Yearly Archives: 2013

A group of scholars will travel to Lebanon in early January to participate in a panel discussion on “redwashing”—using indigenous Native Americans to cover up Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Palestinian land and violations of Palestinians’ human rights. The panel, [...]

Dear Cyndi, I’m glad that you believe in equality, so do I. Unfortunately, my country doesn’t. In the state of Israel, equality is a word frequently used, but rarely practiced. In the occupied territories, under Israel’s control, in East Jerusalem, and [...]

The American Studies Association may be singling out Israel for boycott, but if you look at the serious, painful punishments the world metes out to oppressor nations, Israel is not being singled out, it’s being let off the hook. As [...]

Dozens of college and university presidents have released statements condemning the American Studies Association’s vote to boycott Israeli universities, but professors at one institution have penned their own letter saying that the president does not speak for them. In a letter released on [...]

 [The following open letter was issued by the below signatories, all of whom are faculty at Trinity College and are writing in response to recent statement by the college‘s president and dean vis-a-vis the American Studies Association‘s recent decision to [...]

The Indian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (InCACBI www.incacbi.in) welcomed the decision of the American Studies Association (ASA) in December 2013 to boycott Israeli academic institutions in protest against the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, infringements on [...]

Michael S. Roth slams the American Studies Assn. for "unfairly singling out Israel" in its vote to boycott that nation‘s academic institutions; he calls the action an "irresponsible attack on academic freedom." As a 39-year member of the American Studies [...]