Petition Against Academic Boycotts

 Recently, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) reversed many years of opposition to academic boycotts. The ongoing efforts of the BDS crowd to boycott Israel is the prime example of academic boycotts today. In effect, this would stop universities in the US from having academic exchange relationships with Israeli universities, student exchange programs, visiting professors, and other actions designed to weaken and discredit the Jewish state internationally.

Here is a petition that has been signed to date by over 2,000 scholars and academics. If you are affiliated with academia, I urge you to sign this petition and pass it on to your academic colleagues.

The petition was initiated by the following:

Ronald Krebs, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota

Cary Nelson, Jubilee Professor of Arts & Sciences Emeritus, English Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ron Hassner, Professor, Political Science, U.C. Berkeley