This is pretty compelling. Accounts like these suggest that provoking the pro-occupation liberals to spew forth their hypocritical drivel alone justifies BDS, even if it has no other effect.
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > “Academic Freedom” at American Universities: The ASA Boycott and Bard > College > > By Amith Gupta > > (Amith Gupta graduated from Bard College in 2012, and currently works as > the Communications Officer for the Tadamon Council in Egypt.) > > This is the second piece about the American Studies Association’s > academic boycott of Israeli institutions which I have had the > displeasure of writing. My previous piece, submitted as a rebuttal to > American Interest in response to a Bard College professor’s fairly > slipshod commentary about the boycott, has not yet been published > anywhere officially. You can find a copy of it here. > > I feel compelled to write this second piece based on my experiences at > Bard College, which I believe to be a fairly typical small liberal arts > college. I found out earlier today that Bard College President Leon > Botstein, closing ranks with other college presidents, has condemned the > ASA boycott of Israeli institutions. > > When I arrived as a student at Bard College in the fall of 2009, I had > just finished a nearly month-long visit to occupied Palestine as an > International Solidarity Movement volunteer. I remembered quite vividly > that the ISM organizers in Palestine did not consider visiting Palestine > briefly to be a successful form of solidarity activism. Hisham Jamjoum, > the ISM trainer in Ramallah, commented, “this is only 20% of the work. > 80% is when you go back to your home countries.” I interpreted this as a > call to found an ISM chapter at Bard College, both to do Palestine > solidarity-oriented student activism and as a means of training any > locals who had any intention of going to Palestine to participate in > non-violent activism. > > full: > > http://louisproyect.org/2014/01/05/academic-freedom-at-american-universities-the-asa-boycott-and-bard-college/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898, extension 1.
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