SPME is so grateful that so many of you have made such generous contributions within the last two weeks at week’s end. We are so happy to seen so many new and returning contributors who have absolutely made a commitment to being generous in supporting the kind of scholarship that is so important to address issues of historical revisionism, fabrication and deliberate distortion.
Your contributions help us sustain academically rigorous scholarship that will help improve and change the narrative of the conflict by scholars and colleagues, who like many of you, need to publish in a career advantageous way in their disciplines, which requires processes not routinely engaged by polemicists or propagandists.
Your contributions have helped SPME conduct the conference on “Postcolonial Theory and the Arab Israeli-Conflict” at Case Western Reserve University and publish the proceedings in Israel Affairs and in a volume to be released by Routledge Press in May 2008.
Your contributios have helped SPME prepare a conference on a formal academic critique of the Walt Mearsheimer and Jimmy Carter offering as the University of Maryland entitled: Israel and American Politics: Moving Beyond Professors Mearsheimer and Walt and President Jimmy Carter
Your contributions helped make possible the highly acclaimed,The Underground Lecture Series: What Archeology Tells Us at Columbia and Barnard Universities.
Your contributions have helped SPME grow and communicate regulary with over 19,000 academics to become an influential community of scholars insisting on academic integrity, excellence and accountability.
Your increasing participation in contributing financial support is attracting the attention of the philanthropic community who are now appreciating that high quality scholarship is necessary to reverse anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism.
Your contributions help us reach more and more faculty who feel engaged, educated and empowered after feeling isolated and fearful to expressing their sentiments in perceived hostile academic environments.
Your contributions helped bring high quality faculty level speakers to address faculty and students at UCLA, UCSC, USC, SJSU, Stanford, Columbia, University of Buffalo, University of Pittsburgh University of Toronto to name a few….
Your contributions have helped us established faculty chapters throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.
Your contributions helped SPME work with groups internationally to defeat the proposed British academic boycott of Israeli academics.
Your contributions helped free Haleh Esfandaria, Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, who was imprisoned in Teheran when visiting her mother last year as well as other Iranian scholars.
Your contributions have help SPME help Shoab Saleh Choudhury, the Muslim Bangladeshi journalist who has been charged with sedition, for expressing pro-Israel sentiments and wanting to visit Israel.
Your contributions have helped SPME help and draw national attention to the case of Thomas Klocek at Depaul University who was dismissed for inquiring of pro-Palestinian students about the rights of Christian Arabs in a new Muslim state of Palestine.
Your contributions have helped SPME help the United States Civil Rights Commission’s group on Combatting anti-Semitism on the campus and help further clarify anti-Semitic acts in academia.
Your contributions have helped SPME scholars attend academic meetings to present important perspectives on the conflict that might not normally be presented.
Your contributions have help SPME-Austria and Germany conduct programming at universities and in the community to address anti-Israelism as it is manifested there.
Your contributions have helped support these and many other programs and services which are helping colleges and universities turn the corner on anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism in our classrooms and in our disciplines.
Your contributions will help to insure younger scholars and the next generation of scholars develop the highest levels of scholarship to better understand the complex issues of the Middle East for the future….
There is still plenty of time to make your contribution for your tax-deduction for 2007 by placing a check in the mail today to: SPME, c/o Susquehanna Institute, 624 Sandra Avenue, Harrisburg, PA 17109 or go to spme.org/donation.html
For these contributions and to all who have contributed in 2007 and are yet to contribute before 2008, we thank you for helping SPME grow into an independent, community of scholars committed to academic integrity and honest debate. Please contribute to SPME to make 2008 the best and most productive year yet….Many many thanks and Happy New Year to all.
Anonymous
Lehigh University
Diana Appelbaum
New York, NY
Paul Appelbaum MD
Columbia University
Jean Bamberger
MIT
David Bersteins
Arlington VA
Eleanor Block
Ohio State University
Richard Coren
Drexel University
Robert and Rochelle Costrell
University of Arkansas
Kenneth Dauber
University of Buffalo
Glenn Chertow
Stanford University
Gary Fischer MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Max Fiszer
Stanford University
Rabbi Barry Friedman
Temple Adath B’nai Israel
Evansville, IN
Haim Gaifman
Columbia University
Peter Gomori
St. Francis College, NYC
Diane Gottheil
University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana
Laurence Grafstein
New York, NY
Frank Grumet
Stanford University
Seymour Feshbach
UCLA
Paul Fidlon
University of New South Wales (Australia)
Ralph Halloway
Columbia University
Debra Hasin
Columbia University
Keith Jared Highiet
Modesto, CA
Paul Horvitz
University of Houston
Herbert Irsigler
University of Freiburg, (Germany)
Howard Jacobson
University of Illinois
Judith Jacobson
Columbia University
Mordechai Kurz
Stanford University
Robert Lieber
Georgetown University
Meron Langsner
Tufts University
Richard Laub
University of Buffalo
Victor Lieberman
University of Michigan
Martin Liebowitz, MD
Stony Brook University
Harvey Litwick
Carleton University
Herbert London
Hudson Institute
David Markell
Florida State University
Seymour Mayne
University of Ottowa
Myron Meadow
Larchmont, NY
Maureen Molot
Carleton University
Pearl Oliner
Humboldt State University
Robert Pack
University of Montana
Sam Peltzman
University of Chicago
Edgar Pick MD, Ph.D.
Tel Aviv University
Boris Pittel
Ohio State University
Edward Rabin
UC Davis
Ralph Rabkin
Stanford University
Basil Rapoport MD
UCLA
Nathan Rosenberg
Stanford University
C.S. Russell
City University of New York
Jill Shapiro
Columbia University
Margorie Sherman
Harrisburg, PA
Micheal Szenberg
Pace University
Mark David Silinksy
Kensington MD
Elsa Solender
New York City
Joan Wagman
Chatham College
Prestin Wolin MD
Chicago, IL
Marion Zucker Goldstein MD
University of Buffalo