NWSA votes to join Academic Boycott of Israel

December 21, 2015 in News by RBN Staff


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Protesters urging sanctions against Israel at a rally in Melbourne, Australia, June 5, 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

Protesters urging sanctions against Israel at a rally in Melbourne, Australia, June 5, 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

 

The National Women’s Studies Association members voted, by a huge majority, to join the worldwide movement against Israel at its annual conference, making it the fifth American academic association to do so since April 2013.

Delegates of NSWA passed the measure by a 653-86 vote, and their full membership of 12,000 will vote on it in the next two months. The movement to boycott began with the Association for Asian American Studies, and since that time the American Studies Association, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, and now the NWSA have joined in.

Full story: Jewish Telegraph Agency