News from the Middle East

Press Release: Rather than boycott

Bar-Ilan University (RA) International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) Press Release: May 24, 2006 Rather than boycott, IAB suggests cooperation and dialogue at all levels of higher education The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom (IAB) at Bar Ilan…

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Iran students protest over increased restrictions

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Stone-throwing Iranian students fought police and Islamic vigilantes on Wednesday in protest against restrictions imposed by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said. Students who covered their faces with scarves lit fires outside dormitories through Tuesday…

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Iranian President To Be Sued For Anti-Israel Comments

Various highly profiled Israeli diplomats, plan to take Mr. Ahmadinejad to the International Court of Justice, for what they believe as a violation of the 1948 UN genocide convention, to which Iran is still a cosigner. An advisory document that…

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National Academy of Sciences Opposes Boycott

The Council of the National Academy of Sciences has always been opposed to academic boycotts, and we continue to call on the members of the world scientific community to support freedom in the conduct of science and cooperative scientific exchange.…

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University of Colorado Report of Investigative Committe on Alleged Academic Misconduct of Ward Churchill Released: Found Guilty of Fabrication, Plagerism and Other Standards Violations,

The complete Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill can be found at: http://www.colorado.edu/news/reports/churchill/churchillreport051606.html Professor Churchill was found guilty…

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Judea Pearl Speaks at the United Nations

(SPME Faculty Forum Editor’s Note: Professor Pearl is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and father of terrorist slain Wall Street Journalist reporter, Daniel Pearl. ) On January 26, in observance of the International Day of Commemoration and in…

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China Urges Hamas To Recognize Israel

BEIJING, May 17 (Reuters) – China on Tuesday urged Hamas, an Islamic militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, to recognise the Jewish state and return to peace talks. Hamas, which was elected to power in January, is regarded as a…

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College of Judea and Samaria Seeking Faculty Appointments

The College of Judea and Samaria invites qualified academics (fluency in Hebrew is required) to apply for faculty positions at all levels, with tenure potential, in the following fields: Civil EngineeringIndustrial Engineering and ManagementChemical EngineeringEconomicsInformation SystemsHealth Management For further information,…

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Chomsky Meets with Hizbullah Leaders in Lebanon

According to Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV network, Professor Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) visited Hizbullah headquarters this week, meeting with the organization’s secretary-general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a Beirut suburb as well as with other Hizbullah leaders.…

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