Oren calls on US Congress to quell movement to boycott Israel academically
Former Israeli ambassador to US says in Politico op-ed that more organizations could boycott Israeli academia if action not taken.
The US Congress should act to quell the movement to boycott Israel academically, former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren argued Friday, in the wake of the American Studies Association's (ASA) decision to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
The 5,000-member association, which describes itself as “the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history,” announced on Monday that it had endorsed and would participate in a boycott of Israeli universities and academic institutions. Another small North American academic association – the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association - followed suit two days later, declaring a boycott of its own against Israeli academic institutions.
Officials in Jerusalem have downplayed the significance of the boycott, which has been widely condemned by Jewish groups. Oren, however, writing in an opinion article published in Politico, argues that unless the boycott is fought back against, more organizations could follow suit.
Oren, who finished his 50-month tenure as Israeli envoy to the US in September, said that Congress should pass laws which would quash the boycott, as it did in 1977 in response to the Arab economic boycott of Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Oren-calls-on-US-Congress-to-quell-movement-to-boycott-Israel-academically-335715
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than it has for Obama.
I just thought that I would bring up how our esteemed republicans love to fellate Israel for their own ends: their end time constituents...oh and of course money.
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