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The question on the Palestinian street is no longer when civil war will break out, but when will it end. Armed clashes between Hamas and Fatah supporters have been taking place every day since the deployment of the new Hamas…
read morePeople who cherish the values of independence of thought, scientific research free of governmental intervention and academic freedom, and who are used to fighting governmental encroachment on such freedom find themselves in a strange situation nowadays. The current threat to…
read moreMSU Provokes With ‘Holocaust’ Week UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union expressed disapproval of the “apartheid” state of Israel.by: Ben Ritter Less than three months after UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Union found themselves in the national spotlight as a result of…
read moreMay 17, 2006 President John Wilkin NATFHE 27 Britannia Street London WC1X 9JP Dear President Wilkin: It has come to our attention that the NATFHE intends to vote on the issue of boycotting academic personnel (professors and teachers) and institutions…
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The Guardian publishes a spate of anti-Israel pieces including calls for sanctions and comparisons to apartheid. Israel is confronting a number of well-organized campaigns, including an academic boycott by a British teachers union, and continuing attempts by the Presbyterian and…
read moreIt is, even by Brussels standards, an odd decision. The EU is to resume its subventions to the Palestinian Authority (PA)-despite having recently passed a series of laws against financing terrorism, and despite the fact that Hamas, which runs the…
read moreLater this month Britain’s largest university and college lecturers union will vote on a motion recommending its 67,000 members boycott their Israeli counterparts and Israeli academic institutions. The move by the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education…
read moreBelow please find the link to the sixth Middle East Brief: “Turkish-American Relations Since the 2003 Iraqi War: A Troubled Partnership” by Banu Eligur This Brief closely examines the steady decline in Turkish-American relations since the 2003 Iraqi War. Eligur…
read moreOn May 7, Lebanese Druze leader and member of parliament Walid Jumblat told reporters in Cairo that Hizballah should disarm. These comments came just four days after Jumblat offered his assistance to the Syrian opposition in establishing “a democratic and…
read moreA string of scandals have revealed the positions of Arab governments on the issue of aid to the Palestinian people amid the war of famine being waged by America, Israel and European states. The first scandal is that Arab governments…
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