In 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…
read moreSPME, representing over 50,000 academics worldwide is deeply alarmed by the recent developments at the University of Grenoble. There, two of our colleagues are being threatened by the students’ union Unef on the grounds of supposed “Islamophobia”, their names standing in…
read moreWashington, D.C. (January 12, 2021) Dr. Norman “Noam” Stillman, chairman of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), announced today that the organization is formalizing its collaboration with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME).…
read moreSPME, representing over 50,000 academics worldwide is deeply concerned about the hiring process and potential hire of Dr. Valentina Azarova to lead the Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP). We believe there is ample evidence that should question her ability…
read moreIn an important court-filing, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) urged the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to reject an effort by Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activists to shut down a lawsuit against the American Studies…
read moreWASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — On Friday, August 7, 2020, a coalition of more than 120 NGOs submitted a letter to Facebook, urging the social media company to implement a comprehensive hate speech policy on anti-Semitism that incorporates the full International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition…
read moreIn what should have proved to be a positive step, a group of Syracuse University (SU) students recently tried to experiment with social media in order to encourage open discussion about racism on their campus, an effort, as it were,…
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