As over one million protestors were flooding the streets of Egypt’s cities, a group of about 60 students and faculty crowded into Shane Lounge in Parrish Hall yesterday afternoon to march in solidarity with the Egyptian people. The Swarthmore event,…
read moreBy Arthur Gross-Schaefer[1] Introduction Academic freedom has often been viewed as defending the rights of professors in the areas of speech, association, research, publication and teaching. This article reviews these areas from a legal and ethical perspective and proposes a…
read moreLed by Nobel Laureates, Roger Kornberg, Stanford University, and Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin, 41 Nobel colleagues have endorsed the following statement written under the auspices of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) regarding worldwide attempts…
read moreStatement of 41 Nobel Laureates on Academic BDS Actions Against Israeli Academics, Israeli Academic Institutions and Academic Centers and Institutes of Research and Training With Affiliations in Israel Believing that academic and cultural boycotts, divestments and sanctions in the academy…
read moreA Pennsylvania English professor whose anti-Israel rhetoric and denial of the Holocaust as a historic certainty have ignited controversy is citing academic freedom as his defense. Kaukab Siddique, associate professor of English and journalism at Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, appeared…
read moreThe second Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute to Israel took place from June 9 to June 17, 2010. Fifteen academics were chosen out of a pool of almost 200 applicants. The Fellows Program was led by Sam Edelman, Executive Director, SPME;…
read moreThe second Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute to Israel took place from June 9 to June 17, 2010. Fifteen academics were chosen out of a pool of almost 200 applicants. The Fellows Program was led by Sam Edelman, Executive Director, SPME;…
read morehttp://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20751/ As students trudged their way down Locust Walk to classes on a chilly Monday morning last week, University of Pennsylvania freshman Eliana Holm was trying to ply her fellow students with hot coffee and blue-sprinkled kosher cookies, all in…
read morehttp://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c55_a17963/Editorial__Opinion/Opinion.html In recent days, we have witnessed several different forms and focal points of protest on campuses regarding Israel and Israeli speakers, each of which raises compelling communal issues. At the University of California, Irvine, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren was…
read morehttp://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/16/1010655/j-street-oren-mending-fences-but-wariness-lingers WASHINGTON (JTA) — After months of high-profile feuding, the breakout dovish lobbying group J Street and Israel’s ambassador to Washington appear to be reconciling. The two sides have been talking — through the media and directly in private —…
read more
