http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/10/24/iran A master’s student at California State University at Northridge is being detained in Section 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, run by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, according to Amnesty International. The reported arrest is the latest involving scholars whose lives…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=610&PID=0&IID=2637&TTL=Academic_Anti-Zionism_in_Australia &&&&&&& When it comes to radical trends including anti-Zionism, Australian campuses are like most other Western universities, only even more extreme. The ubiquity of left-wing politics in Australian academia means that writing about campus Israel-phobia requires discrimination since the…
read moreAn extensive public and academic debate has taken place over the academic quality of Nadia Abu El-Haj’s book, Facts on the Ground. The argument has been, essentially, between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli American academics and members of the community involved in…
read morehttp://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/03/25/hillel There’s nothing like a conversation on “fostering a more civil society” during which a renegade audience member commandeers the microphone. At a summit focused on“Imagining a More Civil Society: The University and the Jewish Community,” Monday’s opening forum was…
read moreNormally conspiracy theories remain at the margins of a culture. But when conspiracism moves from the margins to the center, and from passive responses to active ones-Nazis and communists in the twentieth century-it can produce convulsions of paranoia and violence…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=1816&TTL=The_Jews_as_Contested_Ground_in_Postmodern_Conspiracy_Theory Normally conspiracy theories remain at the margins of a culture. But when conspiracism moves from the margins to the center, and from passive responses to active ones-Nazis and communists in the twentieth century-it can produce convulsions of paranoia and…
read moreGerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a…
read moreGerald Steinberg, until recently a member of the SPME Board of Directors, is Professor and Director of the Program on Conflict Management at Bar Ilan University, and is Executive Director of NGO Monitor. This paper was originally presented at a…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=3&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=253&PID=0&IID=1832&TTL=Recent_Developments_on_the_Academic_Boycott:_A_Case_Study The late-May anti-Israeli resolution at the first conference of the University and College Union (UCU) in the United Kingdom launched a new round in the debate on boycotting Israel. This controversy was initiated in 2002, also in the UK.…
read morePRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Revised September 25, 2007Revised September 13, 2007Revised September 8, 2007Revised August 16, 2007Revised August 11, 2007Revised August 8, 2007Revised August 3, 2007Revised August 2, 2007 Media Contacts: Dr. Edward S. Beck, President,Scholars for Peace in the…
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