ATLANTA — Members of the American Historical Association on Saturday voted down, 111 to 51, a resolution “upholding the rights of Palestinian faculty and students to pursue their education and research freely” and committing the AHA to “monitoring Israeli actions restricting the right to education in the occupied Palestinian territories,” among other points. The vote came at the association’s annual meeting here.

The association avoided voting on two similar anti-Israel resolutions last year because they were submitted after a key deadline.

This year’s resolution was submitted on time, and Saturday’s vote followed an increasingly heated but civil debate over several alleged factual errors and omissions within the resolution itself, such as the assertion that the Israeli military “routinely invades campuses” in the Palestinian territories, and the resolution’s failure to mention unreliable exit and entry points, such as Egypt’s Rafah Gate, for Palestinian students and scholars that are controlled by countries other than Israel.

Other points of debate included whether the AHA was equipped to carry out the kind of “monitoring” suggested (one member called it “absurd”), and why Israel was being “singled out” — in the words of some members — among numerous other countries accused of violating academic freedom. Several members also expressed concern that the resolution would prove divisive within the AHA and tarnish its reputation.

Supporters of the resolution said they supported free access to education everywhere, and that they’d likely support resolutions condemning other countries found to have violated academic freedom, if put forward in the future. In the meantime, some said they held Israel to a high standard due its special relationship with the U.S. This article will be updated with additional coverage.

The resolution rejected Saturday was not a call for an academic boycott of Israel.

Attendees at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting in November voted overwhelmingly to support the boycott, and that vote is being submitted to the full membership for review. Other groups that have backed the boycott include the American Studies Association and theNational Women’s Studies Association.