SPME
The Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East P.O. Box 48 Grantham, PA 17027 We are the members of the board of Scholarsfor Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass-roots community of more than 50,000…
read moreCALIFORNIA SCHOLARS FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM (CS4AF), a group of 150 scholars at twenty California institutions of higher learning, are concerned about the latest statements and actions of UC President Mark Yudof. The group believes that under the guise of promoting “civility…
read moreHow should a great university, committed to diversity and freedom of speech, deal with the recurring problem of whether to “sponsor” a student-run event that is deeply offensive to other students? This issue is currently being debated in the…
read moreWe have received a number of inquiries concerning the “One-State Conference” organized by a group of students. The students involved are members of recognized student organizations, both at the Harvard Kennedy School and other Harvard schools. Their stated goal has…
read moreSpend any time on a university campus, and the official culture will become obvious in short order. Bigotry and prejudice against blacks, gays, or women simply isn’t tolerated. Even a hint of racism or sexism is met with quick and…
read morePenn Statement on Planned BDS Conference A campus student group, Penn BDS, is planning a national conference in February that will encourage boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel. This is not an event sponsored by the University. The event…
read moreFollowing the controversy this summer over the closure of Yale’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, another Ivy League school is taking heat as questions have recently been raised about the agenda of Harvard University’s Middle Eastern Studies’ Outreach…
read more(JTA) — More than 200 professors and students from Sweden have signed on to a call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions. The boycott petition was initiated by the Action Group for the Boycott of Israel at the Royal…
read moreStockholm (RP).Der Nobelpreis für Chemie geht in diesem Jahr an Daniel Shechtman vom Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (Israel). Das teilte die Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften gestern in Stockholm mit. Shechtman gilt als Entdecker der Quasikristalle und muss den…
read moreJulius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg 27.09.2011 10:34 Der Würzburger Astrophysiker Friedrich Röpke und sein israelischer Kollege Avishay Gal-Yam haben den Arches-Preis des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung erhalten. Der Preis wird jährlich an deutsch-israelische Forschungskooperationen von höchster wissenschaftlicher Exzellenz vergeben und ist mit…
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