Tag: Academia
Alice Walker and the Jews, again
When the San Diego Community College District announced that Alice Walker would be the keynote speaker for the new chancellor’s installation, immediate protests followed. Various Jewish organizations criticized the invitation and The San Diego Union-Tribune reported...
Senior Moroccan academic delegation visits Hebrew U, student exchanges to follow
Israel’s academic cooperation with Morocco hit a high point this week with the visit of a senior delegation from Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Seeking to establish a...
Academic watchdog groups blast MESA for adoption of BDS resolution against Israel
Academic watchdog groups expressed disapproval on Wednesday at the adoption of a BDS resolution against Israel by members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), based in the United States.
In an electronic vote from...
Study shows pro-BDS faculty members contribute to campus anti-Semitism
A new study by the watchdog group AMCHA Initiative revealed that university faculty members who endorse an academic boycott of Israel are directly contributing to the anti-Semitic activity taking place on their campuses.
The study, titled...
UAE, Israel sign academic cooperation agreement in another move to enrich ties
Academic institutions in Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed their first agreement to date for academic cooperation, further strengthening ties between the two countries, reported The Jerusalem Post.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on March...
Jerusalem college to launch Israel’s first nursing master’s degree in English
The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) announced that the Israeli Council for Higher Education has approved plans to open Israel’s first English-language Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) degree, which will expand upon the...
Up for auction: Letter by Einstein about brewing ‘anti-Semitism’ in US academia
The Kedem Auction House in Israel will begin auctioning a handwritten letter by world-renowned physicist and mathematician Albert Einstein this week in which he warns his friend about anti-Semitism in American academia prior to World War...
Facing anti-Israel and left-wing ideology, Mideast academics chew over challenges in field
For attendees, the annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) represented a bulwark against the academic elitism and suppression of divergent ideas in their field. Coming...
Erich Isaac, 93, fighter for Israel’s independence, Zionist activist, prominent geographer
One of the last of the Jewish Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Lehi) and first chairman of Americans for A Safe Israel (AFSI) passed away on Nov. 5. He was 93 years old.
Dr....
Academic departments need to steer clear of activism against Israel
The obsessive loathing of Israel by large swathes of academia was evident this past spring as Hamas showered Israeli population centers with more than 4,000 rockets and mortars. Instead of denouncing genocidal aggression on...