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University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann has at least this consolation: It’s not a video on YouTube. Three days after Halloween, the Penn president’s annual costume party lived on yesterday, courtesy of the Internet and student Saad Saadi, whose photograph…
read moreinfo@democracy-project.com P.O. Box 9316 Wilmington, DE 19809 November 2, 2006 University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann threw her annual Halloween costume party at her home Tuesday night. Among the guests was Saad Saadi, who came dressed as a suicide bomber,…
read more“Two faces of persecution” – Salah Choudhury & Maher Arar (Terry Glavin) by Jeff Weintraub, University of Pennsylvania [Photos here ] The journalist & blogger Terry Glavin , writing from Canada, reminds us of some concrete reasons why freedom of…
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SPME is urging it members to please act now to help save Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a Muslim journalist on trial for his life for sedition in Bangladesh for “praising Christianity and Judaism” having “hurt Islam.” Please read this action…
read moreSub:He is the first Arab citizen of Israel to hold a senior position at Tel Aviv University. „The fact that the university can tolerate people like me shows that new areas have opened up,“ he says On the face of…
read moreAmerican Liberalism and the Euston Manifesto Written by Jeffrey Herf et al. Tuesday, 12 September 2006 We are signers or supporters in the United States of the Euston Manifesto and its reassertion of liberal values. We are signers or supporters…
read moreWhen Moshe Ma’oz began studying Islam as a young sabra in Tel Aviv, he found he was in for a surprise. “I wanted to understand the enemy,” said Ma’oz, professor emeritus of Islamic and Middle East Studies at Hebrew University…
read moreMy anti-blacklist letter to NATFHE This follows up two recent items, Academic Freedom Alert – Oppose the Blacklisting of Israeli Academics and, most specifically, Please write a letter to oppose possible NATFHE blacklist (StandWithUs). For what it’s worth, I just…
read moreSuccessful response: To the editor, As a physician, I admire Nader Hebela for using vacation time during his training to help treat Arab children in the disputed territories of the West Bank and Gaza, currently under the control of the…
read morehttp://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-gersten-f03.htm Since early 2002, a variety of attempts to boycott or discriminate against Israeli academic institutions and scholars have been undertaken in several Western countries. These include proposals such as the divestment of Israeli securities, ostracizing Israeli academics, refusal to…
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