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The Faculty is Far More Problematic

By: Ilan Benjamin and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Co-Chairs SPME-UCSC

April 18, 2008

The following was published in JFR, Jewish Faculty Roundtable bundled edited listserv on April 18,2008. It has been further edited by SPME for publication in the SPME Faculty Forum As faculty at the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and…

Matthias Küntzel: Islamist Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Mission Against Modernity

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April 1, 2008

Editor’s Note: The following article is the talk SPME Board Member Matthias Küntzel delivered at different SPME chapters (see Footnote [1] ) Islamist terrorism and antisemitism: The mission against modernity[1] Earlier this month, a gunman entered the library of a…

Please Join These Colleagues from U.of Arkansas, U.of Buffalo, Carleton, UC-Davis, UCLA, Chatham, U. of Chicago, Columbia, CUNY, Drexel, Florida State, U.of Frieberg, Georgetown, U. of Houston, Hudson Institute, Humboldt State, U.of IL, Lehigh, U. of Mi

By: SPME

December 20, 2007

SPME is so grateful that so many of you have made such generous contributions within the last two weeks at week’s end. We are so happy to seen so many new and returning contributors who have absolutely made a commitment…

University of California- Santa Cruz SPME Chapter Head Challenges Student Reporter’s Defamation of SPME

By: SPME

November 18, 2007

Professor Ilan Benjamin, who with his wife Prof. Tammi Benjamin, co-chair the SPME Chapter at University of California at Santa Cruz has responded to spurious characterizations of SPME and its activities by a student reporter. He wrote to the two…

University of California-Davis Experiences Vandalism of Jewish Sukkah on Campus:

By: Richard Proctor

October 7, 2007

Jewish religious booth vandalized By: RICHARD PROCTER Posted: 10/5/07 Student Programs and Activities Center representatives reported a hate crime yesterday, as graffiti was found defacing a small hut on the Quad being used for a Jewish holiday. The booth, called…

UCLA’s SPME Chapter’s First Year A Busy and Successful One

By: Bert Raven, UCLA- SPME Chapter Co-Coordinator

May 16, 2007

A new chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East was formed atthe University of California at Los Angeles in October, 2006, and wasregistered and granted official recognition as a UCLA faculty group,with 35 subscribers. The chapter instituted a…

SPME Thanks Donors From Columbia and Oxford Universities and the Universities of: Buffalo, Henan, Karlsruhe (Germany), Massachusetts-Amherst, Rhode Island and Ottawa and From The Community, StandWithUs and ZOA

By: SPME

May 2, 2007

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East thanks these generous donors, the average donation being $150.00 to SPME. SPME Still needs to raise $35,000 for it University of Maryland Conference and your contributions are urgently needed. Read about the conference…

SPME- UCSC To Present Phyllis Chesler on “Feminism, Islam and The Jews” April 18 at 7:30 PM at Merrill College Cultural Center, UCSC

By: SPME

April 16, 2007

April 13, 2007 — Santa Cruz, CA — On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, one of the pioneering voices of the modern feminist movement, will be at UCSC for a lecture entitled “Feminism, Islam, and the Jews” sponsored…

Telling Friend From Foe

By: Caroline Glick

February 12, 2007

[SPME Faculty Forum Editor’s Note. Professor Rosenfeld is an SPME member and Professor Ilan Benjamin is co-coordinator of the SPME UCSC Chapter.] One of the most difficult things in life is to draw the line betweenfriend and foe. Take the…

SPME Sponsors Melanie Phillips At UCLA and USC With Grant from Taube Foundation

By: Leila Beckwith

January 30, 2007

Leila Beckwith, Ph.D. is SPME Chapter Coodinator at UCLA For the first time ever, award-winning British journalist and author, Melanie Phillips, spoke on American college campuses about “Londonistan: Radical Islam in England and Beyond.” She was sponsored by SPME with…