Campus News & Climate

U.S. Jews aren’t passive

Regarding “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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Response to IHT

To the Editor: Roger Avenstrup (“Where is all that incitement?” IHT, December 18-19, 2004) blithely writes that the 2003 report of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) contends that the overall orientation of the Palestinian curriculum is “peaceful”.…

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Irwin Mansdorf’s letter in the Brit Med Journal

Letter Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes Summerfield’s outrage is misplaced EDITOR-Summerfield’s jump from psychiatrist to attorney,judge, and jury is a classic example of the inappropriate useof science and medicine to promote specific political views.1 Any reasonable…

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BMJ: Summerfield’s fictions and agenda of hatred

Prof. and Director of the Program on Conflict ManagementBar Ilan University, Israel Send response to journal:Re: BMJ: Summerfield’s fictions and agenda of hatred Editors, Derek Summerfield’s article consists of numerous fictitious claims designed to exploit medical and health norms to…

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Mansdorf, Canadian J Psychiatry exchange

Q. Rae-Grant, MDEditor-in-chiefCanadian Journal of PsychiatryMay 30, 2004 Dear Editor: In “The prevalence of psychological morbidity in West Bank Palestinian Children”, [1] serious omissions presenting the data were present. Moreover, clearly biased and undocumented statements attributing causality on the basis…

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Response to IHLRI

Dear Prof. Bloom,In the first paragraph of your response to my inquiry, you wrote “I have examined the issues, namely: the relation of IHLRI to the mission of the Program, the procedures and scope of input into IHLRI content, and…

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Faculty hold the key to improving Israel’s image on campus

NEW YORK, May 19 (JTA) – The belief that students are the main instigators of anti-Israel activity on college campuses is wrong – it’s actually the faculty. At least, that’s the premise of a soon-to-be released report by the Israel…

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