The “scholarly” boycotters of Israel, so anxious to express their solidarity with the “Palestinian people”, are totally unaware of the harm they are causing the very people they pretend to be helping. These scholars, in formerly respected learned societies such as the American Studies Association and the Association of Asian American Studies, by calling for boycotts of Israeli academic institutions, are preventing the Palestinians from benefitting from the extraordinary advances being made in Israel through research in the fields of medicine and agriculture. Many of the boycotters in the two organizations seem to be teaching what they see as the important issues of U.S. settler colonialism, queer studies, and critical race and ethnic studies, but with the obsession of true believers on subjects of which they know little, they enthusiastically endorse the call for an academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The good news about the true state...(Read Full Article)