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Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure of the AAUP just published a problematic “Statement” in which it denounced the threat to academic freedom from two – it claims – closely related efforts by “conservative” legislation to suppress freedom of…
read morePhiladelphia, PA (April 6, 2022) – SPME joined three additional leading organizations in urging a dozen U.S. universities to withdraw institutional membership from the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) after the association endorsed an academic boycott of Israel. Failure to…
read more(March 23, 2022) Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) condemns the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) membership for its ratification of BDS against Israeli universities. During MESA’s annual meeting, a press release revealed that, “the resolution would direct…
read more(December 6, 2021) Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) condemns a recent vote by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to institute an academic boycott against Israeli universities as part of the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…
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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 moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is a non-partisan community of more than 50, 000 scholars worldwide, including 41 Nobel Prize winners supports vigorous debate and dialogue about contentious issues, one of which is certainly the Middle East…
read moreIn the midst of the hostilities between Israel and Hamas in May 2021, a group of people claiming to be scholars, published Palestine and Praxis: Open Letter and Call to Action. Signed by and addressing professors in the university, the…
read moreAs Israel and Hamas begin a cease-fire following an intense 11 days of military activity in which both Israelis and Palestinians have died, universities have published statements of support. Surprisingly, however, this support was not for the region’s only thriving…
read moreIn the midst of an intense 11 days of military activity in which both Israelis and Palestinians have died, universities and academic associations have published statements of on the conflict. As a network of some 40,000 faculty members on over 3000 campuses around the…
read moreFollowing our December 4th statement on Valentina Azarova, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is now expressing its deep concern about the censure by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of the University of Toronto. For starters, we…
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