Largest US academic association to boycott Israel
A prominent academic association in the United States has overwhelmingly approved a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions, underscoring the growing momentum of a US protest movement against Israeli policy.
The American Anthropological Association, the largest professional organization of anthropologists in the world, passed the motion during its meeting in Denver, Colorado on Friday.
According to the resolution, the group cannot formally collaborate with any Israeli academic institution.
It also precludes Israeli universities from being listed in the association’s publications or participating in the group’s events. The resolution however doesn't include Israeli individuals.
The motion will now be forwarded to the full membership for a final vote by electronic ballot in the coming months.
Both supporters and opponents of the decision called it “historical,” noting that it could lead other organizations to support an academic boycott of Israel.
According to the statement, Friday’s resolution was the result of “three years of organizing within the association to educate and mobilize members to stand against Israel’s widespread, systematic, and ongoing violations of Palestinian rights, as well as to protest the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in these abuses.”
The American Anthropological Association, a professional organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology, is the largest academic association within the US to endorse the boycott movement.
With 11,000 members, the Arlington, Virginia based association includes archaeologists, linguists, medical anthropologists and applied anthropologists in universities, research institutions, government agencies, museums, corporations and non-profit organizations throughout the world.
The latest move comes as the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel, known as BDS, is gaining momentum on US college campuses and churches, as well as in many places in Europe.
The BDS movement seeks to end the Israeli occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands and respect the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
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