2010

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SPME ACTION ALERTS + BREAKING NEWS

SPME Board and PA Chapters Endorse and Urge Support for Pennsylvania Senate Resolution on Preventing Anti-Semitism on Campus
April 27, 2010

German Politicians Plan June Parley with Hamas Minister
Benjamin Weinthal - The Jerusalem Post - April 28, 2010

SPME VOICES

Samuel Edelman: Lessons From Berkeley
April 27, 2010

Leila Beckwith and Tammi Rossman-Benjamin: Are Jewish Students Safe on California Campuses?
The American Thinker - April 25, 2010

LATEST ACADEMIC NEWS

Threats Do Not Justify Banning a Speaker, Judge Tells U. of Wyoming President
Chronicle of Higher Education Blog Post - April 27, 2010

Schools' Iran $$ Pipeline
Isabel Vincent - New York Post - April 25, 2010

Multiple Swastikas Found Drawn at Clark Kerr Campus
Javier Panzar and Jordan Bach-Lombardo, Daily Cal Staff Writers - The Daily Californian Online - April 25, 2010

Jewish Groups Ask Feds To Change Policy and Include Antisemitism
Josh Nathan-Kazis - Forward - April 25, 2010

Senator Says Level of Anti-Semitism Growing, Asks Universities to Prevent It
1490 Newsblog - April 24, 2010

News from the University of London's Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism
Jonny Paul - Jerusalem Post - April 22, 2010

GENERAL NEWS

Jones Apologizes for Jewish Joke
Politico - April 28, 2010

Syrian Newspaper: Arab League May Reject U.S. Proposal for Peace Talks
Haaretz - April 28, 2010

W.H. Launches Israel P.R. Offensive
Laura Rozen - Politico - April 28, 2010

Israel Helped Iran Academic to Defect: Report
AFP - April 25, 2010



























SPME POSITION PAPERS
 
 
Conference & Events Announcement

American University Washington DC: Academic Conference: "Israel in a Time of Global Change" and Other Upcoming Events
May 17, 2010

Israel Heritage Department Invitation to International Interdisciplinary Conference "Intellectuals and Terror: the Fatal Attraction (Present vis-ā-vis the Past, Aspects of Theory and History)"
May 3, 2010

SPME Austria announces a lecture by Robert S. Wistrich in Vienna
April 27, 2010

Lecture by Exec. Director of SPME, Sam Edelman, in Vienna: Anti-Semitism and the New Left: the Rhetoric of a Developing Social Movement"
March 25, 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 Politicians Plan June Parley with Hamas Minister
Benjamin Weinthal - The Jerusalem Post - April 28, 2010

Campus Anti-Semitism Causes Concern
Shani McManus and Sergio Carmona, Staff Writers - Jewish Journal - March 14, 2010
Pinpointing Israel on Campus
Aaron Passman, Staff Writer - Jewish Exponent - March 11, 2010
 
 
SPME CHAPTER NEWS

Peter Haas, SPME President, Urges Brandeis Faculty Sign Petition Supporting Michael Oren's Commencement Address Invitation
April 29, 2010

UC San Diego Student Gov't Debating Divestment Measures: SPME Chapter Solicits Nobel Laureate Voices to Counter Measure
Keith Darce, Union-Tribune Staff Writer - San Diego Union-Tribute, Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 12:04 a.m. - April 29, 2010

SPME-France Holds First Organizational Meeting, March 15, 2010
Ouriel Grynszpan, Mare Currie University of Paris - March 17, 2010

SPME- Delaware Valley (Philadelphia) Chapter Invites You to Screening of "Crossing the Line" March 18, 7:00 PM Hilton City Line Ave.
John Cohn (Thomas Jefferson University); Marsha Crawford (Temple); Ed Newman (Temple); Judith Franklin( Drexel); Ed Beck (Walden) - March 15, 2010

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

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

Britannia Waives the Rules: Edward Alexander Reviews Anthony Julius's " Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Antisemitism in England" (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Edward Alexander - April 27, 2010

Review: Robert S. Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. Review by Peter J. Haas
April 12, 2010

Review: Matthias Kuentzel- The Germans and Iran; the History and Present of a Fateful Friendship (Die Deutschen und der Iran.Geschichte und Gegenwart einer verhängnisvollen Freundschaft )
Ruth Contreras: University of Vienna and Vienna Natural History Museum; SPME Secretary and Chair, SPME Austria - March 14, 2010

Trials of the Diaspora by Anthony Julius: Review 
Gerald Jacobs - Telegraph.co.uk - February 28, 2010
SPME Faculty Forum Roundtable

SPME Faculty Forum Network Weighs In On Berkeley Effort
Compiled by, Edward Beck and Sam Edelman - April 19, 2010

Ken Waltzer: Arguing With Judith Bulter
Ken Waltzer, University of Michigan - Exclusive to SPME Faculty Forum - April 18, 2010

Judea Pearl: A Letter to SPME Faculty: A Gesture that Counts.
April 12, 2010

 
 
 
SPME Chat Feedback
 
 
VIEWS
 

Ron Prosor: A Taboo that Harms Arabs Too
Ron Prosor - The Guardian - April 28, 2010

Response to the Goldstone Report: Hamas and the Terrorist Threat from the Gaza Strip
The Intelligence & Terrorism Information Center - April 2, 2010

Michael B. Oren: For Israel and America, a Disagreement, Not a Crisis
Michael B. Oren - The New York Times - March 18, 2010