Dear President Schlissel, We are 58 religious, civil rights and education advocacy groups writing to you about an incident of grave concern to our organizations and our hundreds of thousands of members and supporters. Earlier this month a University of Michigan faculty…
read moreDear President Bollinger, We are 65 education and civil rights organizations who are writing to express our deep concern about the extraordinarily hostile climate for Jewish and pro-Israel students at Columbia University, and to offer a recommendation for addressing the…
read moreThe Hon. Lamar Alexander Chairman, Senate HELP Committee 455 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Hon. Patty Murray Ranking Member, Senate HELP Committee 154 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Amendments to Title VI…
read moreDozens of advocacy groups on Monday called for the confirmation of Kenneth Marcus — a leading figure in efforts to combat campus antisemitism — to a prominent civil rights post at the US Department of Education. The founding president of…
read moreDear Colleagues: As you may of have heard, Africa’s top university is placing its partnerships with its US counterparts in jeopardy if it succumbs to pressure from BDS activists to adopt a full-scale academic boycott of Israel. The governing bodies of the University of Cape Town…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is deeply concerned about the non-renewal of longtime University of Maryland (UM) professor and SPME member Melissa Landa. Currently, her contract is being investigated by the school’s Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct…
read moreLast May, following the disruption of a Students Supporting Israel event by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), AMCHA coordinated a letter signed by 53 organizations asking Chancellor Gillman to implement a plan to address campus intolerance that would outline disciplinary actions against…
read moreDear Colleagues, As many of you are aware there has been a great deal of controversy surrounding the appointment of Professor N. Bruce Duthu as Dean of the Faculty at Dartmouth College. There have been many voices within the school who have weighed…
read morePHILADELPHIA, PA—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is deeply concerned by the recent nomination of Professor Bruce Duthu, as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College. Duthu is a known supporter of BDS and…
read moreMarch 20, 2017 – Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) applauds and appreciates the more than one hundred Middlebury faculty for their stance and statement following the disruption of Dr. Charles Murray’s talk on March 2nd. During his…
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