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Taking Sides on Professor’s E-Mail Comparing Israel and Nazis

By: SPME

May 12, 2009

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/12/qt#198661 Two national groups are weighing in on the controversy over William I. Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara who is being investigated for charges of unprofessional conduct related to an e-mail message…

Professor’s Comparison of Israelis to Nazis Stirs Furor

By: Duke Helfand

April 30, 2009

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-professor30-2009apr30,0,7753995.story Controversy has erupted at UC Santa Barbara over a professor’s decision to send his students an e-mail in which he compared graphic images of Jews in the Holocaust to pictures of Palestinians caught up in Israel’s recent Gaza offensive.…

My Problem with Jimmy Carter’s Book, by Kenneth W. Stein, Middle East Quarterly, Spring 2007

By: SPME

January 25, 2007

http://www.meforum.org/article/1633 Jimmy Carter’s engagement in foreign affairs as a former president is unprecedented in U.S. history. Because he regards the Arab-Israeli conflict as among Washington’s most important foreign policy topics, he has written more than two dozen articles and commentaries…