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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…
read morehttp://www.nysun.com/article/66281 It speaks well of the Columbia president, Lee Bollinger, that a group of left-wing or anti-Israel faculty members is now petitioning against him. In a letter obtained by The New York Sun ‘s Annie Karni, 70 Columbia faculty members…
read morehttp://www.nysun.com/article/66314 We speak for a growing number of faculty members at Columbia University who believe that President Bollinger has failed to make a vigorous defense of the core principles on which the university is founded, especially academic freedom. Academic freedom…
read morehttp://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13447&Itemid=86 MONTREAL – For Sari Nusseibeh, true peace between his own people and Israel won’t come from canny manoeuvres at the negotiating table. Ultimately, the Palestinian philosopher and humanist argued in a recent lecture at McGill University, peace will result…
read moreNeuerscheinung: Jewish Images in the Media relation n.s., Vol. 2 :Communication Research in Comparative PerspectiveGeneral Editor: Herbert Matis herausgegeben von Martin Liepach, Gabriele Melischek und Josef Seethaler Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der WissenschaftenWeitere Informationen hier
read morehttp://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/11/08/News/University.Freshman.Drew.Swastikas-3087938.shtml?reffeature=popuarstoriestab Media Credit: Ben Solomon Freshman Sarah Marshak walks back to her room with UPD after reporting a swastika on her door. Freshman Sarah Marshak confessed to drawing more than three swastikas on her door but told The Hatchet she…
read morehttp://www.nysun.com/article/65951 The Columbia University professor whose office door was defaced with a swastika has replaced the symbol of hate with a mezuzah. At a rally of students and faculty on the steps of the university’s Teachers College yesterday, the professor…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380734150&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The target is professor Joel Kovel and his new book, Overcoming Zionism. The campus is the University of Michigan. But the controversy is all too familiar. On the one side are those who say universities have become centers for…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/920671.html Two armchairs, a two-way mirror, a Persian carpet and a camera on a tripod stand in a small room in a newly renovated building on Tel Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street. Here, a unique center for studying the trauma of…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: John R. Cohn, MD,Thomas Jefferson University, is a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Join Us for a Special Event Focusing on “Helping Israel: What You Can Do” We…
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