Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., author of six books, including Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel & Jews, is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), an organization with 30,000 members worldwide.
As a professor for the past 17 years, he taught over 21 courses at 14 universities in Florida and Massachusetts.
Dr. Cravatts has published over 550 articles and book chapters on campus anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, campus free speech, terrorism, Constitutional law, Middle East politics, and social policy in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, FrontPage Magazine, Times of Israel, and others, and also gives speeches nationally and appears as a guest on radio shows.
In addition to serving as a member of the board of directors of SPME, Dr. Cravatts is also a board member of the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, The AMCHA Initiative, The Jewish Leadership Project, and the Florida chapter of the Zionist Organization of America, an advisory board member of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, the Abraham Global Peace Initiative, and The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust.