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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…
read morehttp://lipstadt.blogspot.com/2007/06/from-bucharest-american-protest.html In a previous post I noted that some amazing things had happened at yesterday’s session. It is early a.m. and I am rushing off to breakfast but, since I won’t have a chance to blog until tonight, I thought…
read moreThousands of university professors worldwide have joined Nobel Laureates Alexi Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Claude Cohen- Tannoudji, David Gross, Avram Hershko, Roald Hoffman, Daniel Kahneman, Eric Kandel, Arthur Kornberg, Roger Kornberg, Leon Lederman, Marshall Nirenberg, David Politzer, Steven Weinberg, Elie Wiesel and…
read morehttp://www.russellgroup.ac.uk/2007/boycott.html The Russell Group of the UK’s research-intensive universities today strongly condemned the motion passed by the University and College Union for branches to debate the Israeli boycott. Professor Malcolm Grant, Chairman of the Russell Group and President and Provost…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1180527989151&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull A two-hour drive, at most, from here, in a lawless land, extortionists are holding a British journalist captive to try and delegitimize my country. The kidnapping of the BBC’s Alan Johnston in Gaza, and now the broadcast of his…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-oren3jun03,0,2588176.story?coll=la-opinion-center Michael Oren is a senior fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center, is the author of “Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.” BY ALL contemporary accounts,…
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070603/11war.htm “Most wars begin raggedly,” the great historian A. J. P. Taylor once observed. And the Six-Day War of 1967, which would recast the Middle Eastern world into what we know today, was true to Taylor’s dictum. JOY. Israeli soldiers…
read morehttp://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070604-104907-2521r.htm Today the world will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War. This was one of the most convincing conventional military accomplishments of the 20th century, one which removed the threat of annihilation from the Jewish…
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URL: http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,486005,00.html Keine Kooperationen, keine Konferenzen, kein Kontakt: Die größte britische Dozentengewerkschaft erwägt einen Boykott israelischer Unis, um gegen die Palästina-Politik des Landes zu protestieren. Die Empörung ist groß – in Israel und Großbritannien. Die 40-jährige Besatzung der palästinensischen Gebiete…
read morehttp://www.dradio.de/kulturnachrichten/20070531110000/drucken/ Dieser Boykott wird nicht nur in Großbritannien großen Protest hervorrufen. Die Gewerkschaft der britischen Universitätsdozenten hat dazu aufgerufen, die Kontakte zu israelischen Hochschulen abzubrechen. Sie will unter anderem erreichen, dass britische Akademiker nicht mehr an Konferenzen in Israel teilnehmen…
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