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The Middle East Studies Association (MESA), which represents hundreds of professors who teach Middle Eastern studies on dozens of American college campuses, passed a resolution endorsing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The Middle East-centered learning society closed its 50-day voting period for the BDS resolution on Wednesday. More than 80 percent of the organization's voting members, many of whom teach about Israel at U.S. universities, cast ballots supporting the resolution, which accuses the Jewish state of committing human rights abuses against Palestinians and calls on MESA members to boycott Israeli universities. Left-leaning students and faculty at American universities...

It’s not hard to find out who sets the terms of debate and parameters of discussion concerning the Middle East on American campuses today. As we have reported, our friend Tammi Rossman-Benjamin’s Amcha Initiative at UCLA did a report last year on the anti-Israel bias on that campus. In a letter to the U. S. Secretary of Education, a sextet of groups headed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) took issue with the Amha report. The other five groups which signed onto the letter were: • The Asian Law caucus of Asian-Americans Advancing Justice; • The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee;...

LONG BEACH (CBSLA.com) — Protesters Wednesday voiced their concerns to California State University (CSU) officials about the alleged misuse of public university property to support a boycott of Israel. Members of the nonprofit AMCHA Initiative have issued a letter to the CSU Board of Trustees about CSU Northridge Mathematics Professor David Klein and the alleged use of his official CSUN email account to promote the Campaign To End Israel Apartheid and a U.S. Congressional candidate who supports it. AMCHA co-founder Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, who described the group as a grassroots effort to raise awareness about anti-Semitism on U.S. college campuses, was...

Amid pledges from Iran to "wipe Israel off the map" and to hold a conference examining whether the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews is a "myth," America's Holocaust Museum is under fire for its silence about Arab assistance to the Nazis during World War II, and about the intensifying hatred of Jews in the Arab Middle East today. Leading the charge is Holocaust Museum Watch, a national organization formed 18 months ago to spur the museum toward meaningful acknowledgment of Arab anti-Semitism. 'snip' Rabbi Herzfeld and other critics argued that the museum's silence on Arab anti-Semitism was likely the...

AMCHA to Commemorate Kristallnacht at the Iranian Mission November 9th, 6:00pm Iranian Mission to the UN: 622 Third Ave. at 40th St. First were unheeded words – then terrible deeds. Hitler’s years of ranting against Jews were effectively ignored by the United States and Europe – until it was too late and six million Jews were murdered. On Wednesday evening, November 9th at 6:00pm, the 67th anniversary of the first major Nazi anti-Semitic pogrom, Kristallnacht, congregants from many New York synagogues, local day schools, university students and survivors’ groups will gather at the Iranian Mission to the UN, 622 Third...

Rally today sponsored by Amcha- Please come and forward Another Palestinian Arab terror attack today killed at least 16 Israelis and injured dozens in Jerusalem. Palestinian Prime Minister Abbas won't fight the terrorist organizations. And President Bush criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Sharon when he does. Meanwhile, Israelis keep getting killed. Join the Coalition for Jewish Concerns--Amcha as we voice our outrage at this intolerable situation. Today -- Wednesday, June 11th 5:00 -- 5:30 pm PLO Mission to the UN 65th & Park New York, NY