Dear Colleagues, SPME together with StandWithUS just completed a campus tour on several California campuses including, UC Davis, Pepperdine, UCLA, Claremont, and UC Santa Barbara. Our tour coincided, with several campuses that were marking Israel Apartheid Week (IAW). It is…
read moreDear Colleagues: We recently marked 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz and yet, we are clearly still learning the lessons of the Holocaust with the growth of anti-Semitism worldwide. The recent attacks in Paris are truly emblematic of an…
read moreAs anticipated, the BDS movement has been very active this semester continuing to seek ways to delegitimize Israel while arguing that their views fall under freedom of speech rather than the hate speech they truly represent. At the recent annual Middle…
read moreDear Colleagues: Shana Tova! For starters, we would like to congratulate our colleagues Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm on the publication of their new book, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, which I and several other SPME members have…
read moreDear Colleagues: During the on-going course of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) in Gaza, we have witnessed a surge of anti-Semitic activity worldwide attempting to portray Israel as the “aggressor” while simultaneously advocating for boycotts against the state and its…
read moreDear Colleagues: While the semester is shortly coming to an end, these past few weeks have been ripe with anti-Israel activity. We have seen Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Vassar intimidating students and faculty, and at the University…
read moreDear Colleagues: On the heels of the ASA and MLA meetings at which anti-Israel resolutions were discussed, and the “Israel Apartheid” weeks taking place on many campuses around the world, we are seeing a growing concern regarding the impact of…
read moreLetter from the Editor Dear Colleagues: This being the first Faculty Forum edition of 2014, I would like to start by wishing all our members a Happy and Healthy New Year! This issue also marks the first which will not…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is concerned that on November 14th The City University of New York’s (CUNY) Brooklyn College , spearheaded by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is hosting yet another well-known anti-Israel speaker—Ben White, whose…
read moreDear Friends, The current issue of the Faculty Forum brings our readers news and reports of ongoing problems. The famous French historian, Fernand Braudel, stated that there are several types of history: fast-moving history, slow-moving history, and history which hardly…
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