Professors Support Resolution To Boycott Israeli Institutions
Professors Support Resolution To Boycott Israeli Institutions
By Jessica Min, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
a day ago
Twenty-one Harvard faculty and graduate students have voted or signed a petition to place a controversial resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions on the American Anthropological Association’s spring ballot.
The resolution supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement issued by Palestinian civil society, which calls for academic associations to refrain from formal collaboration with Israeli academic institutions.
Considered by the more than 1,400 members present at the AAA’s annual meeting in Denver late last month, the resolution must garner a favorable vote from a simple majority of the organization’s entire membership of more than 10,000 members in April to go into effect. It is part of a growing academic movement to boycott Israeli institutions in the midst of ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians.
While the proposed academic boycott of Israeli institutions would prevent Israeli academics from publishing in AAA journals, it would not prevent faculty from exchanging ideas with individual Israeli scholars, according to Steven C. Caton, a professor of contemporary Arab studies who attended the conference. Caton currently works alongside graduate and post-doctoral students from Israel on various research projects.
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