Israel

Israel Needs a New Map

March 21, 2013

Ian Lustick of the School of Arts and Sciences pens an op-ed about how Israel is viewed outside the U.S.

Article Source: Los Angeles Times

Israel vs. Hamas: The First Social-media War

November 17, 2012

James McGann of the School of Arts and Sciences and doctoral student Omar Al-Ghazzi of the Annenberg School for Communication comment on nations using social media.

Article Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Israel-Gaza War

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Dr. Ian Lustick

Professor of Political Science

University of Pennsylvania

 

Credentials:

  • Author of Trapped in the War on Terror
  • Consultant on Middle East affairs and national security for every White House administration since President Carter

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Wharton Launches Site to Spread Israel Innovation

October 12, 2012

The launch of Israel Knowledge@Wharton is highlighted.

Article Source: Jewish Exponent
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Media Contact:Jacquie Posey | jposey@upenn.edu | 215-898-6460October 12, 2012

Touch Judaic History at Penn’s Herbert D. Katz Center

At the University of Pennsylvania’s Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, you can touch some of the oldest tomes in the history of Judaism, and you don’t have to wear white gloves, de rigueur for patrons at some rare-book libraries.

U.S. Foreign Policy

Note for TV and radio: The University of Pennsylvania has both an on-campus ISDN line and an on-campus satellite uplink facility with live-shot capability.

 

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Housing Protests in Israel

Note for TV and radio: The University of Pennsylvania has ready access to a satellite uplink facility with live-shot capability near campus and an on-campus ISDN line.

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Hummus Debate Spreads

November 30, 2010

The latest academic call for divestment from Israel isn’t a demand to boycott its colleges, nor to withdraw investments in companies based in the Jewish state. This one is something of a culinary conundrum. Hummus has already been the butt of high-profile jokes about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but a student group at Princeton University isn’t laughing.

Article Source: Inside Higher Ed

Crossing a Line

April 23, 2009
Everyone involved in the dispute over William I. Robinson talks about lines being crossed. A tenured professor of sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Robinson said that his critics have crossed lines of fairness by equating his criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, and that the faculty judicial system is crossing lines that are supposed to protect academic freedom by investigating him.
Article Source: Inside Higher Ed
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Media Contact:Jacquie Posey | jposey@upenn.edu | 215-898-6460March 17, 2009