SPME in the Media

Backing the Israel Boycott

Members of the American Studies Association have voted in favor of endorsing the academic boycott of Israel by a two-to-one margin, making it the second major U.S. scholarly association, after the Association for Asian American Studies, to do so. Of the 1,252 votes…

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German anti-Netanyahu cartoon sparks anti-Semitism row

BERLIN – A regional German newspaper published an anti- Israel cartoon on Kristallnacht, depicting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as killing the Iran nuclear talks with poison. The illustration triggered allegations that the paper Badische Zeitung, which is based in the…

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Academics and BDS: An Update

Last week, I criticized the most recent issue of the Journal of Academic Freedom (JAF), a journal of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Mainly activists in and sympathizers with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement author that issue of…

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No Such Thing as a Free Trip?

Kavita Khory, a professor of politics at Mount Holyoke College, was set to participate in an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel this summer when she learned that because of her country of birth – Pakistan – she would be subject to…

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Chicago-Kent, Loyola deans visit Israel

Standing atop a mountain in the Golan Heights area of Israel, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Dean Harold J. Krent saw a scene unlike anything he had witnessed before. Overlooking the Israeli-occupied territory near Lebanon and Syria, Krent expected to…

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Smear Attack Against Israel Defenders at UC San Diego

he University of California San Diego (UCSD) is the latest campus where false charges have been leveled at Israel defenders in order to advance the genocidal campaign against the Jewish State. A UCSD pro-Muslim student association, Students for Justice in Palestine…

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