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This year’s “Israeli Apartheid Week” has come and gone. While announced and promoted by a slick, highly professional video, and while anticipated in a batch of articles and opinion columns in the Israeli and American Jewish press, judging from reports…
read moreBut can boycotts really change the dynamic in the Middle East? Students at DePaul University in Chicago have launched a crusade against a popular chickpea dip. Despite a similar, failed attempt at Princeton late last year, a group of students…
read moreFor over 14 years, Thomas Klocek was a well-liked adjunct professor at DePaul University School of New Learning. One course he taught was “Critical Thinking.” So it’s ironic that he was essentially fired by the Chicago Catholic university after engaging…
read moreThe apartheid situation in South Africa ended in the 1990s in large part because of boycotts on college campuses, and many scholars have argued that the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) is the most effective way for ending the…
read moreThe latest academic call for divestment from Israel isn’t a demand to boycott its colleges, nor to withdraw investments in companies based in the Jewish state. This one is something of a culinary conundrum. Hummus has already been the butt…
read moreOn January 19, 2010, attorneys for former DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek filed his opening brief in his appeal of the circuit court’s decision to deny him a jury trial on the merits of his defamation case against DePaul. Klocek’s…
read moreSPME Editors’ Note: To share your thoughts on these article for publication, please send your comments to with your name and affiliation. Thank you. The New Realism: American Jews’ Views about Israel by Theodore SassonBrandeis University Dorothy and Julius Koppelman…
read moreWhat follows is the inaugural issue of the SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable, which we hope will serve to stimulate faculty exchange of ideas from around the world. Our Roundtable is rather flexible and we will be experimenting with formats to…
read morehttp://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=3709&q=1 Gordon is a tenured lecturer at Israel’s Ben Gurion University and was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan for two semesters. As if the University of Michigan did not have enough outlandish anti-Israel professors that operate major…
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http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94545 Prof. Thomas E. Klocek A judge dismissed a lawsuit against DePaul University brought by a professor who contends he was branded by school administrators as racist and bigoted for challenging a student’s allegation that Israel treats Palestinians the way…
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