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Apr 14, 2016, 11:49 PM

What is Zochrot really remembering?

On March 21-22 the Israeli NGO Zochrot held its “Third International Conference on the Return of Palestinian Refugees“ in Tel Aviv. The two-day event featured an all-star team of anti-Israeli Israeli speakers from NGOs and academia, all to promote...

Jan 8, 2016, 9:21 PM

The Hypocrisy of the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)

A cornerstone of the US feminist revolution has been women’s rights to their bodies and above all free access to abortion, something that has been at the heart of feminism since the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. But consistency...

Aug 6, 2015, 5:53 AM

Traditionally, American Presidents and policymakers have strived to create and maintain stability with their Middle East allies. Yet now with the Iran deal we have estranged our traditional allies while at the same time trying to appease them. Multilateralism...

May 6, 2015, 7:27 PM

Combating BDS requires a deep understanding of the movement, its funding, organizational architecture, and the plethora of Jewish and Muslim NGOs who fund-raise and train on its behalf, for example, the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and the American Friends...

Jun 27, 2014, 7:03 AM

Out in Left Field

Twenty years after the Oslo peace process, and now with the collapse of the recent negotiations mediated by John Kerry, Jewish American leftists groups are still trying to figure out what “peace” means. But the problem is that they...

Mar 25, 2014, 2:36 PM

Why would Kings College entertain BDS?

For nearly twenty years, under the leadership of Middle East historian Efraim Karsh and his Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, Kings College London was a beacon of light with respect to the study of Israel and the Middle...

Jul 11, 2013, 2:48 PM

Israel’s Legality

From Turtle Bay to the halls of academia there is a growing movement to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish State. One of the favored tactics utilized by Israel’s detractors is to challenge Israel’s legitimacy by making “legal arguments” critical...

Jan 30, 2013, 6:45 PM

Upper Dublin High School vs. the Arab-Israeli conflict

John Dewey of Columbia University and Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins University came together with other educators in 1915 to found the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), an organization designed to preserve the integrity of the academy from...

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About Me

Asaf Romirowsky PhD, is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). Romirowsky is also a senior non-resident fellow at the BESA Center and a fellow at the Middle East Forum and a Professor [Affiliate] at the University of Haifa.