http://www.newuniversity.org/checkDB.php?id=6340 More than 1,000 students, staff and members of the community attended an evening with famed law professor Alan Dershowitz in “The Case for Peace in the Middle East” on Thursday, Nov. 29 in the Student Center. Dershowitz, a Felix…
read morehttp://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2007/11/19/News/Speaking.Out.Against.AntiSemitism-3109207.shtml Anti-Semitism has seen a “spike of incidents” on college campuses in the past few years, said Kenneth Marcus, staff director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Marcus spoke to a small audience of faculty and students Wednesday night…
read moreBrigitte Bailer, who teaches at the University of Vienna Institute of Contemporary History and serves as the Scientific Director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, has joined the Board of Directors of Scholars For Peace in the Middle East.…
read moreSPME would like to thank these wonderful new and renewing contributors for their important and generous contributions to SPME as 2007 comes to an end. However, SPME is limping into 2008 with not enough to hire support staff to aid…
read moreStandWithUs, the pro-Israel campus advocacy organization, is sponsoring a series of lectures in November by Khalid Abu Toameh, award-winning Israeli-Arab journalist, currently Senior Palestinian Affairs writer for the Jerusalem Post; Itamar Marcus, counter-terrorism expert and founder and executive director of…
read moreAt the University of California, Irvine, a Muslim student group is permitted every year to hold a week-long event on campus. Sometimes the event is titled “Israel Awareness Week,” sometimes “Zionist Awareness Week,” or sometimes “Anti-Zionist Week.” This past year…
read moreOn January 29, 2007, Chairs of 3 SPME chapters from the University of California — Moshe Rosenberg at UC Davis, Leila Beckwith at UC Los Angeles, and Tammi and Ilan Benjamin at UC Santa Cruz — had an unprecedented meeting…
read moreA Jewish group announced this week that it will investigate alleged anti-Semitic incidents at UC Irvine, a campus with a history of tension between Muslim and Jewish students. The Hillel Foundation of Orange County said the investigation will attempt to…
read moreUC Irvine: Pipes Talk Disrupted in California Anti-Israel protesters at a California college disrupted a speech by academic Daniel Pipes. Video posted to the Internet shows a group of protesters at the University of California-Irvine, wearing keffiyahs and chanting anti-Israel…
read moreOn Thursday we featured a video recording from Daniel Pipes’ talk at the University of California Irvine, showing the Muslim Students Union staging a coordinated disruption, walking out and loudly chanting “Anti-Israel!”: Video: Muslim Students Disrupt Daniel Pipes Speech at…
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