On April 16-17, 2010, JANIP will sponsor its second international academic conference, “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways to Peace”. The conference will take place at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT.
The conference chairman is Moises F. Salinas, Ph.D., salinasm@ccsu.edu
Please see the conference homepage for additional details.
Add comment December 10th, 2009 Posted by Ron
Britain’s University and College Union (UCU) has announced that it is dropping its move to consider a boycott of Israeli universities, after it decided that the proposed boycott would be illegal under British law.
For the report in Haaretz, click here.
For JANIP’s statement on the UCU, click here.
1 comment October 1st, 2007 Posted by Ron
Controversial research on Israel and the Palestinian territories has become the basis of yet another campaign to prevent a professor from winning tenure - this time at Barnard.
Learn more:
Read the report in the Chronicle of Higher Education
Read the report from the JTA
3 comments August 15th, 2007 Posted by Ron
Prof. Kenneth Mann, chairman of the advisory council of the Israeli organization Gisha, the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, has stated that, alongside battling a proposed academic boycott of Israeli academe by their British counterparts, Israeli academics and university presidents should be protesting Israeli government policy, “that continues to sweepingly deny the right of education and academic freedom of Palestinian students”.
Read the full Jerusalem Post report here.
Click for the full statement at the Gisha website.
Add comment May 21st, 2007 Posted by Ron
Haaretz reports that a group of Israeli academics has met with British academics who are proposing that the UK’s University and College Union adopt a boycott of Israeli academe. Read the full article here.
One of the Israeli academics is translator and translation scholar Miriam Shlesinger. In a separate interview, Prof. Shlesinger argues that an academic boycott is a type of unjust collective punishment, which actually weakens the Israeli Left.
Read the full interview here.
Add comment May 18th, 2007 Posted by Ron
Haaretz reports that, “A delegation of Israeli academics will head to the U.K. later this month in a bid to fight a proposed boycott of Israeli universities by British academics,” belonging to the newly-formed University and College Union (UCU). The UCU is a merger of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE). Click here for the full report.
Add comment May 4th, 2007 Posted by Ron
The Dean of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar tells YNet that his school is open to applicants of all nationalities, and that he does not foresee problems for Israelis seeking student visas.
Click here for the full YNet report.
Add comment April 20th, 2007 Posted by Ron
As Norman Finkelstein awaits the decision on his tenure at DePaul University, read the latest from the The Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times and The Jewish Week.
Add comment April 12th, 2007 Posted by Ron
YNet reports that left-wing Israeli “new historian”, Prof. Ilan Pappe, is about to leave Israel for a teaching position in the UK. His imminent arrival has ignited a heated exchange between the professor and the UK’s “Union of Jewish Students”.
Read more from YNet. For the original story in the Times Higher Education Supplement, click here.
Add comment April 6th, 2007 Posted by Ron
In Washington, D.C., The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) held a briefing on March 23rd at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The briefing was titled “Developing a Dual Israeli-Palestinian Historical Narrative”. Dr. Sami Adwan of Bethlehem University and Dr. Dan Bar-Or of Ben Gurion University presented their experiences as co-directors of the Peace Research Institute in the Middle East (PRIME) in developing and teaching the ‘Dual Historical Narrative’ booklets to their pupils. (more…)
Add comment March 27th, 2007 Posted by Chris
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to mobilize the world’s brainpower to solve one of its most troubling problems: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Add comment March 23rd, 2007 Posted by Ron
Howard University’s administration has declared “null and void” a divest-from-Israel resolution recently voted on by a small number of its Arts and Sciences faculty.
The story was reported in The Jerusalem Post.
Add comment March 21st, 2007 Posted by Ron
Professor Dror Ze’evi, lecturer of Middle Eastern studies at the Ben Gurion University in Beersheva, argues that hard-line forces in the American Jewish community are orchestrating a concerted attack on Brandeis University, due to the liberal course it has steered.
But, writes Ze’evi, there is hope:
“The majority of Israeli citizens believe that a Palestinian state should be set up alongside Israel, and that peace is also made with bitter enemies. This type of thinking is increasingly penetrating the consciousness of the Jewish American public.”
Click for full article
Add comment February 28th, 2007 Posted by Ron
June 2006: Controversial academic shot down for appointment; was campaign against him politically motivated?
Continue Reading Add comment January 3rd, 2007 Posted by Ron
February 2007: Left-wing Israeli academic rejects the Irish boycott. Read the story from The Irish Times
Add comment September 25th, 2006 Posted by Ron
JANIP supports a negotiated two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, based on an end to occupation and the right of both peoples to self-determination within recognized, secure borders. As scholars and teachers who are committed to Israel, we seek to inject a voice of realism and moderation into the on-campus debate, which too often has been reduced to a choice between uncompromisingly pro-Israel vs. pro-Palestinian positions.