It’s Gaza in the Canadian Rockies on campuses. While Canadian PM Harper, a true friend of Israel, “gets it,” the politically correct students at the University of Calgary do not. They believe that Jewish students deserve to be heckled, silenced,…
read moreLast February, Brooklyn College’s political science department was under attack for co-sponsoring a panel in support of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement. In the heat of the controversy, Brooklyn College President Karen Gould issued a statement defending the political science department.…
read moreLast year, a tiny academic organization, the Association for Asian American Studies, voted in favor of a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. Last month, a relatively small academic organization, the American Studies Association (ASA), adopted a similar resolution. This month, one…
read moreThe Delegate Session of the Modern Language Association began with an hour-long session on the perils of falling enrollment in the MLA and reduced support for the humanities in general. What better way to get a pedantic organization into the…
read moreSince the Association of American Studies’ decision last month to boycott Israeli universities, followed by the possibility of a similar action this month by the Modern Language Association, there’s been a lot of analysis and commentary, but not much written…
read moreToward the top of his piece on the debate about Israel at this year’s Modern Language Association conference, Joel Griffith posts a picture he took of the Delegate Assembly meeting, just before a resolution urging the State Department to contest Israel’s visa…
read moreFor decades, Jewish communal goals in America, established in a mostly “peacetime” environment, have focused on issues of continuity and welfare: Jewish education, care for the elderly and basic support for Israel. As long as there was a consensus around…
read moreWill students like me remember 2013 as a year when the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel made headlines with calls for academic boycotts? Will we remember it as a time when the American Jewish community debated how…
read moreOmar Barghouti, co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), is on the road again with his anti-Israel show and its pack of bigotry and lies. On January 15th, UCLA’s Students for Justice in Palestine [SJP] hosted him at…
read moreSince the American Studies Association voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions, I have listened to arguments by ASA members who also opposed the boycott that we should not leave the association but should try to overturn the boycott from within…
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