OpEd: Middle East Studies Association’s Betrayal of Academic Freedom
Published by San Diego Jewish World By Richard L. Cravatts, Ph.D Richard L. Cravatts BOCA RATON, Florida — Unsurprisingly for an organization whose membership has been perennially hostile to Israel, members of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) voted at their recent annual meeting to advance a resolution endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli academics to a full membership vote in 2022. The sententious language of the MESA boycott resolution,