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Catholic University nixes lectures
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080213/NATION/32490051/1002/NATION By Julia Duin – Catholic University abruptly canceled an 11-part lecture series, “Building Catholic Communities,” on Monday, after the Southern Poverty Law Center complained that two of the scheduled lecturers are anti-Semites. The university released a statement yesterday saying the lecturers “appear to espouse views that are contrary to the mission and values of…

Italian Higher Education Minister Denounces Blog on ‘Jewish Lobby’ in Academe
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http://chronicle.com/news/article/3911/italian-higher-education-minister-denounces-blog-on-jewish-lobby-in-academe Rome – Invoking memories of Fascism and the Nazi genocide, Italy’s higher-education minister, Fabio Mussi, on Friday denounced an online blog purporting to expose a “Jewish lobby” at Italian universities. Listing the names of 162 “Jewish instructors” whom it accused of lobbying in favor of “Zionists” within Italian academe, the blog appeared last week…

Librarians for Fairness Seeks to Document Damage to Israeli Lobbies by Terrorist Attacks
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IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations) will be holding a conference in late March-early April at the so-called Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies. As you are well aware, there are those within our profession who are much-interested in unfairly demonizing Israel. The forthcoming conference will likely do that on a larger, more intensive…

53 Distinguished Stanford Faculty State Publicly, “Israel is Not An Apartheid State!”
150 150 Amichai Magen, School of Law, Stanford University

THE APARTHEID ANALOGY IS FALSE AND BREEDS CONFLICT ISRAEL IS NOT AN APARTHEID STATE In pursuing peace, security and prosperity for Palestinians and Israelis we must focus on initiatives that bring the sides closer together. We are saddened and concerned by the malicious propaganda campaign being waged on various campuses, including Stanford, against Israel. In…