Posts Tagged: ASA Israel
Middle East Professors Boycott Israel — Where’s the Moral Outrage?
Hours after the American Studies Association (ASA) announced its membership had voted to endorse an academic boycott of Israel in 2013, the American Association of...
SPME BDS Monitor: Anti-Israel Activity Increases on Campus
The BDS movement advanced nationally in November, with anti-Israel legislation introduced in the US Congress. The results of such resolutions on campus, however, were mixed -- suggesting...
SPME BDS Monitor: Activists Try to Turn the World Against Israel
April saw confrontations emerge between faculty members opposed to BDS and academic organizations that have adopted BDS resolutions, including legal action, that took place between...
Lies, Damn Lies and Faculty Lies
JNS.org - To understand the significance of the newly announced legal challenge against the American Studies Association’s academic boycott of Israel, we need to go back around 18...
Professors Sue American Studies Association for Illegal Boycott of Israel
A lawsuit filed on behalf of four professors against the American Studies Association for its boycott of Israel accuses the ASA of “blatant politicization” of...
SPME BDS Monitor: BDS Remains a Serious Issue on College Campuses and Elsewhere
Introduction During break between academic semesters the focus of BDS advocacy shifted to academic associations and to the American political arena. Efforts by BDS advocates to...
The ASA Says ‘No Israelis Need Apply’
Our nation has regressed to one of its darkest chapters in history, courtesy of our most educated and "enlightened." In a reincarnation of the old...
The ASA’s Stunning Hypocrisy on Israel Boycott
The American Studies Association (ASA) adoption of a BDS resolution in December 2013 garnered a significant backlash from over 250 American university presidents and academic...
American Studies Group Receives Renewed Scrutiny Over Israel Boycott
JNS.org - About a year after the American Studies Association's (ASA) widely condemned vote to endorse a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, the organization's...
Is the ASA Backpedaling on its Israel Boycott?
The American Studies Association (ASA) is preparing to host its annual meeting next month at The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. Back in 2013,...
Why Do Israel Haters Want to Silence Their Academic Critics?
During the Modern Language Association's meeting of the Delegate Assembly this past April, the MLA voted to approve Resolution 2014-1. This new resolution passed by...
BDS Movement Echoes Germany in the 1930s
In the 1930s, thousands of Jewish professors were kicked out of German universities because they were Jews. Shamefully, today in the U.S., Jewish professors are...
Despite Limited Practical Impact, BDS Movement is Leading to Apprehension for Pro-Israel Academics
JNS.org - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel will fail because various countries "are...
NYU Conference: An Academic Lynching Behind Closed Doors
JNS.org - New York University (NYU) professor and president-elect of the American Studies (ASA) Association Lisa Duggan recently wrote on her Facebook regarding the...
