http://student.independent.co.uk/university_life/article3113491.ece Last week, four British vice-chancellors visited Israel to strengthen ties with its universities and those in the Palestinian Territories. Could this win Britain new friends in the Middle East? Lucy Hodges reports When the university and college lecturers’ union,…
read moreGerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a…
read moreGerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1191257205863&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull A few days ago the University and College Union (UCU) in the UK announced the termination of its involvement with plans for an academic boycott of Israel, because such an action would be illegal under British law. And so…
read morehttp://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2007/09/25/LettersToTheEditor/Letter.To.The.Editor.Israel.Studies.Bring.Acclaim.To.Brandeis-2988477.shtml To the Editor: I am writing in response to your article last week on the Israel Studies Center (“Profs question center,” Sept. 18 issue). Israel Studies is not a new subject at Brandeis. For the past four years we…
read moreA leading American university has just organized a glitzy media event for an oppressor of religious minorities, debaser of academic freedoms, and sponsor of war crimes by private death squads (a.k.a. terrorists). Of course the university is Columbia and the…
read moreMODERATOR: JOHN COATSWORTH, ACTING DEAN, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, COLUMBIA, UNIVERSITY INTRODUCTION BY LEE BOLLINGER, PRESIDENT, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK1:50 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 20071:50 P.M. EDT, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007 FULL…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=1832&TTL=Recent_Developments_on_the_Academic_Boycott:_A_Case_Study The late-May anti-Israeli resolution at the first conference of the University and College Union (UCU) in the United Kingdom launched a new round in the debate on boycotting Israel. This controversy was initiated in 2002, also in the UK.…
read moreOne of my favorite professors (and later my colleague) at Tel Aviv university used to adjure his students with the following definition: “Archaeology is the science of digging a hole, and spinning a yarn.” Professor Nadia abu el-Haj does not…
read moreA conference organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute in Jerusalem last month dealt with anti-Israel attacks in the United States that constitute, according to organizers, a “long-term threat” to Israel’s standing. Brandeis University President Jehuda Reinharz told Ha’aretz…
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