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Uphill battle for academic freedom in US universities

If you want to be notified the next time we publish something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!By Nora Barrows-Friedman* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
In 2009, Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, became the first American higher educational institution to successfully pressure its Board of Trustees to [...]

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Propaganda disguised as academic inquiry at the University of Illinois

By David Green* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Chancellor Richard Herman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently resigned due to his cooperation with political influence-peddlers seeking to gain admission for less qualified but privileged applicants. But Herman also participated in a more acceptable form of political corruption — publicly displayed with the invocation of [...]

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A thorn in the world's side

Israel in midst of freefall on global front, yet we're preoccupied with nonsense
By Sever Plocker | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
I've been invited to deliver a lecture about Israel's economy and society at Oxford University. As it is a short lecture, and a respectable forum, I gladly accepted the offer. The invitation was extended about six [...]

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SIGN PETITION: A Plea to Norway's University of Trondheim to Boycott Israel

SIGN THE PETITION:
http://www.petitiononline.com/boycott9/petition.html
"Right and wrong are the same in Palestine as anywhere else. What is peculiar about the Palestine conflict is that the world has listened to the party that has committed the offence and has turned a deaf ear to the victims."
–Famed British Historian Professor Arnold Toynbee
"In the name of justice there cannot be [...]

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How the "Most Moral Army in the World" Wages War on Students

By Stuart Littlewood *
If there's one thing the Israelis are good at it's making war on women and children.
They killed 952 Palestinian kiddies in their homeland between 2000 and the start of the Gaza blitzkrieg in December 2008 (according to B'Tselem statistics). They murdered at least 350 more during their Cast Lead onslaught and have [...]

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Jonathan Cook – Israeli University Welcomes "War Crimes" Colonel

The Israeli government has moved quickly to quash protests over the appointment of the army's senior adviser on international law to a teaching post at Tel Aviv University. Col Pnina Sharvit-Baruch is thought to have provided legal cover for war crimes during the recent Gaza offensive.
Government officials fear that recent media revelations relating to Col [...]

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Matthew Taylor – Historical Meaning of The Palestinian Flag

By Matthew Taylor
Political Zionism-the quest to establish and hold a Jewish-majority state within historic Palestine-has largely been predicated on the belief that Palestinians should not have the right to live on their ancestral lands. In 1948, Israel's founders carried this philosophy to its logical conclusion and used military force to drive more than 700,000 Palestinians [...]

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UK trade union backs total boycott of Israel

The UK's largest trade union, UNISON, advocated on Wednesday a total boycott of Israel over its continued occupation of Palestinian territories.
A statement issued by delegates meeting in Brighton read: "The conference believes that ending the occupation demands concerted and sustained pressure upon Israel including an economic, cultural, academic and sporting boycott".
In addition, delegates called on [...]

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