…. The New York bill is an ill-considered response to the American Studies Association resolution and would trample on academic freedoms and chill free speech and dissent. Academics are rightly concerned that it will impose a political test on faculty members seeking University support for research meetings and travel….
Apparently, the wholesale disenfranchisement of the entire Israeli infrastructure of higher education is of no moment.
There is much to commend the anti-boycott bill, if for nothing else than as a public rebuke for the arrant sophistry of the Times and others of like mind. But more to the point in terms of the proposed legislation, is New York State not permitted to try to address efforts at closing off higher educational opportunities for its students?
The Assembly should approve the bill, as the Senate has already done, and Gov. Cuomo should sign it.