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'This case is about the illegal, hostile takeover of a non-profit, academic association by leaders of an anti-Israel group.'
American campuses are the petri dishes in which the latest version of the oldest hatred grows.
'A handful of zealots hijacked the ASA' to promote their own anti-Israel position' claims the lawsuit against the ASA Israel boycott .
By Eliana Rudee
If professors would like to present only their views in a forum, they should go into politics, not teaching.
These feminists are so anti-Israel that they ignore Arab women's lack of political and social freedom
By JTA
The flyer notes the American Studies Association’s decision in December to boycott Israeli educational institutions.
Israeli academics thanked the American academic leaders who condemned the ASA anti-Israel boycott.
Academic boycotts of Israel are Anti-Semitic; American taxpayers must not be forced to be complicit.
The Philadelphia City Council has joined the ranks of outspoken anti- anti-Israel advocates
By JTA
A bipartisan slate of 134 U.S. Congress members wrote a letter to the American Studies Association protesting its decision last month to boycott Israeli universities. “Academic cooperation can be an important tool to help foster peace between Israelis and Palestinians, but you have chosen the unproductive path of isolation,” said the letter dated Friday, initiated […]
By JTA
Delegates to the Modern Language Association’s annual convention upheld a resolution accusing Israel of keeping Palestinian academics from entering Judea and Samaria, but rejected another expressing solidarity with academics that boycott Israel. After an hour or so of acrimonious debate in Chicago on Saturday, the MLA’s delegate assembly in a 60-53 vote approved a resolution […]
A congressional letter slams the American Studies Association's academic boycott of Israel as antithetical to academic freedom and as "thinly veiled bigotry." UPDATED!
State Senator Anthony Williams introduced a Resolution into the Pennsylvania legislature condemning the ASA boycott of Israel as antisemitic.
Just as he said he would, and as The Jewish Press reported in December, Cornell Law professor William A. Jacobson has filed a challenge to the American Studies Association's tax exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service. Jacobson filed his challenge on Monday, Jan. 6. The essence of the 36 page challenge is that the […]
Arabs, Jews, Muslims, Europeans and Americans are well-represented.
Philadelphia Federation head calls on academic institutions to resign from the American Studies Association and urges people to call on their alma maters to condemn the ASA boycott of Israel
By JTA
Two more American institutions of higher learning officially withdrew their memberships from the American Studies Association after its membership voted in favor of an academic boycott of Israel. Kenyon College and Indiana University on Monday joined Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg in canceling their memberships in the association. Dozens of other universities also have […]
Dozens of American academic institutions, either individually or through professional associations, have rejected the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
The loss of membership and the launching of a competitor association, along with the legal challenge to the American Studies Association's tax-exempt status, may be the only real legacy of the ASA's boycott of Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Brandeis University and Penn State Harrisburg on Wednesday announced they have withdrawn from the American Studies Association (ASA) following the ASA membership’s Dec. 15 vote to endorse a boycott of Israel. “We view the recent vote by the membership to affirm an academic boycott of Israel as a politicization of the discipline and a rebuke […]
We live in a world where a people returning to it’s ancestral home is accused of occupation, and redemption has become colonialism.
Maybe the moderator should have "reined in" the emotions when the audience was booing and "enraged" - her words - by Podhoretz's defense of Israel from J Street's blaming Israel for the academic boycott.
See Shushed and Booed, Podhoretz Walks Out on 92 St. Y Panel for a better informed version of this story. Commentary editor John Podhoretz stormed off the New York’s 92nd Street Y Stage Monday night in the middle of spat with J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami but denied reports that he said “students at Swarthmore College […]
By JTA
A one-third turnout of American Studies Association (ASA) members have voted to endorse its national council’s call for a boycott of Israeli universities, the ASA announced Monday, a day after the deadline for voting. There were 3,853 eligible voters, but votes were cast by only 1,252 members, two-thirds of whom approved the boycott, according to […]
A law professor will challenge the tax exempt status of the American Studies Association, because academic boycotts of Israeli universities is not in their mission statement or an activity privileged with tax exemption
You truly need to be an academic to be so stupid as to endorse this.
The academics decry the "Israeli Occupation" as harming the academic aspirations of Palestinian Arabs, yet prior to the "Occupation" there wasn't a single Arab university in Gaza or the "West Bank"
June 21, 2026 
