SPME
Washington, D.C. (January 12, 2021) Dr. Norman “Noam” Stillman, chairman of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), announced today that the organization is formalizing its collaboration with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME).…
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Clifford D. May is the founder and president of FDD, a nonpartisan policy institute focusing on national security created immediately following the 9/11/01 attacks on the United States. Under his leadership, FDD has become one of the nation’s most highly…
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The fall 2020 semester concludes with the BDS movement in flux. The Trump Administration has changed the global geopolitical setting for BDS while the prospective Biden Administration is marginalizing its progressive advocates. But campus and local politics continue to be…
read moreSPME, representing over 50,000 academics worldwide is deeply concerned about the hiring process and potential hire of Dr. Valentina Azarova to lead the Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP). We believe there is ample evidence that should question her ability…
read moreIn an important court-filing, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) urged the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to reject an effort by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists to shut down a lawsuit against the American Studies…
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If you are a bystander and witness a crime, should intervention to prevent that crime be a legal obligation? Or is moral responsibility enough? Amos Guiora is Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University…
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Dr. Rachel Fish is founding Executive Director of the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism. Dr. Fish was most recently Senior Advisor and Resident Scholar of Jewish/Israel Philanthropy at the Paul E. Singer Foundation in New York City. She was also the…
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Dr. Robert R. Friedmann is the founding director of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange and Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. His interest and published work focus on community policing,…
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Dexter Van Zile is Shillman Research Fellow at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis. He has been working for CAMERA since 2006. In his work at CAMERA, Van Zile written extensively about how Christian churches and…
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Listen to a modern day abolitionist (Dr. Charles Jacobs) and an escaped Sudanese slave (Francis Buk) on Why Black Slaves Lives Don’t Matter. Francis Piol Biol Buk is an escaped Sudanese slave and modern-day abolitionist. He played an instrumental role…
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