Indoctrination versus Scholasticide

Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an affiliated faculty member at the University of Haifa. Nelson’s most recent books are Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024), which received the ASMEA Bernard Lewis Prize, and Madness: What Happened to Universities? (2025).

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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is not-for-profit [501 (C) (3)], grass-roots community of scholars who have united to promote honest, fact-based, and civil discourse, especially in regard to Middle East issues. We believe that ethnic, national, and religious hatreds, including anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, have no place in our institutions, disciplines, and communities. We employ academic means to address these issues.