Dear Colleagues: Happy New Year! Over the past few weeks we have witnessed some positive movements and wins regarding BDS. First and most noticeable, was the defeat of the BDS vote at the Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting in Philadelphia ,79 in…
read moreDear Colleagues: Shana Tova! Our friend and colleague Leonard Saxe recently released a new study on the Hotspots of Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Hostility on US Campuses. Among the key findings Saxe and company underscored the following: CUNY-Brooklyn, Northwestern, and many…
read moreDear Colleagues: A week after the attempted coup in Turkey, we are now witnessing Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attempt to consolidate power by launching a massive purge of Turkish institutions and now the government has “issued a blanket travel ban on…
read moreDear Colleagues: As 2015 has come to a close and we enter 2016 we are witnessing a significant rise in BDS proposals among many academic associations and on-campuses in general as we see for example, in the Oberlin alumni letter…
read moreDear Colleagues: As the new academic year gets on its way we are witnessing an increase in BDS related activity as well as more debates regarding anti-Semitism on campus. Positively, the University of California’s regents voted to turn down the…
read moreDear Colleagues: It has been four decades since Congress passed a law pushing back against boycotts of Israel globally however, at the end of June, we witnessed a change. We now have two states who passed anti-BDS legislation and others…
read moreDear 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…
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