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Student wearing IDF uniform arrives at Sapir College following long army reserve service, ordered to leave classroom. Students say lecturer told reservist, ‘I don’t teach soldiers, policemen and officers in uniform’. College president: Student’s version sounds reliable; we will draw…
read morehttp://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/11/15/News/Professor.Resigns.Abruptly-3103850.shtml A visiting political science professor told her Arab-Israeli Conflict class Tuesday she plans to resign from teaching the course for the remainder of the semester, according to students in the class. Chris Deering, chair of the political science department,…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927801.html The head of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission condemned Oxford University’s debating society Sunday for inviting convicted Holocaust denier David Irving to speak at Monday forum. Protests are expected Monday when Irving attends the Free Speech Forum, along…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1195546693204&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull A former professor accused of providing money to Hamas terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison and fined $5,000 for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of…
read morehttp://www.forward.com/articles/12071/ Last week John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt came here to Vienna, as well as to Frankfurt and Berlin, to promote the German-language version of their controversial book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” The two American academics had…
read morehttp://blog.ngo-monitor.org/durban-conference/anti-israel-boycott-conference-to-be-held-november-22-2007-in-west-bank/ Category: Durban Conference, Boycott / Divestment, NGOs, Government Funding, Badil, Palestinian NGO Network, EU, Ford Foundation Tags: none The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO ), a radical Palestinian NGO which played a prominent role at Durban 2001, has organized…
read moreGegen das Vergessen: Am Touro-College ist gerade der Studiengang Holocaust-Communications gestartet. Die Teilnehmer zahlen viel Geld, um zu lernen, wie sie jungen Menschen Wissen um den Völkermord an den Juden vermitteln können http://www.taz.de/nc/1/archiv/print-archiv/printressorts/digi-artikel/?ressort=bl&dig=2007%2F11%2F20%2Fa0161&src=GI&cHash=f950abbe35 Die Worte auf der weißen Tafel an…
read morehttp://news.independent.co.uk/education/education_news/article3174373.ece The Defence Secretary, Des Browne, is leading a group of politicians and public figures who are boycotting an increasingly divided Oxford Union over the decision by its president to host a talk involving the Holocaust-denying historian David Irving and…
read morehttp://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28100 Faculty members presented a letter to top administrators Tuesday condemning University President Lee Bollinger for creating a “crisis of confidence” and accusing the University’s administration of inadequately protecting academic freedom on campus. The Columbia University Faculty Action Committee, a…
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Promoting Academic Integrity and Honest Debate Columbia University Faculty Seeking Signatures to Dissent from CUFAC Statement by November 12, 2007… November 12, 2007 Here is the statement for which Columbia Professors Judith Jacobson and Awi Federgruen are seeking signatures ASAP…
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