An Israeli academic was reinstated on Wednesday as a speaker at a conference slated for next month, after inquiries by The Jerusalem Post. Dr. Ronen A. Cohen had been expelled from the conference because his affiliation with the Ariel University Center of Samaria. Cohen received an e-mail on Wednesday informing him that the organizers of the 18th International Congress of The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) in Berlin on October 6-8 had “accepted the argument that academic freedom should have priority in comparison to considerations of international law.” http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=237005