http://www.salon.com/2015/02/25/its_ugly_it%E2%80%99s_vicious_it%E2%80%99s_brutal_cornel_west_on_israel_in_palestine_%E2%80%94_and_why_gaza_is_the_hood_on_steroids/

These documents are eye-opening, and remind us, as MLA members, that the occupation and siege of Palestine have direct consequences for education (among many other things).  In the most recent war on Gaza, more than a quarter of all Palestinian civilians killed were students. Fourteen institutions of higher education were damaged.  Read on…[Read more]

Here’s David Palumbo-Liu’s report in the Huffington Post on the discussion of boycott in the DA on Saturday.

Preliminary votes show that the DA recognizes (by a significant margin) that this is a urgent topic that the MLA needs to be addressing; that academic boycotts promote, rather than harm, academic freedom; and that those who speak…[Read more]

Here’s hoping this will start a good discussion of this important issue.  I’d like to urge you all to read the PDF “ Resolution ACBI Evidence”  which was prepared to accompany the proposed boycott resolution (see under “Files” on the left side of this page).   It provides documentation about the situation of the Palestinian universitie…[Read more]