Dear Colleagues: As 2018 is coming to a close, we have seen a significant uptick in the normalization of anti-Semitism in the US and around the world compounded by the political toxicity on the Left and the Right. The American…
read moreDear Colleagues: As we enter the summer months, we have been observing how the hostile environment on campus pertaining to Israel has trickled down into summer programs such as Jewish overnight camps and birthright trips. In particular, the IfNotNow (INN)…
read moreDear Colleagues: Many of us have long been aware of the problems within Middle East studies centers. Now in an effort to help end the biased Title VI Grants you can become a peer reviewer. Of late, SPME has learned…
read moreDear Colleagues: As many of you know, for the past few weeks there has been a great deal of push back against the nomination of our friend and colleague Ken Marcus. Ken is the founding president of the Louis D.…
read moreAt the latest annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) we got a firsthand account of how Jewish pro-Israel groups are perceived on campus from MESA members. MESA has already dropped its original designation as a “non-political learned…
read moreDear Colleagues: The recent events in Charlottesville have clearly raised the ever growing anti-Semitism bar even higher. Charlottesville was an example of how neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan were able to use the statue of Robert E. Lee to…
read moreDear Colleagues: A few positive developments have occurred over the past few weeks that are worth noting. For starters, due to the hard work of many of our colleagues at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the association voted by a…
read moreDear Colleagues: The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) just released a new report entitled, Campus Free Speech, Academic Freedom, and the BDS Movement. The report underscores that indeed much of the anti-Israel rhetoric we are witnessing today bleeds…
read moreDear 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 moreWhen Israeli historian and DC native Martin Kramer delivers the keynote in DC Friday for the annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, he will ask a question that no one has satisfactorily…
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