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JANIP Co-Sponsoring Academic Conference, March 28-29, 2008

We are proud to announce that The Jewish Academic Network for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (JANIP) is co-sponsoring the first international academic conference dealing with the Israel-Palestine peace process.  Entitled “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways to Peace”, the conference will take place March 28-29, 2008 at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT.

For further details, including proposal submission forms and registration forms, please go to the Conference website.

Or contact:
Prof.  Moises F. Salinas - Conference Director
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley St.
New Britain, CT 06050
E-Mail: salinasm@ccsu.edu
Phone:  860-832-3104
Fax: 860-832-3123

Add comment October 1st, 2007 Posted by Ron

British Academic Union Forgoes Boycott Move

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

Alumni Group Seeks to Deny Tenure to Middle Eastern Scholar at Barnard

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

Gisha organization: Israel must protect Palestinian academic freedom

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

Israeli academics to battle UK boycott bid - redux

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

Israeli academics off to U.K. to battle boycott bid

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

Qatari university welcomes Israeli students

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

Finkelstein, Dershowitz and the Battle for Tenure

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

Ilan Pappe vs. the “Union of Jewish Students”

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

Dual Israeli/Palestinian Historical Narrative Textbooks Emphasize Educational Role in Building Peace

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

MIT sponsoring contest to solve Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hopes to mobilize the world’s brainpower to solve one of its most troubling problems: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Read more from Haaretz

Add comment March 23rd, 2007 Posted by Ron

Howard University blocks divestiture from Israel

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

Brandeis U. under ‘friendly fire’

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.