Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is a Zionist organization of academics created in 2003, whose main aim is to undermine calls for an academic boycott of Israel.[1]

Orientation

SPME supports 'a world in which Israel exists as a sovereign Jewish state within secure borders'[1] - a position which privileges some Israeli citizens over others.

SPME argues that 'academic discourse is increasingly influenced by ideological distortions, politically biased scholarship, and agenda-driven speakers who demonize Israel and Zionism as bearing full responsibility for the Middle-East conflict. Such indoctrination violates academic traditions of scholarly integrity and degrades the academic enterprise. It poisons debate about the Middle East, inflames hatred of Israel, spreads anti-Semitism, incites anti-Israeli militancy, and serves to excuse or tolerate terrorist attacks and genocidal threats against Israel. Anti-Israel slanders exacerbate conflict and undermine prospects for peace.'[1]

SPME 'opposes all manifestations of anti-Semitism in academia, including calls for an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions.'[1]

Principals

Directors

Circa May 2009

Source: [2]

  • Edward S. Beck - Walden University; Co-Founder and President- Emeritus, USA (2002- Present)
  • Samuel M. Edelman - California State University-Chico; Executive Director (2009-Present) (Non-voting, ex-officio board member)
  • Judith S. Jacobson - Columbia University; Co-Founder and Vice-President for Internal Relations (2002- Present)
  • Rabbi Peter Haas - Case Western Reserve University, USA; Vice President for External Relations (2003- Present)
  • Ruth Lichtenberg-Contreras - Secretary, Austria (2002- Present)
  • Leila Beckwith - University of Southern California-Los Angeles (UCLA); Treasurer (2006-Present)
  • Philip Carl Salzman - McGill University, Canada; SPME Conference Coordinator (2003- Present)
  • Jonathan Adelman - University of Denver, USA (2005- Present)
  • Steven Albert - University of Pittsburgh, USA (2005- Present)
  • Brigitte Bailer - Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOEW) (2007- Present)
  • John R. Cohn - Thomas Jefferson University, USA (2005- Present)
  • Stanley Dubinsky - University of South Carolina, USA (2002- Present)
  • Awi Federgruen - Columbia University (2007 - Present)
  • Rev. India E. Garnett - United Church of Christ, PA (2002- Present)
  • Efraim Karsh - Kings College, University of London, UK (2002- Present)
  • Matthias Kuentzel - Political Scientist and Author, Hamburg, Germany (2006- Present)
  • Richard Landes - Boston University, USA (2003- Present)
  • G.S. Don Morris - Wingate Institute - IL, California Polytechnic Institute-Pomona, USA (2004- Present)
  • Donna Robinson Divine - Smith College, USA (2005- Present)
  • Barry Rubin - Interdisciplinary Center and GLORIA Center (2007- Present)
  • Ernest Sternberg - University at Buffalo, State University of New York, USA (2006- Present)

Former Directors, Circa May 2009

  • Phyllis Chesler - City University of New York Staten Island; Professor Emerita, USA (2005- 2007)
  • David Goldman - Amper, Mattia and Politziner, CPA's Inc., Edison NJ (2002-2003)
  • Peter Gomori - St. Francis College, NYC, USA (2002-2004)
  • Patricia Jennings - University of California- Davis; Candidate, USA (2002-2004)
  • Frederick Krantz - Concordia University Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, Canada (2003)
  • Charles Isbell - Louisiana State University, USA (2002-2003)
  • Moshe Maoz - Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002-2003)
  • Daniel Pipes - Middle East Forum, USA (2002-2003)
  • Nidra Poller - Writer/Translator, France (2002 - 2006)
  • Yigal Levin - Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2003-2004)
  • Allan Lipton - Penn State College of Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, USA (2003 - 2006)
  • Ilana Rosansky - Salem State University, Temple Shalom, Salem MA, USA (2003-2004)
  • Gerald Steinberg - Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2002- 2007)
  • Laurie Zoloth - Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, USA (2003-2006) [3]

Staff

Contact, References and Resources

Contact

Website: www.spme.net

Resources

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 SPME Homepage, Revision Adopted and Approved by The SPME Board of Directors, June 5, 2008, accessed 15 September 2010
  2. ↑ Directors, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, accessed May 14, 2009.
  3. ↑ Directors, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, accessed May 14, 2009.
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