinianization of reality continues to escalate. Wherever one turns, Israel is being demonized, boycotted and isolated. This is certainly true in…

The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) commends the AAUP for its decision to postpone its planned conference on academic boycotts

By: SPME

February 9, 2006

Source: Press Release — International Campaign for Academic Freedom (2-9-06)http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/21568.html The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has announced today that after careful deliberation and consultation, they have decided to postpone the conference on academic boycotts and their relation to…

WHY HAMAS

By: SPME

January 26, 2006

Hamas’s apparent victory in the elections for Palestinian parliament creates a thorny dilemma for Israel, the United States, and the European Union: how to deal with a Palestinian government dominated by what all three have branded a terrorist organization. Yet…

Islamic Gender Apartheid

By: SPME

December 16, 2005

A speech for the 12/14/05 Senate hearing organized by the American Committee for Democracy in the Middle East. According to one Iranian dissident, “being born female is both a capital crime and a death sentence.” Today, the plight of both…

Austrian Dialogue Forum supports SPME Letter of Concern

By: SPME

December 12, 2005

Der Standard hat am 11.11.2005 über das Verbot einer Veranstaltung durch den Rektor der Universität Graz berichtet. Wie die SPME Austria erfahren hat, fand diese Veranstaltung der Österreichisch Arabischen Gesellschaft bei der das Institut für Völkerrecht der Uni Graz Mitveranstalter…

Psychologists For Social Responsibility Launch Campaign Against Israel – SPME Responds

By: SPME

November 20, 2005

Psychologists For Social Responsibility Launch Campaign AgainstIsrael For Engaging in Psychological Warfare Against Palestinians-Protest to White House:SPME Responds Read the statement of PsySR online at: http://www.psysr.org/palestinian-israeli%20conflict%20statement.htm November 16, 2005 Below is a statement approved by the PsySR Steering Committee that…

Irwin Mansdorf Response to PsySR

By: SPME

November 20, 2005

Irwin Mansdorf Response to PsySR Raanana, ISRAEL Once again, a group of politically driven academics have blindly demonstrated why rational science and political activism do not always mesh well with each other. This time, its the turn of “Psychologists for…

False Diagnosis

By: SPME

November 18, 2005

Yesterday, November 17, the self-declared “social justice” group Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) hand-delivered an anti-Israel statement to the White House, the leadership of the House of Representatives, and the Senate. In it, they “condemn the Israeli Army’s use of…

France’s Intifada

By: SPME

November 7, 2005

In 1973, the French novelist Jean Raspail artfully predicted in the form of fiction the very real Palestinian-style intifada that now rages on the west bank of Europe: France. Ten years after the book’s publication, Raspail described the “vision” he…

The War For Civilization

By: SPME

November 2, 2005

Are we winning the war against terror or more precisely, against the death-cult ideology of extreme hate that employs terror as one of its weapons? America, Britain and Israel have all committed significant sums of money to fight back militarily…