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Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is a non-profit, community of university interdisciplinary scholars. It seeks to address what it perceives as anti-Israeli bias or outright anti-Semitism in academia worldwide. It organizes its chapters along faculty lines, and, according to its website, has over 9000 faculty members from around the world. [1][2] SPME cooperates with the International Advisory Board on Academic Freedom, Jewish National Fund, Israel On Campus Coalition, Hillel Foundation, and the Jewish National Fund among many others. It strives for peace in the Middle East addressing what it understands to be both Israel's and her neighbors legitimate peaceful interests.[1]. The organization was founded in 2002 by Dr. Edward Beck , Dr. Judith Jacobson, Columbia University and Dr. Ruth Contreras of Vienna Austria. Members of the Board of Directors have included: Matthias Kuentzel, Ernest Sternberg, Laurie Zoloth, Gerald Steinberg, Phyllis Chesler, Efraim Karsh, Daniel Pipes, Peter Haas, Stanley Dubinsky, John Cohn, Rev. India E. Garnett, G. Don Morris and many others.
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Our mission is to inform, motivate, and encourage faculty to use their academic skills and disciplines on campus, in classrooms, and in academic publications to develop effective responses to the ideological distortions, including anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist slanders, that poison debate and work against peace. SPME welcomes scholars from all disciplines, faiths groups and nationalities who share our desire for peace and our commitment to academic integrity and honest debate.[1]
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