The Walt – Mearsheimer claim about Israeli policies being the catalyst for 9/11 seems to be based on an uncritical acceptance of Bin Laden’s post 9/11 explanations of the event. ( See the recently published The al – Qaeda Reader,…
read morehttp://www.thehoya.com/news/101207/news1.cfm Facing growing criticism from a Law Center professor, University President John J. DeGioia has stood by his decision in recent weeks to criticize a proposed boycott of Israeli universities over the summer. DeGioia’s criticism, which he expressed in an…
read moreGerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a…
read moreWASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Thursday, October 18,the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Middle East Program and the Muslim WorldInitiative of the United States Institute of Peace will host a talk by Dr.Abdou Filali Ansari, one of the Arab world’s most…
read morehttp://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/912660.html Israeli historian Saul Friedlander was awarded the top prize at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair on Sunday in recognition of his narratives documenting the Nazi Holocaust. “Saul Friedlander gave a voice to the grievances and cries of those human…
read morehttp://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20071016finkelsteinmearsheimer.html Several of the pro-Israel lobby’s strongest critics gathered in Chicago to fight what they described as Jewish efforts to stifle academic freedom. CHICAGO (JTA) — Collectively they have published more than a hundred books and countless articles. Four are…
read moreBreaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby By Eric Chinski, Farrar, Straus and GirouxPosted on October 16, 2007, Printed on October 16, 2007http://www.alternet.org/story/65271/ Eric Chinski, the editor of John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s provocative new…
read morehttp://www.focus.de/kultur/buecher/saul-friedlaender_aid_135392.html Der israelische Historiker und Holocaust-Überlebende Saul Friedländer wird 75 – und erhält den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Saul Friedländer hat in dieser Woche gleich zwei Mal Grund zum Feiern Wer aus der Geschichte lernen will, dem genügt die wissenschaftliche…
read moreYale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)presents TWO SPEAKERS 1. a special lunchtime talk Tuesday, Oct. 16 | 12 noonISPS, 77 Prospect St., Rm. B-012 Dr. Grahame DaviesAward-winning poet, author, and journalistUniversity of Wales, Cardiff, and Goodenough College,…
read moreLionPAC and Scholars for Peace in the Middle East present The Underground Lecture Series*: What Archaeology Tells Us About Ancient Israel II. Did GodHave a Wife: Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel Speaker: William G. Dever, PhDProfessor Emeritus of…
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