The AMCHA Initiative, and organization dedicated to
investigating and combating antisemitism at academic institutions, has released
a list of 218
professors identifying as Middle East scholars who have called for a boycott of
Israel.
In August,
about 200 professors on more than 100 U.S. campuses signed a petition calling
“to boycott Israeli academic institutions,” and refuse “to
collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions, not
to teach at or to attend conferences and other events at such institutions, and
not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.”
In addition,
faculty members at 16 of 20 universities that received federal grants supporting
Middle East studies signed the anti-Israel petition. Those schools are Columbia
University, Duke University, Georgetown University, George Washington
University, Harvard University, New York University, Princeton University,
University of California Berkeley, University of California Los Angeles,
University of Chicago, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, University of North
Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at
Austin, University of Washington Seattle, and Yale University.
“How can professors who are so biased against
the Jewish state accurately or fairly teach students about Israel or the
Arab-Israel conflict?” asked Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the AMCHA Initiative’s
co-founder and a faculty member at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Students who wish to become better educated without subjecting themselves to
anti-Israel bias, or possibly even antisemitic rhetoric, may want to check
which faculty members from their university are signatories before registering.”
Antisemitic Activity on U.S. Campuses
Focus On: Academic Boycotts of Israel
Click the map to find out which faculty have endorsed
the academic boycott of Israel on each campus
