Over the past five years, a distorted and hostile attitude toward Israel has prevailed at the University of California-Santa Cruz, creating an intimidating environment for members of the campus community, particularly Jewish students. Much of the anti-Israeli bias has been…
read moreLONDON, May 30 (JTA) – A British teachers union has decided to retract its ban on two Israeli universities, but the boycott battle in British academia looks to be far from over. Both those calling for links to be severed…
read moreWhile the bulk of pro-Israel campus activism in North America has focused on educating and empowering students, a group of professors wants to combat anti-Israel bias among academics. To that end, they are organizing a fall conference that seeks “to…
read moreTo: David Miller <d.miller@leeds.ac.uk >From: Ami Isseroffwww.mideastweb.org——————————————————-Dear David,I appreciate your concern. Unfortunately it is impossible – and we certainly do not have the resources – to refute or confirm every claim made by particles of one side or another. The…
read moreMarch 15, 2005 Letter to the Editor The Lancet Samer Jabbour’s letter (“Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors, January 25, 2005 http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04cmt309web.pdf 1), in response to Skinner et al notes the difficult questions on the…
read moreNEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) – Daoud Salih, a Sudanese refugee, does not seem a likely advocate for revamping the Middle East studies department at Columbia University. But Salih says he shares the concerns of many Jewish students at the…
read morePublic HealthPromoting Arab and Israeli cooperation: peacebuilding through health initiatives Published online January 25, 2005 http://image.thelancet.com/extras/04art3217web.pdf Harvey Skinner, Ziad Abdeen, Hani Abdeen, Phil Aber, Mohammad Al-Masri, Joseph Attias, Karen B Avraham, Rivka Carmi, Catherine Chalin, Ziad El Nasser, Manaf Hijazi,…
read moreComment Healing and peace making in the middle east: challenges for doctors The efforts noted by Harvey Skinner and colleagues in today’s Lancet would not have been possible 10 years ago, and the subject was taboo 15 years ago. The…
read moreMany new mutations of American anti-Semitism, and in particular its anti-Israeli forms, originate on the University campus. Much pro-Israel advocacy is carried out by new grassroots faculty groups such as Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). SPME’s preferred…
read moreRegarding “Sitting on the sidelines,” by Mark Seal, December 24, 2004 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518470.html Mark Seal’s piece fails to take into account several basic premises of the relationship of American Jewish organizations with Israeli politics, which accounts for why sometimes support for…
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