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LONDON, May 30 (JTA) – A British teachers union has decided to retract its ban on two Israeli universities, but the boycott battle in British academia looks to be far from over. Both those calling for links to be severed…
read moreApril 19, 2005 Dear Colleagues of the Association of University Teachers: We have learned with dismay that the 2005 Council of the Association of University Teachers is to debate a motion calling for a boycott of three of Israel’s leading…
read moreColumbia UniversityVice President, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East About 15 years ago, the daughter of some friends came to me for advice. She was graduatingfrom Harvard, had majored in English, and she wanted to go into book publishing.…
read moreMany new mutations of American anti-Semitism, and in particular its anti-Israeli forms, originate on the University campus. Much pro-Israel advocacy is carried out by new grassroots faculty groups such as Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). SPME’s preferred…
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Overview and summary A Canadian Journal of Psychiatry article on the prevalence of psychological morbidity in West Bank Palestinian Children had serious scientific errors and appeared to inappropriately use science in an attempt to further a specific political viewpoint. A…
read more[SPME Editors Note: University of Pennsylvania Assistant Professor Gil-White is facing a difficult contract renewal situation. The matter was brought to SPME’s attention from a number of sources including SPME faculty colleagues wondering what role, if any we would play…
read more“In the current period of world wide political turmoil that threatens to damage one of our country’s greatest treasures-colleges and universities- we commit ourselves to academic integrity in two ways. We will maintain academic standards in the classroom and we…
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