On September 20, 2002 Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, delivered to the Harvard community a speech deploring the upsurge of antisemitism in many parts of the globe: he specified synagogue bombings, physical assaults on Jews, desecration of Jewish holy places, and…
read moreNo people has been maligned more than have the Jews-no people. It’s not even close. It has been widespread-encompassing locations with little or no Jews-and millennia-long-going back at least to Tacitus. Most of major social institutions, including governments and all…
read moreTask ForceRuth Contreras, Ph.D. Vienna Austria, ChairJudith R. Jacobson, Dr. P.H., Columbia UniversityRichard Benkin, Ph.D., Chicago ILEdward S. Beck, Ed.D, CCMHC, NCC, LPC., Susquehanna Institute Approved March 20, 2003 by the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board of…
read morePrepared by:Judith Jacobson, Dr.P.H.ColumbiaUniversityand Charles Isbell, Ph.D., LouisianaStateUniversity.Approved by Scholars for Peace in the Middle EastBoard January 2003 On the morning of September 11, 2001, terrorists in the United States, acting in the name of Islam, murdered more than 3000…
read morePrepared by Edward S. Beck, Ed.D., CCMHC, NCC, LPCPresident and CEO Scholars for Peace in the Middle EastApproved by the SPME Board 12.10.02 The modern university has historically striven to be an honest forum for competing ideas, freedom of speech…
read morePresident Lee Bollinger’s Statement on the Divestment Campaign November 07, 2002 http://www.columbiadivest.org/pres_statement.html Columbia University Statement on Divestment from Israel The conflict in the Middle East continues to be the subject of intense and emotional debate around the world and on…
read more“In the current period of world wide political turmoil that threatens to damage one of our country’s greatest treasures-colleges and universities- we commit ourselves to academic integrity in two ways. We will maintain academic standards in the classroom and we…
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