American Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto Written by Jeffrey Herf et al. Tuesday, 12 September 2006 We are signers or supporters in the United States of the Euston Manifesto and its reassertion of liberal values. We are signers or supporters…
read moreProspects for peace in the Middle East have been dealt an enormous blow by the election triumph of Hamas in January 2006. Palestinian education, television shows, websites, and even families are all being mobilized in an intensified environment of agitated…
read morePost Colonial Theory and the Arab Israeli Conflict will be the title of the proceedings of the SPME/Case Western Reserve University Conference on Postcolonial Theory and the Middle East held at the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies.The will published…
read more[This piece was co-written with Judith S. Jacobson and Richard Landes] Joan Wallach Scott has recently taken a high-profile position on academic freedom and the Middle East conflict. Given her prominence in the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and…
read moreOver the past five years, a distorted and hostile attitude toward Israel has prevailed at the University of California-Santa Cruz, creating an intimidating environment for members of the campus community, particularly Jewish students. Much of the anti-Israeli bias has been…
read moreOver the past five years, a distorted and hostile attitude toward Israel has prevailed at the University of California-Santa Cruz, creating an intimidating environment for members of the campus community, particularly Jewish students. Much of the anti-Israeli bias has been…
read moreBoston University and SPME Board of Directors Member, History Professor Richard Landes discusses his new media watch-dog project, the performance of the press, the rise of anti-Semitism, Pallywood, and more “I’ve got to tell you about the dream I had…
read moreApril 19, 2005 Dear Colleagues of the Association of University Teachers: We have learned with dismay that the 2005 Council of the Association of University Teachers is to debate a motion calling for a boycott of three of Israel’s leading…
read moreRichard Landes is a medievalist and teaches in the history department at Boston University. He specializes in the origins of European society around the turn of the first millennium. He obtained his B.A. from Harvard University and his Ph.D from…
read more. • The main goal of modern Jihadism -a cataclysmic apocalyptic movement -is Islam’s dominance over the world. It makes millennial claims, promising that once Islam rules everywhere, there will be world peace. . • Jihad, as the millennial war,…
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