SPME in the Media

Thousands of Academics Oppose UK’s Israel Boycott

http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/18808 Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz: “Should the UCU go forward with a boycott of Israeli academics and institutions, the end result will be a self-inflicted wound on British academia.” LONDON (EJP)—Thousands of academics from around the world have condemned…

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Tausende unterzeichnen Petition gegen britisches Boykottvorhaben

Mehr als zehntausend Akademiker haben eine Petition unterzeichnet, die aufs Schärfste den vor einigen Wochen beschlossenen antiisraelischen Boykottaufruf der britischen Dozentengewerkschaft UCU verurteilt. In der von der unabhängigen Organisation „Scholars for Peace in the Middle East” (SPME) initiierten Petition heißt…

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Academic Petition Against Israel Boycott

More than 10,000 academics signed a petition demanding a halt to the campaign by Britian’s academic union to boycott Israel. Among those who signed the petition, organized by the U.S.-based Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, were 32 Nobel…

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Academics Oppose Israel Boycott

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6922543.stm Thousands of academics from around the world have condemned plans for a UK boycott of Israeli institutions over its treatment of the Palestinians. More than 10,000 academics have signed a declaration saying they would not join any project which…

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Hillel Halkin: Ordering a Counter-Boycott

http://www.nysun.com/article/57280 There is a wrong way, a right way, and a righter way for Jews and their allies to respond to the British boycotts of Israel that have been adopted by the British University and College Union, or UCU, and…

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Alan M. Dershowitz: Bigoted British Boycott

The utter hypocrisy of the British National Union of Journalists, which recently voted to boycott only Israel, has now become evident in the face of the silence over the recent move by Venezuelan Dictator Hugo Chavez to suppress dissent by…

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Matthias Küntzel: With Business Savvy into Catastrophe

Editor’s note: The original of the following article by SPME Board Member Matthias Küntzel was published in German in the Tagesspiegel, one of the most important Newspapers in Berlin – Geschäftstüchtig in die Katastrophe Matthias Küntzel spoke on March 8th…

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