Dear friends in academia,
We are in receipt of an urgent petition against Boycotts of Israeli Academicians which I thought you would wish to sign. It started with scholars from the humanities and social science, but can be signed by academics from other fields as well.

'Restoring sanity to our institutions of higher education must begin with ensuring that curricula and faculty are committed to the principles these institutions were founded on,' writes ASMEA ED Asaf Romirowsky.
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Tune in for my headline rundown on the FDD Morning Brief followed by a conversation w/ Asaf Romirowsky, Exec. Dir. of ASMEA + Scholars For Peace (SPME). We'll dive into how academia breeds anti-Western extremism & another topic of his expertise: UNRWA. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

ICYMI... Our recent webinar discussion on 'Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger' w/ Prof. William F.S. Miles, Northeastern CSSH
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Bernard Lewis said it best: “antisemitism is about Semites like dolichocephaly is about language.”
Semite” as a racial term is one the racialists apply EXCLUSIVELY to Jews PERIOD.

ASMEA Executive Dir Asaf Romirowsky talks to Josh Breslow about the campus disruptions happening now:
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REMINDER: Join us TOMORROW, 5/3 at 12pm EST for a webinar discussion on 'Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger' w/ Prof. William F.S. Miles, Northeastern CSSH. 🇳🇪REGISTER --> asmeascholars.org/webinar

Told العربية (Arabic) that college protests cast Palestine in the worst possible light: As anti-American, anti-West, anti-capitalism, pro-Communism, pro-Islamism, pro-anarchy. Protesters didn’t raise a single U.S. flag, rather draped our founding father George Washington’s

Calling scholars who study #DigitalHumanities and Israel, in any discipline: Apply now for the Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellowship 2024-25 - Digital Humanities in Israel Studies. Visit tiny.cc/IAISfellowship to learn more. Apply by May 31. #Hybrid program. #Brandeis

At WashU in St. Louis, student newspaper said over the 100 arrested last weekend at the encampment there, only 23 were students and four were faculty. This means over 70 percent were from outside the campus. NYU officials reportedly said of the arrests last week there 60 percent

Anti-Israel protestors create campus havoc as protests aim for maximum public disruption. University concessions to protestors lead to exclusions and physical assaults against Jewish students - spme.org/boycotts-dives…...

It’s important to understand that the Palestinianization of American universities has been underway for decades, hidden in the politics of who runs student governments, factions, alliances and especially funding.

I’m a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a longtime advocate for peace and for Palestinian rights. I have publicly opposed Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and its blockade and now destruction of Gaza. I support the rights of students and faculty to peacefully

APPLY NOW: Research Grants & Travel Grants available for Annual ASMEA Conference. Deadline is Tues., 4/30.
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Dear Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine,

I arrived at Columbia alongside other Arab peace activists, and we spoke out, proclaiming that we—peace activists—are the good guys because we believe both Israelis and Palestinians deserve to live in dignity, and neither should

Speaker at Berkeley tent encampment critiques the infiltration of 'Zionism' into American feminism.
Naming Betty Friedan, she says, 'Jewish women participated vivaciously in this, and sometimes imported Zionist political operations into feminist networks themselves.'

' We live in a world of escalating antisemitism — and understanding this hatred is a necessity, not a luxury.' algemeiner.com/2024/04/25/we-…

Please join us for our next webinar discussion on Friday, May 3, 12:00pm EST w/ Prof. Willam Miles Northeastern CSSH on 'Just Another Coup? What’s at Stake in Niger.' 🇳🇪
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Something odd about those campus tent encampments. Almost all the tents are identical - same design, same size, same fresh-out-of-the-box appearance. Which suggests that rather than an organic process, whereby students would bring a variety of individual tents, someone or some