American Studies Association Searc Legal Insurrection Home for American Studies Associat… Timeline Recent Highlights Create Page Recent 2013 Founded American Studies Association Follow Following 1,503 likes · 929 talking about this Education Judith Butler in The American Studies Association is the nation’s oldest and largest association devoted Support of the ASA to the interdisciplinary study of American culture and history. 1,503 This will shortly appe The Nation. I was ll d d h About – Suggest an Edit Photos Likes Notes 1 Highlights American Studies Association shared a link. Activity December 16 Recent American Studies Association joined Facebook. ASA National Council Votes Unanimously To Endorse Academic Boycott of Israel | American Studies... www.theasa.net American Studies Association The American Studies Association, exists December 12 Like · · Share 36 With this announcement we welcome posts addressing the ASA Richard Murray, Amber Kelsie, Fred Meyer and 169 Top Comments National Council's unanimous endorsement of the academic others like this. boycott of Israel--from all sides of the issues involved. Feel free to post letters, documents, press reports and other materials here, but all posts containing name calling and substance free allegations and hostility will be deleted. Jeffrey Altman Blatant anti-semitism and horrendous ignorance. This is not open academic discourse, but close mindedness and ignorance of the history of the region and a FULL understanding of all Like · · Share 13 sides of this issue. Something American Studies Association does not care to do, instead just taking sides. Richard Murray, Mark Rice, Shelley Streeby and 66 Top Comments Like · Reply · 147 · December 16 at 12:16pm others like this. 34 Replies · 2 hours ago Edith Goldman This is a disgrace. You don't deserve in fact to Aviva Roth Sucher The BDS movement is an outrageously anti- associate with the great scholars in Israel. This may not be legal semitic movement, cloaked in 'righteousness'. It is demonizing and I understand your 501 status will be challenged legally. I will Israel, thus Jewish people. This is how Jewish discrimination began certainly do all I can to support that and encourage others to as well. before WW11. The irony here, is that many in the movement are Shame on you. Jews themselves. I... See More Like · Reply · 232 · December 16 at 10:51am Like · Reply · 66 · December 13 at 9:56am 32 Replies American Studies Association replied · 22 Replies · about an hour ago Jeff Lenchiner Congrats! You now officially support bigotry and discrimination against innocent professors due to their nationality/ethnicity! And you now discriminate against the most free, Divest This This is great news (now does that mean you'll be diverse universities in that entire region of Earth. ASA is now a racist reinstating the posts that were deleted yesterday): political organization, not an academic organization. http://cifwatch.com/.../american-studies-association.../ Like · Reply · 80 · December 16 at 12:10pm Like · Reply · 17 · December 12 at 10:00am John Dowdle Free and diverse? Then why was the charter American Studies Association replied · 21 Replies establishing the so-called university of Ariel issued by the Israeli Minister of Defence and not by the Ministry of Education? American Studies Association Don't think too hard or too long... http://www.thenation.com/.../academic-freedom-and-asas... Like · 1 · December 16 at 1:23pm Like · Reply · 3 · December 12 at 9:29am Ariella Butler oh yes, go be a Christian in Saudi and American Studies Association This is Judith Butler, practice your religion John. Good luck with that. writing in The Nation in support of the ASA NC's boycott Like · 14 · December 16 at 3:40pm resolution. Harry Shaw Dowdle getting more ignorant every day Like · 2 · December 12 at 10:09am Like · 2 · December 16 at 6:08pm Imani Wadud I am not sure if this has already been posted, but here is an excerpt from an email from my professor Howard Schelly You people are out of your minds. Israel who was at the last ASA conference that sheds a bit more light https://www.facebook.com/americanstudiesassoc[12/21/2013 3:58:29 PM] American Studies Association should be helped and always respected. Very bad move on your on those in the ASA that oppose or wish to abstain! part. Wake up;. Grow up. Like · 6 · December 16 at 10:43pm Dear friends and colleagues, It's not a blanket boycott, people. It's only بسمة جثري boycotting those Israeli institutions complicit in an occupation We are in the final countdown until the end of voting on the that the international community widely recognizes as illegal. National Council’s “Proposed Resolution for the Boycott of Stand with us on the right side of history. It's what's best for Israeli Academic Institutions” (voting ends Dec. 15th at Palestinians, Jews, and everyone else worldwide. 11:59PM). Like · 2 · December 17 at 12:07pm Thanks to eight of our former ASA presidents, we have one Ronit Jacobs "Only boycotting those Israeli institutions more document objecting to the academic boycott to circulate. complicit in an occupation. " What occupation are your To hear their objections to the boycott, see here --> referring to? West Bank is administered by the PA who is openly http://tinyurl.com/noasaboycott. The National Council continues glorifying and encouraging children to be shahids! Should these to refuse to circulate or post to the ASA’s website alternative terrorists be allowed to administer their own security? How is perspectives. Please spread this letter among ASA colleagues any of this good for Palestinians. As usual you are blaming the (via social media, e-mail, whatever you do) and urge them to wrong side. Get rid of the terrorists that have no interest in reject the resolution. If they remain uncertain, encourage them peace and then we can talk about something that is good for to register their stance by voting to abstain. A special thanks the Palestinians, Jews and everyone else in the world. No one is goes to our MSU contingent for figuring out that strategy! buying your bull any longer. Like · 5 · December 17 at 6:39pm Again the link to the Letter from ASA PRESIDENTS in Opposition to Proposed Boycott of Academic Institutions: Ariella Butler Ronit is right on. http://www.scribd.com/.../Letter-from-ASA-Presidents-in... Like · 2 · December 18 at 10:08am Like · 2 · December 13 at 3:58am Jenny Thompson I support the vote and the scholars who David Palumbo-Liu Open Letter to Mae Ngai came together to take a stand for human rights. Like · 1 · December 18 at 1:54pm Dear Mae, Brian Greenberg Forget charters. Most Israeli universities Thank you for your opposition to Israel’s occupation of have 20 - 30% Arab students studying more freely than any Palestine, its aggression, and its treatment of Palestinians. And country in the Middle East. John, your hatred of Israel is really thank you for your support of divestment campaigns. All that is misplaced. Go and visit and you'll see a country that is more good to hear and all valuable. Nonetheless, we are sorry to hear free and diverse than almost any country in the world. that you continue to believe that the boycott resolution “violates Like · 3 · December 18 at 8:51pm the principle of academic freedom and free speech.” It does neither. As has been frequently explained throughout ASA Don Leonard too funny, the same assholes that support the debates on the resolution, and on many other occasions, the embargo on Iran, which has done nothing to warrant it, those boycott targets institutions not individual academics. Israeli same people who support the murder of over a million Muslims academics remain free to enjoy all the benefits of academic pursuant a lie called 9/11, they are the people here crying about freedom: their right to research and publish, to travel, to attend Zionism getting some well deserved attentions. conferences, including the ASA. None of these freedoms are guaranteed to Palestinians, and more often than not they are How does it feel ? denied by Israeli practices, laws and policies. Still less does the boycott deprive anyone of their freedom of speech, though “Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) Palestinians are regularly imprisoned, batoned, shot with rubber hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because bullets and gas canisters, and even live ammunition, for seeking everything we take now will stay ours…Everything we don’t grab to claim their rights to speak out against oppression and will go to them.” - Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, dispossession. addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998. Institutions, however, do not enjoy academic freedom, though Like · 1 · December 19 at 12:07am they are called upon to protect and further it. What the boycott Nephtaly Hans Velez-Crespo Big bad Ariel in the West seeks to do is to persuade all of us to obey our consciences in Bank. At the end of the day, education has no boundaries, withdrawing our consent from any collaboration, material or political or physical. The Ariel University Center is proof to that intellectual, with institutions whose actual complicity in acts of reality in one of the most volatile regions of the world. occupation, dispossession, and colonization fare outweighs any hypothetical restriction on Israeli academic privileges that might Why you all bitch BDS, students, regardless of nationality, creed ensue from our refusal to collaborate. and religion, thirst for education. Amongst them hundred of Israeli Arabs who do not allow for the politicization of their You ask why this focus on boycott.