Celebrating anti-Israel screeds.
Something stinks about recent outpourings of concern.
It shouldn’t be a megaphone for demonizing Israel.
Steven Salaita, the American University of Beirut, and the American Studies Association.
Jill Schneiderman recently organized a trip to Israel for her students.
Including . . . Steven Salaita.
In 2002, a group of Harvard students and faculty circulated a petition calling for the university to divest from corporations that do business with Israel.. . .
Last year, the American Studies Association became the only major U.S. academic organization to endorse a boycott of Israel. It has recently backed down from. . .
UC San Diego works with the U.S. military to develop weapons used in drone attacks. Will Curtis Marez, president of the ASA, propose a boycott. . .
Before boycotting Israel for its alleged denial of human rights, the American Studies Association embraced a prominent Iranian apologist for Tehran’s brutal purging of its universities.
The American Studies Association’s resolution to boycott Israeli universities specifies neither the nature of their supposed crime nor the means to achieve restitution for it.
A resolution by the American Studies Association to boycott Israel has met significant resistance. A sign that the academic fight over Israel isn’t lost yet?