Clark University canceled a campus talk scheduled for later this month by controversial Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein, saying his presence “would invite controversy and not dialogue or understanding,” and would conflict with a similar event scheduled around the same time.…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562905981&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull I wasn’t 30 hours off the plane from Israel to give a presentation at Chicago’s DePaul University on March 16, before I was greeted with the kind of direct anti-Semitism that legitimizes Kassam rockets fired at Sderot. Several…
read morehttp://thentherewaslight.com/587_jewish-studies-centre-carleton-university-receives-antisemitic-threats-iaw/ I have just been informed that the Jewish Studies department at Ottawa’s Carleton University has received 3 threats: 2 threatening blog posts and one threatening phone message. The blogs, which have pretty much identical posts, talk about Carleton and…
read morehttp://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago_news/Swastikas_found_on_fliers_at_DePaul,23454 Swastikas found on fliers on DePaul’s campus this week highlight a growing problem on college campuses in the Chicago area, one Jewish advocacy group says. The fliers were promoting an appearance by the Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh…
read morehttp://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2009/03/06/israel The ground seems to have shifted, activists on all sides say. What they make of it varies. A shift toward more visible pro-Palestinian or anti-Israel sentiment has been profound on some campuses, prompted, in part, by the winter war…
read moreSPME Editor’s Note: SPME prints this as a public service to its readers. Its publications does not constitute and endorsement of this effort. SPME has consistently taken a stand against academic boycotts and believes they are antithetical to academic freedom…
read morehttp://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/55703 At first glance, the Joseph Massad tenure battle looks like one of the most civil academic controversies ever to engulf Columbia’s Middle Eastern studies community. Phrases like “tenure battle” and “controversy” read like overstatements-there have been no petitions, no…
read morehttp://www.meforum.org/article/1877 “A land without a people for a people without a land” is one of the most oft-cited phrases in the literature of Zionism-and perhaps also the most problematic. Anti-Zionists cite the phrase as a perfect encapsulation of the fundamental…
read morehttp://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obamas_middle_east_expe.html Barack Obama’s real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. The words he chose in an address to AIPAC create a different impression than the composition of his foreign policy advisory team. Several advisors…
read morehttp://cdobs.com/archive/our-columns/depaul-should-reinstate-tom-klocek628/ In Addition to Depriving Him of His 1st Amendment Rights this “University” Betrays its Once Catholic Heritage. Founded in 1898, DePaul University holds itself out as America’s largest Catholic University. Named for St. Vincent de Paul, who established the…
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