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Alan Dershowitz to Speak at Yale on “Anti-Semitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in The Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas”, October 11 7PM
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New Haven, Conn. – Legal scholar and renowned attorney Alan Dershowitz will speak on “Anti-Semitic Hate Speech: Incitement to Violence in the Absence of a Marketplace of Ideas” in the Levinson Auditorium at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., on October 11 at 7 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public. Sponsored…

Israel’s “Jewish Defamers” to Be Scrutinized at CAMERA Conference, October 21, New York City
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New York City (September 25) – “The news media too often hand the microphone to prominent Jews who defame Israel and expect to have their opinions taken at face value because of their personal background,”said Andrea Levin, executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. “Little or no effort is…

Was the Notion of an Israeli Boycott Too Much to Contemplate?
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It seems the leaders of Britain’s lecturers have managed to stamp out the possibility of any future academic boycott of Israeli universities before it was even in the offing. The University and College Union said on Friday that it would drop lecturers’ controversial call for a debate over the possibility of an academic boycott of…

Amjad Barham: We Will Not Be Silenced- Comments on Cancellation of Palestinian Academic UK Speaking Tour
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Palestinian academics received with dismay, although not entirely with surprise, the decision by the University and College Union (UCU) to cancel their UK speaking tour, during which they had planned to discuss the academic boycott of Israel with colleagues at British universities. Citing legal advice, the union released a statement saying that “while UCU is…