Statement: We, the undersigned faculty members, researchers, professionals, academics and students from around the world, denounce and utterly condemn the action of a majority of members attending the recent University and College Union (UCU) of the United Kingdom who voted to boycott Israeli academics and academic institutions. This action, despite the Union’s invalidation of the vote and non-acceptance as policy, has created a situation where union members have vowed to conduct...

[ The SPME Board of Directors respectfully asks that those who endorse this statement please indicate their full names, academic status/title (faculty, student...etc) and institutional affiliation or signature may be voided. Thank you for your cooperation] We the undersigned members of the academic community, are no longer able to tolerate the lies being told by various academic groups to justify their proposals to boycott Israeli academics and academic institutions and to divest from...

We, the undersigned university faculty members from around the world call upon the members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) to oppose any resolution to ban Israeli academics from teaching in Ontario or anywhere else. The current resolution invokes, as justification for the proposed ban, bombing that damaged the Islamic University in Gaza on December 29. Sid Ryan of CUPE's Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee says: "Israeli academics should not be on our...

We, the undersigned academics from all disciplines from around the world, do hereby call upon and demand that the government of Afghanistan release student Sayed Perwiz Kambasksh and for Iran to release student, Esha Momeni, and Prof. Mehdi Zakerian. Furthermore,we call upon the United Nations Council on Human Rights to look into these and other apparent human rights abuses and harassments perpetuated against students and faculty in these countries. According to , (1) Mr. Kambakhsh, a...

SPME Calls Upon All Academics to Sign and Circulate This Petition World Wide to Their Colleagues. Thank You. Strongly Condemns Bombing Attack on Professor Ze'ev Sternhell We, the undersigned, professors with widely varying political orientations and from many disciplines, from around the world, strongly condemn the targeted bombing and injury of Ze'ev Sternhell, Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ha'aretz columnist. As Professor...