UC Irvine Newspaper Article on ASA Resolution

Hat tip New University


The New University, campus newspaper of UC Irvine, has published the below article on the rejection of the American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli universities by UCI Chancellor Michael Drake and UC President Janet Napolitano.

http://www.newuniversity.org/2014/01/news/drake-rejects-boycott/


I have added  my own comments, which are pending editorial approval.
Update. At this point, it looks like NU is not going to publish my comment, so here is what I said.

Napolitano and Drake were correct to reject this asinine resolution. Why, for example, would these American history professors not pass simlar resolutions against countries like Pakistan, Sudan, Iran, Egypt, Libya or a host of other countries where human rights hardly exist? The “answer” to that question came from ASA president, Chicano Music and Media Professor at UCSD, Curtis Marez.

“We had to start somewhere.” Pretty lame.

The truth is that this resolution was nothing more than part of a well-orchestrated worldwide Palestinian move to discredit the Jewish state of Israel, a cause that has been jumped on by most every left-wing professor in academia. Why do you think that the Israel-Palestinian conflict has become the number one issue of contention on US college campuses?

Pretty ridiculous, I would say.