The Modern Language Association is at it again: at this year's annual MLA meeting in Philadelphia, academic boycotts of Israel are on the agenda...The 24,000 member organization, comprised of faculty in the fields English and other non-classical foreign languages, will be debating (again) whether to boycott their colleagues in Israel, and would extend to the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
The vote on January 7th involves the 297 members of the Delegate Assembly.
There are three resolutions being put before the Delegate Assembly: one in favor of a boycott of all Israeli universities; the second, opposing academic boycotts in general; the third, condemning the suppression of academic freedom at Palestinian universities by the Palestinians themselves (the Palestinian Authority and Hamas)...
| Link goes to long write up on history and prospects for this initiative by a grad student posting anomalously because of the power and viciousness of the BDS movement. |
| I moved this to WoT related: in my opinion the BDS movement is indeed, at its core, a terrorist effort to exterminate the Jews. |
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