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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/04/13/2009-04-13_bullying_professor_does_not_deserve_tenure.html There is a deeply disturbing report that Columbia University has granted tenure to a teacher who used his classroom as a platform for propagating offensive teachings about Jews – and bullied his students to boot. Joseph Massad should have…
read morehttp://www.thedohadebates.com/debates/debate.asp?d=48&s=5&mode=transcript#296 Transcript Introduction TIM SEBASTIANLadies and gentlemen, good evening to you and welcome to a very special edition of the Doha Debates coming to you for the first time from the United States and sponsored by the Qatar Foundation. We’re…
read morehttp://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/to-boycott-or-not-to-boycott-that-is-the-question/?pagemode=print In response to last week’s column on neoliberalism and higher education, Sobriquet writes that neoliberalism, like neoconservatism, is “an opaque catchphrase coined by wannabe pundits” that doesn’t “refer to anything.” That judgment finds support in an essay soon to…
read morehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/11/AR2009031103384.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 The Obama administration’s latest failed nominee peddles a conspiracy theory. FORMER ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr. looked like a poor choice to chair the Obama administration’s National Intelligence Council. A former envoy to Saudi Arabia and China, he suffered…
read morehttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article5853702.ece Sir, I am sure the honourable Nobel prize protester and his collegues mentioned in your leading article (Mar 4 ) will be horrified to read that their computers and mobile phones were probably developed and/or manufactured in Israel. So…
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123612623865424027.html As a Presidential candidate, Barack Obama called a nuclear Iran “a grave threat” and said “the world must prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.” But he also called for direct, high-level talks in the hopes that the mullahs…
read morehttp://www.theweek.com/article/index/93693/Denying_the_Holocaust Pope Benedict XVI sparked a firestorm by lifting the excommunication of a bishop who claims the Holocaust never occurred. How could anyone believe such a thing? Who would deny the Holocaust?All kinds of people, it turns out. The issue…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123508939643928103.html Last December, we wrote that an “early test” for the Obama Administration would be whether it participated in a forthcoming U.N. conference on racism, better known as Durban II. Uh, oh. The first “Durban” — named for the South…
read more[SPME Editor’s Note: Feedback for publication must have author’s name, institution, contact information and sent to spme@spme.org ] In the last few weeks, following the recent military attack on Gaza, we have seen an increase in calls for boycott of…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: SPME hopes after reading this story, you will sign this Petition to Government of Bangladesh to Free and Drop All Charges of Sedition Against Muslim Journalist Salah Choudhury Which Could Result in His Execution Bangladesh’s new, democratically…
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