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February 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…
read moreAt the upcoming American Anthropological Association (AAA), set to take place on November 20th ,AAA members will debate whether to endorse the call for boycott of their Israeli colleagues and institutions. The proposed language suggests that AAA should impose boycotts until…
read moreDear Board of Regents, We are writing to express our extreme disappointment and outrage over the proposed Statement of Principles Against Intolerance that you will be considering at your upcoming meeting. As you know, in the wake of unprecedented and…
read moreDear Honorable Members of the University of California Board of Regents, We are 32 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of supporters who are deeply concerned about the safety and well-being of Jewish students at the University of California. In light…
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Prof. Robert Wistrich – Credit timesofisrael.com It is with great sadness that SPME mourns the loss of our friend and colleague Robert Wistrich who died suddenly on Tuesday in Rome. Robert was the Neuburger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University…
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