SPME Statements

United Under One Umbrella, SPME and ASMEA Combine Forces

Washington, 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).…

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Coalition of more than 120 NGOs Calls on Facebook to Create a Comprehensive Hate Speech Policy on Antisemitism

WASHINGTON, 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…

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SPME Stands By Professor William Jacobson

PHILADELPHIA, in an incident that uncomfortably recalled details of the Andrew Pessin case at ConnColl, students at Cornell University Law School have demanded the censuring of Professor William Jacobson, specifically in regard to two of his articles carried at his…

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