Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

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Healing and peacemaking in the middle east: challenges for doctors
150 150 SPME

Comment Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors The efforts noted by Harvey Skinner and colleagues in today’s Lancet would not have been possible 10 years ago, and the subject was taboo 15 years ago. The launching of the peace process in the middle east in the early 1990s has allowed…

Fighting Anti-Israelism and Anti-Semitism on the American University Campus: Faculty Grassroots Efforts
150 150 Manfred Gerstenfeld

Many new mutations of American anti-Semitism, and in particular its anti-Israeli forms, originate on the University campus. Much pro-Israel advocacy is carried out by new grassroots faculty groups such as Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). SPME’s preferred approach is through collegial professorial contact. Only if these efforts prove ineffective, cases of anti-Semitism…

U.S. Jews aren’t passive
150 150 Dr. Edward S. Beck

Regarding “Sitting on the sidelines,” by Mark Seal, December 24, 2004 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518470.html Mark Seal’s piece fails to take into account several basic premises of the relationship of American Jewish organizations with Israeli politics, which accounts for why sometimes support for political initiatives appears to be neither public or enthusiastic. With the exception of AIPAC, which…

Response to IHT
150 150 Irwin J. Mansdorf

To the Editor: Roger Avenstrup (“Where is all that incitement?” IHT, December 18-19, 2004) blithely writes that the 2003 report of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) contends that the overall orientation of the Palestinian curriculum is “peaceful”. Curiously enough, however, when one goes to the IPCRI website, a different message is given.…