The 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…
read moreA number of articles have been written about a new organization that is going to work with faculty to address problems on campus related to Israel and the treatment of Jewish students. While the group understandably wants to present itself…
read moreAn Open Letter to College President Krislov, the Trustees, Faculty, Staff, and Students of Oberlin College: Throughout the past few years, the movement to Boycott, Divest from, and Sanction Israel (BDS) has become increasingly active on American college campuses,…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) vigorously condemns the actions of the membership of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), which has just voted on a resolution that “endorses the 2005 call by Palestinian civil society for Boycott,…
read moreScholars for Peace in the Middle East, The Academic Council for Israel, The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, Stand With Us and the Louis D. Brandeis Center issued a statement in advance of the shocking vote to expected to pass, to boycott Israeli…
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