This is the USA .
Look at the consequences the American Studies Association is facing and going to face...
It's morally repugnant to boycott The Jewish State and besides who on earth would jump into bed with that BDS crowd that want to boycott Israel and their calls for such a boycott have nothing to do with the occupation whatsoever .

I'm not surprised either. Only in Internet fairyland do USA citizens think any different.

Especially the minority of supporters if the Democratic Party of the USA ...my party must be a great dissapointment to this BDS bigoted bunch .

ASA has yet to face any of the proposed legislation opportunistic politicians rushed to propose and for very good reason too

From hundreds of colleges and universities .

it seems freedom of association is not part of those universities philosophy - interesting thanks

The ASA probably won't be around as a viable association for too much longer.

NYU American studies confab featuring pro-boycott focus

http://www.jta.org/2014/02/25/news-opinion/united-states/nyu-american-studies-confab-has-pro-boycott-focus

Afraid of a backlash....

Additionally, Duggan wrote on her Facebook, “PLEASE DO NOT post or circulate the flyer. We are trying to avoid press, protestors and public attention. Feel free to share it with friends, colleagues and grad students though.”


http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2014/2/23/american-studies-association-president-elect-hosting-anti-israel-event-at-nyu#.UxI7qPldV8G

smear campaigns that are being engaged in is that true? what does that say for your 'cause' ? also your support for extreme Rightwingers and there organizations such as NGO Monitor which aims its venom at such organizatios as Breaking the Silence for being funded by foreigners, seem a bit incongruous here on a progressive website

Supporting BDS
Calling Zionism White Supremism
Etc Etc...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=57842

Agreed ?

Israel has been singled out for special treatment, not punishment - the rewards of American largesse, despite its predatory occupation of the Palestinians and their land.

By Henry Siegman | Dec. 20, 2013

The American Studies Association has come under withering criticism for having singled out the State of Israel for a boycott of its universities because of their government’s human rights violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.

The critics charge that not one of the many countries whose record on human rights is no better, or even far worse, than Israel’s has been subjected to a boycott by this organization or by other anti-Israel Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions (BDS) organizations. Consequently, as argued by Alan Dershowitz in Haaretz and by others, their real motivation must be anti-Semitism.

While I have questions about the wisdom of boycotting Israeli universities some of whose faculties are often among the most vigorous critics of their government’s policies towards the Palestinians, the accusation of anti-Semitism is groundless. Of course, it is possible that anti-Semites can be found among BDS supporters. But just as the fact that Zionists can also be racists (as many unfortunately are, including government ministers and leading rabbis who have publicly urged that Israeli Jews bar Israeli Arabs from their neighborhoods) does not mean that Zionism is racism, a charge made by the UN General Assembly in 1975 that was subsequently retracted, so the BDS movement is not anti-Semitic because some of its supporters may be.

The charge that the BDS movement is guilty of applying a double standard to Israel is equally groundless. For the opponents of Israel’s half-a-century-long occupation of the Palestinians and its denial of the Palestinians’ individual and national rights would not be conducting BDS campaigns against Israel if, to begin with, Israel had not been singled out for special treatment that no other country with equal or even far better human rights records has received.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.564527

Did you see or read the threads and blogs about the UNESCO boycott of a Jewish Exhibit ?

No bigotry indeed .

don't even care that there is an occupation.
Greta Berlin is a fantastic example.

BDS has one ownership, is that your claim?

They all sound similar , Berlin , Falk etc

Berlin, what has she organized for BDS? Who has responded to Falk's call for BDS?

Falk: Response to appointment

The appointment of Falk was reached through a consensus decision by the 47 members of the UN's Human Rights Council. Despite attempts from Jewish groups to persuade the EU and Canada to publicly oppose the appointment the EU remained silent, while Canada chose not to oppose the consensus, instead issuing a statement distancing itself from the choice.[32]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Falk


Which human rights group does the Israeli government accept as writing a legitimate document
of human rights abuses in the occupied territories?