The AMCHA Initiative is an organization that monitors anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Judea Pearl, friend of CAMERA, professor at UCLA, and father of the tragically murdered journalist, Daniel Pearl, wrote this piece in support of the quest to monitor professors’ anti-Israel activity and keep a current list of...
Fordham’s Shame: A Professor Charged With “Discrimination” For Fighting Against It
Last month, Tablet Mag published a story about Professor Doron Ben-Alter of Fordham University in New York. Professor Ben-Alter had been vocal about his condemnation of the American Studies Association’s decision to boycott Israel and only Israel. The decision of the American Studies Association to boycott Israeli universities in December...
ASA Boycott Is Not Really A Boycott?
The American Studies Association’s supposed boycott of Israeli academics and institutions of education has landed it in hot water yet again. According to Eugene Kontorovich‘s summary of the controversy, which surrounds the upcoming ASA annual meeting in Los Angeles, So according to the ASA, scholars who are “representatives or ambassadors”...
Fry Above Political Chic of ASA Academic Boycott of Israel
This piece, by CAMERA Fellow Joshua Dienstman, was originally published in The Triangle of Drexel University. In an era in which it is trendy to follow political and social movements purely for the sake of being a part of something, without giving thought to their validity, it is refreshing to have a...
American Studies Association Israel Boycott is Unjust
This piece was contributed by Justin Hayet, a CAMERA Fellow, and was originally published in the Pipe Dream. Just as finals began to take full swing this past December, the American Studies Association (ASA) passed a resolution that degraded its existing integrity as well as the values embedded within American...
UMass Amherst Chancellor Condemns Academic Boycotts of Israel
AMHERST, Mass. – The following is a statement from University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy regarding the call for an academic boycott of Israel: “The University of Massachusetts Amherst is opposed to academic boycotts of any kind. The current boycott of academic institutions in Israel by several academic associations...