The MLA Executive Council has issued a statement against the censorship of controversial speech and reaffirmed its endorsement of academic freedom.

http://www.mla.org/ec_censorship_controversial

See the ACLA website for the State of the Discipline Report, which includes an entry on “Academic Boycott” in the Ideas of the Decade section.

http://stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/academic-boycott

A November 2014  poll conducted by the political scientist Shibley Telhami sought to identify trends in U.S. public opinion on the following issues: “How do Americans see Bibi Netanyahu in the first place? And how do these attitudes play into a broader, and growing national divide about policy toward Israel?” Telhami’s specific findings and his…[Read more]

There is growing support among many progressive and democratically minded Jews in the US, Europe and Israel who are unwilling to stand by and allow apologists for Israel to speak on their behalf. Numerous groups founded by committed Jewish journalists, scholars and activists are increasingly taking a stand against Israel’s policies and are…[Read more]

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Please consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …

After more than 3 hours of committee reports and discussion of organizational changes within the MLA, the Delegate Assem…[Read more]

Despite Russell Berman’s claims in a previous posting to this group, David Lloyd’s article summarizing the open discussion at the MLA 2015 Delegate Assembly meeting in Vancouver fairly reflects the mood in the room, where for 90 minutes many Delegates and numerous members of the MLA spoke from the floor strongly in support of the academic boycott…[Read more]