2010

SPME ACTION ALERTS + BREAKING NEWS

April 30th Deadline for SPME Faculty Fellowship to Israel Summer Program Applications Quickly Approaching
April 21, 2010

Bostom, Kerem and Marcus Iran Papers Now Posted from SPME November 2009 Conference: The Islamic Republic of Iran: Multidisciplinary Analyses of its theocracy, nationalism, and assertion of Power
April 18, 2010

Letter of the SPME Board of Directors to Prof. Tavakoli-Targhi, President of the International Society for Iranian Studies
SPME News - April 16, 2010

Six Nobel Laureates, Connected with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, and Elie Wiesel Counter Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky's Statements on Israel Divestment Issue at UC Berkeley
April 16, 2010

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Legal Task Force Releases Statement on the Abuse of Universal Jurisdiction
April 5, 2010

SPME Among Co-Sponsors of Conference on Goldstone Report: SPME's Haas, Edelman, Marcus, Landes, Morgan Among Notable Presenters: Fordham University School of Law, April 27, 2010
April 4, 2010

SPME Joins 13 Organizations to Press Education Secretary To Act on Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
April 2, 2010

Statement of the SPME Legal Task Force On the Abuse of Universal Jurisdiction - Kenneth L. Marcus, Marc Cogen, Karen Eltis, Ed Morgan, Mohammed Said-Alden Wattad - April 2, 2010

SPME and Fundraising: Important Holiday Appeal from Sam Edelman, SPME Executive Director
April 1, 2010

2010 SPME Faculty Fellowship Summer Institute To Israel Program Announced: Application Deadline April 30, 2010
March 23, 2010

Message For SPME Network From Peter Haas, SPME President
March 17, 2010

SPME Statement of Concern for Institutional Civility and the Preservation of Free Speech on University Campuses
SPME Board of Directors, Approved February 11, 2010 - March 10, 2010

SPME Still Needs Your Contributions for Matching Grants, Please Be Generous
March 9, 2010

SPME President Issues Proactive Israel Apartheid Week Alert for Faculty
January 29, 2010

SPME Fundraising News: Your Help Is Necessary to Insure Success of Matching Grants- New Matching Grant Offered for New Donors of $150 or More in March and April
Sam Edelman SPME Executive Director - March 1, 2010

SPME Board Passes Revised Rules for SPME Entities ( Board, Chapters, Task Forces and Committees)
SPME Board of Directors - February 24, 2010

SPME Statement of Concern for Institutional Civility and the Preservation of Free Speech on University Campuses
SPME Board of Directors, Approved February 11, 2010 - February 16, 2010

More than 3000 Scholars Worldwide Support a Statement Condemning Spain's Expulsion of the Ariel University Center from the Solar Decathlon 2010
February 16, 2010

Peter Haas, SPME President, Requests SPME Faculty Network Help SPME Monitor and Develop Proactive Responses To Israel Apartheid Week and Other Campus Disruptions
February 16, 2010

Matthew D. Jacobson (z'l)
February 15, 2010

SPME Announces Two Matching Grants To Kickstart 2010 Development Efforts-Only Your Participation Will Make This Successful
February 14, 2010

SPME Press release on the expulsion of Ariel University Center from Solar Decathlon 2010 - more than 3000 scholars support a statement condemning Spain's expulsion - here

Declaration of SPME Germany and SPME Austria on the Expulsion of the Ariel University Center from the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010
January 24, 2010

SPME Announces Two Matching Grants To Kickstart 2010 Development Efforts-Only Your Participation Will Make This Successful
February 1, 2010

Philadelphia Area University Faculty to Form SPME Chapter As Faculty are Hosted by Philadelphia JCRC and Israeli Consulate
January 29, 2010

An Important and Urgent Message From SPME President Peter Haas to SPME's Faculty and Friends Network
January 17, 2010

Please Be Sure to Join Nobel Laureates in Signing SPME's Statement on Spain's Expulsion of Ariel College from the Solar Decathlon 2010
SPME Board of Directors - December 29, 2009

SPME Continues Call For Papers on US Israel "Special Relationship"- Deadline January 15, 2010
November 23, 2009

New SPME Book Review Editor, Joel Fishman, Invites Reviewers and Books and Offers Guidelines
Joel Fishman, Jerusalem Center for Pubic Affairs, SPME Book Review Editor - January 1, 2010

SPME VOICES

GS Don Morris, PhD., Cal Poly-Pomona Professor Emeritus and Professor Associate at Chapman University: Peace With Truth As Its Base
SPME Faculty Voices - April 17, 2010

Amitai Etzioni: Israel's Birthday- Are the Stars Misaligned?
GlobalSecurity.com April 16, 2010 - April 16, 2010

Amitai Etzioni: The Secret Condition
The Huffington Post, April 15, 2010 - April 15, 2010

Paul Appelbaum and Steven M Albert: Intimate-Partner Violence in Gaza and the West Bank
The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9722, Page 1252 - April 10, 2010

John R Cohn: Response to an Article in "Lancet": Intimate-Partner Violence in Gaza and the West Bank
The Lancet, Volume 375, Issue 9722, Pages 1251 - 1252 - April 10, 2010

Ernest Sternberg: Disruption or Free Speech?
SPME Faculty Voices - April 2, 2010

Alan M. Dershowitz: The Conflict Between the US and Israel Must End Now!
April 2, 2010

Irwin Cotler: The Four-Fold Iranian Threat
Haaretz - April 2, 2010

Richard L. Cravatts: Positioning Israel as the Nazi of Nations
American Thinker - March 30, 2010

Barry Rubin: What's All The Fuss About?
The Jerusalem Post - March 17, 2010

John R. Cohn: 'Pro-Peace' And 'Pro-Israel' Should Be One And The Same
The Bulletin - March 13, 2010

Irwin J. Mansdorf : Is Israel a Colonial State?
JCPA Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 576 March-April 2010 - March 11, 2010

Barry Rubin: Going Backward? Understanding and Attempts to Resolve the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
Rubin Reports - March 10, 2010

Gregg Rickman: The Betrayal of Souls and the Denial of the Armenian Genocide
The Cutting Edge News - March 9, 2010

Analyzing the Durban II Conference - Interview with Gerald Steinberg
JCPA Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 96, 1 April 2010, 17 Nissan 5770 - March 9, 2010

Peter Feinman: When Israel and The Arabs Were Allies
SPME Faculty Voices - March 4, 2010

Lawrence Hart: Demonizing Israel - 'Apartheid Week' About Hostility, Propaganda
The Hamilton Spectator - March 4, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Edward S. Beck, Walden University, SPME President 2002-2009
March 1, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Ashley Grossman, Barts and the London School of Medicine
March 2, 2010

Ernest Sternberg: Trafficking in Slurs: Buffalo Professor and Peace Activist Incite Antisemitism
SPME Faculty Voices - March 2, 2010

Sowing the Seeds of Hate At UMASS Dartmouth
March 2, 2010

Efraim Karsh: The Muslim World Is Divided Even by Sports
The New York Times - March 2, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Edward S. Beck, Walden University, SPME President 2002-2009
March 1, 2010

Kenneth L. Marcus: Free Speech As Sword and Shield
IJCR Quad - February 28, 2010

Matthias KÜNTZEL: The Berlin-Dubai-Tehran Axis
The Wall Street Journal Europe - February 26, 2010

Gerald Steinberg: Israel's Right To Self-Defense
The Wallstreet Journal Europe - February 24, 2010

David Newman: Borderline Views: Red Lines for Academic Freedom
The Jerusalem Post - February 16, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Ruth Lichtenberg-Contreras, Vienna Natural History Museum and University of Vienna.
February 5, 2010

Brian Henry: Right or Left, New Antisemites Tag Israel as Evil
SPME Faculty Voices - February 15, 2010

Brian Henry: Palestinian Christians Revoke 6th Commandment
February 15, 2010

Samuel M. Edelman: A Week of Uncivil Discourse on Campus
The Cutting Edge - February 15, 2010

Alan Dershowitz: How Some Israeli and American Jewish Media Incite Violence
The Jerusalem Post Blog Central - Double Standard Watch - February 14, 2010

Martin Kramer: The Chronically-Challenged Stephen Walt.
The Jerusalem Post: BlogCentral - Inside the Middle East - February 14, 2010

Richard L. Cravatts: 'Speech for Me, Not for Thee'
The Orange County - February 13, 2010

Richard L. Cravatts: Is Assaulting Jewish Students on Canadian Campuses Now Legitimate Criticism of Israel
Canada Free Press - February 11, 2010

Gil Troy: The Toxic Context of 'the Israel Debate'
The Jerusalem Post Bloc Central - February 10, 2010

Don Morris: Open letter To Chancellor Michael Drake
Doc's talk - February 10, 2010

Gil Troy: Let's Mobilize Against Anti-Israel Week
The Jerusalem Post: Blog Central - February 9, 2010

Barry Rubin: Defining "Victory" and "Peace": How the U.S. and Israel Reject General Sherman's Solution and Get Blamed Any Way
RubinReports - February 8, 2010

SPME: A Faculty Network for Scholarship, Advocacy and Scholarly Advocacy: Reflections of a Founder and First President
January 30, 2010

Matthias KÜNTZEL: Iranian Antisemitism: Stepchild of German National Socialism
January 24, 2010

Barry Rubin: The Obama Administration Learns the Basic Lesson on the Israel-Palestinian Issue
Rubinreports - January 24, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Howard Kahn, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
January 22, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Judith Jacobson, Columbia University
January 22, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College
January 18, 2010

SPME Faculty Profile: Anonymous and All Alone on Campus
January 17, 2010

Gerald Steinberg and Anne Herzberg: Israel and the Illusion of International Justice
Anne Herzberg - Haaretz - January 15, 2010

Brian Henry: Right or Left, New Antisemites Tag Israel as Evil
SPME Faculty Voices - January 15, 2010

Barry Rubin: It's Not Al-Qaida the Obama Administration Doesn't Understand, It's Everything Else
Rubinreports - January 10, 2010

Kenneth L. Marcus: Boycott of Israeli Academics Forcefully Rejected
Institute for Jewish Community Research - January 9, 2010

Clemens Heni: The Prague Declaration: Antisemitism with a Democratic Face...
clemensheni.wordpress.com - January 4, 2010

Barry Rubin: The "Why Can't Everyone Just Be Friends" Narrative of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Evenhandedness Gone Mad
Rubinreports - January 2, 2010

Ashley Grossman: Holding University College London Responsible for Radicalization of Terrorist
January 2, 2010

LATEST ACADEMIC NEWS

UC President: Hate Acts May Prompt Policy Changes
Robin Hindery, Associated Press Writer - MercuryNews - April 2, 2010

ASUC President Smelko Vetoes Divestment Bill
Zach E.J. Williams - The Daily Californian - March 31, 2010

California, Berkeley University Student Senate Passes Divestment Bill General Electric and United Technologies for their Support of Israel
Al Jazeerah - March 21, 2010

UO Moves Meetings of Pacifica Forum, Seen As A Hate Group, Off Campus
The Associated Press - OregonLive.com - March 20, 2010

LEBANON: Professor Condemned For Scholarly Work With Israeli Counterparts
Becky Lee Katz in Beirut and Borzou Daragahi - LA Times Blog: Babylon & Beyond - March 19, 2010

SPME IN THE MEDIA
German Center 'Ignored' Anti-Semitism
Benjamin Weinthal - The Jerusalem Post - February 21, 2010
SPME CHAPTER NEWS

Two University of Michigan "Meet and Greets" Successful
February 26, 2010

Profs.Zibalese-Crawford, Newman and Franklin Announce February 22, Philadelphia SPME Chapter Formation Meeting at Temple
Marsha Zibalese-Crawford and Edward Newman, Temple; Judith Franklin, Drexel - February 14, 2010

Prof. Steve Pastner Arranges SPME-University Michigan Chapter Formation Meetings Feb 23 and 25 at 7:00 PM at Ann Arbor JCC
Steve Pastner, University of Michigan - February 14, 2010

French Faculty Revitalizing SPME- France Chapter 
Ouriel Grynszpan, University of Paris - February 1, 2010

SPME-UK Heads Into 2010 Seeking More UK Colleagues Involved to Tackle Big Issues on UK Campuses 
Howard Kahn, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh,Scotland; Co-Coordinator SPME-UK, SPME Faculty Fellow 2008 - January 2, 2010

SPME Columbia Actively Involved in Programming for Students, Faculty and Challenging Tenure and Promotion Processes Violations for Joseph Massad
Judith Jacobson and Awi Federgruen, Columbia University; SPME-Columbia Co-Chairs - January 4, 2010

 

 

LATEST ACADEMIC NEWS

NDP, BQ Defeat Motion to Condemn Israel Apartheid Week
Jewish Tribune - March 17, 2010

Oren Offers to Return to Irvine University
JTA - March 10, 2010

UOFT Grad Returns Degrees Because School Launched Israeli Apartheid Week
Jewish Tribune - March 10, 2010

Jewish, Muslim Students Fight Distrust, Tension with Program that Brings them Together
Jewish Tribune - March 10, 2010

York University Suspends Student Running Anti-Semitic Website
Stewart Bell - National Post - March 9, 2010

Ontario Condemns Israel Apartheid Week
Richard Shulman - NY Israel Conflict Examiner - March 9, 2010

Already Enough Hate in Mideast
Jonathan Mackenzie, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto - The Star - March 9, 2010

TDSB Bans Controversial Israeli Apartheid Week Event From All Board Properties
InsideToronto.com - March 8, 2010

BU Divided Over First Israel Apartheid Week
Saba Hamedy - The Daily Free Press - March 4, 2010

Protests at Irvine
Ben Harris - JTA - March 4, 2010

UK Academic Union Considers New Israel Boycott
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - March 2, 2010

Israel Complains to Spain Over Anti-Semitism in Schools
Haaretz - March 1, 2010

'Israeli Apartheid Week' Starts Today
Ben Hartman - The Jerusalem Post - March 1, 2010

Nobel Laureate Stands Up to Boycott Call
The Jerusalem Post - February 28, 2010

Professor Says Use of Cameron's and Fonda's Names was 'a Lame Joke'
The Globe and Mail - February 27, 2010

Tau Academic Opens 'Israel Apartheid Week' on London Campus
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - February 27, 2010

Statement of UC President Mark G. Yudof, the Chancellors of the Ten UC Campuses, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the Universitywide Academic Senate
February 27, 2010

Deputy Israeli Ambassador Cancels Uni Talk
Jonathan Kalmus - The Jewish Chronicle - February 21, 2010

British Academic Union Drops Call to Boycott Israel
Jonny Paul, Jerusalem Post correspondent - The Jerusalem Post - February 21, 2010

Jewish Students to Counter Israeli Apartheid Week
JTA - February 21, 2010

Academic Friends of Israel Digest: February, 2010: Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Actvities in UK
February 17, 2010

Politics Gets in the Way of Friendly Solar Competition
Ecoseed - February 17, 2010

Free Speech at Issue in Campus Israel Wars
Ben Harris - JTA - February 17, 2010

York Supplies Video Footage
JTA - February 17, 2010

CAIR, NLG Ask Calif. University, DA to Drop Charges Against 'Irvine 11'
Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism - February 15, 2010

Slaughter the Jews Call 'Misunderstood'
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - February 15, 2010

Calls For the Destruction of Israel in Soas Lecture
Marcus Dysch and Robyn Rosen - February 13, 2010

Muslim Public Affairs Council Defends Students' "Right" to Shout Down an Israeli Speaker
Paul Kujawsky - LA Middle East Examiner - February 12, 2010

Cambridge: Controversy as Islamic Society Hosts "Anti-Semitic" Speaker
James Wilson - Varsity - February 11, 2010

Daily Pilot: Arrested UCI Students Face Possible DA Prosecution
Orange County Independent Task Force on anti-Semitism - February 11, 2010

Israeli Minister Calls for Action over Insult
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem - The Independent - February 11, 2010

York, U of T act promptly on Antisemitism Complaints
Jewish Tribune - February 11, 2010

University Investigating Assault on Jewish Students
JTA - The Jerusalem Post - February 10, 2010

Protesters Interrupt UCLA Lecture on Goldstone Report
Jessica Pauline Ogilvie - February 10, 2010

11 Arrested for Disrupting Israeli Ambassador
Gary Robbins, science writer-editor - The Orange County Register - February 10, 2010

Police Probe 'Kill Jews' Oxford Chant
Jonny Paul - The Jerusalem Post - February 10, 2010

Cambridge Allows Event with Supporter of Suicide Bombing
Jonny Paul - The Jerusalem Post - February 10, 2010

Benny Morris: Banned at Cambridge University Out of Fear. Who's Next?
RubinReports - February 9, 2010

York University Investigating Assault on Jewish students
JTA - Jewish & Israel News - February 8, 2010

Anti-Semitic Note Reported at University of Oregon, Under Police Services Investigation
Alex Tomchak Scott - Oregon Daily Emerald - February 8, 2010

Anti-Israel Bias Infects Medical Journals
Barbara Kay - PajamasMedia - February 7, 2010

German University May Drop Anti-Semitic Writer's Name
Sara Stricker - Jewish news weekly of Northern California - February 5, 2010

Hillel at Odds over J Street's 'pro-Israel pro-Peace' Prog.
E.B. Solomont - The Jerusalem Post - February 4, 2010

Anti-Israel Prof Part of Middle East Primer
Michael C. Duke - Jewish Herald Voice - February 4, 2010

Klocek Takes Fight Against DePaul to the Appellate Court
February 3, 2010

University of Bergen - No Academic Boycott of Israel!
Sigmund Grønmo - University of Bergen - University Executive Group - January 27, 2010

Rector's Summary: Academic Boycott and Academic Freedom
University of Bergen - University Executive Group - January 25, 2010

British University Invites Hamas Supporter to Address Students
Haaretz - January 22, 2010

TA University Scholar to Advocate Israel Boycott
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - January 22, 2010

Issue of Space, Not Speech
Jennifer Epstein - Inside Higher Ed - January 20, 2010

Senior Member of Extreme Islamist Group Hizb Ut-Tahrir Teaches at Lse
Sean O'Neill, Crime and Security Editor - Times Online - January 15, 2010

New Organisation to Tackle Race Hate on Campus
Marcus Dysch - The Jewísh Chronicle - January 15, 2010

German University May Drop Anti-Semitic Writer's Name
Sarah Stricker - YNet News - January 14, 2010

Iranian University Nuclear Physicist and Opposition Supporter Killed in Bomb Blast
Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim - The Los Angeles Times - January 12, 2010

Indiana University to Launch Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Newswise - January 12, 2010

Report: Mideast Conflict Has Harmed Education in Area
JTA - January 8, 2010

Students Fear Rise In Campus Anti-Semitism
Chloe Markowicz - Totally Jewish.com News - January 8, 2010

Revealed: the True Extent of Islamic Radical Influence at UCL
David Barrett, Patrick Sawer and Sean Rayment - Telegraph.co.uk - January 3, 2010

 
SPME Position Papers
SPME Statement on Archbishop Tutu vs Academic Freedom
SPME Faculty Forum - April 15, 2009
Conference & Events Announcement
Miami JCRC To Discuss "New Anti Semitism on College Campuses" With SPME's Sam Edelman and Distinguishe Panel March 2
March 2, 2010
SPME Reviews and Recommendations
Jeffrey Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, Yale University Press New Haven & London 2009, 335pp.
SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - December 20, 2009
SPME FACULTY FORUM ROUNDTABLE

Prof. Harry Lesser Reports from The University of Manchester, UK - March 21, 2010

Discrimination Is Not Apartheid: Mohammed S. Wattad on Israel Apartheid Week
Mohammed S. Wattad, Zafed Law School, SPME Legal Task Force - March 20, 2010

Sasson's Brandeis Study Prompts Discussion of Israel on Campus...What Are Your Thoughts? 
January 14, 2010

Richard Landes, and Tammi Rossman Benjamin on The Global Forum Against Anti-Semitism...Leila Beckwith and Stan Dubinsky on CFA Coercion of Members' Beliefs...Alan Kuperberg on Iran...Joel Brinkley on Gaza 
December 25, 2009

SPME CHAT FEEDBACK

Halevi-Wise on Anti-Apartheid Week Strategies;Scott Jashik, "Is Heckling a Right?"
February 17, 2010

Clarification on SPME Ariel University Center Statement in Response to Feedback...And For Something Completely Different - The Taboo That Just Won't Shut Up, Chapter 43
Avi Eisbruch, University of Michigan; Ron Hoz, Ben-Gurion University; Stephen Schaefer, University of Manitoba; Gabor Frankl, Queen Mary University; Dan Golomb, UMass; Asher Eder, Jerusalem; Rafael Levi, UC-Irvine - February 16, 2010

Richard Landes and Alan Dershowitz on Goldstone's Gaza Report
January 26, 2010

Norman Cantor- Rutgers: No Peace From Jewish Voice For Peace; Itzhak Levav on Gerald Steinberg and SPME Editorial Balance;
January 20, 2010

VIEWS

Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel: U.S. Anger Over East Jerusalem Row is Excessive
Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel - Haaretz - March 17, 2010

Ron Kampeas: U.S.-Israel Crisis: This time, It's Serious
Ron Kampeas - JTA - March 17, 2010

Khaled Abu Toameh: What About The Arab Apartheid?
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - March 17, 2010

Martin Regg Cohn: 'Apartheid week' a semantic sideshow
Martin Regg Cohn - The Star - March 17, 2010

The U.S. Quarrel With Israel
The Washington Post Editorial - March 16, 2010

Ray Hanania: Yalla Peace: 'Apartheid Week' or 'Weakness'?
Ray Hanania - The Jerusalem Post - March 10, 2010

Ed West: The Word 'Apartheid' is Now So Overused It Has Become Meaningless
Ed West - Telegraph.co.uk - March 10, 2010

Michael Green: 'Apartheid' Doesn't Categorize Israel
Michael Green - The Daily Cougar.com - March 10, 2010

Wolfgang Langenbucher und Guni Yasin: Produziert die Logik des Journalismus Anti-Israelismus?
Wolfgang R. Langenbucher & Guni Yasin - SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - March 9, 2010

George Weidenfeld: Wo stehen eigentlich die Briten?
George Weidenfeld - Die Welt/ SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - March 7, 2010

David Bedein: How To Relate To 'Israel Apartheid Week': By Putting The Shoe On The Other Foot
David Bedein, Middle East Correspondent - The Bulletin, Philadelphia - March 5, 2010

Malcolm Hedding: Israel and Apartheid
Malcolm Hedding - malcolmhedding.blogspot.com - March 3, 2010

Richard Cohen: Israel Has Its Faults, But Apartheid Isn't One Of Them
Richard Cohen - The Washington Post - March 2, 2010

Jamsheed K. Choksy: Iran's New World Order
Jamsheed K. Choksy - The Wallstreet Journal - March 2, 2010

Wayne L. Firestone: When Campus Protests Suppress Free Speech
Wayne L. Firestone - The Jewish Week - February 26, 2010

Tawfik Hamid: Iranian Defeat First
Tawfik Hamid - The Jerusalem Post - February 18, 2010

Benny Weinthal: Europe's New anti-Semitism
Benny Weinthal - The Jewish Advocate - February 18, 2010

Khaled Abu Toameh: "Fatahgate"
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - February 17, 2010

Marwan Bishara: Talking Up War, Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera - February 14, 2010

Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom: Prospects for Arab-Israeli Regional Cooperation
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 19 - February 7, 2010

Khaled Abu Toameh: The Good Old Days Before Peace
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - February 4, 2010

Asa Kasher: A Moral Evaluation of the Gaza War - Operation Cast Lead
Asa Kasher - JCPA International Law Vol. 9, No. 18 - February 4, 201
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Eroding Israel's Legitimacy in the International Arena
REUT - Institute - January 28, 2010

Bashing Israel for Saving Haitians
Bradley Burston - Haaretz - January 23, 2010

Andrew Apostolou: The Shame of Modern Greece
Andrew Apostolou - The Wall Street Journal - January 21, 2010

Harry Reicher: Strange Effects - Israel's Right to Self-Defense
Harry Reicher - The Jerusalem Post - January 12, 2010

Bruce Hoffman: Al-Qaeda Has a New Strategy. Obama Needs One, Too
Bruce Hoffman - The Washington Post - January 12, 2010

Danny Ayalon: Israel's Right in the 'Disputed' Territories 
Danny Ayalon - The Wall Street Journal - January 5, 2010

Evelyn Gordon: The Deadly Price of Pursuing Peace 
Evelyn Gordon - Commentary Magazine - January 5, 2010

Ruth Dudley Edwards: British Universities: Seats of Learning - and Loathing 
Ruth Dudley Edwards - Telegraph.co.uk - January 2, 2010

Charles Jacobs: Where's Our Leadership?  
Charles Jacobs - The Jewish Advocate - January 1, 2010

Fouad Ajami: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy  
Fouad Ajami - The Wall Street Journal - January 1, 2010

GENERAL NEWS

Israel Says It's Planning New Gestures
Yaakov Katz - The Jerusalem Post - April 2, 2010

Shin Bet: Terror-Related Attacks on the Rise In March
Haaretz Service - Haaretz - April 2, 2010

'Hamas Used Kids as Human Shields'
Yaakov Katz - The Jerusalem Post - April 2, 2010

IAF Planes Scrambled Towards Fighter Jets Training Off Coast
Yaakov Katz - The Jerusalem Post - March 31, 2010

Palestinian Reporters Urged to 'Repent'
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - March 31, 2010

Netanyahu Makes Clinton an Offer
JTA - March 19, 2010

Report: Obama, Netanyahu to Meet in U.S. on Tuesday
Haaretz Service - Haaretz - March 19, 2010

Haaretz Poll: Most Israelis See Obama as Fair and Friendly
Yossi Verter - Haaretz - March 19, 2010

U.S. Mulls Own Plan for Mideast Talks
David E. Sanger and Isabel Kershner - The New York Times - March 18, 2010

US Israel Criticism Ignites Firestorm in Congress
Matthew Lee - The Washingto Post/ The Associated Press - March 17, 2010

Palestinians Riot in Jerusalem
JTA - March 17, 2010

NDP Leader Furious Over Death Threats
Jonathan Jenkins - Toronto Sun - March 17, 2010

Biden: Bond with Israel 'Unbreakable' But U.S. Will Note Missteps
JTA - March 11, 2010

Israel Apologizes as Biden Meets Palestinians
JTA - March 11, 2010

Palestinians Say No Talks Until Housing Project Axed
JTA - March 11, 2010

U.N. Assembly Urges Further Gaza War Investigations
Louis Charbonneau - Yahoo News - March 7, 2010

Israel, Palestinians Set For Indirect Talks
Arab News/ Reuters - March 6, 2010

Palestinians, Israelis Clash Ahead Of Talks
The New York Times/ Reuters - March 5, 2010

Hamas: Jordan or Egypt Likely Behind Dubai Hit
Haaretz/Reuters - March 2, 2010

Israel Begins Distributing Gas Masks to Citizens
The Washington Post/Associated Press - March 2, 2010

Law professor: Hamas is a war crimes 'case study'
The Jerusalem Post - February 28, 2010

Calif. Governor Troubled by Racism on Campuses
The Associated Press - Mercurynews.com - February 28, 2010

Anti-Semitic Incidents in Canada at All Time High
sdjewishworld - February 28, 2010

Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in Sweden
AOL News - February 27, 2010

Nuclear Dispute: EU Plans Massive Sanctions Against Iran
Hans-Jürgen Schlamp in Brussels - SPIEGEL Online/AP - February 24, 2010

Russia 'Very Alarmed' Over Iran
The Moscow Times - February 24, 2010

Iranian Website: Iranian Nuclear Bomb Spells Death to Israel
MEMRI Special Dispatch No.2820 - February 24, 2010

Inspectors Say Iran Worked on Warhead
David Sanger and William J. Broad - The New York Times - February 20, 2010

J Street, Oren Mending Fences - But Wariness Lingers
Roger Kampas - JTA - February 17, 2010

Nobel Laureate Ebadi Calls for Sanctions on Iran
Reuters - February 15, 2010

Clinton Expected to Seek Saudi Arabia's Help in Confronting Iran
Glenn Kessler - The Washington Post - February 15, 2010

French Antisemitic Incidents Double
Shirli Sitbon - The Jewish Chronicle - February 14, 2010

Ahmadinejad: Israel Must Be "Finished, Once and For All"
JTA - February 14, 2010

Goldstone Panel Member Accused of Bias
JTA - February 14, 2010

A Day in the Life of the Palestinian Ben-Gurion
Akiva Eldar - February 14, 2010

Think Tank: Israel Faces Global Delegitimization Campaign
Barak Ravid - Haaretz - February 13, 2010

Cut! Cameron Blasts Israel Boycotts
Hillary Leila Krieger - The Jerusalem Post - February 13, 2010

Arabs to block Canberra's UN push
Greg Sheridan, Foreign editor - The Australian - February 4, 2010

War Crimes Trials Unlikely for Israel or Hamas
Chris Stephen - The Scotsman - February 2, 2010

Jordan Criticized for Stripping Palestinian Rights
Dale Gavlak - The Washington Post - The Associated Press - February 2, 2010

'EU Aid Funds PA Incitement'
Ben Hartman - The Jerusalem Post - February 2, 2010

First Time: Israel Admitted to UN Human Rights Caucus in Geneva
UNwatch Briefing - January 28, 2010

U.N. Rights Council's Haiti Parley is Harmful Diversion
UNwatch Briefing - January 28, 2010

Hamas is to Blame for Israel's Failure to Aid Gazans
Yom-Tov Samia - Haaretz - January 25, 2010

PA Warns EU Against Legitimizing Hamas
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - January 25, 2010

Israelis Says Anti-Semitism Peaked in 2009
The Associated Press - The Washington Post - January 25, 2010

Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen
Richard Esposito, Rhonda Schwartz and Brian Ross - ABC News - January 25, 2010

Israel Poised to Challenge a U.N. Report on Gaza
Ethan Bronner - The New York Times - January 24, 2010

Israel Ready to Adopt Haitian Orphans
JTA - January 24, 2010

Bin Laden Claims U.S. Plane Bombing Attempt
The New York Times/Reuters - January 24, 2010

U.K. Raises Terror Alert, Says Attack 'Highly Likely'
Reuters - Haaretz - January 23, 2010

Israel Pays 10.5 Million Dollars for Damage to UN Gaza Premises
Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent, News Agencies - Haaretz - January 23, 2010

The Burning of the Etz Hayyim Synagogue and Museum in Chania, Crete, Greece
Yitzchak Kerem - SPME Faculty Forum - January 22, 2010

U.S. Policy Shift Seen As Direct Israeli-Palestinian Talks May Be Near
James D. Besser - The Jewish Week - January 15, 2010

Israel to Set Up Field Hospital in Haiti
Ronen Medzini - YNet News - January 14, 2010

U.S. Leads New Israeli-Palestinian Peace Push
David Harris - China View - January 14, 2010

Schauprozesse gegen Bahai im Iran
Wahied Wahdat-Hagh - Welt Online - SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - January 11, 2010

Arab League Chief Wants Bigger UN Role in Middle East
Yasmine Saleh - Reuters - January 1, 2010

Jordan Asks Canada to Seize Dead Sea Scrolls
The Globe and Mail - January 1, 2010

Rockets Fired from Gaza Strike Israel
JTA - January 1, 2010

2009

SPME ACTION ALERTS + BREAKING NEWS

SPME President Peter Haas Reports on Global Forum For Combatting Antisemitism
December 29, 2009

Peruvian Professors Reach Out To SPME
December 27, 2009

This Holiday Season and End of FY 2009, Please Remember SPME, SPMEMart and SPME Online Shop- Help SPME 3 Ways
December 15, 2009

SPME's New President Appeals for Volunteers and Support To Help SPME "Continue The Momentum..."
December 7, 2009

Peter Haas New SPME President as Ed Beck Steps Down
December 4, 2009

SPME Search for Book Review Editor Continues Through December 15, 2009
Peter J. Haas, SPME President-Elect, Case Western Reserve University - November 23, 2009

SPME Thanks It's Current Academic Year Donors, But Needs Everyones' Help To Face Challenges Ahead
Elizabeth Gaither, SPME Administrative Assistant - November 16, 2009

Academics Oppose and Await Norwegian University Vote on Boycott of Israeli Academics
SPME News - November 10, 2009

Peter Haas Voted By SPME Board to Become SPME's New President January 1, 2010
Exclusive to the SPME Faculty Forum - November 10, 2009

SPME Completes Highly Successful Iran Conference and Annual Meeting in Cleveland
November 10, 2009

SPME Approaches Involvement by 50,000 since 2005
SPME Faculty Forum - November 1, 2009

SPME Faculty Bloggers Among Group Launching Understanding the Goldstone Report Blog at www.goldstonereport.org
October 16, 2009

SPME Acts on Expulsion of Ariel University Center From European Solar Decathlon Competition 2010
Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University and Ruth Contreras, SPME- European Coordinator - October 4, 2009

Letter of Concern Regarding the Expulsion of Ariel University from Solar Decathlon 2010
SPME News - October 1, 2009

LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER FOR SPME CONFERENCE ON IRAN, NOV. 8-10, CLEVELAND
Exclusive to SPME - November 8, 2009

SPME BRINGS LEADING INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS FOR CONFERENCE ON: "THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF ITS THEOCRACY, NATIONALISM, AND ASSERTION OF POWER" November 8-10th Cleveland...REGISTRATION SPACES STILL AVAILABLE
Exclusive to SPME - November 8, 2009

SPME AND CAPME MEMBERS DEVELOPING MULTIPLE STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS MLA RESOLUTION 2008-1 AND DRAFT RESOLUTIONS FOR 2009 CONVENTION
Complied from Submissions and Reports, Edited by Edward Beck - October 11, 2009

SPME THANKS RECENT CONTRIBUTORS THIS ACADEMIC YEAR, BUT STILL REQUIRES $20,000 TO FUND IRAN CONFERENCE....
October 10, 2009

SPME CONFERENCE: "THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF ITS THEOCRACY, NATIONALISM, AND ASSERTION OF POWER" November 8-10th Cleveland
Exclusive to SPME - November 8, 2009

SPMEMart and The SPME Online Store- Shop for Discounts and Help SPME
September 22, 2009

Statement About Former Holding in Africa-Israel Investments Ltd.
TIAA-CREF.org - September 15, 2009

Open letter to TIAA-CREF
September 14, 2009

Academic Year 2009-2010 Promises to Be A Year of Challenge for SPME and the Arab Israel Conflict Narrative on Campus...We Need Your Contributions September 2, 2009

Thank You, Academic Year 2008/2009 SPME Contributors...Thanks To You, We Are Getting Much Accomplished....
August 5, 2009

SPME's "Postcolonial Theory and Arab-Israel Conflict" ( Salzman and Robinson-Divine, Eds) Now Available in Paperback with Free Shipping and Handling From SPMEMart
July 26, 2009

Please Join These 23 Nobel Laureates to Endorse Petition Against Silent Boycott of Israeli Academics Before We Release It. Thank You
July 24, 2009

Call for Written Submissions by Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism: Submissions Due July 31, 2009
July 24, 2009

Israel Medical Association Seeks 10,000 Physicians' Signatures to Counter Slanderous Charges from UK Anti-Israel Physician
July 9, 2009

Call For Papers: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Conference on " Incitement to Genocide: Understanding Iran's Foreign and Military Policies," Case Western Reserve University Nov 7-10, 2009, Proposal Deadline August 1, 2009
Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University and Sam Edelman, California State University-Chico - June 18, 2009

Call For Papers: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Conference on " Incitement to Genocide: Understanding Iran's Foreign and Military Policies," Case Western Reserve University Nov 7-10, 2009
Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University and Sam Edelman, California State University-Chico - March 9, 2009

SPME Public Health and Medical Task Force and Board Calls on SPME Physicians and Medical/Health Care Scientist and Professional Subscribers to Speak Out Against "Medical Committee to Boycott the Israeli Medical Association"
Steven Albert, University of Pittsburgh, Chair SPME Task Force on Medical and Public Health Issues - SPME Faculty Forum - SPME Action Alerts - June 17, 2009

UK's UCU "Silent Boycott" Against Israeli Scholars Draws Protests from 21 Nobel Laureate and Nearly 3200 Academics WorldWide...Seeking 10,000 Academic Signatures, Please Sign and Circulate Now...
June 19, 2009

As SPME Reaches over 28,000... This is Your Last Chance to Give to SPME This Academic Year 2008-2009. Help This Be A Record Year for Individual Contributions From SPME Network Participants. Every Contribution Is Important and Helps....Thank You.
Edward S. Beck, Walden University; President SPME - June 18, 2009

Call For Papers: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Conference on " Incitement to Genocide: Understanding Iran's Foreign and Military Policies," Case Western Reserve University Nov 7-10, 2009, Proposal Deadline August 1, 2009
Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University and Sam Edelman, California State University-Chico - June 18, 2009

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) Deplores U.S. Holocaust Memorial Shootings
PR Newswire - June 16, 2009

Call For Papers: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Conference on " Incitement to Genocide: Understanding Iran's Foreign and Military Policies," Case Western Reserve University Nov 7-10, 2009
Peter Haas, Case Western Reserve University and Sam Edelman, California State University-Chico - March 9, 2009

Canadian Medical Association Journal in the Mirror of History: SPME Faculty at University of Toronto Anti-Israel Journal Articles
CMAJ • JUNE 9, 2009 • 180(12) - June 12, 2009

SPME Online Shop Adds More Items For You To Support SPME- Clothes, Mugs, Bags, Caps and Fun Stuff
June 11, 2009

Emergency Solicitation of SPME Faculty Network From The SPME Leadership- Update June 1, 2009
Edward Beck, Peter Haas, Judith Jacobson, Ruth Contreras, Leila Beckwith, Samuel Edelman - Special Emergency Action Alert for SPME Faculty Network - June 1, 2009

Shop The SPME Store To Show Your SPME Affiliation
SPME News - May 21, 2009

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Commend the University of California President, Mark Yudof for His Stand Against Anti-Semitism
news.prnewswire.com - May 22, 2009

Emergency Solicitation of SPME Faculty Network From The SPME Leadership
Edward Beck, Peter Haas, Judith Jacobson, Ruth Contreras, Leila Beckwith, Samuel Edelman - Special Emergency Action Alert for SPME Faculty Network - May 3, 2009

For Immediate Release: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Statement on the Accusation of Dissemination of Anti-Semitic Material Against University of California, Santa Barbara, Sociology Professor, William Robinson
Adopted by Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Board of Directors, May 10, 2009 - PRNewswire.com - May 11, 2009

Prof. Mohammed Wattad, Zefat College of Law, Appointed to SPME Legal Task Force
April 29, 2009

SPME Co-Sponsor and Participant in Fordham University Durban II Counter-Conference
Ellen Sloame Fawer, Samuel Edelman and Kenneth Marcus - April 28, 2009

Call For Papers For SPME Conference On: " The Islamic Republic of Iran: Multidisciplinary Analyses of Its Theocracy, Nationalism and Assertion of Power." Nov. 8-10, 2009, Case Western Reserve University, Deadline August 1, 2009
April 16, 2009

A Response to David Newman
April 16, 2009

Kenneth L. Marcus To Head SPME Legal Task Force
SPME Faculty Forum - SPME News - April 15, 2009

Save The Date April 29, 3PM Eastern Time: SPME Faculty Conference Call With Kenneth Marcus, Ackerman Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Baruch College, on Action Strategies For Faculty To Deal With Hate Speech and Hostile Campus Environment
April 7, 2009

SPME's Passover Appeal...Your Contribution Shows Support For SPME's Work...It Takes Your Contribution to Keep SPME Faculty Run and Independent
Edward S. Beck, Walden University; Co-Founder and President Emeritus, SPME - April 6, 2009

SPME Task Force Forming to Deal With MLA Anti-Israel Resolution: MLA Members Needed To Vote No On Resolution and To Help Draft Alternate Resolution
March 28, 2009

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, UCSC, Joins SPME Board of Directors
March 26, 2009

Only Faculty Can Prevent Hate Speech and Intimidation on Campus
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - March 26, 2009


SPME Makes History- Don't Let it Become History...We Need Your Support
March 19, 2009

Stop The Boycott and Fair Play Campaign Group Ask SPME-UK Members for Help With Israel Science Day Statement
Arieh Kolvner, Fair Play Campaign Group - March 3, 2009

SPME Praises Obama and Harper Administrations for Pulling Out of "Durban II" Conference: Urges All Democratic Governments to Follow Suit
SPME Board of Directors - March 1, 2009

SPME Asked by Israel on Campus Coalition and JNF to Compile Faculty Perspective on Anti-Israelism on Campuses.
February 28, 2009

An Open Letter to Over 800 SPME Colleagues in the UK from Howard Kahn and Ashley Grossman Howard Kahn, Heriot Watt University and Ashley Grossman, Queen Mary-University of London - February 26, 2009

For Immediate Release: Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Plays Quiet But Effective Critical Role in Clarifying and Resolving Hampshire College "Divestment Situation"

February 25, 2009


Please join 9 Nobel Laureates and 2600 Colleagues to Endorse SPME's Statement on Discrimination Against Israeli Academics and Institutions
February 20, 2009

With New Waves of Anti-Israelism Forming on Campus, Faculty Take A Stand With New SPME Chapters Forming
February 18, 2009

Ed Beck to Present at CAFI's Inaugural Conference in Toronto Along With Ed Morgan, Irwin Cotler, Gerald Steinberg, Charles Small
February 18, 2009

Stanford's Prof. Boaz Ganor to Speak on "Israel's Strategic and Ethics-Oriented Response to Terrorism" on SPME Conference Call, 2.26.09 at 3PM Eastern Time...Reservations Required For Dial-In Instructions...Room Still Available
February 20, 2009

Help SPME Fight Coordinated Calls For Boycotts of Israeli Academics and Institutions in North America and Australia With International Grass Roots Faculty Support.
SPME Faculty Forum - SPME Action Alerts - February 1, 2009

New SPME Executive Director Reviews Achievements, Calls for Increased Support
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - February 13, 2009

SPME Makes History- Don't Let it Become History
February 10, 2009

Sign Up for Conference Call on "Facing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism From Academic Colleagues in University Settings" with Charles Asher Small, Director, Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism, February 8th at 3:00 PM Eastern Time

Prof. Samuel M. Edelman of University of California-Chico to Serve As SPME's First Executive Director

SPME in 2009...Growing, Producing, Responding and Impacting...Be A Supportive Part Of It
Edward S. Beck, Walden University; Co-Founder and President Emeritus, SPME - January 31, 2009

Alan Dershowitz Joins Nobel Laureates Richard J. Roberts , Steven Weinberg, Kenneth Arrow, Roald Hoffmann and Aaron Ciechanover and Nearly 8000 Colleagues on SPME Petition Protesting Canadian Boycott of Israeli Scholars and Academic Institutions
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 31, 2009

Thinking of Publishing Original Op-Ed's In Other Journals? Reach Nearly 26,000 Academic Colleagues World Wide Through the SPME Faculty Forum
Edward S. Beck, President Emeritus, SPME; Walden University - January 31, 2009

Nobel Laureates Roger Kornberg and Walter Kohn Among Over 2000 Faculty Endorsing SPME Statement on Discrimination Against Israeli Academics and Institutions
Dr. Ed Beck - Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 31, 2009

Prof. Michael Oren Briefs SPME Network Subscribers on Gaza Situation on Conference Call.
Judith Jacobson and Edward S. Beck - SPME Faculty Forum - January 20, 2009

Alan Dershowitz Joins Nobel Laureates Richard J. Roberts , Steven Weinberg, Kenneth Arrow and Aaron Ciechanover and Over 6500 Colleagues on SPME Petition Protesting Canadian Boycott of Israeli Scholars and Academic Institutions
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 16, 2009

Thousands of Academics Worldwide Sign Petition to Protest CUPE Ontario's Proposed Boycott of Israeli Universities
marketwire.com - January 16, 2009

SPME Network Invited to Join JNF Solidarity Mission to Israel January 25-29
JNF Invitation To SPME Network - January 7, 2009

SCHOLARS FOR PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST STATEMENT ON ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE AGAINST HAMAS
SPME Board of Directors - Press Release Issued December 28, 2008 - January 9, 2009

Nobel Laureates Richard J. Roberts , Steven Weinberg, and Kenneth Arrow Join 2000 Colleagues on SPME Petition Protesting Canadian Boycott of Israeli Scholars
January 9, 2009

SPME In 2009...Only You Can Make It Happen !!!
Edward S. Beck, Walden University; Co-Founder and President Emeritus, SPME - January 7, 2009

SPME Needs Your Support For 2009
SPME News - December 3, 2008

Conference & Events Announcement

Time to Act - International Iran Conference in Berlin  
November 28, 2009

SPME To Sponsor Brown Bag Lunch With Hillel Students and Faculty At Penn State November 17 12:00 Noon
November 10, 2009

Goldman Visiting Israeli Professorship Application Now Available for 2010-11 at Georgetown University, Department of Gov't
October 12, 2009

JCPA Announces the First Lecture of the Ninth Herbert Berman Memorial Series: Biographical Movie about the Austrian Journalist Karl Pfeifer
October 20, 2009

SPME Austria - Member Karl Pfeifer Reports from the Battle Front - Combating Antisemitism
October 19, 2009

SPME CONFERENCE: "THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN: MULTIDISCIPLINARY ANALYSES OF ITS THEOCRACY, NATIONALISM, AND ASSERTION OF POWER" November 8-10th Cleveland
Exclusive to SPME - November 8, 2009

ASMEA Annual Conference October 22-24, 2009 Washington, D.C
October 5, 2009

Lecture by Prof. Irwin Cotler in Vienna: The Danger of a Genocidal, Nuclear and Rights-Violating Iranian Regime: What Must Be Done?
July 3, 2009

SPME's Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman Benjamin to Present at AAUP Conference on Academic Freedom, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Israelism
June 12, 2009

Canadian Colleagues Offered A Chance to Help SPME and SWC With Discounted Tickets To "Spirit of Hope Benefit" May 31 in Toronto
May 31, 2009

American University in Washington: AU CENTER FOR ISRAEL STUDIES AND AICE PRESENT ISRAEL AT A CROSSROAD" ACADEMIC CONFERENCE
May 12, 2009

YIISA Seminar Series Current Spring 2009 Semester
March 18, 2009

Tuesday, 26 May 2009: Obama's Developing Policy towards the Middle East
May 11, 2009

YIISA Conference: "The Psychological Notion of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism From Denial and Paralysis to Understanding the Challenge"
April 28, 2009

Call for Papers: International Conference - Towards 'the Dignity of Difference': Neither 'the Clash of Civilizations' nor 'the End of History'
March 18, 2009

March 25, 2009: Sibylle Quack: Remembering the Holocaust in United Germany
March 25, 2009

Israel/Palestine in Perspective -
March 18, 2009

Israel/Palestine in Perspective - An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference - Call for Papers
March 18, 2009

SPME's Ed Beck to Address and Conduct Workshop on "Role of Faculty as Campus Stakeholders In Addressing Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism on Canadian College Campuses" March 10, 2009 12-2PM University of Toronto
March 10, 2009

Academic Conference: "Emerging Trends in Anti-Semitism and Campus Discourse"
March 8, 2009

"Fighting" Israel Apartheid Week - Lecture at McGill Law Faculty
March 2, 2009

Upcoming SPME Conference Call Lectures: Boaz Ganor 2.26.09 3PM ET and Barry Rubin 3.16.09 3PM ET...Reserve Your Place Now
February 26, 2009

After the War in Gaza: Prospects for Peace. Presented by the Hebrew Language Table and the Embassy of Israel
February 8, 2009

Consulate General of Israel in New York The Department of Academic Affairs announces upcoming events for February 2009
February 2, 2009

Anne Bayefsky To Lecture At Stanford on "The UN, Human Rights and Israel," February 10th at 7:00 PM
January 26, 2009

SPME Reviews and Recommendations

Francis R. Nicosia. Review of Norwood, Stephen H., The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses.
Francis R. Nicosia - H-Judaic, H-Net Reviews. November, 2009. - November 16, 2009

Where Do Jews Come From?
Evan R. Goldstein - The Wall Street Journal - October 31, 2009

NTNU: A Norwegian Hate University
Published in Hebrew in the weekly Makor Rishon - September 22, 2009

Paperback Version of Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict Now Available
SPME Faculty Forum - July 21, 2009

Higher Ed and the Third Reich
Elizabeth Redden - Inside Higher Ed - June 17, 2009

Barbara Kay: Behind the Humanitarian Mask in Scandinavia

Barbara Kay - National Post - May 7, 2009

Nordic Exposure
Isi Leibler - The Jerusalem Post - May 7, 2009

Two Critical Book Reviews: Avi Shlaim - Lion of Jordan and Nigel Ashton: King Hussein of Jordan Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem - SPME Faculty Forum - April 2, 2009

From The Armenian Golgotha to The HolocaustForeshadowing Attitudes of the German Military?
andrewbostom.org - March 23, 2009

Unwelcome Back Carter
Jonathan Schanzer - The Jerusalem Post/The Jewish Policy Center - March 13, 2009

Deconstructing Edward Said
A.J. Caschetta - Middle East Quarterly Winter 2009, pp. 77-79 - February 22, 2009

How Not To Make Peace in The Middle East
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley - Volume 56, Number 1 The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009 - February 5, 2009

Jeffrey Schaler: December, 2007 Special Issue: Anti-Semitism the World Over in the Twenty-First Century Available
SPME Faculty Forum - February 1, 2009

Ernest Sternberg: A Revivified Corpse: Left-Fascism in the Twenty-First Century
TelosScope - January 7, 2009

SPME IN THE MEDIA

Norway's Second-Largest University to Vote on Israel Boycott
Rebecca Baskin - The Jerusalem Post - November 3, 2009

Petition Raps Norwegian University Vote on Israel Boycott
JTA - November 2, 2009

Update: Test Case for European Anti-Semitism as Top Norwegian University Prepares to Vote on Becoming First in Europe to Boycott Israel
Robin Shepherd - November 2, 2009

Israel Boycott Push in U.S. Not Yet a Threat, Say Monitors
Raphael Ahren - Haaretz - July 17, 2009

UCSB Drops Case Against Professor
Elliott Rosenfeld / Staff Writer - Daily Nexus, University of California, Santa Barbara: Issue 140 / Volume 89 - July 15, 2009

Taking Sides on Professor's E-Mail Comparing Israel and Nazis
Inside Higher Ed - May 12, 2009

Irwin J. Mansdorf: Right of Reply: Intellectually Dishonest on Campus
Irwin J. Mansdorf - The Jerusalem Post - April 21, 2009

SPME PRESS RELEASE CALLS FOR HALT TO FALSE ASSERTIONS
March 26, 2009

5th Israel Apartheid Week Bigger Than Ever
Elan Lubliner - The Jerusalem Post - March 12, 2009

Elizabeth Redden: On Israel, Shifted Ground
Elizabeth Redden - Inside Higher Ed - March 6, 2009

Canadian Groups Wage Campaign Against Israel Apartheid Week
Elan Lubliner - The Jerusalem Post - March 4, 2009

German Center 'Ignored' Anti-Semitism
Benjamin Weinthal - The Jerusalem Post - February 20, 2009

Thousands of Academics Worldwide Sign Petition to Protest CUPE Ontario's Proposed Boycott of Israeli Universities
msnbc.msn.com - February 8, 2009

The Gaza War... on North American Campuses
Inside Higher Ed - January 12, 2009

A Terrible Shame
Leonard Stern - The Ottawa Citizen - January 11, 2009

Rev. India E. Garnett, SPME Board Member, Speaks At Israel Solidarity and Peace Rally at PA State Capitol Rotunda
Patriot-News, Harrisburg, PA - January 9, 2009

SPME CHAPTER NEWS

Short Report About the Annual Meeting of SMPE-Germany in Berlin 6th of December 2009  
SPME Chapter News - December 12, 2009

SPME-University of Buffalo Co-Sponsors: "Israel: Beyond the Conflict " with Dr. Reuven Hazan
December 6, 2009

TODAY Nov 17- SPME and Penn State Hillel Sponsor Barry Rubin 
November 17, 2009

SPME-University of Pittsburgh Co-Sponsors Barry Rubin
Steven Albert, SPME Universityn of Pittsburgh - November 14, 2009

Barry Rubin and Abby Weiss to Speak at University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh November 11th 7:30 PM
Steven Albert, University of Pittsburgh - November 10, 2009

SPME Buffalo Chapter announces a lecture by Prof. Jonathan Adelman: Demonizing Israel: Historical Fact and Fiction
October 22, 2009

SPME-UK Chapter News: Successful Outcomes at Manchester Universities
October 4, 2009

SPME Austria Chapter: Report on a Book-Presentation
SPME Faculty Forum - September 24, 2009

SPME Australia - Chapter Report
SPME Chapter News - September 21, 2009

SPME Australia Reports Calls for Academic Boycott of Israel By Sydney University Faculty
SPME Chapter News - September 10, 2009

300 Colleagues at SPME Chapter at University of Toronto In Need of New Leadership....
September 6, 2009

SPME Austria Plans Lecture and Book Presentation in September
Eva Muhlhofer-Gurion - September 3, 2009

SPME-UK Looking for Increased Input Support and Involvement from Members Will Addressing Boycott Calls and other Anti-Semitic and Anti-Israel Attitudes in UK Academia
Howard Kahn, Heriot-Watt University - September 3, 2009

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East UK
Fair Play Campaign Group - July 15, 2009

German Pro-Israel Group Labeled 'Mossad Front'
Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post Correspondent in Berlin - The Jerusalem Post - July 13, 2009

Ashley Grossman, SPME UK Co-Coordinator, Addresses Use of Term "Massacre" in Royal College of Physicians Journal Article on "Physicians in Palestine."Howard Kahn, SPME-UK Co-Coordinator, Heriot-Watt University - June 19, 2009

German NGOs Address Pres. Obama on Dangers of Anti-Semitism and Hatred of Israel

SPME Chapter News - June 5, 2009

Finkelstein lecture in Vienna moved from University to a Hotel
SPME Chapter News - May 18, 2009

NORMAN FINKELSTEIN IN VIENNA? - OPEN LETTER TO THE RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, May 14, 2009

H.E. Ambassdor Dan Ashbel: 61 years of Israel. Challenges and Aspects
SPME Chapter News - May 28, 2009

SPME Austria Chapter Announces Book
April 16, 2009

Canadian Colleagues Offered A Chance to Help SPME with Discounted Tickets to SWC "Spirit of Hope" Benefit May 31 in Toronto
March 30, 2009

Columbia SPME and David Project Present Irwin Mansdorf and Charney Bromberg a Multi-Perspective Discussion on Zionism, March 31, 2009 6PM
March 30, 2009

SPME-UK Members Act at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland
SPME Faculty Forum - SPME Chapter News - March 18, 2009

SPME UK's Howard Kahn Reports Israel Science Day Boycott Fails and Event is Huge Success With SPME's Help
SPME Faculty Forum- SPME Chapter News - March 12, 2009

SPME- UC- San Diego Coordinator, Shlomo Dubnov, Reports on His Role On A Panel at the Public Screening of The Film "Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land -- U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".
SPME Chapter News - March 5, 2009

Launch of the Australian SPME Chapter
SPME Faculty Forum - February 20, 2009

Steven Albert: SPME, University of Pittsburgh: Response to National Lawyer's Guild Event
SPME Faculty Forum - February 20, 2009

SPME FACULTY SUCCESSFULLY INTERVENE IN ANTI-ISRAEL AND ANTI-SEMITIC STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITY
Howard Kahn, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland - February 15, 2009

International Scholarly Association Criticizes the Attitude of the Berlin Center for Research on Antisemitism Towards its Critics
February 11, 2009

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz
JCPA Institute for Global Jewish Affairs - February 1, 2009

Report of the SPME Austria Chapter on Activities in 2008 and Prospects for 2009
January 31, 2009

SPECIAL APPEAL TO SPME NETWORK AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY FROM PROF. ADA SINACORE, CHAIR, SPME-MCGILL CHAPTER
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 31, 2009

SPME- Germany Has Presence At Pro-Israel Rallies at Cities Throughout Germany
Elvira Grözinger, Germany - Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 19, 2009

Pro Israel Rallies in Berlin
January 21, 2009

SPME FACULTY FORUM ROUNDTABLE

Jack Koplovitz, Amnon Rubinstein and Ben-Dror Yemini on Academic Accuracy, Quality, Freedom and Comportment...Steven Walt on Why He's Thankful This Thankgiving
November 24, 2009

EDWARD BECK: AS THE SPME LEADERSHIP CHANGES, SPME WANTS TO KNOW WHAT ITS NETWORK NEEDS FOR THE FUTURE 
November 23, 2009

Dov Waxman and David Weinberg on JStreet...
November 12, 2009

Richard Landes: Understanding the Goldstone Report....Howard Adelman: The Foundation For Goldstone...Philip Mendes, Judea Pearl, Kenneth Walzter On Goldberg and Makdisi... Guiora and Barghouti Discuss Goldstone Report on YouTube...
Richard Landes: Understanding The Goldstone Report...Philip Mendes, Monash University, Australia - November 2, 2009

Inaugural Faculty Forum Roundtable: Goldberg and Makdisi "Trial of Israel's Campus Critics", A Response from Tammi Rossman Benjamin, "Campus Critics on Trial"
SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable - November 1, 2009

SPME VOICES

Barry Rubin: How to Get Western Intellectuals to Support Dictatorships and Totalitarian Ideas
December 28, 2009

SPME Faculty Profile- Philip Carl Salzman
December 27, 2009

Barry Rubin: Dramatic New Evidence On Major Nidal Hasan and the Fort Hood Terror Attack
Rubinreports - December 25, 2009

Ernest Sternberg: Purifying the World: What the New Radical Ideology Stands For
December 17, 2009

Amos N. Guiora: Pre-Empting Terror Bombings - A Comparative Approach to Anticipatory Self-Defense
National Security Advisors - December 10, 2009

Michael B. Oren: Israel's Settlement Freeze
The Wall Street Journal - December 8, 2009

Amos N. Guiora: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Operationalizing the Law of Armed Conflict in New Warfare
Laurie R. Blank - National Security Advisors - December 3, 2009

Kenneth L. Marcus: Iran's Nuclear Anti-Zionism Is Genocidal, Not Political
inFocus VOLUME III: NUMBER 4 Winter 2009 - December 1, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: From Dreyfus to Goldstone
Canadian Jewish News - December 1, 2009

Barry Rubin: Breaking News: Tehran OKs Ten Uranium Enrichment Facilities; U.S. Government Begs Iran to Negotiate
Rubinreports - November 30, 2009

Barry Rubin: The Obama Administration's Giant Problem: How to Get the Palestinians to Negotiations without Pressure and Threats?
Rubinreports - November 30, 2009

Matthias KÜNTZEL: Obama's Search for Peace in Our Time
The Weekly Standard Volume 015, Issue 12 - November 30, 2009

Barry Rubin: Hillary's Bombshell: Obama Administration Subtly Launches Dramatic Policy Change on Peace Process
Rubinreports - November 29, 2009

Barry Rubin: The Trouble with Soft Diplomacy: Endless Resolutions on Iran, No Resolution of the Issues
Rubinreports - November 29, 2009

Barry Rubin: The US-Israel Construction Freeze Deal and What it Means
Rubinreports - November 27, 2009

Amos N. Guiora: Not "By All Means Necessary': A Comparative Framework for Post-9/11 Approaches to Counterterrorism
National Security Advisors - November 25, 2009

Kenneth L. Marcus: Submission to the Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism Contemporary Anti-Semitism in North American Higher Education
Institute for Jewish Community Research Quad Fall 2009 - November 24, 2009

Philip C. Salzman: Israel's Barrier Saving Lives
South China Morningpost - November 19, 2009

Matthias KÜNTZEL: Amerika auf Abwegen
matthiaskuentzel.de - November 19, 2009

Gerald Steinberg and Dan Kosky: Watchdog Puts No Bite on Despots
Dan Kosky - The Washington Times - November 18, 2009

Michael Baum: The History of Anti-Semitism and Genocide and Its Relevance to the Understanding and Solution of the Israel/Palestinian Conflict
November 18, 2009

Barry Rubin: Why I Murdered 13 American Soldiers at Fort Hood: Nidal Hassan Explains It All to You
Rubinreports - November 18, 2009


David Newman: Studying Israel on Campus
The Jerusalem Post - November 16, 2009

Louis Rene Beres: Declaring "Palestine" Unilateralism, Diplomacy and Regional Nuclear War
SPME Faculty Voices - November 16, 2009

Gil Troy: Delegitimizing the Delegitimizers
Israel Insider - November 14, 2009

Olivier Guitta: Iran and Saudi Arabia at War in Yemen
November 12, 2009


Goldstone, U.S. Policy and the Looming Veto: If the UN is so Irresponsible Why is Obama Its Biggest Cheerleader?
The Rubin Report - November 7, 2009

Ken Waltzer, Michigan State University: Introducing Alison Weir
November 5, 2009

John R. Cohn: Berlin & Jerusalem: Phony Divided Cities
Philadelphia Daily News - November 5, 2009

Robert S. Wistrich: Comparing Islamic Anti-Semitism to Nazi Germany at its Worst
Haaretz - November 4, 2009

Barry Rubin: Why does the US insist on playing Iran's game?
The Jerusalem Post - November 4, 2009


Tammi Rossman - Benjamin: Campus Critics on Trial
American Thinker - November 1, 2009

Barry Rubin: The Big American Freeze
The Jerusalem Post - October 28, 2009

Amos N. Guiora: Goldstone Report Threatens the Right to Self-Defense
Jewish Exponent Vo. 227 Issue 4 - October 24, 2009

Ed Morgan: Goldstone Report Undermines Faith in International Law
Toronto Star - October 22, 2009

Alan M. Dershowitz: Goldstone Backs Away from Report: The Two Faces of an International Poseur
The Jerusalem Post - Blog Central - October 18, 2009

Richard Landes: Investigate the Investigators: A Time to Rebuke Goldstone
October 14, 2009

Barry Rubin: Sacrificing Peace for Propaganda Points
The Jerusalem Post - October 12, 2009

Gil Troy: Center Field: The 2000 Hizbullah "Kidnapping" and the Double Deception
The Jerusalem Post - October 12, 2009

Phyllis Chesler: Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2009, pp. 61-69 - October 9, 2009

Denis MacEoin: Suicide Bombing as Worship Middle East Quarterly Fall 2009, pp. 15-24 - October 9, 2009

Anne Bayefsky: Obama's New Leverage - Against Its Ally The Jerusalem Post - October 9, 2009

Irwin Cotler: Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights
Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism - Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 3 - October 5, 2009

Eytan Gilboa: Obama and Israel: A Preliminary Assessment
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 51-58 - October 3, 2009

Louis Rene Beres: President Obama at the United Nations Repeating Errors of a "Two State Solution"
September 23, 2009

Elihu D. Richter and Yael Stein: Comments on B'Tselem's Civilian Casualty Estimates in Operation Cast Lead
Dr. Yael Stein MD - September 22, 2009

Barry Rubin: Meet the Next Palestinian Leader
The Jerusalem Post - September 21, 2009

David Newman: Getting behind Obama
The Jerusalem Post - September 21, 2009


Gerald M. Steinberg: U.N. Smears Israeli Self-Defense As 'War Crimes'
The Wallstreet Journal - September 17, 2009

Alan M. Dershowitz , Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School: UN Investigation of Israel Discredits Itself and Undercuts Human Rights
Hudson New York - September 17, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: Goldstone's Kangaroo Court Report
The Jerusalem Post - September 16, 2009

Robert O. Freedman: Palestinian Recognition of the Jewish State
Middle East Strategy at Harvard - September 13, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg (Editor):Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch
Sarah Mandel - NGO Monitor Monograph Series - September 9, 2009

Anne Bayefsky: At the UN's New Site, a Worldwide Web of Anti-Israel Bias
The New York Daily News - September 9, 2009

Andrew G. Bostom: Killing Rifqa
American Thinker - August 24, 2009

David Newman: Borderline View: A Self-Imposed Boycott

The Jerusalem Post - August 24, 2009

Irwin Cotler: The Goldstone Mission - Tainted to the Core
The Jerusalem Post - August 18, 2009

WHY MARWAN BARGHOUTI SHOULD NOT BE FREED: THE BINDING OBLIGATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

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Louis René Beres:AT FATAH'S SIXTH GENERAL CONGRESS WHY THERE IS STILL NO "CYCLE OF VIOLENCE" BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS
August 5, 2009


Barry Rubin: US Middle East Policy: Not As Good As It Sounds
The Jerusalem Post - July 15, 2009

Walter Reich: Anti-Semitism: Return of a Perennial Horror
The Baltimore Sun - June 19, 2009

Gerald Steinberg: Straight Talk:Netanyahu's Response to Obama
Israel News - June 14, 2009

Daniel Gordis: In Perspective: Obama Is Right, It's Time for Honesty
The Jerusalem Post - June 13, 200

Judea Pearl: Why Israelis Are Cool on the Obama Speech
The Wall Street Journal - June 12, 2009

Irwin Cotler and Alan Dershowitz: Iran Must Be Held Accountable
National Post - June 10, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: York's Farce of a Conference
National Post - June 9, 2009

Obama's Speech to the Muslims: A Roundtable Discussion
June 8, 2009

Louis Rene Beres:Deceptions of a "Nuclear Weapons Free World" - Why President Barack Obama's Good Intentions Could Bring Genocidal War To Israel
SPME Faculty Forum - SPME Faculty Voices - June 5, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: Taking Back The Narrative
The Jerusalem Post - May 31, 2009

Ted H Tulchinsky, Elihu D Richter, Steven M.Albert and Elliot M Berry: Health In The Occupied Palestinian Territories
Ted H Tulchinsky, Elliot M Berry - www.thelancet.com Vol 373 May 30, 2009 - May 30, 2009

Andrew G. Bostom: The "Moderate" Palestinian Faction's Vision
andrewbostom.org - May 29, 2009

Judea Pearl: The Crucible of UC Irvine
The Jewish Journal - May 28, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: York University Vs. Israel: "Academic Freedom" Or Academic Farce?
Bar Ilan University - May 22, 2009

Robert O. Freedman: Obama and Netanyahu: the agenda
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - May 16, 2009

Seth J. Frantzman: Some Truths About Palestinian Christians
The Jerusalem Post - May 14, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: The Centrality of NGOs In Promoting Anti-Israel Boycotts And Sanctions
Jewish Political Studies Review 21:1-2 (Spring 2009) - May 12, 2009

Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Obama, Netanyahu and American Jews
The Jerusalem Post - May 12, 2009

Alan M. Dershowitz: Don't Blame Israel
New York Post - May 10, 2009

Simon Nadel: Justice, Sovereignty and Self-Determination
The Lancet - May 7, 2009

Manfred Gerstenfeld: Anatomy of a Media Manipulation
SPME Faculty Voices - May 6, 2009

Louis Rene Beres: Israel's Still Blighted Cartography: Searching for New Directions in Jerusalem and Washington
The Jewish Press - April 30, 2009

Gerald Steinberg: Beyond the Left-Right Diatribe: On the Centrality of Zionism ( A Reply to David Newman)
The Jerusalem Post - April 27, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: The U.N.'s Anti-Antiracism Conference
The Wall Street Journal - April 22, 2009

Ernest Sternberg: Zionism and Universal Justice
SPME Faculty Forum - April 21, 2009


Elihu Richter: "Want Peace? Stop The Endemic Hate Language and Incitement...An Open Letter to Senator George Mitchell"
April 16, 2009

Kenneth L. Marcus: Jurisprudence of the New Anti-Semitism
Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 44, 2009 - April 13, 2009

Elihu D Richter and Israel Charny, Hebrew University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies: A Open Letter to New Israeli Government
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Judea Pearl: Confronting Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
The Cutting Edge News - March 30, 2009

Prof. Gary Epstein, SPME-Cal Poly S, Writes to California Faculty Association President Lilian Taiz
SPME Faculty Voices - March 27, 2009

Amos N. Guiora*) and David Luban**): An Exchange on Law and Israel's Gaza Campaign
David Luban - ABA National Security Law Report, Vol. 31, pp. 1-6, February 2009 - March 25, 2009

Gerald Steinberg: Strategy Needed To Preserve Durban 2 Victory
The Jerusalem Post - March 22, 2009

Philip Carl Salzman: President Obama speaks to Iran
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - March 22, 2009

Judea Pearl: Our New Marranos
The Jewish Journal - March 19, 2009

Edward Glick: If There Were No Israel
OregonLive.com - March 17, 2009

Manfred Gerstenfeld and Tamas Berzi: The Gaza War and the New Outburst of Anti-Semitism[1]
Tamas Berzi - Institut for Global Jewish Affairs Post- Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 79, 1 April 2009 /7 Nissan 5769 - March 17, 2009

Judea Pearl: Is Anti-Zionism Hate?
Los Angeles Times - March 15, 2009

Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: Academic Freedom and the Anti-Zionists
American Thinker - March 14, 2009

MATTHIAS KÜNTZEL: Letter to the Editor concerning Yehuda Bauer's article: "Right of Reply: Berlin conference didn't lump Islamophobia with anti-Semitism", Jerusalem Post, March 4, 2009
SPME Faculty Voices - March 9, 2009

Gerald Steinberg: Analysis: Will the Conference Be Delegitimized?
The Jerusalem Post - March 4, 2009

John R. Cohn: A Disproportionate Response to Criticism
March 2, 2009

Yuri Leving: Academics Should Support Freedom
Dalnews - February 24, 2009

Richard L. Cravatts: Hate Speech At San Francisco State University
American Thinker - February 24, 2009

Bruce Bukiet: The Gaza Conflict is NOT Like the Holocaust
NJIT Vector - February 24, 2009

Anne Bayefsky: How Effective Was the U.S. at the Pre-"Durban II" Negotiations?
Forbes - February 24, 2009

Irwin Cotler: Making the World 'Judenstaatrein'
The Jerusalem Post - February 24, 2009

Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld: A Response To The UCSD Ethnic Studies Department "Statement On The Racial Violence In The Gaza Strip"
February 23, 2009

When is free speech not free?
Special to SPME Faculty Forum - February 21, 2009

Howard Adelman: Intent: Ius In Bello Norms in Just War Theory
February 20, 2009

Chaim Oscar Jacob MD, PhD: Lloyd's Israel Boycott Harms USC Reputation
Daily Trojan - February 20, 2009

Karl Pfeifer: Österreichische Hamas-Unterstützer und die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"
Aktion gegen den Antisemitismus in Österreich - February 19, 2009

Judea Pearl: Dust Over Campus Life: UCLA at a Crossroad
The Jewish Journal - February 19, 2009


Edward S. Beck: This Is No Time For Faculty Timidity:
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - February 13, 2009

Judea Pearl: Daniel Pearl and the Normalization of Evil
forums.wsj.com - February 8, 2009

Clemens Heni: Antisemitism and the rise of a new world order? Obama's inauguration
February 6, 2009

Carrie Menkel-Meadow: When Will They (We) Ever Learn?
Exclusive for SPME Faculty Forum - February 2, 2009

Gil Troy: Center Field: Disproportionate, Dishonest and Discriminatory Critics
The Jerusalem Post - January 30, 2009

Martin Kramer: Gaza Errors (or Lies)
Sandbox - January 30, 2009

John R. Cohn: Colleges Give Hamas a Pass
The Philadelphia Inquirer - January 30, 2009

Robert O. Freedman: Obama and Israel: Problems Ahead?
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - January 23, 2009

Louis René Beres: Terrorism, Sacrifice and Life Everlasting Uncommon Insights for President Barack Obama
January 23, 2009

Alan Dershowitz: Will a Cease Fire Work?
Hudson New York - January 21, 2009

Fred Siegel: On the Gaza War
SPME Faculty Voices - January 20, 2009

Abram Katz: Anti-Semitic Incitement by the "Enlightened"
January 18, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: Human Rights Watch: White (Phosphorous) Lies
The Jerusalem Post - January 18, 2009

Oren Gross: CUPE Ontario's Proposed Boycott of Israeli Academics is Just Plain Anti-Semitic
The Globe and Mail - January 14, 2009

Alan Dershowitz: Double Standard Watch: Israel Is Well Within Its Rights
The Jerusalem Post - Blog Central - January 14, 2009

LOUIS RENÉ BERES: Facing Suicide Bombers and Suicide States - How Shall Israel Stand?
SPME Faculty Voices - January 13, 2009

Efraim Karsh: What's Behind Western Condemnation of Israel's War Against Hamas ?
JCPA Israeli Law - Vol. 8, No. 17 - January 12, 2009

Irwin J. Mansdorf: Hamas Pursuing War Plan to 'Obliterate' Israel
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - January 12, 2009

Gerald Steinberg: Hamas Have Themselves to Blame
The Journal Issue 16 - January 12, 2009

Laurence Thomas: The Middle East Conflict & the Left's Conception of Tolerance
moralhealth.com - January 7, 2009

Gerald M. Steinberg: Analysis: Czechs Lead Divided European Delegation
The Jerusalem Post - January 5, 2009

Martin Kramer: Israel's Gaza Strategy
Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies-Shalem Center - On Second Thought...- Issue No. 3 - January 5, 2009

Oliver Guitta: The Next Dangerous Phase of the Gaza War
Middle East Times - January 5, 2009

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: Anti-Zionism and the Abuse of Academic Freedom: A Case Study at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Institut for Global Jewish Affairs Post- Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 77, 1 February 2009 / 7 Shevat 5769 - January 5, 2009

Edward S. Beck: U.N. Parley on Racism Turns to Hatefest
The Patriot News - January 5, 2009

Barry Rubin: The Rules of War and The Rules of Logic
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - January 4, 2009

Barry Rubin: On the Ground in Gaza
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - January 4, 2009

Robert J. Lieber: Hard Truths About the Conflict
Washington Post - January 1, 2009

Amichai Magen: Israel Has a Duty to Protect Its Citizens From Attack
The Mercury News - January 1, 2009

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SPME's Dr. Ed Beck Invites SPME Subscribers to Twitter
June 1, 2009

Retired Professional Couple Write to California Faculty Association On Anti-Israel Resolution
SPME Faculty Forum - SPME Chat Feedback - March 30, 2009

Robert Segal, University of Aberdeen on Antisemitism in Classroom
SPME Faculty Forum - February 20, 2009

Ofer Ben-Amots on New Divestment Policy at Hampshire College
February 19, 2009

Lowell Blackman on Abram Katz "Ant-Semitic Incitement by the "Enlightened"
Lowell Blackman, Columbia University - SPME Faculty Forum - February 2, 2009

Blanche Gewirtz on SPME Standing up Against the Boycott of Israeli Academics
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Anti-Israel Prof Loses Post at Bard
Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed - February 20, 2009

Challenges Ahead For Bard-Al-Quds Partnership
Doug Chandler - The Jewish Week - February 20, 2009

Palestinian Campus Looks to East Bank (of Hudson)
Ethan Bronner - The New York Times - February 20, 2009

Statement of Clarification Regarding Trustees' Actions on College Investments
Hampshire College - February 20, 2009

Joel Kovel Fired from Bard College for Anti-Zionism
Jews sans frontieres - February 19, 2009

Classroom Battlegrounds: On-campus Panels Attack Israel (Again)
Dr. Shlomo Aronson - The Jerusalem Post - BlogCentral - February 18, 2009

Pro-Palestinian Students, College Debate Divestment Claim
Ben Harris - JTA - February 18, 2009

British Academics Protest Israel Museum Exhibit
JTA - February 18, 2009

The Context of the Moghtader Recall
Roman Zhuk - The Daily Californian - February 18, 2009

Manchester Students Lose Boycott Motion
Jonathan Kalmus - The Jewish Chronicle - February 18, 2009

Jewish Students 'Held Hostage' in Toronto Hillel
Tori Cheifetz - The Jerusalem Post - February 18, 2009

UCLA Symposium on Gaza Ignites Strong Criticism
Tom Tugend - The Jewish Journal - February 18, 2009

Jewish Students Say U.K. Groups Ignore Anti-Semitic Acts on Campus
Daniella Peled - ujc.org - February 13, 2009

It's 'boycott Israel' season again in U.K.
Cnaan Liphshiz - Haaretz.com - February 13, 2009

Statement of Clarification Regarding Trustees' Actions on College Investments
hampshire.edu - February 13, 2009

Jewish Canadian student threatened
Ohad Pas - ynetnews.com - February 13, 2009

War of Words on Investments in Israel
insidehighered.com - February 13, 2009

Hampshire College cuts ties with fund invested in Israel
Peter Schworm - boston.com - February 12, 2009

University Agrees to Cancel Israeli Water Contract After Sit-In
Craig Brown - News.scotsman.com - February 9, 2009

Professor Accused of Genocide
insidehighered.com - February 8, 2009

Scottland's Strathclyde University Agrees to Cancel Israeli Water Contract After Sit In
Craig David - The Scottsman - February 6, 2009

CUPE University Locals Take Issue With Anti-Israel Resolution
North Bay Nugget, Ontario - February 5, 2009

New Report: U.N. Accusations of "Israeli Attack on School" Were False
From Reports from UN Watch and The Globe and Mail - February 2, 2009

Anti-Israel Conference Canceled in Australia - Activists Reveal its Anti-Semitic Motives
Canada Free Press - February 1, 2009

CUPE Ontario Plans Academic Boycott of Israel - Please Support the Petition Protesting the CUPE's Proposed Boycott of Israeli Academics
The Ontarion - January 30, 2009

Israeli Apartheid Week 2009 May Be Coming to a Campus Near You
TORI CHEIFETZ - Jerusalem Post Online - January 30, 2009

Mideast Strife Hits Study Abroad
Susan Snyder - Philly.com - January 26, 2009

Duke In Israel - PROGRAM SUSPENDED FOR 2009
Duke Study Abroad - January 26, 2009

Alavi Foundation, Rutgers University, and the New Conference on Iran
Hassan Daioleslam - Progressive American.Iranian Committee - January 26, 2009

British University Students Protest Israel
Daphna Vardi - JTA - January 25, 2009

CANADIAN ACADEMIC FRIENDS OF ISRAEL INVITE CANADIAN SPME COLLEAGUE TO INAUGURAL MEETING MARCH 8-9 IN UTORONTO
January 23, 2009

British Academics: 'Israel Must Lose'
JTA - January 19, 2009

900 US, Other Academians Call for Divestment and Pressure Against Israeli Apartheid
David Lloyd - Palestine News 24 - January 19, 2009

David Hirsh: The Campaign to Boycott Israel Is Now Fighting for a Concrete Exclusion of Israeli Scholars
David Hirsh,Goldsmiths, University of London, Editor Engage - www.EngageOnline.org.uk - January 17, 2009

BGU Students Help South Face Crisis
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - The Jerusalem Post - January 5, 2009

Iranian Student Group: Hamas Is a Terrorist Group and Its Use of Civilians is Inhumane;
MEMRI: Special Dispatch - No. 2175 - January 5, 2009

Iran Students Attempt Attack on Jordan Embassy
Hani Hazaimeh - Jordan Times - January 2, 2009

VIEWS

Fouad Ajami: A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy  
Fouad Ajami - The Wall Street Journal - January 1, 2010

Wall Street Journal Editorial: Suspect Puts U.K. Schools in Focus
Dana Cimilluca and Alstair MacDonald - The Wall Street Journal - December 31, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: Why Abbas Does Not Want To Resume Peace Talks 
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - December 31, 2009

Ray Takeyh: In the Face of Protests, Iran's Leaders Are at an Impasse 
Ray Takeyh - The Washington Post - December 31, 2009

Yossi Shain and Neil Rogachevsky: Why Lobbies Don't Matter
Yossi Shain and Neil Rogachevsky - Haaretz - December 31, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: Shameless Islamist Doublespeak Rages On
Raymond Ibrahim - Pajamasmedia.com - December 27, 2009

Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Religious Zionists Must Disown the Zealots
Isi Leibler - The Jerusalem Post - December 26, 2009

Alex Grobman: Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian (Christian) Arabs Suffer At The Hands of Muslims.
Alex Grobman - GM's Place.com - December 23, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: Wanted: Palestinian "Peace Now" Movement
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - December 9, 2009

Boycott Revival?
Jon Haber - The Jerusalem Post - December 8, 2009

David M. Phillips: The Illegal-Settlements Myth 
David M. Phillips - Commentary magazine - December 3, 2009

The UN Gaza Report: A Substantive Critique 
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - November 30, 2009

Fouad Ajami: The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama  
Fouad Ajami - The Wall Street Journal - November 30, 2009

Benny Morris: Derisionist History 
Benny Morris - The New Republic - November 30, 2009

Thomas O. Hecht: Islamic Imperialism: The Ongoing Tragedy of the Middle East
Thomas O. Hecht - BESA Center for Strategic Studies: Perspectives Papers on Current Affairs 97 - November 26, 2009

Nathan Guttman: What's Behind The FBI's Hate Crime Report?
Nathan Guttman - The Forward - November 26, 2009

War Unchecked 
The Washington Post Editorial - November 22, 2009

Rami G. Khouri: Palestinians Need Clarity, Not Charades  
Rami G. Khouri - The Daily Star, Lebanon - November 22, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: What Does "Pro-Palestinian" Really Mean? 
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - November 22, 2009

Alan Baker: A Paradox of Peacemaking: How Fayyad's Unilateral Statehood Plan Undermines the Legal Foundations of Israeli-Palestinian Diplomacy
Alan Baker - Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 574 November-December 2009 - November 16, 2009

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley; Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley - The New York Review of Books: Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009 - November 13, 2009 

Daniel Friedmann: 'Goldstone Report - the Terrorists' Magna Carta'
The Jerusalem Post - November 4, 2009

Thomas L. Friedman: Don't Build Up
Thomas L. Friedman - The New York Times - October 29, 2009

Bruce Crumley: Why Pro-Arab France Is Warming Up to Israel
Bruce Crumley / Paris - Time.com - October 29, 2009

Harvey Schwartz: 'Pro-Israel,' My Goot! J Street Is An Anti-Israel Lobby
Harvey Schwartz - The Jerusalem Post - October 29, 2009

Knock Knock - Who's there? It's Me, Hussein Ibish, Please Let Me In!
Yaman - KABOBfest - October 28, 2009

Natasha Mozgovaya: J Street Conference: Some Successes and Some Awkward Moments
Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz U.S. Correspondent - Haaretz - October 28, 2009

Brothers in Crime
Lizas Welt/SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - October 28, 2009

Gregg Rickman: Israel and the UN Kangaroo Cort
Gregg J. Rickman - The Cutting Edge - October 27, 2009

Avi Beker: Return to the Fold
Avi Beker - Haaretz - October 26, 2009

David M. Weinberg: J Street's Spiritual Conceit
David M. Weinberg - Perspectives Papers on Current Affairs - Perspectives 94 - October 25, 2009

Robert L. Bernstein: Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast
Robert L. Bernstein - The New York Times - October 21, 2009

Nathan Guttman: Sure, J Street is Pro-Peace - But is it Pro-Israel?
Nathan Guttman, The Forward - Haaretz - October 18, 2009

Lee Kaplan: Marxist Prof: The Jews Were Invented
Lee Kaplan - WorldNetDaily - October 16, 2009

Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi: Blocking the Truth of the Gaza War:How the Goldstone Commission Understated the Hamas Threat to Palestinian Civilians
Col. (res.) Jonathan D. Halevi - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 10 - October 16, 2009

Mikael Tossavainen: Swedish Reactions to the Anti-Israel Blood Libel Report
Mikael Tossavainen - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 12 - October 16, 2009

Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed: Hamas's PR Campaign Against the Authority
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed - Asharq Al-Awsat, London - October 12, 2009

Howard Schneider : What to Do With Hamas? Question Snarls Peace Bid
Howard Schneider - Washington Post - October 7, 2009

Avi Issacharoff / Shalit Video Means a Deal With Hamas is a Question of When, Not If
Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent - Haaretz - October 2, 2009

Signs Of Life
The Jerusalem Post - Editorial - October 2, 2009

Sen. Evan Bayh: Act On Oil Imports
Sen. Evan Bayh - Politico.com - October 1, 2009

Rep. Eric Cantor: No Illusions On Iran
Rep. Eric Cantor - Politico.com - October 1, 2009

Rafael Medoff: The Politics of the American Response to Global Anti-Semitism
Rafael Medoff - Institute for Global Jewish Affairs- Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 87, 1 October 2009 / 13 Tishrei 5770 - September 24, 2009

A Middle East Handshake
The Washington Post - September 23, 2009

Evan R. Goldstein: 'Waltheimer' on the Hot Seat
Evan R. Goldstein - The Chronicle Review - September 21, 2009

Yehezkel Dror: Why Israel should have cooperated with Goldstone on Gaza
Yehezkel Dror - Haaretz - September 21, 2009

Judith Miller: Massad Got Tenure (Don't Tell Anyone)
Judith Miller - Minding the Campus - September 21, 2009

Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad's Raving Lunatic Anti-Semitism
Juan Cole - History News Network - September 20, 2009

Ilan Pappe dismisses Digernes' Objectivity-Defense: "We Are All Political"
Norway, Israel and the Jews - September 18, 2009

Sarah Ruden: Yale & the Danish Cartoons
Sarah Ruden - The New Criterion - September 18, 2009

Steve Emerson: State Department Website Panders To Radical Islamists
Steve Emerson - The investigative project on terrorism - September 18, 2009


Melanie Phillips: The Moral Inversion of Richard Goldstone
Melanie Phillips - The Spectator - September 17, 2009

Michael Slackman:Private Motive for Egypt's Public Embrace of a Jewish Past
Michael Slackman - The New York Times - September 13, 2009

Obligations of the Press
The Crimson Staff - The Harvard Crimson - September 13, 2009

Benny Morris: Obama's Impossible Ambition
Benny Morris - The Guardian - September 13, 2009

David Frum: Israel - Denounced for What It Is
New Majority - September 13, 2009

Wahied Wahdat-Hagh:Verfall der religiösen Despotie im Iran
Wahied Wahdat-Hagh - Welt Debatte/SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - September 11, 2009

Daniel R. Coats, Charles S. Robb And Charles Wald: Taking Iran Seriously
Daniel R. Coats, Charles S. Robb And Charles Wald - The Wallstreet Joural - September 10, 2009

Akiva Eldar: Square the Provisional and Permanent for Peace in Palestine
Akiva Eldar - The Daily Star Lebanon - September 3, 2009

Rivka Carmi: Neve Gordon's Divisive Op-Ed
Rivka Carmi - Los Angeles Times - September 1, 2009

Scott Jaschik: Israel and Academic Freedom
Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed - August 31, 2009

Jacob Shrybman: Studying with Prof. Neve Gordon at the University of Michigan
Jacob Shrybman - Behind the News - Israel Resource Review - August 27, 2009

Michael Doran: Naïve Pan-Arabism in Washington
Michael Doran - Middle East Strategy at Harvard - August 27, 2009

Ronnie Fraser: The view from Britain - Trade Unions Council (TUC) to Vote on Israel
Academic Friends of Israel Digest - August 26, 2009

Uzi Rubin: New Developments in Iran's Missile Capabilities: Implications Beyond the Middle East
Uzi Rubin - JCPA - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 7 - August 25, 2009

Hillel Frisch: The Fatah Conference: Finally an Abbas Victory
Hillel Frisch - BESA Center: Perspectives Papers on Current Affairs Perspectives 90 - August 25, 2009

Mohamad Bazzi: Expect More Adventurism From Iran
Mohamad Bazzi - The Wallstreet Joural - August 25, 2009

Saad Eddin Ibrahim: The President and The Arab Status Quo
Saad Eddin Ibrahim - The Wallstreet Joural - August 19, 2009

Issandr Amrani: Egypts Next Strongman
Issandr Amrani - Foreign Policy - August 19, 2009

Today's Academy: Self-Hatred, Fear-Mongering, & Surrender
ISRANET Daily Briefing - August 19, 2009

Jonathan Tobin: Obama- "No Second Thoughts" on Robinson Award
Jonathan Tobin - Jerusalem Post - August 17, 2009

Benjamin Weinthal: Business as Usual
Benjamin Weinthal - The New Republic - August 17, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: How to Solve the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson Institute - August 13, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: Analysis: New faces of an unreformed, hard-line Fatah
Khaled Abu Toameh, Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem Post - August 12, 2009

Hussein Agha and Robert Malley: The Two-State Solution Doesn't Solve Anything
Hussein Agha and Robert Malley - The New York Times - August 11, 2009. (SPME Editor's Note: This Op-Ed is presented as a public service for discussion, analysis and reaction. It does not necessarily reflect any official position of the SPME Board of Directors.)

Andrew Potter: Tenured Radicals
Andrew Potter - Ottawa Citizen - August 8, 2009

Dore Gold: Iran's Nuclear Aspirations Threaten the World
The Los Angeles Times - August 8, 2009

Jonathan Spyer: Analysis: Arab States Just Say No' to Normalization
Jonathan Spyer - The Jerusalem Post - August 8, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: The Radicalization of Fatah
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - August 5, 2009

Shmuel Rosner: Peace Talks_
Shmuel Rosner - The New Republic - August 5, 2009

Raymond Ibrahim: Obama's Puzzling Approach to the Muslim World
Raymond Ibrahim - Pajamas Media - July 22, 2009

Hamid Dabashi: Left Is Wrong on Iran
Hamid Dabashi - Al-Ahram Weekly Issue No. 956 - July 19, 2009

Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa: Arabs Need to Talk to the Israelis
Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa - The Washington Post - July 17, 2009

Colonel Richard Kemp CBE: International Law and Military Operations in Practice
Colonel Richard Kemp CBE - JCPA International Law July 2009 - July 14, 2009

Avinoam Sharon: Why Is Israel's Presence in the Territories Still Called "Occupation"?
Avinoam Sharon [1] - JCPA Global Law Forum - July 14, 2009


Eli Kavon: The Myth of Zionist Imperialism
Eli Kavon - The Jerusalem Post - June 19, 2009

Richard Cohen: Where Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream
Richard Cohen - The Washington Post - June 19, 2009

Hosni Mubarak: How to Achieve Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Hosni Mubarak - The Wall Street Journal - June 19, 2009

Eric Hooglund: Stealing the Village Vote
Eric Hooglund - The New York Times - June 19, 2009

New York Times Editorial: Neither Real Nor Free
The New York Times - June 19, 2009

Neither Free nor Fair
The Washington Post - June 19, 2009

Christopher Hitchens: Don't Call What Happened in Iran Last Week an Election
Christopher Hitchens - June 19, 2009

Daniel Brumberg: Death of the Islamic Republic in 5 Acts
Daniel Brumberg - The Washington Post - June 17, 2009

Dan Diker and Pinhas Inbari: Is the Palestinian Authority Stable Enough for Peace Talks?
Dan Diker and Pinhas Inbari - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 3 - June 17, 2009

Zvi Bar'el: ANALYSIS: U.S. to Face a Bolder, More Confident Ahmadinejad
Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz Correspondent - June 13, 2009

Obama's Speech in Cairo
Roni Bart - Institute for National Security Studies Insight No. 111 - June 11, 2009

Ari Shavit: The Seven-Word Formula
Ari Shavit - Haaretz - June 11, 2009

Dore Gold: U.S. Policy on Israeli Settlements
Dore Gold - Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 9, No. 2 - June 9, 2009

Daniel Dombey: Congress Vital in Forming Mideast Policy
Daniel Dombey in Washington - The Financial Times - June 9, 2009

Gary Rosenblatt: Washington Now 'An Obstacle To Peace'
Gary Rosenblatt - The Jewish Week - June 8, 2009

Robert Satloff: President Obama Speaks to the World's Muslims: An Early Assessment
Robert Satloff - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy PolicyWatch #1527 - June 5, 2009

Mehdi Khalaji: House of the Leader: The Real Power in Iran
Mehdi Khalaji - he Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PolicyWatch #1524 - June 2, 2009

Paradigm Shift
The Jerusalem Post - June 2, 2009

Martin Lockshin: You Don't Need Credentials To Bash Israel
Martin Lockshin - National Post - May 29, 2009

David Kirschenbaum: The Lady Justice Test
David Kirschenbaum - The Jerusalem Post - May 26, 2009

Obama and Israel
Times Online - May 22, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: Islam Today
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - May 22, 2009

Melanie Phillips: The real lesson of this history
Melanie Phillips - Spectator.co.uk - May 22, 2009

Bradley Burston: Michael Oren, Ambassador, Or, This Is How The Occupation Ends
Bradley Burston - Haaretz - May 13, 2009

Efraim Inbar: A Growing Divergence Between Jerusalem and Washington?
Efraim Inbar - The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies - BESA - May 12, 2009

Rachel Ehrenfeld: Where Is Saudi Support For Taliban Victims?
Rachel Ehrenfeld - Forbes - May 12, 2009

Rasool Nafisi: How Ahmadinejad Helped Israel
Rasool Nafisi - The Jerusalem Post - May 11, 2009

Spanish Judge Went Too Far
Robbie Sabel - YNet News - May 6, 2009

Saudi Intellectual: Western Civilization Has Liberated Mankind
MEMRI Special Dispatch - No. 2332 - April 30, 2009

Saad Eddin Ibrahim: Tyrants Get Another U.N. Platform
Saad Eddin Ibrahim - The Wall Street Journal - April 30, 2009

Analysis: Real 2-State Problem is the Hamas-Fatah Feud
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - April 17, 2009


Untenable: Bullying Columbia Professor Does Not Deserve Lifetime Employment
Daily News - April 13, 2009

GENERAL NEWS

Alex Grobman: Many Church Leaders Remain Silent While Palestinian (Christian) Arabs Suffer At The Hands of Muslims.
Alex Grobman - GM's Place.com - December 23, 2009

Ami Eden: A Gloomy Decade Later, Jews Still Fighting J2K Virus
Ami Eden - JTA - December 22, 2009

Abbas Still Says No to Talks but Everyone Still Blames Bibi
Jonathan Tobin - Commentary » Blog Archive » - December 16, 2009

E.U. Moderates Stance on Jerusalem 
Howard Schneider - The Washington Post - December 9, 2009

Status of Jerusalem Should be Negotiated by Parties: US
AFP - December 9, 2009

Israel's Response to the EU Foreign Ministers Council Statement 
MFA Spokesperson Yigal Palmor - Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - December 9, 2009

Yaakov Katz: Gaza Swine Flu Victims Transferred to Israeli Hospitals
Yaakov Katz - The Jerusalem Post - December 9, 2009

Europe: Anti-Semitism Up, Islamophobia Down 
Sarah Stricker - YNet News - December 6, 2009

Egyptian Doctors Join PA Hate Libel: Israeli Doctors Accused of Stealing Palestinian Body Parts
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik - Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin - December 1, 2009

U.S., Israel Closing Gaps on Iran and Peacemaking 
Leslie Susser - JTA - December 1, 2009

Hamas Bans Women Dancers, Scooter Riders in Gaza Push (Update1)
Daniel Williams - Bloomberg.com - November 30, 2009

Israel to Suspend Settlement Growth
Al Jazeera English - November 26, 2009

'Let Us Make Peace,' Declares Netanyahu
Herb Keinon and Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - November 25, 2009

Palestinians: Netanyahu Didn't Announce Real Settlement Freeze 
Avi Issacharoff and Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies - Haaretz - November 25, 2009

Strange Days in Germany  
Harry's Place - November 24, 2009

Obama: Settlement Expansion Could Be 'Dangerous' 
JTA - November 22, 2009

Obama: New Iran Sanctions Coming Within Weeks 
Eric Fingerhut - JTA - November 22, 2009

Obama: New Iran Sanctions Coming Within Weeks 
Eric Fingerhut - JTA - November 22, 2009

Abbas: Mideast Peace Deal Won't Happen With Me
Jack Khoury - Haaretz - November 19, 2009

Saudi-Iranian Tension Increases Following Clashes Between Houthi Rebels, Saudi Military
R. Green and Y. Admon * - MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis - No. 562 - November 16, 2009

Mofaz Supporters: Poll Shows Israelis Willing to Talk with Hamas
Mazal Mualem - Haaretz - November 15, 2009 

At GA, Emanuel Defends Mideast Policy
Hilary Leila Krieger and E.B. Solomont - The Jerusalem Post - November 12, 2009 

Assembly Endorses Report on Gaza
Neil MacFarquhar - The New York Times - November 6, 2009

Top Palestinian Rules Out Race for Re-election
Ethan Bronner and Mark Landler - The New York Times - November 6, 2009

New AFL-CIO Head Rejects Israel Boycott
JTA - November 4, 2009

House Calls on Obama, Clinton to Oppose UN Report
Ann Sanner, The Associated Press - The Washington Post - November 4, 2009

Israel Calls on Gulf States to Aid Palestinians
Ilene R. Prusher, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor - The Christian Science Monitor - November 4, 2009

Israel Files Complaint with UN over Katyusha
Yitzhak Benhorin - YNet News - October 28, 2009

Dispatches From J Street: Where Are All the Israeli Officials?
Nathan Guttman - Bintel Blog - Forward - October 28, 200

Reform Biennial to Focus on Israeli Arabs, Interfaith Dialogue
Sue Fishkoff - JTA - October 27, 2009

Report: Abbas May Not Run for Re-Election
JTA - October 27, 2009

U.N. Council Endorses Gaza Report
Neil MacFarquhar - The New York Times - October 18, 2009

US House OKs Divestiture From Companies in Iran
Reuters - October 16, 2009

Growing Rifts, Abbas's Crisis Dim Hope for Talks
Howard Schneider - The Washington Post - October 16, 2009

Palestinians Urge Israeli Punishment Over Gaza
Edith M. Lederer - The Washington Post/Associated Press - October 16, 2009

UN Row Threatens to Sink Middle East Peace Plan
Times Online - October 16, 2009

J Street: Pro-Peace, but Still Trying To Prove It's Pro-Israel
Nathan Guttman - Forward - October 15, 2009


Tehran Plans to Execute 3 Protesters of Election
Michael Slackman - The New York Times - October 12, 2009

Mitchell Visit Brings No Visible Success
Herb Keinon - The Jerusalem Post - October 12, 2009

Israeli Officials Warn Against Support for UN Report
Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem - Independent - October 12, 2009

Kuwaiti Bill Calls for Prison Sentence for Any Dealings with Israel
The Jerusalem Post - October 9, 2009

In Surprise, Obama Wins Nobel for Diplomacy
Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Walter Gibbs - The New York Times - October 9, 2009

Israel Critic Vanessa Redgrave Slams Toronto Film Fest Boycott
Haaretz Staff - Haaretz - October 8, 2009

Violent Clashes in Jerusalem, Rhetoric Ratchet Up Tensions
Marcy Oster - JTA - October 7, 2009

Report Says Iran Has Data to Make a Nuclear Bomb
William J. Broad and David E. Sanger - The New York Times - October 5, 2009

Oren Upbeat About West-Iran Dialogue
Hilary Leila Krieger, jpost correspondent in Washington - The Jerusalem Post - October 5, 2009

Analysis: US backs Israel, but leaves door open for external Cast Lead probe
Dan Izenberg - The Jerusalem Post - October 5, 2009

PA Waging Diplomatic War Over Temple Mount
Barak Ravid and Liel Kyzer - Haaretz - October 5, 2009

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Revealed to Have Jewish Past
Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat - Telegraph.co.uk - October 4, 2009

Gilad Shalit Video / Footage With Full English Transcript
Haaretz - October 2, 2009

Possibility of a Nuclear-Armed Iran Alarms Arabs
Michael Slackman - The New York Times - October 1, 2009

Egypt Ponders Failed Drive for Unesco
Michael Slackman - The New York Times - September 30, 2009


Text of Benjamin Netanyahu's Address to the UN General Assembly September 25, 2009 New York
September 24, 2009

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Renewed Aattack on Israel Hastens Walkout
The Guardian - September 24, 2009

Remarks by the President at Beginning of Trilateral Meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Abbas
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary - September 23, 2009

Obama Drops Demand that Israel Freeze Settlements
Elise Labott - CNN - September 23, 2009

Obama Cites 'Urgency' in Advancing Talks
JTA - September 22, 2009

Obama On Peace Talks: Stop Talking About Talking, And Start Talking
Ron Kampeas - JTA - September 22, 2009

Netanyahu Leaves Early For Talks With Abbas, Obama in New York
Herb Keinon - The Jerusalem Post - September 21, 2009

The Iranian Opposition Mocks Ahmadinejad's Anti-Israel Rhetoric
James Forsyth - Spectator - September 20, 2009

Russia Condemns Ahmadinejad's Speech
The Jerusalem Post - September 19, 2009

Nasrallah: We'll Never Recognize Israel
Associated Press, The Jerusalem Post - September 19, 2009

EU Calls For Halt To Settlement Activity
Yossi Lempkowicz, European Jewish Press - The Jerusalem Post - September 19, 2009

Mitchell Ends Round Without Agreement On Talks
JTA - September 19, 2009

Rice: 'Serious Concerns' About Goldstone Report
JTA - September 19, 2009

Palestinian-Led Movement To Boycott Israel Is Gaining Support
Gal Beckerman - Forward - September 18, 2009


Qaeda Ally In Gaza Defiant, Seeing New Recruits
Nidal al-Mughrabi - Reuters - September 17, 2009

Palestinians Want Trial For Leaders, IDF
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - September 17, 2009

Syria Bans Facebook To Reclaim Golan Heights
Jack Khoury - Haaretz - September 17, 2009

Film Festival Counter Protest Heats Up
JTA - September 17, 2009

THE UN GOLDSTONE REPORT: HUMAN RIGHTS IN PALESTINE AND OTHER OCCUPIED ARAB TERRITORIES
September 16, 2009

President Peres' Reply to the Goldstone Commission Report
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - September 16, 2009

Israel's Analysis and Comments on the Gaza Fact-Finding Mission Report
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - September 16, 2009

U.N. Gaza Inquiry Challenged for Bias by 50 U.K., Canadian Lawyers
Right Side News - September 13, 2009

PM and Mitchell to Discuss PA Talks
Herb Keinon, - The Jerusalem Post - September 13, 2009

Abbas Refusal To Meet Netanyahu Could Scuttle Tripartite Talk Plan
Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya - Haaretz - September 11, 2009

How Obama Hopes to Restart Mideast Peace Talks
Massimo Calabresi / Washington - Time - September 10, 2009

Iran's Top Leader Dashes Hopes for a Compromise
Nazila Fathi and Alan Cowell - The New York Times - June 20, 2009

Hamas Rejects Carter Plea to Recognize Israel
Ben Hubbard - The Associated Press - June 19, 2009

Israel Sees Deal Soon with Obama over Settlements
Adam Entous - Reuters - June 17, 2009

Mitchell Hints of Possible Accord on Mideast Peace Talks Within Weeks
David Gollust - Voa News - June 17, 2009

Prime Minister's Speech at the Begin-Sadat Center at Bar-Ilan University
Prime Minister's Office, Israel - June 15, 2009

Iranian Election Uproar Tests US
Farah Stockman, Globe Staff - The Boston Globe - June 15, 2009

Iran Election news: Hamas Welcomes Ahmadinejad Win
Al Bawaba - June 15, 2009

Unrest Deepens as Critics Are Detained
Robert F. Worth and Nazila Fathi - The New York Times - June 15, 2009

PA: Netanyahu Has Buried Peace Process
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - June 15, 2009

Netanyahu Backs 2-State Goal
Howard Schneider - Washington Post - June 15, 2009

Obama Welcomes 'Step Forward' in Netanyahu Speech
Reuters - June 15, 2009

US Envoy Urges Arabs to Make Peace With Israel
Yahoo! News/AFP - June 12, 2009

Full Text of Obama's Cairo Address
The Jerusalem Post - June 4, 2009

Union Calls For Cooperation Between Israeli And Palestinian Workers
Executive members of TULIP - The Jerusalem Post - May 26, 2009

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Washington DC: Interview With Abderrahim Foukara of Al Jazeera
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State - May 22, 2009

Relentless Player To Push For Palestinian State
Farah Stockman - The Boston Globe - May 22, 2009

Iran Test-Fires Missile With 1,200-Mile Range
David E. Sanger and Nazila Fathi - The New York Times - May 22, 2009

4 Accused of Bombing Plot at Bronx Synagogues
Al Baker and Javier C. Hernandez - The New York Times - May 22, 2009

Radwan: "Hamas Will Not Be Part of Government Which Recognizes The Occupation"
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies - International Middle East Media Center - April 9, 2009

Boycott Israel Motion Fails
Deaglán de Bréadún, Political Correspondent - Irish Times - March 30, 2009

Thirty years later, Sadat's widow still hopes for peace
CNN - March 29, 2009

Sudan Strike Targeted Weapons Believed Capable of Hitting Tel Aviv
Amos Harel, Barak Ravid and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent and News Agencies - Haaretz - March 27, 2009

What the Koran Says About the Land of Israel
Simon Rocker - The Jewish Chronicle - March 27, 2009

Netanyahu: I Will Hold Peace Talks With Palestinian Authority
Raphael Ahren , Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press - Haaretz - March 25, 2009

Iran Rejects Barack Obama's Hand of Friendship
Tim Shipman in Washington and Colin Freeman - Telegraph.co.uk - March 23, 2009

Israel Praised as World Leader in Water Treatment
Zafrir Rinat - Haaretz - March 23, 2009

This House Believes It's Time for the US to Get Tough on Israel
The Doha Debates - April 10, 2009

Cody Smith: Israel Defense on False Claims
Cody Smith - The Crimson White - April 10, 2009


Lucy James: The Power of a Hand-Shake
Lucy James - The Guardian - March 25, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh: On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - March 24, 2009

Erin Sheley: War of Silence
Erin Sheley - The Weekly Standard - March 20, 2009


Stanley Fish: To Boycott or Not to Boycott, That Is the Question
The New York Times - March 16, 2009

"Blame The Lobby-" Charles Freeman's Failed Nomination as an Obama Aide
The Washington Post - March 12, 2009

Josef Joffe: Iran's Protocols of Potter
Josef Joffe - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - March 12, 2009

Ami Eden: Jews Need to Get Over It
Ami Eden - JTA - March 12, 2009

Klaus Faber: Islamophobia Is Not the Same As Anti-Semitism
Klaus Faber - The Jerusalem Post - March 10, 2009

Yehuda Bauer: Berlin Conference Didn't Lump Islamophobia With Anti-Semitism
Yehuda Bauer - The Jerusalem Post - March 9, 2009

When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech: Two Perspectives
Yoram Elron, Jonathan Kay - Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Daily Israenet Briefing Volume IX, No. 2,042 - March 7, 2009

When Free Speech Becomes Hate Speech: Three Perspectives
Amy Minsky, Gil Troy, Barbara Kay - Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Daily Israenet Briefing - March 6, 2009

Science Protests
The Times online - March 6, 2009

Gil Troy: Student Unions Should Stick to Student Issues
Gil Troy - Canadian Jewish News - March 6, 2009

Michael Ignatieff: Israel Apartheid Week and CUPE Ontario's anti-Israel Posturing Should Be Condemned
Michael Ignatieff - National Post - March 5, 2009

Ran Greenstein: Reflections on Academic Sanctions
Mrzine, Monthly Review - February 6, 2009

Bangladesh on Trial - II
online.wsj.com - February 4, 2009

Klaus Faber: Gedenken an den Holocaust und Sorge um die Überlebenden
Klaus Faber - SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - February 1, 2009

Leslie Susser: The Post-war Legal Battle
Leslie Susser - The Jerusalem Post - February 1, 2009

Roberta P. Seid, PhD: Reviving 1920's Munich's Beer Halls at Ucla, Courtesy Of California Taxpayers
Roberta P. Seid, PhD - Exclusive for SPME Faculty Forum - February 1, 2009

Mark A. Heller: Mitchell's Mission: Don't Strengthen Hamas
Mark A. Heller - International Herald Tribune - January 30, 2009

Karim Sadjadpour: Thirty Years of Tehran Rhetoric Blocking the Road to Peace
Karim Sadjadpour - The National, Abu Dhabi - January 30, 2009

Thomas Darnstädt and Christoph Schult: Did Israel Commit War Crimes in Gaza?
Thomas Darnstädt and Christoph Schult in Jerusalem - Spiegel Online - January 28, 2009

Irwin Cotler: The Holocaust Did Not Begin in the Gas Chambers - It Began With Words
Irwin Cotler - The Jerusalem Post - January 28, 2009

Avi Weinryb: The University of Toronto - The Institution where Israel Apartheid Week was Born
Avi Weinryb - Jewish Political Studies Review 20:3-4 (Fall 2008) - January 28, 2009

Robert Satloff: Defining a 'Prediplomacy' Agenda for U.S.-Mideast Efforts
Robert Satloff - PolicyWatch #1463 - January 27, 2009

Josef Joffe: Do Palestinians Really Want a Two-State Solution?
Josef Joffe - The Wall Street Journal Europe - January 27, 2009

Lenny Ben-David: The George Mitchell Appointment: The Tactics of "Symmetrical Negotiations" May Not Work in "Asymmetrical Conflicts"
Lenny Ben-David - JCPA Jerisalem Issue Brief Vol. 8, No. 19 - January 26, 2009

Tom Neumann: Anti-Israel Vs. Anti-Semite: The Tenacity of a Special Hatred
Tom Neumann - Chicago Tribune - January 26, 2009

Thomas L. Friedman: This Is Not a Test
Thomas L. Friedman - The New York Times - January 26, 2009

David Bedein: Mitchell, A Mideast Envoy With A Tendentious Legacy
David Bedein, Middle East Correspondent - The Bulletin - January 23, 2009

David Bercuson: Israel Changes the Facts on the Ground, Militarily and Diplomatically
David Bercuson - The Glob e and Mail - January 21, 2009

Robert Fulford on the Disproportionate Criticism of Israel's Self-Defence
Robert Fulford - National Post - January 20, 2009

Dan Shiftan: Limits of Restraint
Dan Shiftan - YNet News - January 19, 2009

Shimon Shapira: Averting Iranian Influence in Post-War Gaza: The Rehabilitation Issue
Dr. Shimon Shapira - JCPA- Jerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 8, No. 18 19 January 2009 - January 19, 2009

Beyond Gaza
Washington Post - January 19, 2009

Jonathan Schanzer: Middle East Studies on the Mend?
Jonathan Schanzer - American Thinker - January 5, 2009

Lawrence Freedman: Israel Is on Firmer Ground Against Hamas
Lawrence Freedman - Financial Times - January 5, 2009

Michael Rubin: Diplomacy Cannot Quell Gaza Violence
Michael Rubin - Middle East Forum - January 5, 2009

Khaled Abu Toameh : Hamas and the Palestinians
Khaled Abu Toameh - Hudson New York - January 4, 2009

Son of Hamas Leader Gives Glimpse Into Terror Organization
Fox News - January 4, 2009

Renowned Arab Thinker Lafif Lakhdar: Hamas Is Bringing Disaster Upon the Palestinians
MEMRI Special Dispatch - No. 2173 - January 4, 2009

Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren: In Gaza, the Real Enemy Is Iran
Yossi Klein Halevi and Michael B. Oren - Los Angeles Times - January 4, 2009

Carlo Strenger: What Victimology Does Not Account For
Carlo Strenger: - The Guardian - January 3, 2009

Abraham Rabinovich : Arabs Turn Against 'Megalomaniac' Hamas
Abraham Rabinovich - The Australian - January 3, 2009

Justus Reid and Avi Bell: International Law and the Fighting in Gaza
Justus Reid and Avi Bell - JCPA - January 3, 2009

Robert O. Freedman: Israel's Strike on Gaza: a Primer
Robert O. Freedman - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - January 3, 2009

Alan M. Dershowitz: Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate'
Alan M. Dershowitz - The Wall Street Journal - January 2, 2009

Editorial: The Blood on Hamas' Hands
The Dallas Morning News - January 2, 2009

Peace in Gaza Is in the Hands of Hamas
Telegraph.co.uk - January 2, 2009

Charles Krauthammer: Moral Clarity in Gaza
Charles Krauthammer - Washington Post - January 2, 2009

Ari Shavit: Israelis Who Blame Israel Are Not Helping the Palestinians
Ari Shavit - Haaretz - January 2, 2009

General NEWS

Ayatollahs Cast Growing Shadow in Latin America
Roman D. Ortiz - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - September 10, 2009

U.S. Says Iran Could Expedite Nuclear Bomb
David E. Sanger - The New York Times - September 10, 2009

Israeli PM 'Made Secret Visit' To Russia Over Iran
AFP - September 9, 2009

Israel Approving New Westbank Construction
Mark Lavie - The Washington Post - September 7, 2009

Iran 'Pragmatists' Proposed Nuclear Halt-Diplomats
Louis Charbonneau - Reuters - August 27, 2009

Netanyahu Offers 9-Month Settlement Freeze
Barak Ravid - Haaretz - August 27, 2009

ANALYSIS / Israeli Academics Must Pay Price to End Occupation
Anat Matar - Haaretz - August 27, 2009

Iran Puts Leading Reformers On Trial Over Unrest
Reza Derakhshi and Fredrik Dahl - Reuters - August 26, 2009


European Court: Israel Boycotts Are Unlawful Discrimination
Herb Keinon - The Jerusalem Post - July 21, 2009

Palestinian PM to U.S.: Draft New Mideast Peace Plan
Haaretz Service - Haaretz - July 19, 2009

Germany Honors Israeli 'Israel Hater'
Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post Correspondent in Berlin - The Jerusalem Post - July 19, 2009

Obama Invokes Black-Jewish Ties in NAACP Speech
JTA - July 17, 2009

Obama to U.S. Jewish Leaders: Israel Must Engage in Self-Reflection
Barak Ravid, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters - Haaretz - July 14, 2009

Australia Pressured to Boycott Durban II
JTA - March 4, 2009

Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter
Peter Baker - The New York Times - March 4, 2009

EU Countries Oppose Muslim Views on Racism Meeting
Eliane Engeler - The Associated Press - March 4, 2009

Saudi Minister Says Arabs Should Stand Up to Iran
Salah Nasrawi - The Associated Press - March 4, 2009

Israel Boycott Movement Gains Momentum
Mel Frykberg - Inter Press Service - March 3, 2009

Livni Praises US Boycott of Durban II
ap and jpost.com staff - The Jerusalem Post - February 28, 2009

U.S. To Boycott Durban 2 Conference on Racism
Shlomo Shamir and Natasha Mozgovaya - Haaretz - February 28, 2009

MATTHIAS KÜNTZEL: New Coalition Raises the Alarm Against Globalized Antisemitism
www.matthiaskuentzel.de, Europe News - February 28, 2009

Gaddafi: Israel, Not Sudan, to Blame For Crisis in Darfur
Haaretz/ Reuters - February 26, 2009

Obama's Iran Crisis
The Wall Street Journal - March 4, 2009

Ishmael Khaldi: Lost in the Blur of Slogans
Ishmael Khaldi - San Francisco Chronicle - March 4, 2009

Denying the Holocaust
The Week - February 28, 2009

Israel Watches Carefully As U.S. Engages Iran
Nathan Guttman - Forward - February 26, 2009

Fatah and Hamas: Heading for a Showdown in Lebanon
Andrew Lee Butters and Rami Aysha / Beirut - Time.com - February 26, 2009

Veteran Mideast Envoy Ross Named to Advise Clinton on Iran Strategy
Glenn Kessler - The Washington Post - February 24, 2009

Durban II Draft Document Getting Worse'
Tovah Lazaroff and Abe Selig - The Jerusalem Post - February 23, 2009

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Attacked by Goons: Anti-Radical, Pro-Peace Muslim Journalist Savaged in Broad Daylight
Canada Free Press - February 22, 2009

Declaration to Fight Anti-Semitism Signed in London
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - February 20, 2009

Clinton Says U.S. Seeks Unity With Muslim World
Glenn Kessler - Washington Post - February 18, 2009

Clerics Urge New Jihad Over Gaza
BBC News - February 18, 2009

London Conference Voices Fears of 'Explosion' of Anti-Semitism
The Earth Times - February 18, 2009

Rise in antisemitic attacks 'the worst recorded in Britain in decades'
Mark Townsend - guardian.co.uk - February 8, 2009

U.N. Halts Aid to Gaza In Dispute With Hamas
Griff Witte - washingtonpost.com - February 7, 2009

UNRWA School Not Hit By Israel: U.N
RTTNews - February 6, 2009

THE JIHAD AGAINST BRITAIN'S JEWS
Melanie Philips - Spectator - February 6, 2009

Colonel's UK tour halted by arrest fear
Leon Symons Marcus Dysch and Anshel Pfeffer - The Jewish Chronicle - February 5, 2009

UNWRA Condemns Hamas
February 4, 2009

Hamas rules out permanent truce under Gaza blockade
Jay Deshmukh - AFP/ Yahoo News - February 2, 2009


Behind the Headlines: The Truth About Hamas Crimes in Gaza
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - January 30, 2009

SPME Statement on Discrimination Against Israeli Academics and Institutions Drawing Praise and Attention
Edward S. Beck - Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - January 29, 2009

Clinton Says Israel has Right to Defend Itself
Reuters - January 28, 2009

Rights Activist Apologises for Anti-Semitic Comments
Erik Jensen - The Sydney Morning Herald - January 28, 2009

Obama Al-Arabiya Interview: Full Text
Hisham Melhem, Al Arabiya - The Huffington Post - January 27, 2009

Hamas Executes Former B'tselem Field Worker
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - January 27, 2009

Hamas Says Abbas Must End Its Peace Talks with Israel
Fox News. Associated Press - January 26, 2009

Egypt, Hamas Discuss 'Lasting' Truce With Israel
Hala Boncompagni - Yahoo! News/AFP - January 26, 2009

Using the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip as Human Shields
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) - January 26, 2009

EU Aid Chief: Hamas 'Enormously Responsible' for Gaza War
Haaretz/ Reuters - January 26, 2009

French TV Apologises Over Footage Mix-up
Gulf Times, Qatar - January 7, 2009

Unintended Consequences Pose Risks for Mideast Policy
Glenn Kessler - Washington Post - January 7, 2009

Israel to Open 'Humanitarian Corridor' for Gaza Aid
CNN.com - January 7, 2009

Behind the Headlines: The Tragedy at the School in Jebaliya
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - January 7, 2009

Bernard Henri Levy Among 6 Jews Said Targeted by Islamist Group
Haaretz Service - Haaretz - January 7, 2009

Barack Obama Greeted with Hatred and Quiet Hope in Iran
Bill Neely - Telegraph.co.uk - January 23, 2009

Text of President Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
The Associated Press - January 21, 2009

'Hamas Torturing Fatah Members in Gaza'
Khaled Abu Toameh - The Jerusalem Post - January 20, 2009

Egypt's Mubarak: Hamas Invited Israeli Offensive
Reuters - January 20, 2009

Ahmadinejad Congratulates Meshaal on Victory of Resistance
Tehran Times Political Desk - January 20, 2009

Why the Arabs Splinter Over Gaza
Robert F. Worth - The New York Times - January 19, 2009

EU Leaders Commit to Deterring Hamas Rearmament in Gaza
Amos Harel, Barak Ravid, Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents - Haaretz - January 19, 2009

Hamas Vows to Rearm After Gaza War
Reuters - January 19, 2009

Hamas Ultimatum for Israel
Aljazeera - January 18, 2009

Muslim States Cold on Gaza Talks
Tehran Times - January 4, 2009

Hamas Accuses Senior Palestinian Aides of Spying for Israelis
Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem - Independent.co.uk - January 3, 2009

Saudis Blame Hamas Amid Calls For Talks With Fatah
Ian Black, Middle East editor - The Guardian - January 3, 2009

Divisions Deep at Arab League Meeting
Steven Erlanger - The New York Times - January 3, 2009

In Beersheba, Rockets Bring Arab, Jewish Neighbors Together
Abe Selig, - The Jerusalem Post - January 3, 2009

Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Arsenal
Mark Mazzetti - January 2, 2009

Egypt: Hamas Must Halt Attacks For Truce
The Jerusalem Post - Associated Press - January 2, 2009

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2008

SPME ACTION ALERTS + BREAKING NEWS

SPME Seeking Director of Administration and Development
Leila Beckwith - December 2, 2008

Prof. Gideon Shimoni: A Comment on the Entry "Zionism" in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.
Exclusive for SPME News - December 1, 2008

Now JNF Shirts, Hats, Hoodies and Coffee Mugs Are Available at JNF Giftshop
November 27, 2008

Scholars for Peace In The Middle East Has Gone FaceBook: Join in or Start Important Discussions
November 24, 2008

Your Purchases at SPME Mart Help SPME Produce Scholarship And Network Professors...Please Do Your Holiday Internet Shopping at SPMEMart
November 23, 2008

With The Holidays Coming and Budgets Are Tight, Shop The SPMEMart for Big Discounts and All Your Holiday Gifts- Your Purchases Help SPME
November 15, 2008

Beck Lectures on the New Anti-Semitism in Academia in Berlin and Vienna
November 10, 2008

SPME Newsflash: Gideon Shimoni to Review Controversial "Zionism" Entry in "Encyclopedia of Race and Racism"
October 20, 2008

SPME Seeking Director of Administration and Development
Leila Beckwith - October 20, 2008

SPME Trying To Stimulate New Chapter Development Activity and Donor Response With Honor Roll Listings by Institutions
Elizabeth Gaither, Administrative Assistant, SPME - October 13, 2008

SPME Needs Your Support To Continue To Counter Anti-Israel Narratives In Academia...Please be Generous...Thank you.
Elizabeth Gaither, Administrative Assistant, SPME - September 11, 2008

Anti-Semitic Incidents on UK Campuses Double in First Half of 2008: CST...
SPME News - September 2, 2008

SPME Board of Directors Statement on British Academic Union Member Using Union Listserve For Link to Neo-Nazi Website
SPME Board of Directors - August 27, 2008

SPME Seeking Reviewers and Academic Publications To Review As New Faculty Forum Section Is Established
August 23, 2008

Elihu D. Richter: Resolution of Scholars For Peace in the Mid-East: Apply R2P Now: Indict President Ahmadinejad of Iran for Incitement to Genocide, Holocaust Denial and Support for Terror; Increase Sanctions on Iran to Stop Illegal Secret Production of Nuclear Weapons
SPME Faculty Forum - July 8, 2008

SPME Endorses Proposal From GLORIA Center, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, To Offer Teleconferencing Courses and Lectures For SPME Faculty, Their Colleagues, Institutions and Students
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - June 29, 2008

SPME Board of Directors Revises SPME Mission Statement
June 12, 2008

SPME's Ruth Contreras's Report on the UN Watch Conference
SPME News - June 11, 2008

SPME Thanks Its Faculty and Community Donors Through June 11, 2008
Elizabeth Gaither, Administrative Assistant, SPME - June 11, 2008

SPME Urges You To Contribute to Anti-Boycott Action Fund and Sign and Circulate Anti-Boycott Statement of Solidarity With Israeli Professors
June 10, 2008

To Remain Viable, Impactual and Independent SPME Needs Your Support...Thanks For Your Support This Year...Help Us for Next Year
June 8, 2008

Eight Actions That SPME Is Doing And Encouraging It Faculty Network To Do To Counter The British UCU Boycott Actions Against Israeli Academics
May 30, 2008

SPME Thanks Its Faculty and Community Donors Through May 2008.
Elizabeth Gaither, Administrative Assistant, SPME - May 29, 2008

"Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict" Edited By Salzman and Divine Now On Its Way to Donors of $1000 or More
May 28, 2008

Jihad and Jew-Hatred Wins Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal
May 22, 2008

Prof. Kahn, Lyons and Klaff To Head Newly Forming SPME UK Chapter
May 21, 2008

SPME Long Range Planning Survey Extended to June 15- Please Take A Moment To Fill It Out- SPME Wants To Know What You Want
Elizabeth Gaither, SPME Administrative Assistant - May 19, 2008

SPME's "Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict" Released by Routledge: Available from SPMEMart
May 19, 2008

Sternberg, Haas and Contreras to Review and Revise SPME Mission Statement
May 19, 2008

UK Professor Dismissed from Research Fellowship for Holocaust Denying Writings
University College London - UCL News - May 19, 2008

Jordanian Professor Recommends Nuclear Suicide Bombers
Hana Levi Julian - IsraelNationalNews.com - May 16, 2008

Survey: Israelis Expecting War
Ephraim Yaar and Tamar Hermann - Tel Aviv University - May 7, 2008

German 'Business as Usual' with Iran
The Jerusalem Post - May 5, 2008

SPME Attends Inaugural Conference of ASMEA
Exclusive to SPME - April 27, 2008

Dr. Ruth Contreras Named SPME Board Liaison with Groups Countering Resurrected UK Faculty Union Call for Boycott of Israeli Academics
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - April 3, 2008

SPME Network Invited to Inaugural Meeting of Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa April 24-26, 2008, Washington DC Conference and Events Announcements - April 1, 2008

SPME Welcomes New and Returning Contributors For Academic 2007-2008. If You Value SPME, Please Donate Now...Thank You.
Elizabeth Gaither, Administrative Assistant, SPME - March 31, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel's SPME Lecture Webcast on "Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Denial and Cult of Sacrifice: The Iran Holy War" NOW AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY HERE
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - March 16, 2008

Breaking News: SPME To Live Stream Webcast World Wide, Matthias Kuenzel, London Book Award Winner and SPME Board member, Author of "Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and Roots of 9/11" at Columbia University on March 6, 2008, 6:00 PM Eastern Time (USA)
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - February 26, 2008

Matthias Kuenzel Represents SPME at Global Forum For Comnatting Antisemitism and Delivers Paper on Nazi Germany and the Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - February 26, 2008

SPME Seeking To Broaden Leadership Base and Responsibilities...Faculty Volunteers Needed
February 21, 2008

Ask Obama and Clinton Questions About Israeli-Palestinian Peace Proposals Through CNN
February 23, 200

IFLA Members Asked to Seek Clarifiction About "Libraries From Human Rights Perspectives"
SPME Faculty Forum in cooperation with NGO Monitor - February 20, 2008

Conference & Events Announcement

YIISA Announces a Lecture by Kenneth L. Marcus: Antisemitism and Racism: Confronting Jew-Hatred in American Universities
January 22, 2009

Mahatma Gandhi Center: Call for Papers: Rethinking Gandhi & Global Nonviolence
January 16, 2009

2008

Lecture by Gerald Steinberg in Vienna: Funding of NGOs Connected to Palestinian Fundamentalist Groups by the European Community
December 17, 2008

Conference: 60 Years Since the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Genocide Convention: Evaluating the Record
December 9, 2008

Washington Library of Congress: Overcoming Today's Bedouin Community Challenges
December 3, 2008

Antizionism in Academia: A Lecture By Ed Beck, Vienna, Nov. 5, 2008
November 5, 2008

Lecture by SPME Founder and President Emeritus, Prof. Dr. Edward S. Beck in Berlin, November 3rd, 2008
November 3, 2008

Call for Papers: " Anti-Semitism and Emergence of Sociological Theory" University of Manchester (UK)
November 2, 2008

Alliance of Terror: Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah Lecture by Prof. Barry Rubin (director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, Herzliya)
October 29, 2008

Discussion with Ambassador Wendy Sherman & Dr. Ray Takeyh "Nuclear Options: Understanding 21st Century Threats and What We Need to do to Stop Them"
October 23, 2008

SPME Co-Sponsors " How Free Is The University? An International Conference" at University of Southern California with American Freedom Alliance June 15-16, 2008
June 15, 2008

University of Vienna; International Conference: The Iranian Threat
May 3, 2008

Conference in Berlin: Business As Usual? The Iranian Regime, the Holy War Against Israel and the West and the German Reaction
May 2, 2008

SPME Network Invited to Inaugural Meeting of Association for the Study of Middle East and Africa April 24-26, 2008, Washington DC
April 24, 2008

YIISA: THE YALE INITIATIVE FOR THE INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF ANTISEMITISM "ANTISEMITISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE" SEMINAR SERIES SPRING SEMESTER 2008
April 3, 2008

SPME Reviews and Recommendations

2008

Amichai Magen on: The Rise of Israel: A History of a Revolutionary State. By Jonathan Adelman
Amichai Magen, Hoover Institution, Stanford University - SPME Reviews and Recommendations - December 3, 2008

Itamar Rabinovich Offers Person-Statement on New Book "The View From Damascus"
Itamar Rabinovich - Middle East Studies at Harvard - November 27, 2008

Mark Mazower, Arthur Ruppin, and the German Roots of the Zionist Enterprise
Prof. Shlomo Aronson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Shusterman Visiting Professor, University of Arizona (Tucson) - November 14, 2008

Campus-Antisemitismus in Europa und Nordamerika
Elisabeth Kübler - David/SPME Faculty Forum German Edition - October 15, 2008

The Darker Side
Benny Morris - The New Republic - October 5, 2008

Looking Back to Look Forward: Romirowsky on Oren's "Power, Faith and Fantasy: American in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present"
Asaf Romirowsky - The Journal of International Security Affairs - Number 14 - August 26, 2008

Jihad, Conflict, and Culture- Bostom on Salzman's "Culture and Conflict in the Middle East"
The American Thinker - August 23, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Obsessions of a Dangerous Mind
Honestly Concerned (Original German Version) - July 3, 2008

SPME IN THE MEDIA

2008

ZOA: New UC President Needs to Stop Anti-Semitsm at UCI
OC Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism - September 4, 2008

Campus Anti-Semitism: The Issues Have Changed, the Problem Has Not
Janet Lubman Rathner and Alison Goldstein - B'Nai B'rith Magazine Summer 2008 - September 1, 2008

Benjamin Weinthal: Germany Admits Financing Larijani Forum
The Jerusalem Post - July 6, 2008

German University Teaches Anti-Semitic Theory
Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post correspondent in Berlin - The Jerusalem Post - July 3, 2008

UCSC Police Investigating Anti-Semitic Graffiti
J.M. Brown - Santa Cruz Sentinel - May 1, 2008

Berlin Exhibit Equates Security Fence with Berlin Wall
Benjamin Weinthal - The Jerusalem Post - May 1, 2008

SPME's Kuentzel Addresses JINSA
Jaclyn Schiff - WJW - March 27, 2008

New Columbia Israel Director Denounced 'Occupation'
Jared Irmas - The New York Sun - February 28, 2008

SPME CHAPTER NEWS

2008

SPME Austria Announces Lectures at the University of Vienna on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the State of Israel until January 2009!!!!
SPME Chapter News - October 16, 2008

SPME Austria Chapter Joins Protests Against a Lecture of Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami at the Univeristy of Vienna
SPME Chapter News - November 10, 2008

Op-Ed: Anti-Israelism at University of California-Irvine
July 11, 2008

SPME AUSTRIA Chapter Announces Interdisciplinary Lecture on the Occation of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel
Exclusive to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Faculty Forum - February 21, 2008

2007-2008 Academic Year Provided Challenges and Opportunities for Columbia SPME Chapter
VP for Internal Relations, SPME Board, Co-Chair, SPME-Columbia University Chapter - SPME Chapter News - June 13, 2008

SPME University of Buffalo Chapter Completes Successful Academic 2007-2008 Year With Academic Presentations, Working For Institutional Changes and Working With Students Faculty and Community
June 10, 2008

SPME Chapters Offered Website Capability and Link to SPME Website
May 19, 2008

Petition Against Anti-Semitic Exhibition "Wall-on-Wall" in Berlin
Clemens Heni - SPME Chapter News - April 27, 2008

The Faculty is Far More Problematic
Ilan Benjamin and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Co-Chairs SPME-UCSC - SPME Chapter News - April 18, 2008

SPME Austria Announces Lectures at the University of Vienna on the Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the State of Israel
SPME Chapter News - April 7, 2008

SPME Faculty at UMD Invited to Lunch with Mark Regev, Israel Embassy Spokesperson, and Solicited to Have Guest Lecture in Classes April 14, 2008
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - April 14, 2008

University of Toronto Chapter of SPME Formed
SPME Chapter News - April 2, 2008

The Columbia University Chapter of SPME presents Matthias Kuentzel on "AntiSemitism, Holocaust Denial and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War"
March 6, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel To Speak at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz and UC-Irvine, March 10, 11 and 12. Robert Spencer to Join Kuentzel on March 11.
SPME Chapter News - February 28, 2008

University of California_Davis Chapter Involved in Two Programs In March and April on "Anti-Israel Notions on University Campuses on California" and "Contemporary Challenges in Environmental Issues in Israel"
Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - February 26, 2008

SPME AUSTRIA Chapter Announces Interdisciplinary Lecture on the Occation of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel
Exclusive to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Faculty Forum - February 21, 2008

SPME VOICES

2008

MATTHIAS KUENTZEL: 'ISLAMOPHOBIA' OR 'TRUTHOPHOBIA'? Berlin's anti-Semitism center is going astray. Published in: Wall Street Journal Europe December 8, 2008

Clemens Heni: Anti-Semitism is Not the Same as Islamophobia Published in: The Jerusalem Post December 03, 2008

Andrew G. Bostom: Hindus, Jews, and Jihad Terror in Mumbai
The American Thinker - November 30, 2008

Barry Rubin: Defending Yourself Against Terrorism: A Difficult Task
Yid with Lid - November 29, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Arab Peace Or Durban War?
The Jerusalem Post - November 27, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Sanctions? What Sanctions? German-Iranian Trade Booms
Pajamas Media - November 27, 2008

Olivier Guitta: Hezbollah, an Imminent Danger
Middle East Times - November 25, 2008

Judea Pearl: It's Time for Words to Lead the Peace Process
The Jewish Journal - November 24, 2008

Ed Morgan: Fight Bad Speech With Good Speech
Canadian Jewish News - November 12, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Defining Jew-Hatred Down
The Weekly Standard Volume 014, Issue 09 - November 10, 2008

Clemens Heni: Secondary Anti-Semitism: From Hard-Core to Soft-Core Denial of the Shoah
Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2 (Spring 2008) - November 4, 2008

Judea Pearl: Early Zionists and Arabs
Middle East Quarterly - October 31, 2008

Errata and Republishing of Article : Old New World? : Fighting Anti-Semitism in America or Why We Need A Yale Chapter of SPME
October 25, 2008

Richard Landes: The Muhammad Al-Dura Blood Libel: A Case Analysis
Institute for Global Jewish Affairs - Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 74, 2 November 2008 - October 24, 2008

Ernest Sternberg: Iranian State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: Report on a Symposium
October 20, 2008

New Old World?...Fighting Anti-Semitism in America or Why We Need A Yale Chapter of SPME
October 18, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: Is Peace Normal?
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - October 16, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: Self-induced Nakba
Sandbox.blog - October 15, 2008

Barry Rubin: The Region: Why the Middle East Is Sick
The Jerusalem Post - October 13, 2008

Aryeh Green: European Universities and the New Anti-Semitism: Issues, Examples, Prescriptions
Institute for Global Jewish Affairs - October 10, 2008

Martin Kramer: America's Interests: A Bedside Briefing
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - October 9, 2008

Southern Poverty Law Center Issues Report on Rise of Anti-Semitism on West-Coast Campuses
SPME Faculty Voices - October 7, 2008

Diethard Pallaschke: The Country With Real Leverage in Tehran
The Wall Street Journal - October 7, 2008

Israeli Approvals for Medical Entry in the Shadow of Terror Attacks at the Erez Crossing
JCPA Jerusalem Viewpoints No. No. 567 1 October 2008 - October 5, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel's Jihad and Jew Hatred Translated into Hebrew
Gil Ronen - Israel National News - September 28, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: Anthropology and Strategic Studies
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - September 26, 2008

Dr. Richard L. Benkin: An Historical Moment for Islam
Asian Tribune - September 8, 2008

Emanuele Ottolenghi: Energetic Intervention
Haaretz - September 6, 2008

Barry Rubin: The Region: A Middle East Strategy for the West
The Jerusalem Post - September 1, 2008

Barry Rubin. Morality and Enlightment or Fear and Greed?
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - August 31, 2008

Judea Pearl: VIEWPOINT / The Down with Israel Syndrome

Haaretz - August 28, 2008

University of Aberdeen's Robert Segal To SPME-UK Colleagues on the UCU and Duke
August 27, 2008

David Rodman: American National Interests, Israel, and the Middle East
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs II: 1 (2008) p. 31-40. - August 26, 2008

Judea Pearl: Al-Jazeera and the Glorification of Barbarity
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - August 24, 2008

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir: Advice for Assad
The Jerusalem Post - July 13, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Terror's Predictable Spontaneity
July 7, 2008

Barry Rubin: Prisoner Rehabilitated; Fifty Million Die
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - July 3, 2008

Ralf Balke: Bold Ideas
SPME Faculty Forum - July 3, 2008

Barry Rubin: Who Goes There? Friend or Foe?
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - July 2, 2008

Irwin Cotler: The Double Nakba
The Jerusalem Post - July 1, 2008

Andrew Bostom: Jizya, Jihad, and the Murder of Archbishop Rahho
June 28, 2008

Barry Rubin: Propaganda, Lies, and Wire Service Articles
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - June 23, 2008

Joshua Teitelbaum: What Iranian Leaders Really Say About Doing Away with Israel
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs - June 17, 2008

Jonathan Rynold: The Failure of the Oslo Process: Inherently Flawed or Flawed Implementation?
BESA Perspectives Papers No. 45 - June 16, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Israel at Sixty: Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and the Search for Security
JCPA Jerusalem Viewpoints No. 564 27 Iyar 5768 / 1 June 2008 - June 13, 2008

Barry Rubin: Drowning in Solutions
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - June 10, 2008

David Newman: Britain and the Academic Boycott of Israel
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs II : 2 (2008) - June 8, 2008

Malvina Halberstam: Bracing for Dugard
The New York Sun - June 6, 2008

Andrew Bostom: The Problem of Muslim Anti-Semitism
Hudson Institute - May 31, 2008

Kenneth Green, University of Toronto Advises Colleagues on Responding to UCU Boycott
May 29, 2008

Nidra Poller: Al Durra Incident- A Hoax?
Wall Street Journal Europe - May 28, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Unholy Hatreds: Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism in Iran Posen Paper in Contemporary Antisemitism No. 8 of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) -- May 28, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - May 28, 2008

David Newman: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Condemns UCU Motion to Boycott Israeli Universities

SPME Faculty Voices - May 28, 2008

David Newman: Price of a Boycott
The Jewish Chronicle - May 23, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: The Tehran-Berlin Axis
Wall Street Journal - May 22, 2008

Barry Rubin: Self-made Nakba
The Jerusalem Post - May 20, 2008

Irwin Cotler: The Gathering Storm, and Beyond
The Jerusalem Post - May 15, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: The Rules of War
Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - May 15, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman: Clashes in Beirut
Middle East Strategy at Harvard - May 12, 2008

Judea Pearl: Ben-Gurion on Palestinian Self Determination or The Myth of Zionism Naivete
Exclusive to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Faculty Forum - May 12, 2008

John R. Cohn, M.D.: Media Watch: Context on Carter's New 'Friends' Still Missing
The Jewish Exponent, Media Watch - May 9, 2008

John R. Cohn MD: The Threat to Israel
The Philadelphia Inquirer. Letters to the Editor - May 9, 2008

Walter Reich: Israel's Psyche at 60
baltimoresun.com - May 8, 2008

Philip Carl Salzman on ASMEA Debut on the Middle East Studies at Harvard Blog May 7, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Funding Israel's Detractors
The Wall Street Journal - May 6, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: 60 Years on the Map
The Jerusalem Post - May 5, 2008

Efraim Karsh: 1948, Israel, and the Palestinians- The True Story
Commentarymagazine.com - May 5, 2008

Barry Rubin: AP Explains to You Why Israel Shouldn't Exist
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - May 3, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Is Canada Funding Human Insecurity'?
Canadian Jewish News - May 1, 2008

Mel Alexenberg: Reflections on Holocaust Remembrance Day
May 1, 2008

Efraim Karsh: The Diplomatic Dance with Hamas
Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 7, No. 37 30 April 2008 - April 30, 2008

ERRATA: CHAVA GURION: SARA ROY AND THE AIM OF DIVIDING ISRAELIS INTO ISRAELIS INTO BAD ONES AND VERY BAD ONES Sara Roy is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard. We apologize for the error published in an article in the Faculty Forum 2008-04-28.

Chava Gurion: Sara Roy and the Aim of Dividing Israelis into Bad Ones and Very Bad Ones
SPME Faculty Voices - April 22, 2008

Judea Pearl: Paving the Path to Dialogue
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - April 21, 2008

Andrew G. Bostom: Antisemitism in the Hadith and Early Muslim Biographies of Muhammad: Motifs and Manifestations
Dhimmi Watch - April 18, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Internships with Radical NGOs Undermine Human Rights Education
NGO Monitor blog - April 17, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Iranian Holocaust Denial
April 16, 2008

Efraim Karsh: The 60-Year War for Israel's History
inFocus - April 15, 2008

Emanuele Ottolenghi: Iran's Deceptive Commercial Practices
BESA Perspectives Papers No. 41 - April 15, 2008

Kenneth L. Marcus, CUNY Baruch College School of Public Affairs: Higher Education, Harassment, and First Amendment Opportunism
Social Science Research Network - April 14, 2008

Matthias Kuentzel: Antisemitism, Messianism and the Cult of Sacrifice: The Iranian Holy War
SPME Faculty Voices - April 10, 2008

Barry Rubin: Smugly Ensuring Failure
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - April 9, 2008

Dr. Robert O. Freedman: Talk To Hamas? Bad Idea
The Baltimore Jewish Times - April 7, 2008

Andrew G. Bostom MD, Brown University: Antisemitism in the Qur'an: Motifs and Historical Manifestations Dhimmi Watch - April 7, 2008

Diana Muir: "A Land without a People for a People without a Land"
Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008, VOLUME XV: NUMBER 2 pp. 55-62 - April 7, 2008

Barry Rubin: Why A Terrorist Strategy?
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - April 2, 2008

Matthias Küntzel: Islamist Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Mission Against Modernity
SPME Faculty Voices - April 1, 2008


Edward Beck: It Needs to Be Said...The UCU Disgraces All British Academics With Resurrection of Anti-Israel Boycott
March 30, 2008

Why Does Our University Participate in the Delegitimization of Israel?
SPME Faculty Voices - March 27, 2008

Richard Landes: Mercaz Harav and the G-World
Exclusive to Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Faculty Forum - March 16, 2008

Prof. Barry Rubin: Let's Talk About the Nazis
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - March 14, 2008

Barry Rubin: If They Don't Fool You They Can't Defeat You
Gloria Center - Global Research in International Affairs - March 10, 2008

Elihu Richter: Dugard's Sleaze
March 9, 2008

Gerald M. Steinberg: Watching Human Rights
International Herald Tribune - March 9, 2008

Laurence Thomas: In Memory of 8 Yeshiva Students Murdered: Hezbollah & the KKK
http://www.moralhealth.com/blog/_archives/2008/3/9/3570404.html - March 8, 2008

Rhonda Rosenberg: Israeli, Palestinian Conflict Misrepresented
The Beacon - March 5, 2008

Ronnie Fraser: The Academis Boycott of Israel: A Review of the Five-Year UK Campaign to Defeat It
Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 66, 2 March 2008 / 25 Adar Rishon 5768 - March 5, 2008

The Psychological Asymmetry of Islamist Warfare - Mordechai Kedar - Middle East Quarterly Spring 2008, pp. 37-44 - March 3, 2008

SPME Has Become A Community of Scholars...Reaches 20,000 in Network Participants at nearly 1500 Campus and It Will Take This Community To Sustain It
March 1, 2008

Anne Bayefsky: U.S. must stand Strong Against UN's Anti-Semitic Confab
February 22, 2008

Amos N. Guiora & Asaf Romirowsky: A Pathetic 'Peace Process'
Philly Online - February 21, 2008

Richard Landes: The Jews as Contested Ground in Postmodern Conspiracy Theory

Jewish Political Studies Review 19:3-4 (Fall 2007) - February 19, 2008

Amos N. Guiora: Teaching Morality in Armed Conflict-The IDF Model
Case Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-24 - February 7, 2008

Amos N. Guiora and Matthew V. Ezzo: A Critical Decision Point on the Battlefield-Friend, Foe or Innocent Bystander
Matthew V.Ezzo, U.S. Department of the Navy - February 7, 2008

Barry Rubin: Uniquely Bizarre
The Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center - February 6, 2008

Richard Landes: The Jews as Contested Ground in Postmodern Conspiracy Theory
Jewish Political Studies Review Volume 19, Numbers 3-4 (Fall 5768/2007) - February 5, 2008

Florida International University's Rhonda Rosenberg Seeks To Meet With FIU Colleagues To Address Anti-Israel Article in Student Paper
February 2, 2008

Judea Pearl: The Daniel Pearl Standard
The Wall Street Journal - January 30, 2008

LATEST ACADEMIC NEWS

New York Affairs: Invoking Apartheid with a Vengeance
Allison Hoffman, jpost correspondent - The Jerusalem Post - February 28, 2009

Canada Schools Blasted for Ban on Anti-Israel 'Apartheid' Poster
Cnaan Liphshiz - Haaretz - February 28, 2009

Slain Reporter's Father Fearful of Anti-Semitism on Campus
Stan Wilson - CNN - February 28, 2009

CUPE Members to Sid Ryan: Time to Say Goodbye
National Post - February 28, 2009

UK Professor Cancels Talk at York University in Response to Administration's Failure to Condemn Attacks on Jewish Students
Then there was light... - February 26, 2009

UCLA Israel Program Seen as Antidote to Gaza Meeting
Tom Tugend - The Jewish Journal - February 26, 2009

Academic Boycott of Israel Takes Off in Canada
Saed Bannoura - IMEMC News - February 26, 2009

Specter of Week of Anti-Israel Programs Rattles Canadian Jewish College Students
Abe Selig - The Jerusalem Post - February 26, 2009

A Legal Framework for the Israel-Palestine Debate
Leo Gomez - The Stanford Review Volume XLII, Issue 1 - February 26, 2009

Israeli Academics Write in Support of Manchester (Uk) Students Boycott Motion of Israeli Academics
Bricup.org - February 25, 2009

Ontario Union Votes to Boycott Israeli Universities
Karen Birchard - The Chronicle of Higher Education - February 24, 2009

The List of US University Professors Endorsing Israel Boycott
Atlas Shrugs - February 24, 2009

CUPE Boss Admits Anti-Israel Resolution Went Too Far
Trevor Wilhelm - Canwest News Service/Windsor Star - February 23, 2009

NYU Suspends pro-Gazan Students Following Protest
Jacob Berkman - JTA - February 23, 2009

CUPE Ontario Members Back Boycott of Israeli Universities
CBCnews.ca - February 22, 2009

Richard L. Cravatts: Double Standard for Campus Free Speech
Richard L. Cravatts - National Post Blogs Full Comment - February 21, 2009

2008

ASMEA's Research Grant Program Announced
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) - December 30, 2008

Brandeis Summer Institute for Israel Studies Faculty Fellowships Applications Now Being Accepted
SPME Latest Academic News - December 2, 2008

Italy's President Gets Honorary Hebrew University Doctorate, Expresses Support for Israel
Jpost.com Staff - The Jerusalem Post - November 27, 2008

German Education Minister Opposes Academic Ban on Israel
Eldad Beck - YNet News - November 25, 2008

UC to Reopen Education Abroad Program in Israel in Fall 2009
University of California Newsroom - November 24, 2008

A Middle East Envoy?
MESH Admin - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - November 21, 2008

Iran Students Protest Against Israel-Arab Ties
IranVNC - November 19, 2008

Venezuela, Iran Team Up On University Plan
Inside Higher Ed - November 19, 2008

'Land For Peace, But Not Land For Rocket Fire'
Jonny Paul - The Jerusalem Post - November 19, 2008

Queens University: Student's Car Defaced With Anti-Semitic Comments
Emily Davies, Assistant News Editor - The Journal Queens University - November 15, 2008

Anti-Semitic Motives Probed in Students' Rampage
JTA - November 15, 2008

Pro-Palestinian Group: Cancel Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra's Michigan Concert
Merav Yudilovitch - YNet News - November 15, 2008

Summer Institute for Israel Studies
Humanities and Social Sciences Net Online - November 14, 2008

Outrage at Oxford University 'Bring a Pretty Jew' Rugby Club Party
Julie Moult and Lucy Tobin - Daily Mail Online - November 14, 2008

Ottawa University Instructor Arrested In 1980 Blast At Paris Synagogue
Ian MacLeod - The Ottawa Citizen - November 14, 2008

"Campus Post" Launched by Jerusalem Post and StandWithUs- Seeks Articles from SPME Faculty
October 17, 2008

Lecturers Threaten To Sue Union Over Israel Boycott
Peter Kingston - guardian.co.uk - October 14, 2008

Website of Pro-Israel Organization at UC Irvine Hacked by Islamists
October 14, 2008

The One-State Solution
Sari Nusseibeh - NEWSWEEK - October 13, 2008

Hebrew University Makes The Times' List Of 100 Top Schools
Ofri Ilani, Haaretz Correspondent - Haaretz - October 13, 2008

Universities Will Not Open For New Academic Year, MKs Told
Shelly Paz - The Jerusalem Post - October 12, 2008

Durban II will damage Israel, Prof Says
Dave Gordon - The Canadian Jewish News - October 10, 2008

California University Faculty Votes Disapproval of Prof. MacDonald

hypercrypton - October 9, 2008

New Zealand University Removes Neo-Nazi Thesis
JTA Breaking News - October 9, 2008

Canadian "Students Against Israeli Apartheid" Hooks Kids on Hatred
Barbara Kay - National Post Blogs Full Comment - October 7, 2008

'US Textbooks Misrepresent Jews, Israel'
Haviv Rettig - The Jerusalem Post - October 1, 2008

Condemnation for Jewish Terrorist Attack on Leftist Professor. Sign the Protest Petition.
To Find the Principles Blog - September 26, 2008

New Columbia Hire Backed Academic Boycott of Israel
Bari Weiss - The New York Sun - September 12, 2008

British Jewish Anti-Boycott Academic Activist Goes Public With Ban From UCU "Activists" Listserv
From Various Sources - September 2, 2008

Starbucks Targeted by Students at Universities
Omar Ahmad - The Muslim News - August 29, 2008

UK Academic Union Bans Anti-Semitic Poster From Web Site
Jonny Paul, London - The Jerusalem Post - August 27, 2008

Student Lobbying Organization Votes to Boycott "Apartheid" Israel
Joey Coleman - Macleans OnCampus. - July 11, 2008

Egyptian Liberal: It Is The Educated Who Are Responsible for the Lack of Democracy in the Arab World
MEMRI Special Dispatch Series - No. 1981 - July 11, 2008

Gaza Fulbright Scholars Meet U.S. Visa Officials, Hoping to Ease Travel Ban
Haaretz - July 10, 2008

UCU Hit by Resignations
Totally Jewish - July 3, 2008

Palestinian Geographers Boycott Conference in Tunis
Palestine Media Center - July 3, 2008

Palestinian Academics Won't Attend Forum with Israelis
Jonny Paul, London, - The Jerusalem Post - July 2, 2008

Maryland Historian Links Roots of Radical Islam with Nazi Propaganda
Etgar Lefkovits - The Jerusalem Post - July 2, 2008

London University Names First UK Professor of Israel Studies
Jonny Paul, Jerusalem Post correspondent in London - The Jerusalem Post - July 2, 2008

Boycott Hit By a Wave of Collaborations
The Jewish Chronicle - June 27, 2008

Edward S. Beck: DEMOCRATIYA Blog Emerges To Interest SPME Network
SPME Latest Academic News - June 24, 2008

UCU Stalls on Boycott Decision
Simon Rocker - The Jewish Chronicle - June 20, 2008

Academic Trade Union Wavers on Implementing Decision to Boycott Israeli Academia
Jonny Paul - London - The Jerusalem Post - June 20, 2008

Rammell Defends British Universities from Charges of Extremism
Anthea Lipsett - EducationGuardian.co.uk - June 12, 2008

University Challenge
Totally Jewish - June 12, 2008

Anti-Israeli Sentiment Increases Across Britain
theTrumpet.com - June 10, 2008

US Professors Face Hostile Reception in Jerusalem
Rachel Shabi - The Guardian - June 9, 2008

Muslim Scholars in Saudi Arabia Urge Dialogue with Christianity, Judaism
Associated Press, The Jerusalem Post Jun - June 7, 2008

Anti Boycott Statement from Technion International Board of Governors
Technion International Board of Governors - June 4, 2008

Report: Palestinian Textbooks Progress Toward Positive Portrayal of Jews Erased by Hamas
The Associated Press - International Herald Tribune - June 4, 2008

When Is a Non-Boycott a Boycott?
Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed - June 4, 2008

Minister Wants No Israeli Boycott
The Press Association - June 3, 2008

Letter to UCU from Anthony Julius On UCU Boycott Motion
SPME Latest Academic News - June 3, 2008
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Lecturer Union Urges Moral Review of Israeli College Links
Anthea Lipsett - The Guardian - May 29, 2008

Calls to Sever Ties with Israelis
The Press Association - May 28, 2008

The Key Issues at the UCU's Second Congress: Israel, Administration or Pay?
Francis Beckett - The Guardian - May 28, 2008

VIEWS

Rafael Medoff: Don't Turn Iran's Jews Into a Political Footbal
Rafael Medoff - The Jerusalem Post - February 26, 2009

Elliott Abrams: The Path of Realism or the Path of Failure
Elliott Abrams - The Weekly Standard Volume 014, Issue 23 - February 24, 2009

Gregg J. Rickman: Boycott Durban II
Gregg J. Rickman - JTA - February 24, 2009

Uriel Heilman: What Will Netanyahu's Government Look Like?
Uriel Heilman - JTA - Jewish & Israel News - February 22, 2009

Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Zionism and the Global Anti-Semitic Frenzy
Isi Leibler - The Jerusalem Post - February 20, 2009

Obama's Durban Dalliance
The Wall Street Journal - February 20, 2009

Emily B. Landau: The New US Administration: Confusion and Indecision on Iran
Emily B. Landau - INSS Insight No. 95 - February 18, 2009

Denis MacShane: The Writing is on the Synagogue Wall
Denis MacShane - Times Online - February 18, 2009

Rabbis For Human Rights Founder David Forman: Counterpoint: The War in Retrospect
David Forman - The Jerusalem Post - February 18, 2009

Alan M. Dershowitz: Hampshire Divests from Israel, So Contributors Should Divest from Hampshire
Alan M. Dershowitz - The Investigative Project on Terrorism - February 18, 2009

Jimmy Carter: Include Hamas in Israel-Palestinian peace talks
Akiva Eldar - Haaretz.com - February 15, 2009

Prof. David Klein: Support for Israel Must Stop
David Klein, Professor of Mathematics,California State University-Northridge - CSUN Sundial - February 6, 2009

2008

Bret Stephens: Media Narratives Feed Terrorist Fantasies
Bret Stephens - The Wall Street Journal - December 2, 2008

Mark T. Clark: Solving the Iranian Dilemma
Mark T. Clark - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - November 25, 2008

Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski: Middle East Priorities For Jan. 21
Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski - Washington Post - November 23, 2008

Deborah Lipstadt: A Spurious, Prejudicial Cartoon
Deborah Lipstadt - Emorywheel.com - November 19, 2008

Rivkah Fishman-Duker: "Jerusalem: Capital of the Jews":[1] The Jewish Identity of Jerusalem in Greek and Roman Sources*
Rivkah Fishman-Duker - Jewish Political Studies Review 20:1-2 (Spring 2008) - November 14, 2008

Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook: Anti-Semitism Among Palestinian Authority Academics*
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook** - Institute for Global Jewish Affairs - Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism Published May 2008 No. 69, 1 June 2008 / 27 Iyar 5768 - October 24, 2008

Ted Lapkin: Academic Anti-Zionism in Australia
Ted Lapkin - Published in: Manfred Gerstenfeld (Ed.): Academics against Israel and the Jews - Institute for Global Jewish Affairs - Global Antisemitism, Anti-Israelism, Jewish Studies - October 17, 2008

Hassan Mneimneh:Syria's Choice
Hassan Mneimneh - The daily Standard - October 17, 2008

Michael Gerson: The President Who Will Deal With Iran
Michael Gerson - Washington Post - October 10, 2008

Benjamin L. Hartman: Thank Goodness for McCain and Obama Support On Iran
Benjamin L. Hartman - Haaretz - October 9, 2008

Alain Goldschläger: The Canadian Campus Scene
Alain Goldschläger - Manfred Gerstenfeld (Ed.): Academics against Israel and the Jews - Institute for Global Jewish Affairs: Post Holocaust and Anti-Semitism - October 7, 2008

Israel-Palestinians: Trilateral Scenario
Nabil Fahmy, Chuck Freilich, Marwan Muasher - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - October 6, 2008

Kenneth Pollack: The Future of Iran
Kenneth Pollack - Foreign Policy Research Institute - September 28, 2008

Jonathan Spyer: Forward to the Past: the Fall and Rise of the 'One-State Solution
Jonathan Spyer - MERIA Journal - Volume 12, No. 3 - September 2008 - September 28, 2008

Juan Cole: Obama goes over the top in bashing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Juan Cole - Salon.com - September 26, 2008

Herb Denenberg: Christian Peace Groups Ally Themselves With Advocate Of Genocide
Herb Denenberg - The Bulletin - September 26, 2008

Raymond Ibrahim: Osama Bin Laden: man of love?
Raymond Ibrahim - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - September 13, 2008

Michael Rubin: Iran's Faltering Economy
Michael Rubin - Euro-Atlantic Quarterly - September 8, 2008

Gil Troy: How to Demand Fair Play for Israel on Campus
Gil Troy, Mc Gill University - Israel e-news.com - September 8, 2008

Robert O. Freedman: Growing U.S.-Israel Gap On Iran
Robert O. Freedman - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - September 5, 2008

Matthew Levitt and David Schenker: Amman Warms to Hamas
Matthew Levitt and David Schenker - The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - PolicyWatch #1400 - September 2, 2008

Marko Attila Hoare: Extremists Are Poisoning My Trade Union

Marko Attila Hoare - Greater Surbiton - August 27, 2008

Nasrin Amirsedghi: A Muslim-Programmed Inhuman Rights Council?
Nasrin Amirsedghi - Telos Press - August 25, 2008

Jonathan Schanzer: PARC's Anti-Israel Polemics
Jonathan Schanzer - National Online Review - July 11, 2008

Tony Badran: Lebanon's Militia Wars
Tony Badran - MERIA Journal . Volume 12, No. 2 - June 2008 - July 11, 2008

Alfred H. Moses: From Durban I to Durban II: Preventing Poisonous Anti-Semitism
Alfred H. Moses - JCPA Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism No. 71, 1 August 2008 / 29 Tammuz 5768 - July 8, 2008

Thomas W. Lippman: Iran Won't Go Away, the Saudis Realize
Thomas W. Lippman - The Daily Star - July 8, 2008

Israel Is 'Canceled' in Berlin
Wall Street Journal Europe - July 7, 2008

Gaza: One Year Later...Observations from Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Al-Jazeera, New York Times
Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, Al-Jazeera, New York Times - July 7, 2008

Martin Bright: Is it a Boycott or Not?
Martin Bright - New Statesman - June 24, 2008

Yaakov Amidror: Winning Counterinsurgency War: The Israeli Experience
Yaakov Amidror - JCPA Strategic Perspectives - June 23, 2008

Jonathan Dahoah Halevi: The Hamas Interest in the Tahdiya (Temporary Truce) with Israel
Jonathan Dahoah Halevi - JCPA Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 8, No.4 - June 19, 2008

Gil Troy: Center Field: Don't ban Mearsheimer and Walt - Or Blame Hebrew U for Hosting them
Gil Troy - Jerusalem Post Blogs - June 12, 2008

Robert Solomon Wistrich: Antisemitism Embedded in British Culture
Robert Solomon Wistrich - JCPA Post Holocaust- Antisemitism No. 70, 1 July 2008/ 28 Sivan 5768 - June 11, 2008

Ron Prosor: Britain is a Hotbed of Anti-Israeli Sentiment
Ron Prosor - Telegraph.co.uk - June 10, 2008

Curtis C. Ryan: Islamist Political Activism in Jordan: Moderation, Militancy, and Democracy

Curtis C. Ryan - MERIA, Volume 12, No. 2 - June 2008 - June 6, 2008

Jonathan Dahoah Halevi: The UK University and College Union's Double Moral Standards
Jonathan Dahoah Halevi - Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) - June 6, 2008

Lorna Fitzsimons: The UCU is Wasting Time and Money
Lorna Fitzsimons - Independent.co.uk - June 5, 2008

Deborah Lipstadt: Antisemitism in the UK: The Academic Union [UCU] is Back at it Again
Deborah Lipstadt - Deborah Lipstadt's Blog - June 4, 2008

Thomas L. Friedman: Time for Radical Pragmatism
Thomas L. Friedman - The New York Times - June 4, 2008

Jeremy Newmark: Build Bridges Not Boycotts
Jeremy Newmark - The Jerusalem Post - June 4, 2008

Shalom Lappin: Living in a Hostile Environment
Shalom Lappin - normblog - June 2, 2008

Mark T. Clark: Response to Raymond Ibrahim: Islam's War Doctrines Ignored
Mark T. Clark - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - May 31, 2008

Raymond Ibrahim: Islam's War Doctrines Ignored
Raymond Ibrahim - Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH) - May 29, 2008

David Schenker: Syria: Between Negotiations with Israel and the Iranian Axis
David Schenker - JCPA Israel Security: Vol. 8, No.2 27 May 2008 - May 28, 2008

Al-Durra Case Revisited
Wall Street Journal Europe - May 28, 2008

Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook: The evolving Palestinian narrative: Arabs caused the refugee problem
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Cook - PMW Bulletin - May 28, 2008

General NEWS

Netanyahu, Mubarak Meet in Cairo
JTA - December 29, 2009

Deaths Reported in Iran Clashes
CNN - December 27, 2009

Deputy FM to Arab World: Israel Extends Its Hand in Peace
Danny Ayalon - Haaretz Service - Haaretz - December 25, 2009

Gabriel Schoenfeld: Back to the Future
Gabriel Schoenfeld - Weekly Standard Volume 015, Issue 15 December 28, 2009 - December 25, 2009

Former President Carter Apologizes to Jews
Greg Bluestein AP - Sphere News - December 25, 2009

Hatred for Jews Has Mutated: Congress
Allison Cross, Canwest News Service - National Post - December 22, 2009

Israel-UK Relations Strained Over Livni Arrest Warrant
DEBKAfile Special Report - December 16, 2009

Abbas Says No Peace Without Deal on Jerusalem
Gulf Times, Qatar - March 21, 2009

After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation
Ethan Bronner - The New York Times - March 20, 2009

New Durban 2 Statement Still Singles Out Israel
Barak Ravid - Haaretz - March 19, 2009

Australia Ready to Boycott Durban II
JTA - March 18, 2009

Diplomats Amend U.N. Racism Text To Draw In West
Stephanie Nebehay - Reuters - March 18, 2009

Draft For Racism Meeting Drops Israel Criticism
Frank Jordans - The Associated Press. - March 18, 2009

Changes Ahead of Talks on Racism
Reuters/ The New York Times - March 18, 2009

EU Threatens to Boycott U.N. Anti-Racism Conference
Reuters - March 17, 2009

Poll Finds Some U.S. Muslim Support for Suicide Attacks
USA Today, Reuters, The Jerusalem Post, danielpipes.org - March 12, 2009

Obama Administration Overhauls US Mideast Policy
Meredith Buel, Washington - VOA News - March 12, 2009

2008

Mumbai Attacks: Jews Tortured Before Being Executed During Hostage Crisis
Damien McElroy - Telegraph.co.uk - December 2, 2008

Mumbai Terrorists Targeted Jews, Israelis
Ron Kampeas - JTA - December 1, 2008

The Chabad Rabbi in India was Not 'Killed'
Shelomo Alfassa - The Sephardic Perspective - December 1, 2008

Doctors: Terrorist Torture of Jewish Victims 'Beyond Words'
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu - Israel National News - December 1, 2008

2007

Gerald M. Steinberg: Postcolonial Theory and the Ideology of Peace Studies
Israel Affairs, Vol.13, No.4, October 2007, pp.786-796 - October 18, 2007

Gerald Steinberg Appears on Al Jazeera Panel for "Anapolis Peace Conference"
SPME Faculty Voices/Al Jazeera - October 17, 2007

Richard Landes: Walt-Mearsheimer on Osama, Israel and the USA: MSM is the Key to Inverting the Story
The Augean Stables - October 15, 2007

Matthias Kuentzel: Berlin and Vienna Stand Against the West World Politics Review published Matthias Kuentzel's paper about the current European divisions on the Iranian bomb on October 11, 2007.

Matthias Kuentzel: Hitler's Legacy: Islamic antisemitism and the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood (Talk at Leeds University, October 10, 2007)