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Keeping Track of the Other Side

University of Exeter Gives Pappé a Pass on Invented Ben-Gurion Quote

By: SPME

February 29, 2012

For 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…

Fighting anti-Israel week with historical facts

By: SPME

February 29, 2012

As 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…

Friends Seminary Plays Bait and Switch on Anti-Semitism

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February 28, 2012

The 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…

UC Davis Jewish Studies Program Presents the Anti-Israel Narrative and Censors Questions

By: SPME

January 11, 2012

This 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…

Palestinian activists protest meetings between Israelis and Palestinians

By: SPME

January 3, 2012

On 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…

From the Editors: On the Controversy of John Mearsheimer

By: SPME

November 30, 2011

When, after a long career built on a theory that domestic political relationships had a minimal impact on any state’s foreign policy, John Mearsheimer co-wrote The Israel Lobby, a popular book alleging the maximal impact of a small cabal on…

“Pinkwashing:” Visceral hate for Israel in a NYT op-ed

By: SPME

November 23, 2011

“Pinkwashing“: a deliberate strategy to conceal the continuing violations of Palestinians’ human rights behind an image of modernity signified by Israeli gay life. The New York Times has an op-ed by Sarah Schulman [Nov 22], a professor of humanities at CUNY, that…