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The fall 2021 semester begins with pushback against teacher’s unions supporting BDS but with the continued threat from ‘ethnic studies’ and ‘critical race theory’ curricula at the K-12 and university levels. And while BDS on campus ramps up, the failure…
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Corinne E. Blackmer is a Professor of English and Judaic Studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the author of numerous books and articles on everything from opera and modern Israeli literature to modernism and Jewish women’s poetry, fiction,…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is a non-partisan community of more than 50, 000 scholars worldwide, including 41 Nobel Prize winners supports vigorous debate and dialogue about contentious issues, one of which is certainly the Middle East…
read moreIn the midst of the hostilities between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, a group of people claiming to be scholars, published Palestine and Praxis: Open Letter and Call to Action. Signed by and addressing professors in the university, the…
read moreAs Israel and Hamas begin a cease-fire following an intense 11 days of military activity in which both Israelis and Palestinians have died, universities have published statements of support. Surprisingly, however, this support was not for the region’s only thriving…
read moreIn the midst of an intense 11 days of military activity in which both Israelis and Palestinians have died, universities and academic associations have published statements of on the conflict. As a network of some 40,000 faculty members on over 3000 campuses around the…
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Olga Deutsch serves as vice president of an Israeli applied research institute NGO Monitor. She brings extensive experience in international politics, Europe Israel relations with particular emphasis on international development and humanitarian aid and civil society. Deutsch is an expert…
read moreFollowing our December 4th statement on Valentina Azarova, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is now expressing its deep concern about the censure by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of the University of Toronto. For starters, we…
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William A. Jacobson is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School. He is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. Prior to joining the…
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The 2021 spring semester is concluding with BDS as a full blown political issue not only on campuses but in US state and local elections. At the same time concerted efforts to push back against the IHRA antisemitism definition that…
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