Dear SPME Members: As many of you are no doubt aware, an important vote on a resolution endorsing a boycott of Israeli universities will be taking place at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) this Saturday. The…
read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 5, 2016, Philadelphia, PA – Today, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) praised the bipartisan legislation to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses around the country. The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, introduced by U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and…
read moreDear Chancellor Dirks, We are 43 Jewish, civil rights and education advocacy organizations, representing hundreds of thousands of supporters, including many within the UC Berkeley community, who are deeply concerned about a student-taught, credit-bearing course entitled “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis” that is…
read moreJune 28th, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (AAJLJ) announces its upcoming mission of legal scholars to Israel, set to take place from July 3-10,…
read moreThe annual AIPAC Policy Conference has become a signal event in American politics. It mobilizes Americans in support of a strong US-Israel relationship, encouraging the grassroots to become engaged in the political process. The numbers tell much of the story.…
read moreMarch 8, 2016—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) strongly condemns a Faculty Petition calling for divestment from firms engaged in business dealings with Israel, signed by over 50 Columbia University professors, in which they collectively “take issue with…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is deeply concerned over the Facebook posts of Joy Karega, an assistant professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Oberlin College, who wildly claimed that Jewish bankers control the world economy and have…
read moreOn Wednesday, February 3, 2016, Jasbir K. Puar, Associate Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies at Rutgers University delivered a lecture at Vassar College, “Inhumanist Biopolitics: How Palestine Matters,” sponsored by the school’s American Studies Department and departments of Political…
read moreFebruary 3, 2016—Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) strongly condemns the actions of two groups of academics, one from Italy and one from Brazil, who recently called for academic boycotts against Israeli scholars and a cessation of collaboration…
read moreJanuary 29, 2016 – Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) applauds the outcome of a student vote this week at University of Waterloo which was to decide whether the university should sever ties with Israeli institutions. A total…
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