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Arkansas: Ex-Student Gets 15 Months in Prison
by Michelle Bradford
 A former University of Arkansas graduate student was sentenced to 15 months in prison Thursday for lying to obtain naturalization status and using someone else’s Social Security number to get credit. U. S. District Judge Jimm Larry Hendren revoked the citizenship of Arwah Jaber. He was arrested in June 2005 after telling people at UA he was leaving Fayetteville to join the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Democrat Gazette)
British 'Silently Boycott' Israeli Academics
by Moran Zelikovich
 The International Advisory Board for Academic Freedom warns against a “silent boycott” in Britain against Israeli institutes of higher education. The council said that Israeli researchers wishing to publish articles in Britain were asked to remove the name of which ever Israeli academic institute they belonged to as a condition for publishing their articles. (Ynet News)
UC Irvine: Ayn Rand Institute Director Yaron Brook Speaks to Divided Audience
by Julian Camillieri
 A disruptive renegade youth choir, a deeply divided crowd, a World War II history lesson, a radical soap-box performance by a former Israeli Military Intelligence Agent and a dead writer whose philosophy is still influential all came together at UC Irvine on Nov. 6. Ayn Rand Institute President Yaron Brook spoke to an audience of varying ages, cultural backgrounds and political ideologies for an event held by UCI’s Ayn Rand Club, titled “Destroying Islamic Totalitarianism: The West’s Moral Imperative” at the Social Science Lecture Hall. (New University)
George Washington: Students Found Group to Promote Peace in the Middle East
by Jennifer Easton
 Adi Timor, a sophomore and Israeli national, established a new student organization at GW, The Middle Eastern Peace Group. She started the group with senior Mohammad Khateeb, whom Timor calls her "Palestinian counterpart." MEPG was created as an opportunity for peaceful student discourse about issues that affect the Middle East, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, she said. Timor said she hopes to facilitate friendly and open discussion among students who join her organization by utilizing a three-step process. (Hatchet)
James Madison: Yossi Olmert Speaks at JMU
by Mary Frances Czarsty
 Wherever Yossi Olmert goes, security is tight. “When I went to Atlanta last month, they insisted I travel with 50 policemen and dogs,” he said. “Do I look so bad to you?” he asked at the start of his speech last week, hosted by the Caravan for Democracy. The author of three books and frequent lecturer on college campuses, Olmert is considered by many to be an expert on the Middle East, Islamic militants, terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Olmert said Palestinians’ refusal to acknowledge Israel and Israelis as a people and a nation is the main reason peace talks fail, something former President Clinton recognized during the Madrid talks. (The Breeze)
Minnesota: Talkin' 'bout His Generation
by David Wiley
 A Francophile from birth, Israel's A. B. Yehoshua speaks English with a curious French accent, and his wild hair and ecstatic bearing give him a Nutty Professor type of aura. Lying beneath his disordered manner, however, is a mind as focused and organized as any in literature. He speaks frankly about the Palestinian question (he advocates full peace at any cost), and he stresses the importance of moral and political involvement on the part of writers. But the moral duty of the Israeli novelist, Yehoshua says, has a specific dimension that may seem foreign to other writers. (Minnesota Daily)
Stanford: For Co-Existence in Israel, a Call to Humanity
by Trangdai Tranguyen
  In today’s global neighborhood, the existence of cultural diversity is a sure fact, but in areas like Israel beleaguered by armed conflict, this reality does not come without significant humanitarian effort. Such was the focus of last week's talk, “Jews and Arabs in Israel: My Life of Building Co-Existence in Israel’s Multi-Cultural Society,” organized by the Stanford Israel Alliance, Hillel at Stanford and the Jewish Community Relations Council. Dr. Sigal Chirug (pictured) shared firsthand accounts of her experience as an Israeli-born physician who served the multi-ethnic community of Galilee. (Stanford Daily)
Wayne State: Law Professor Candidate Protested
by Gregg Krupa
 A pro-Israel group says the son of a prominent Palestinian intellectual should not be considered for a law professor post at Wayne State University. Wadie Said, the son of Edward Said, an internationally recognized scholar and an outspoken Palestinian activist until his death in 2003, is a candidate for one of several jobs on the law school faculty, according to officials at Wayne State. Said is a lawyer and professor in California. Stand With Us, a group of Jewish activists that seeks to protect the interests of the state of Israel on campuses, asserts that Wadie Said, like his father, supports militant Palestinian causes. (Detroit News)
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Barnard Alumnae Opposing Tenure for Anthropologist
by Gabrielle Birkner
 A group of Barnard College alumnae is attempting to stop their alma mater from giving tenure to an assistant professor who minimizes Jews' historical connection to Israel. In her 2001 book, "Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society," published by the University of Chicago, the professor of anthropology, Nadia Abu El-Haj says Israeli archaeology manipulates evidence to justify a modern Jewish state in the region. (New York Sun)
Boston College: Israel Consulate Attacks BC for Slanted Palestine Week
by Kirsten Erikson
 The Consulate General of Israel to New England is expressing concern over a series of “one-sided, anti-Israel events” at Boston College, according to the Consulate’s Academic Affairs Officer Gerri R. Pozez. The student and faculty-created group The Global Justice Project, a far-left organization formed in the 1990s, has been holding controversial political events for several years at the school in a manner some view as radical. The Jewish community’s concerns over anti-Israel sentiments at BC comes at a time when the Northeastern University School of Law National Lawyers Guild Chapter and the Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights is scheduled to host the talk “Beyond Apartheid in Israel/Palestine” on Sunday. (Jewish Advocate)
UCLA: Talk Analyzes Effects of Arab Nationalism
by Seda Terzyan
 In a lecture titled "Back to the Future in the Middle East," Barry Rubin discussed what he sees as Middle Eastern countries' return to policies pursued decades ago. Rubin, the director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, argued that the Middle East has begun to use the policies of Arab nationalism and Pan-Arab nationalism that were dominant in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. (UCLA International Institute)
Indiana: Israel Spokesman: Peace Still Possible
by Nick O'Neill
  Mark Regev is used to answering difficult questions regarding the struggle for peace in the Middle East as the spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At at a half-full room in Woodburn Hall last week, he fielded inquiries and comments from students, faculty and community members about what he thinks is the next step in ending the conflict between Israel and Palestine. (IDS News)
College of Judea and Samaria: Pics in the Press Hurt Israel's Image During Lebanon War
by Tovah Lazaroff
 Israel lost the media war this summer because it sent spokesmen with sound bites to combat the photographs of destruction and despair that dominated television and newspapers during the Lebanon War last July and August, according to the Foreign Ministry Director of Public Affairs Amir Gissin. He was a speaker at the fifth annual David Bar-Illan Conference on the Media and the Middle East held Monday at the College of Judea and Samaria in Ariel. Speakers analyzed the reasons why Israel found itself so ill-equipped to dominate the media blitz during the war. (Jerusalem Post)
Sapir College: Qassam Terror on Tape
by Roee Mendel
  For many Israeli the words Color Red and Qassam attacks are part of the news. For Sderot residents, including Tal Braunstein, a media student, this is a daily reality. Last week she filmed the moment after a Qassam landed in Sderot meters from her room in the student's dormitories at the Saphir College in the city center. Braunstein says: "The Qassam landed 50 meter from the dormitories. On the floor below me, the windows were shattered and the blinds flew in the air. All car alarms were activated and one of the neighbors started crying in hysteria. It was really scary." (Ynet News)
Technion: Kidnapped Troop’s Mother: PM Not Doing Enough
by Sharon Roffe-Ofir
  Miki Goldwasser, the mother of kidnapped IDF soldier Ehud (pictured), said Wednesday that “Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s promise to do all he can to return the trroops is not enough.” Goldwasser spoke at a student rally held at the Technion in Haifa. “I’m frustrated,” Goldwasser continued, ”four months have passed and we haven’t’ even received a sign of life. We must find alternative solutions through negotiations. We were against the war from the beginning.” (Ynet News)
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