We, the undersigned faculty members, researchers, professionals, academics and students from around the world, denounce the decision of the Spanish government to expel the team of Ariel University Center in Israel from . The Solar Decathlon challenges college teams from around the globe to design, build, and operate the most livable, energy-efficient, and completely solar-powered house. Solar Decathlon houses must meet all the home energy needs of a typical family using only the power of the...

November 12, 2009 Update: SPME is proud to announce the successful defeat of the campaign to boycott Israeli scholars by Tronheim University in a unanimous vote of its board not to boycott. We thank our colleagues at JCPA and AAUP for their support of our efforts as well as colleagues from other organizations around the world. Please feel free to add your name to this petition to automatically become a member of the SPME Faculty Network or to go to to subscribe to the SPME Faculty Forum. Thank...

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...