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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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Letter From Israel: A Yearning For Normalcy

JERUSALEM — It’s hard to grasp from reading the American papers, but the biggest issue in this year’s yawn of an Israeli election campaign is not security but social inequality. When I got a chance to talk with former Mossad…

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Steinberg, Diabetes Voice exchange

Success: Following the correspondence with NGO Monitor, Dr. John Cohn, and others, the editors of Diabetes Voice have removed the highly propagandistic abstract of a forthcoming paper allegedly dealing with diabetes in Gaza. The revised version of the abstract can…

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Appeasement and the West

http://www.aina.org/news/20060306101124.htm 3-6-2006 Today, reality outpaces fiction. The truth is often linguistically reversed before our very eyes: Even as we see Muslim jihadic terrorists blow up civilians we are simultaneously told that the victims are not those who have just been…

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INEPT ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=Rvarh3Fqka4sCuPHii/mYT== Last month, the General Synod of the Church of England announced that it would back a campaign urging disinvestment in companies “profiting” from Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The announcement was the most high-profile success thus far in…

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The Failure of Feminism

Is feminism really dead? Well, yes and no. It gives me no pleasure, but someone must finally tell the truth about how feminists have failed their own ideals and their mandate to think both clearly and morally. Only an insider…

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PURE PAPPE

(Efraim Karsh is director of the Mediterranean Studies Programme at King’s College, University of London, and editor of the quarterly journal Israel Affairs. He serves on the Board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org ) Pappé is…

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The Anti-Semitic Divestment Campaign

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…

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

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…

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WHY HAMAS

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…

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