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Profs combat academic anti-Israel bias
150 150 Hilary Leila Krieger

While the bulk of pro-Israel campus activism in North America has focused on educating and empowering students, a group of professors wants to combat anti-Israel bias among academics. To that end, they are organizing a fall conference that seeks “to challenge the theoretical foundation that leads people to misconceptions about Israel,” according to conference chair…

EXCELLENT RESPONSE TO ANTI-ISRAELI LIES PUBLISHED IN BMJ
150 150 SPME

To: David Miller <d.miller@leeds.ac.uk >From: Ami Isseroffwww.mideastweb.org——————————————————-Dear David,I appreciate your concern. Unfortunately it is impossible – and we certainly do not have the resources – to refute or confirm every claim made by particles of one side or another. The PLO press agency WAFA claimed that Israel is irradiating people at checkpoints with a diabolical…

Steinberg’s letter to the editor regarding “healing and peacemaking.”
150 150 Gerald M. Steinberg

March 15, 2005 Letter to the Editor The Lancet Samer Jabbour’s letter (“Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors, January 25, 2005 http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04cmt309web.pdf 1), in response to Skinner et al notes the difficult questions on the relationship between political processes and cooperative health care in regions of intense conflict. However, Jabbour’s…

Africans say their story, too, excluded from Middle East studies
150 150 Rachel Pomerance

NEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) – Daoud Salih, a Sudanese refugee, does not seem a likely advocate for revamping the Middle East studies department at Columbia University. But Salih says he shares the concerns of many Jewish students at the New York City school. His story, and the story of other Africans expelled from or…