Scholars for Peace in the Middle East

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East "is an independent, faculty-driven, not-for-profit [501 (C) (3)], "big-tent" grassroots community of scholars with well over 19000 academics and members receiving our SPME Faculty Forum on over 1000 campuses worldwide...

"SPME agrees with Thomas L. Friedman who wrote, "Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.""

Directors
Accessed May 2009:


 * 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
Accessed 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)

Critique

 * Louis Proyect, "Correspondence with a Zionist", The Unrepentant Marxist, May 13, 2009.

Contact

 * Web: [http://www.spme.net