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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign (BDS) seeks to demonize and destroy the State of Israel. It is most prominent on college campuses throughout the West where radical activists aided by supportive faculty members propagandize against Israel, intimidate pro-Israel students…
read moreJune 28th, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (AAJLJ) announces its upcoming mission of legal scholars to Israel, set to take place from July 3-10,…
read moreOctober 31 to November 4, 2014 Join a unique five-day educational mission to Israel for physicians and other healthcare providers to explore medical and humanitarian issues, with an emphasis on how to protect populations and provide healthcare, food, and essential…
read moreAgainst the backdrop of Operation Protective Edge and at a time when Israel is back in the crossfire of human-rights criticism, a recent visit of seven US law-school deans and other top officials may help with future efforts to fight…
read morePHILADELPHIA—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (AAJLJ) today announced its second Law Deans Mission to Israel. This year’s delegation includes: Dean Gail B. Agrawal (University of Iowa), Vice Provost Paul Schiff…
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Standing atop a mountain in the Golan Heights area of Israel, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold J. Krent saw a scene unlike anything he had witnessed before. Overlooking the Israeli-occupied territory near Lebanon and Syria, Krent expected to…
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From Turtle Bay to the halls of academia there is a growing movement to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish State. One of the favored tactics utilized by Israel’s detractors is to challenge Israel’s legitimacy by making “legal arguments” critical of…
read moreOn Thursday March 29, Michael B. Oren, distinguished scholar and Israel Ambassador to the United States delivered an address, titled “Foreign Policy: Israel the Ultimate Ally” (http://clarke.dickinson.edu/michael-b-oren/), at at the Clarke Forum For Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College’s Rubendall Recital Hall,…
read moreAmbassador Samuel Lewis Ambassador Michael Oren Alan M. Dershowitz Irwin Cotler, MP Over 150 academics representing many disciplines, current and former government officials and experts attended the recent conference sponsored by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and…
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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East and The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies of the University of Miami “Fifty Years of the Special US-Israel Relationship (1962-2012) in Perspective” January 16-18, 2011 The Conrad Miami Hotel…
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