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Dear Mr. Stern, I am a lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), one of the three universities you mention in your recent statement co-authored with AAUP president Cary Nelson. I am also the author of a federal…
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One day last March Jessica Felber, then 20, a Jewish undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley, was standing on her campus, holding a placard bearing the words: “Israel Wants Peace.” At that moment, Husam Zakaria, a Berkeley student…
read moreJune 25, 2009 San Francisco Office Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Education Old Federal Building 50 United Nations Plaza, Room 239 San Francisco, CA 94102-4102 Dear Sir or Madam: I am a lecturer in Hebrew at the University…
read moreIn 2009, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Lecturer in Hebrew at the University of Santa Cruz (UCSC) and a member of the Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Board of Directors, submitted a complaint to the U.S. Office of Civil Rights.…
read moreComplaint Alleges Pervasive Hostile Environment San Francisco, March 15, 2011 – The Institute for Jewish & Community Research (IJCR) announces that the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened a major investigation into anti-Semitism claims at…
read morehttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137239#replies In an article on AmericanThinker.com, Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin – Professor Emeritus at the UCLA and Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, respectively – write of the growth of Al-Awda, the presence of the Muslim Students…
read morehttp://www.americanthinker.com/2010/04/are_jewish_students_safe_on_ca.html On Feb. 13th, Al-Awda (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition) held its Fifth Al-Awda West Coast Regional Conference in the La Mesa Community Center in San Diego. Undercover investigative journalist Lee Kaplan attended the meeting and wrote an article…
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://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/campus_critics_on_trial.html Two venomously anti-Israel professors at the University of California have joined forces to attack those who would criticize them, or their like-minded colleagues, for injecting their hatred of the Jewish State into their teaching and research. David Theo Goldberg…
read moreCHICO, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Board of Directors has been asked by many colleagues to issue a statement about the email that Professor William Robinson at the University of California…
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