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Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

Georgetown’s John Esposito Defends Jihadist Stepping Down From VA Commission For Lectures Defending Radical Islam

By: Winifred Myers, Campus Watch

October 2, 2007

John Esposito, who heads the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University (financed by a $20 million gift from the prince), is on record as defending yet another radical Islamist. The beneficiary of Esposito’s imprimatur this…

Was the Notion of an Israeli Boycott Too Much to Contemplate?

By: SPME

October 2, 2007

It seems the leaders of Britain’s lecturers have managed to stamp out the possibility of any future academic boycott of Israeli universities before it was even in the offing. The University and College Union said on Friday that it would…

SPME’s Physician Anti Boycott Working Group Helps Raise Hundreds of Signatures for IMA Reply to BMA Members Call for Israel Boycott in BMJ

By: Edward S. Beck

May 25, 2007

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East’s Physicians’ Working Group Against the Boycott Action Alertr helped the Israel Medical Association raise several hundred physicians’ signatures where published in the British Journal of Medicine. Click here for the full text and…

Read the verbatim “Breaking the Silence” testimony for yourself

By: Steven M. Albert

January 23, 2006

Send response to journal:Re: Re: Read the verbatim “Breaking the Silence” testimony for yourself Derek Summerfield suggests that his critics read “Breaking the Silence,” posted on the internet. I have done so and suggest that his supporters also read it.…

Soroka saves two Gaza children in one week By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

By: SPME

June 15, 2004

Twice in one week, humanitarian gestures at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba have saved Palestinian children from Gaza who have no medical insurance. A seven-year-old girl suffered second- and third-degree burns over a third of her body after she was…

Letter from the British Medical Journal showing bias against Israeli authors in certain science publications.

By: Herve Seligmann

October 25, 2003

Letter More transparency in reviewing is called for EDITOR-The recent calls for boycotting Israeli scienceassume that Israeli authors are as likely to publish as others.1 In fact, nations are differentially represented in scientificjournals. The total number of publications from a…