2010

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SPME ACTION ALERTS + BREAKING NEWS

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 VOICES

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

LATEST ACADEMIC NEWS

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

GENERAL NEWS

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










SPME POSITION PAPERS
 
 
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

Lecture by Exec. Director of SPME, Sam Edelman, in Vienna: Anti-Semitism and the New Left: the Rhetoric of a Developing Social Movement"
February 23, 2010

YIISA and IASA Announce Call For Papers for Conference on "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Yale University Aug 23-24, 2010
February 16, 2010

YIISA: Call for Papers For The Upcoming Conference: "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" 
January 13, 2010

CFP: Five hundred years of Jew-Hatred and Anti-Semitism in the German Press Conference May 23rd-May 26th, 2010, Bremen University 
December 15, 2009

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


Elise Sheppard: Israel Apartheid Week at University of Houston Sponsored by Students for a Democratic Society
Elise Sheppard: SPME-Houston Chapter Chair - March 2, 2010

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 Austria Chapter Announces Ambitious Spring Programming with Sam Edelman, Robert Wistrich, Andreas Peham, Chava Muehlhofer-Gurion and Karl Pfeifer 
Ruth Contreras, Ph.D. Chair, SPME-Austria; Secretary, SPME Board of Directors; Co-Editor, SPME Faculty Forum; Vienna - January 1, 2010
 
SPME Reviews and Recommendations
 
Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius: Review 
Gerald Jacobs - Telegraph.co.uk - February 28, 2010
 
 
 
 
SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable

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

 
 
 
SPME Chat Feedback
 
 
VIEWS
 

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