Over 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 morehttp://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12001029_1 EFRAIM KARSH is head of Mediterranean studies at King’s College, University of London. His new book, on the history of Islamic imperialism, will be out next year from Yale. He is a Founding Board Member of Scholars for Peace…
read moreRe: “New Grievance Policy Includes 3 New Grounds for Complaints,” Jacob Gershman, New York, April 12, 2005. Columbia’s Grievance Committee report and new grievance procedures have fulfilled the expectations of those who, months ago, criticized the committee members’ conflicts of…
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 moreColumbia UniversityVice President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East About 15 years ago, the daughter of some friends came to me for advice. She was graduatingfrom Harvard, had majored in English, and she wanted to go into book publishing.…
read moreMarch 6, 2005 was an historic day in the history of Academic Freedom and Academic Integrity in Higher Education in America. It was the day when three determined grass-roots faculty, 20 distinguished scholars, intellectuals, activists, alumni and 700 registrants served…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-30.htm . • Anti-Semitic attacks on Israel by Israelis and Jews are frequently indistinguishable from those by gentiles. Among the specific aspects in the anti-Israel writings of some Jews are the use of their family’s Holocaust experiences, their references to…
read moreIt’s not often that a professor tells a packed crowd at Columbia University that Edward Said was a political extremist and that faculty members in the school’s Middle East studies department encourage Islamic terrorism. The professor who made those statements…
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