http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,2282281,00.html Keen to develop its higher education, Qatar has enticed US universities to set up stall in its capital city. Even by the surreal standards of Doha, this ceremony took some beating. A convocation event for 122 graduating students serenaded…
read morehttp://nymag.com/news/features/46000/ NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars. But to many faculty, the deal amounts to a…
read morehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/education/12yale.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin After more than a year of talks, Yale University has backed away from its plan for an arts institute in Abu Dhabi, involving Yale’s art, music, architecture and drama schools. The stumbling block, ultimately, was Abu Dhabi’s insistence that…
read morehttp://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?mode=a§ionid=61&contentid=30888&contentName=Columbia,%20Ahmadinejad,%20and%20Nazi%20Germany:%20Round%20Two Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad concluded his speech at Columbia University last year by inviting the students and faculty to visit Iran. Some critics responded by comparing the idea of visiting Iran to the carefully-choreographed visits of Americans to Nazi…
read morehttp://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/114 In 1948, the creation of the State of Israel appeared a viable solution to the age-old problem of anti-Semitism. After the Holocaust, it was reasoned, the world’s Jewry would have a safe haven from hatred. This was not to…
read moreNormally conspiracy theories remain at the margins of a culture. But when conspiracism moves from the margins to the center, and from passive responses to active ones-Nazis and communists in the twentieth century-it can produce convulsions of paranoia and violence…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=1816&TTL=The_Jews_as_Contested_Ground_in_Postmodern_Conspiracy_Theory Normally conspiracy theories remain at the margins of a culture. But when conspiracism moves from the margins to the center, and from passive responses to active ones-Nazis and communists in the twentieth century-it can produce convulsions of paranoia and…
read moreInternational Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 21, Issue 4 December 2008, pages 694 – 725 The United States and a few of its more-or-less reluctant allies are presently engaged in an inconclusive “war”[1] with terrorism. [2] By definition, war…
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read morePRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revised September 25, 2007Revised September 13, 2007Revised September 8, 2007Revised August 16, 2007Revised August 11, 2007Revised August 8, 2007Revised August 3, 2007Revised August 2, 2007 Media Contacts: Dr. Edward S. Beck, President,Scholars for Peace in the…
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