SPME
Scholars for Peace in the Middle East deeply mourns the passing of Professor Jonathan Adelman on October 29, 2021. Adelman served as SPME’s President for four years. Professor Adelman spent the majority of his career at the University of Denver…
read moreMoney is flowing to the campus for BDS activities, but the amounts, at least those that are visible, appear relatively trivial, especially when compared to the investments of the pro-Israel community, which are growing following the announcement of plans by…
read moreRobert Wistrich, widely considered one of the world’s leading experts on anti-Semitism, died of a sudden heart attack in Rome late Tuesday, Italian media is reporting. He was 70 years old. According to a news bulletin posted on the website…
read moreAMCHA DEMANDS UCLA STOP BULLYING OF JEWISH STUDENTS 7 Groups Call on UC Regents, President Napolitano and the UCLA Chancellor to Terminate SJP’s Antisemitic Pledge Sacramento, CA, May 15, 2014 – Shocked at UCLA’s recent refusal to protect Jewish students,…
read moreBackground On November 1, 2013, the Norwegian Council on Ethics, an evaluation body of the Ministry of Finance and GPFG, recommended the “exclusion” of two Israeli companies, Africa Israel Investments Ltd (AFI) and its subsidiary Danya Cebus Ltd, from the…
read moreFor one brief shining moment, it looked as if the University of Exeter was going to hold Ilan Pappé accountable for attributing a fake quote to David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister. Those hopes were in vain. Not only…
read moreAs some universities brace for the annual spring round of anti-Israel weeks, which falsely accuse Israel of the great crimes committed by South African apartheid racists, we must put this absurdity in historical perspective. For starters, the conflict between…
read moreThe Friends Seminary of New York, which invited the notorious anti-Semite, Gilad Atzmon, to one of its classes, and assigned its students to read his hate-filled writings, has now backed out of an agreement to invite me to the school to…
read moreThis is the report of a speaker event at the University of California at Davis, hosted not by an anti-Israel group but by the Jewish Studies Program. It was written by Gail Rubin J.D., co-chair of StandWithUs Davis. Please e-mail…
read moreOn December 20, for the second time in a week, Palestinian political activists thwarted a meeting between Israelis and Palestinians in East Jerusalem, under the pretext that such meetings promote “normalization” between Palestinians and Israelis. This meeting, which was supposed…
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