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David Schenker : Syria’s Export of Terrorism to Lebanon: Threat and Response

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2618 Yesterday’s car bombing in Beirut, which killed Future Party parliamentarian Walid Eido, underscores the Syrian-backed multifront campaign to undermine stability in Lebanon. One front is the Palestinian refugee camps, particularly Nahr al-Bared, where the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) are…

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Boycotting universities: Slamming Israel, Giving Palestinians a Free Pass

http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9340508 ALMOST everybody loves a nice, neat stereotype, and Yair Lapid, an Israeli writer and talk-show host, is no exception. Adding his own voice to the international chorus of indignation over a threatened British boycott of Israeli academia, Mr Lapid…

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Michael Oren: Book Review: Who Started It?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/07/AR2007060701872_pf.html 1967 Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East By Tom SegevMetropolitan. 673 pp. $35 The scenes flashed across the TV screens: tens of thousands of Arab troops massing on Israel’s borders, frenzied demonstrations in every…

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Yair Lapid: A letter to the British academic

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3411227,00.html Yair Lapid responds to UK academics’ criticism, reminding them he might pay for the removal of roadblocks and checkpoints with his life It was with great interest I read of the British University and College Union’s call for an…

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Boycott Plan Puts our Reputation at Risk

The proposal by the University and College Union for a boycott of Israeli universities is against all the principles of academic freedom that universities espouse. Such action threatens the universality of research and learning and is condemned by the Royal…

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Paul Scham: This Will Do Palestinians No Good

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,,2100507,00.html#top Amjad Barham’s article in support of the recently-declared boycott of Israeli academic institutions is one of the more thoughtful to come out of the controversy, and deserves an equally thoughtful response. I have had extensive experience coordinating and studying…

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Howard Jacobson: It’s Time to End the Vilification of Israel

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2632871.ece Forty years ago, Israel’s victory in the Six Day War was greeted in the West with widespread relief. So how come she’s now the most shunned nation in the world – fair game for boycotts and vilification? History has…

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Ernest J. Weinrib: A Betrayal of the Teaching Profession

e.weinrib@utoronto.ca Last month, University of Toronto law professor Ernest Weinrib was named one of Ontario’ s most outstanding university teachers in a province-wide competition adjudicated by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Awards Committee. He will receive a…

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