In a 20,000 word tour-de-force, Forbes Contributing Editor Richard Behar on Tuesday slammed the president of New York University, where he graduated from, in 1982, saying he was ashamed of his alma mater for its tepid response to the American Studies…
read moreUpdating: MLA Lays the Groundwork for Promoting Punishment of Israel The Delegate Meeting of the Modern Language Association, MLA, 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…
read moreLate last week, the Modern Language Association, which has 30,000 members from hundreds of colleges and universities, met in Chicago and provided a forum for speakers who harshly criticized Israel in a panel titled “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel…
read moreYet another academic group is mulling censuring Israel. This time it is the Modern Language Association. Just recently, it was the American Studies Association , which called for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions. Before that, similar resolutions were passed by European academic…
read moreCHICAGO — A movement to pressure and isolate Israel gained further ground among American academics on Saturday, when the Modern Language Association took a step toward approving a resolution calling on the State Department to contest what it characterized as…
read moreCHICAGO — The Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly narrowly approved a resolution Saturday urging the U.S. State Department to express concern over what the measure calls restrictions on scholars’ ability to travel to Israel and the West Bank to work…
read moreIntroduction: Thank you for inviting me to participate in this panel as a non-member of the MLA to bring relevant evidence from the field. I am an Israeli and an American. I’ve spent most of my career at Ben-Gurion University,…
read moreTwo sessions on academic boycotts and the Israel-Palestine question, one official and one organized outside the conference, drew relatively small but passionate crowds on Thursday as the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting opened here. The panels helped set the stage…
read moreThere’s an old joke, which I’m sure most if not all are familiar with. So you don’t have to laugh when I retell it in a few minutes, after I sketch my argument’s three main points. But I have to…
read moreTomorrow the Delegate Assembly of the Modern Language Association considers a resolution urging the “U.S. Department of State to contest Israel’s arbitrary denials of entry to Gaza and the West Bank by U.S. academics who have been invited to teach,…
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