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”...
A Call for Academic Freedom
This piece was contributed by Meytal Chernoff, a CAMERA Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. It was republished on May 25th in The Algemeiner. During the Modern Language Association’s meeting of the Delegate Assembly this past April, the MLA voted to approve Resolution 2014-1. This new resolution passed in 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...
Brandeis and Penn State Harrisburg Pull Out of ASA Program in Response to Boycott
American Studies Association resolution to boycott Israeli Academic Institutions an affront to Academic Integrity. By Ariella Charny This past Monday, a third of the American Studies Association’s (ASA) members, of which there are some 5,000 members, voted in favor of boycotting Israel’s research and academic institutions. The resolution states the ASA’s...